Blade Runner 2099: Where to Watch in the US and Canada

Blade Runner 2099 arrives on Prime Video on November 25 in the United States and Canada, with all eight episodes the same day. Michelle Yeoh plays Olwen, a Replicant Blade Runner who already knows which day she dies. Hunter Schafer plays Cora, a human fugitive who has spent her life running from Blade Runners and now has to pass as one.

The live lookup is the page to reopen once the season unlocks. The Scene Report is the longer read on Olwen, Cora, and how much of the older films you need.

Prime Video, US and Canada	November 25, 2026
Episodes	8, all at once
Rating	TV-14 on Prime's current listing
Leads	Michelle Yeoh, Hunter Schafer
Live lookup	Open the Blade Runner 2099 page

Olwen and Cora

Silka Luisa created the limited series and is the showrunner. Ridley Scott is among the executive producers, and Jonathan van Tulleken directed the first two episodes. Dimitri Abold and Lewis Gribben round out the series regulars.

The story sits fifty years after Blade Runner 2049. Los Angeles has been rebuilt, but not by humans. A Replicant uprising has already flipped the city. Engineered people hold power. Humans live as second-class citizens. Cora partners with Olwen to hunt a runaway whose secret could crack that order.

If you are arriving for Yeoh, start with Olwen. Luisa has described the role as a Roy Batty story told from the Replicant's side. Olwen knows the day she dies, and that certainty makes her hard to read. Cora is the reverse of the usual Blade Runner disguise: she is human, and she has to pretend she belongs with the people who used to hunt her. In the trailer, Olwen tells her the old world keeps fighting to return, then adds that it is their time now. The People profile has the longer career map, from Ipoh and Hong Kong action through the Oscar for Everything Everywhere All at Once.

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Luisa has said Blade Runner 2049 is not directly connected to the show. She wanted people to be able to arrive without either movie and still follow the story. "This could be an introduction to the world of Blade Runner, and it wouldn't be dependent on you having watched 2049, [or] you having watched the first Blade Runner," she said. "In that sense, we had to divorce ourselves from the narrative." The series uses new characters. Deckard, K, and Ana Stelline are not required homework.

Prime Video already rents and sells the 1982 film and 2049 if you want those nights first. You do not have to.

Sunshine noir

The look leaves the rain and snow behind. Luisa has called the series sunshine noir: hot, sticky coastal Los Angeles instead of perpetual night. The noir mystery is still there. The city is coming back to life under hard daylight and deep shadow.

On November 25, open the live lookup, choose the United States or Canada, and confirm the title inside Prime before you tell anyone the season is live.