‘Hello, Privilege. It’s Me, Chelsea’

Starts streaming: September 13

“I want to know how to be a better white person to people of color,” Chelsea Handler says in this documentary about white privilege, including and especially, her own. (Remember her book “Uganda Be Kidding Me”? The people she interviews here do.) The problem Handler quickly encounters is that she’s asking people of color to do the heavy lifting for her. Handler comes to acknowledge this, and as she digs deeper into her subject the seeds of a new understanding begin to sprout.

‘Unbelievable’ Limited Series

Starts streaming: September 13

Marie Adler (Kaitlyn Dever), a former foster child, alleges she was attacked by a home intruder. But to some, she fails to measure up to the expectations of what a “true” victim is: She seems detached, her account has minor inconsistencies and she’s not coping with the trauma the way those around her think she should. (So what if she doesn’t want to replace her sheets with a brand-new pattern?) Faced with doubting, undermining and hounding, Marie recants her story, but the narrative only gets more complicated from there . The series is based on a real case, and Toni Collette and Merritt Wever co-star as investigating detectives.

‘Criminal’ Season 1

Starts streaming: September 20

It’s not quite accurate to call “Criminal,” which is set in four different European countries, a police procedural. Each episode is focused on a different fictional case, yes, but almost the entirety of each one is spent in an interrogation room (or sometimes behind a two-way mirror with observing investigators), rather than out and about on the hunt for clues. The detectives try to extract critical information about the crime from suspects while countdown clocks tick away. Many of the stories have a historical bent: An advocate for the victims of the 2015 Bataclan theater attack in Paris is grilled in one episode, and an inquest into a murder that may have occurred during Germany’s reunification following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 is presented in another. David Tennant and Hayley Atwell are among the cast members who appear in the hot seat.

‘The Politician’ Season 1

Starts streaming: September 27

In Ryan Murphy’s first original series for Netflix, we meet young Payton Hobart (Ben Platt), an overachiever desperate to become the student body president at any cost. (He imagines this will lead to Harvard and then, eventually, the White House.) As the adopted son of a billionaire (Bob Balaban) and his trophy wife (Gwyneth Paltrow), Payton expects his privilege to do all the work for him — but the election campaign doesn’t quite go as planned. There are double-crosses, undecided voters, scandalous secrets, assassination attempts and, as is customary in a Murphy production, Jessica Lange.

Also arriving:

September 1

“300,” “American Psycho,” “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,” “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers,” “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” Season 6, “My Sister’s Keeper,” “Mystic River,” “Stripes,” “Superbad” and “The Walking Dead” Season 9.