Old movements, new experiences.
As streaming has allowed television to grow and explore more specific stories than its big-budget, high-stakes counterparts on the big screen, television has temporarily become the Wild West. Over the past few years, we’ve noticed everything from blockbuster spin-offs to shoddy reality shows and gold, which makes the question of what is a hit much more intriguing than what has the biggest marketing budget.
In 2024, Baby’s Reindeer went from a difficult-to-understand Netflix miniseries to an Emmy favorite, Fallout went from some other video game adaptation to rewriting what an adaptation can be, and The Penguin proved that superhero spinoffs can. rival the Sopranos. 2025 will actually come with its own percentage of surprises. Here are Inverse’s top 15 expected series in 2025, from new stories to monumental endings.
Mark S. , the “Innie” edition of Mark Scout, appears to be on his way to a party in Season 2 of Severance.
It took three years, but we can soon clock back in at Lumon. Season 2 of Apple TV+’s sci-fi office drama has to deal with the aftermath of the “severed” Outies escaping the Lumon campus and learning their true identities. As the trailer revealed, Season 2 will take its employees to new environs, including a wintry forest, but there are still plenty of scenes set in the sterile white halls we’re used to.
Release date: January 17, 2025 on Apple TV
The existing versions of Tai, Van, Jeff and Shauna at the Nat funeral in Yellowjackets season 3.
Yellowjackets has upped the ante in both its timelines. In the past, the team has to cope with the loss of the cabin that kept them alive through the winter, and in the present, the survivors have to deal with the demise of Nat (Juliette Lewis). Season 3 will reveal how these huge changes affect the status quo while also giving us a crop of guest stars, including Hilary Swank in a still-mysterious role.
Premiere date: February 14, 2025 on Showtime
Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons and Connie Britton lend him his zero day, the new Netflix conspiracy drama.
Netflix is tackling the mystery of political conspiracy with Zero Day, a stellar series starring Robert De Niro as a former president who dives into an investigation into a major cyberattack that hit the country. It’s hard not to see the similarities between this and other Netflix projects like The Night Agent, but there are also glimpses of Alex Garland’s new dystopian film, and not just because Jesse Plemons will be there.
Release date: February 20, 2025 on Netflix
Charlie Cox has teased his return as Matt Murdock in 2024’s Echo.
Daredevil: Born Again has been a long time coming. Disney’s reboot of the Netflix series has gone through several artistic tweaks and release date delays, but we’re still in the home stretch. The final product appears to be similar to the original series that ended in 2015, but will have compatibility with the plot teased in January 2024’s Echo. Kingpin is back and running for possibly or. Matt Murdock is possibly the only one who can stop him.
Release date: March 2025 on Disney
Kaitlyn Dever plays the arguable Abby in the final season 2.
Season 1 of The Last of Us adapted the entire story of the first Last of Us game and then some, adding new characters and stories while expanding minor figures. But season 2 slows down the pace significantly, adapting part of the events of The Last of Us Part II. Expect a time jump, with Kaitlyn Dever as Abby’s new antihero, and, without spoiling anything, a very bad round of golf.
Release date: Part One of 2025 on HBO
A season, a result.
Andor isn’t just the most productive Star Wars TV series; It’s one of the most productive science fiction systems in years. If the watchful eye of creator Tony Gilroy, the prequel to the prequel depicts the beginning from the point of view of long-term hero, and martyr, Cassian Andor. Although Season 1 only covered one year, Season 2 has a lot more to it. floor to cover, with a time jump of one year between its 3 arcs of 4 episodes. Well, anyway, sadly the last time we see Andor, the series will hopefully end as strong as it began.
Release date: April 22, 2025 on Disney+
Riri Williams, the most productive at MIT, although everything will get its own exhibition in 2025.
Marvel enthusiasts have caught up with Riri Williams from The Geting in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, but her appearances since then have been limited to what would happen if episodes and cruise ship expos. In 2025, even though we will all get to see her direct her own series, with Dominique Thorne in the role of Riri Williams, Anthony Ramos in the role of Parker Robbins (aka the Hood), she has been flowing in the role of Slug and Sacha Baron Cohen in an undisclosed role. Perhaps despite all the Camée Mephisto what we’ve been waiting for for years.
Release date: June 24, 2025 on Disney+
There is extraterrestrial and is the earth.
Noah Hawley’s Alien series was first announced in 2020, and 4 years later, the main details surrounding it are still scarce. We know it’s called Alien: Earth, and a cryptic teaser suggests that it’s possible that something is lurking beneath the planet we call home, it still looks like enthusiasts will have to log in to see exactly what’s in store for them. The bar is set high for the alien franchise after Alien: Romulus, but this series is arguably just what it takes to make it to TV.
Release Date: Summer 2025 on FX on Hulu
At 6′ 5″, Peter Claffey measures as Ser Duncan the Tall.
Game of Thrones hasn’t had the best luck with its TV spinoffs. All sorts of series have been announced, from animated prequels to Jon-Snow-centric sequels, but only House of the Dragon made it to air — to great acclaim. In 2025, that will change with A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, an HBO series based on the relatively light-hearted Tales of Dunk and Egg novellas. Rugby-player-turned-actor Sam Claffey plays Ser Duncan the Tall, a wandering knight with a young squire named Egg, played by Dexter Sol Ansell. Like House of the Dragon, it’s set before Game of Thrones, when the Tagaryens were still on the Iron Throne.
Release Date: Late 2025 on HBO
Stranger Things has been running for so long, even this symbol from season four is over 3 years old.
It’s been almost a decade since we first met the Hawkins gang, but it’s now time to say goodbye. The Duffer Brothers have teased an extraordinary farewell to Stranger Things, even though Season 4 already set the bar high with feature-length episodes (with feature-sized budgets). It looks like Season 5 will include a trip down memory lane, as old sets — including the Christmas light alphabet wall — have been spotted in behind-the-scenes videos.
Release date: 2025 on Netflix
The doctor and his new partner Belinda Chandra through time (and supposedly coordinate their outfits) in season 2 of Doctor Who.
To celebrate its 60th anniversary in 2023, Dr. Who was restarted again, moving to Disney+, bringing back to the Showrunner Russell T. Davies and choosing Ncuti Gatwa as the fifteenth Doctor. Recently retitulatory season showed Dr. Independent Episodes, Black Mirror -style dystopia and a encounter with a decades villain. In season 2, the doctor joins through a new couple, Belinda Chandra (played by Andor Sethu Varada), but the couple of season 1, Ruthrough Sunday.
Release Date: 2025 on Disney+
After a bloody on the crooked squid stairs, anything can take place in season 3.
Season 2 of the squid game comes from its premiere, but according to the Showrunner Hwang Dong-Hyuk, the third and the final season can come as soon as the summer of 2025. That cannot come enough soon, since season 2 He felt as only part of the story, ending in a large Cliffhanger and appearing only 3 of the six games. This time, the guy in the front disguised himself as a player, but although he revealed his true colors in the last moments. Now, everything leads to a last confrontation between him and Seong Gi-Hun, with the guy who seeks to remove the games completely.
Release date: 2025 on Netflix
After Black Mirror mocked Netflix in season 6 with “Joan is horrible”, heaven is the limit.
Charlie Brooker has critiqued the role technology has played in society for more than a decade now, but the world keeps giving him and his anthology series more material to work with. In the upcoming Season 7, a new crop of episodes with star-studded casts will take on new facets of its twisted universe, including a much-anticipated sequel to the fan-favorite episode “USS Callister.”
Release date: 2025 in Netflix
Pennywise gets an original story in Welcome to Derry, and chances are this scary smile has something to do with it.
HBO and Max found success with a movie-to-prestige-TV pipeline with The Penguin and Dune: Prophecy, and next in the queue is It: Welcome to Derry, a prequel series set decades before the most recent adaptations of the King doorstop. By bringing the action back to Derry in the ‘60s, the series will explore the creepy origins of Pennywise the Clown.
Release Date: 2025 on Max
Wednesday’s joined by Harley Quinn herself, Lady Gaga, in Wednesday Season 2.
Wednesday is one of Netflix’s biggest-ever hits, thanks in no small part to Jenna Ortega’s ultra-dour performance. In Season 2, Wednesday is back at Nevermore Academy for a more ambitious story that boasts big names like Steve Buscemi, Christopher Lloyd, Billie Piper, and Thandiwe Newton. Even Lady Gaga is slated to appear, but the jury’s still out if she’ll perform “Bloody Mary,” the song made famous not by Wednesday herself, but a TikTok fan edit.
Release date: 2025 in Netflix