Looking for a brutal Western? American Primeval is one of your best bets. This six-episode limited series tells the story of the American west in 1857 Utah, where the Mormons were dangerous and traveling anywhere was, essentially, a death wish. The show is very violent, very intense, and has an incredible Shea Whigham performance at its center. A good watch if you know what you’re getting into.

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There have been a lot of great spy shows of late—Slow Horses, Black Doves, Day of the Jackal—but Paramount+’s The Agency is probably the most star-studded one. Centered on interesting characters getting into problems of both a personal and professional nature, The Agency is a really engaging and exciting watch. And the fact that it features big stars like Michael Fassbender, Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith, Katherine Waterston, and Richard Gere is just a bonus. The show debuted in 2024, but finished its first season in 2025—so we’re counting it.

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This out-there political thriller marks a reunion between This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman and Emmy-winning star Sterling K. Brown. It’s a wild story that is actually best gone into as blind as possible—so we’re going to spare you too much of the plot details. But just know that it’s well done and has a strong cast, with James Marsden and Julianne Nicholson joining Brown at the top of the cast.

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If you’re wanting to get in on the ground floor of what might just be the next big cult/beloved adult animation comedy, Common Side Effects might just be it. Coming from co-creators Joseph Bennett (who was behind the excellent Scavengers Reign) and Steve Hely (who wrote for 30 Rock, Veep, and The Office), Common Side Effects is a show about two longtime friends who discover a miracle drug that can cure all illnesses—and the pharma conspiracy that emerges to eventually stop them from revealing it to the world. Greg Daniels and Mike Judge are on board as executive producers as well to give the show some bonus credibility. This is one of our most awaited comedies of the year by far—it should be ambitious and hilarious.

We’re living through a modern poltiical thriller revival, and Zero Day may just be the most star-studded of all. Seriously: Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, Angela Bassett, Joan Allen, Connie Britton, Bill Camp, Matthew Modine, and Dan Stevens are among the incredibly impressive cast in this six-episode Netflix thriller. It’s about the aftermath of a devastating cyberattack on the United States, but let’s be real—you’d watch just about anything with that group of people in it.

Mindy Kaling and Kate Hudson is the kind of feeling that is so perfect that we’re kind of wondering why it didn’t already happen ten years ago. Nonetheless, Hudson puts her best comedic chops to the test as a Jeannie Buss-esque leader of the NBA team that her family owns (Buss herself is a producer of the show). Hudson has always been an extremely talented comedic performer (think How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and 2023’s Glass Onion) but she seems to be a natural in this format. The show’s cast also includes Max Greenfield, Brenda Song, Drew Tarver, and more.

Matt Murdock is back! After being teased a number of times—in Spider-Man: No Way Home, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, and Echo—Daredevil himself is finally ready to be the star in Daredevil: Born Again. Charlie Cox will once again play Marvel’s most famous lawyer (and crimefighter) in Hell’s Kitchen, while Vincent D’Onofrio will return again (he too was featured in Hawkeye and Echo) to play the evil Kingpin. Born Again figures to be a soft reboot of the Netflix-produced Daredevil series, but with many fan-favorite characters (including Foggy, Karen, The Punisher, and Bullseye) all returning. Exciting!

Brian Tyree Henry and Wagner Moura star in Dope Thief, where the duo play a pair of Philadelphia dudes who rob a house while posing as DEA agents—only to realize they’ve gotten in way over their heads because they actually robbed a major drug operation. The show comes from writer Peter David, an Academy Award-nominated scribe who counts The Batman, Top Gun: Maverick, and The Town among his credits.

We’re game for just about any Whodunit, and this one features Uzo Aduba as the main sleuth figure. We will watch!

Seth Rogen has had some major success on Apple TV+ in the past with his series Platonic (which is returning for its second season at some point in 2025 as well), but The Studio, where he plays a troubled movie studio executive who interacts with all kinds of Hollywood talent (including Martin Scorsese, Zac Efron, and Catherine O’Hara) playing heightened versions of themselves. It feels a bit like Curb Your Enthusiasm mixed with Robert Altman’s The Player, and quite frankly that is awesome.

We can call Your Friends & Neighbors, a new Apple TV+ series of which Jon Hamm is both the star and executive producer, a sort of suburban, white collar drama. In the show, Hamm plays a rich finance dude who lives a lavish lifestyle before his life drastically changes: he loses his job, and gets divorced. In order to maintain his lifestyle, he decides to turn to a life of crime. The show comes from writer Jonathan Tropper, who has had success with little-seen shows like Banshee and Warrior before; Apple is hoping this can be a breakthrough hit, as it’s already ordered a second season of the show long before its premiere.

Ironheart is a Marvel Studios production that’s been in production for a loooooong time. Remember when Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) was introduced in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever? Well, that was late 2022, and this show has been basically ready to go ever since then. Anyway, despite the fact that it kind of feels like the MCU has no real direction right now, this should be a pretty fun show if all things go according to plan; Thorne will be joined by Anthony Ramos and Alden Ehrenreich among others in the cast.

Zombies! Based on a popular What If…? episode and a Robert Kirkman comic run, Marvel Zombies will do… exactly what you think it will do: pit our Marvel heroes in a world filled with the undead. It’s going to be a TV-MA series, so violence is to be expected.

Chad Powers finds Glen Powell looking to bring his recent ascendant superstar run to the small screen, this time in a show from writer Michael Waldron (Heels, Loki). Based on an Eli Manning character (seriously!) that he debuted during a trip to Penn State, Powell will play the titular QB—a dude who ruined his promising college football career by getting himself in trouble, so he disguises himself to go play at a much lower-tier school. The show also features the great Steve Zahn and should be a whole lot of fun.

Jacob Elordi leads The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a limited series based on the award-winning novel of the same name about an Australian doctor and prisoner of war in 1943. The series comes from writer Shaun Grant, who worked on Mindhunter among other projects, and is directed in its entirety by The Order director Justin Kurzel.

We don’t know too much about Task—HBO’s limited series starring Mark Ruffalo—other than the fact that it comes from the people behind Mare of Easttown and is considered a spiritual sequel of sorts to it. The show seems to follow a task force investigating a grisly crime, and Ruffalo (an HBO veteran after his compelling work on I Know This Much Is True) is joined in the cast by Tom Pelphrey and CODA star Emilia Jones, among others. We expect to be talking about this one every Sunday night at some point in 2025.

One of the year’s most exciting (and likely most ambitious) new shows is Alien: Earth, which will take the long-running and much beloved sci-fi/horror franchise in a whole new direction after last year’s Alien: Romulus. The show comes from showrunner Noah Hawley, who through his work on the Fargo series has proven that he can take a movie made by a visionary, one-of-a-kind talent, and keep the same spirit alive while still turning out his own totally unique and exciting work; he’s a perfect fit for Alien. This show, though, is actually a prequel to the original Alien film, set a couple years before and starring Sydney Chandler as our lead with Timothy Olyphant as her loyal android mentor. Hyped.

Welcome back Girls! We don’t know too much yet, but Rachel Sennott (who has led great films like Shiva Baby and Bottoms and also appeared in Saturday Nightamong other projects)has seemingly full creative control over this HBO series that she will create, write, and star in. In a way, this feels like the new generation’s take on Girls, which truly was a cultural moment for a stretch on the back of Lena Dunham’s great work as creator and star.

A prequel to It? A prequel to It. This show has a pretty strong cast, including Watchmen‘s Jovan Adepo, Zola‘s Taylour Page, and Perry Mason‘s Chris Chalk, but perhaps most exciting is that Bill Skarsgård is returning as Pennywise. How will this story work? Who knows, but we’re interested in finding out.