Reacher Season 3 continues Amazon Prime Video's hit action series based on Lee Child's best-selling novels about Jack Reacher, a hulking former military police investigator who drifts across America and inevitably collides with violent conspiracies. One of Prime Video's most-watched originals, the show adapts a different book in the series each season.
Alan Ritchson returns as the imposing, sharp-witted Reacher, this time in an adaptation of Child's fan-favorite novel Persuader, which sends him deep undercover to infiltrate a dangerous criminal operation. Maria Sten returns as his ally Frances Neagley, with new faces including Anthony Michael Hall and, as a towering enforcer, the seven-foot-plus Dutch Giant Olivier Richters.
The season premiered in February 2025 and launched to the strongest reviews in the show's history, around 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics noting that Reacher finally faced an opponent his own size. It remained one of Prime Video's biggest draws. Streaming on Prime Video.
Twisted Metal is an action-comedy series based on Sony's long-running PlayStation vehicular-combat video game, developed for Peacock by Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, and showrunner Michael Jonathan Smith. Set in a lawless, post-apocalyptic wasteland known as the Divided States of America, it pairs demolition-derby carnage with irreverent, foul-mouthed humor.
Anthony Mackie stars as John Doe, an amnesiac "milkman" delivery driver who is offered a shot at a better life if he can transport a mysterious package across deadly territory. Stephanie Beatriz plays the fierce car thief Quiet, while the iconic ice-cream-truck-driving killer clown Sweet Tooth is performed physically by Joe Seanoa and voiced by Will Arnett. Season two, released in 2025, finally stages the franchise's signature tournament, presided over by the enigmatic Calypso (Anthony Carrigan).
After a mixed but popular first season, Twisted Metal roared back with a second season that won over critics, jumping to a 92% Rotten Tomatoes score for its faster pace, bigger action, and deeper embrace of the games. It has become one of Peacock's signature genre titles.
NCIS: Tony & Ziva is a Paramount+ action-drama and the latest spinoff in the long-running NCIS franchise, reuniting two of the mothership series' most beloved characters. Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo reprise their roles as Tony DiNozzo and Ziva David, the will-they-won't-they fan favorites whose romance was one of the original show's defining threads. Created by John McNamara, the series finally reunites the pair years after each departed the flagship show.
The story finds Tony raising the couple's daughter, Tali, while running a security company in Paris. When he comes under attack, Tony and Ziva are thrown back together and forced to go on the run across Europe, trying to uncover who is targeting them while navigating their complicated history as parents and partners. The result blends globe-trotting, espionage-tinged action with the character-driven banter that made the duo so popular.
Premiering on Paramount+ in September 2025, the series capitalized on years of fan demand for a Tony and Ziva reunion and extended the NCIS brand into serialized, internationally set storytelling. Filmed in Europe, it leans on the star chemistry of Weatherly and de Pablo to carry a fresh chapter in one of television's most durable franchises. NCIS: Tony & Ziva streams on Paramount+.
Spider-Noir is a live-action superhero series on Prime Video, produced under the Amazon MGM and Sony partnership, that spins Nicolas Cage's animated Spider-Verse character off into his own hard-boiled detective story. Cage, who voiced Spider-Man Noir in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, now plays the character in the flesh, headlining a period noir steeped in the shadows of Depression-era New York.
Set in the 1930s, the series follows an aging, down-on-his-luck private investigator who was once the city's masked protector and finds himself pulled back into a dangerous case that forces the web-slinger out of retirement. Rendered largely in stark black and white to evoke classic film noir, the show trades the multiverse spectacle of its animated origins for gumshoes, gangsters, and grim mystery. Lamorne Morris, Brendan Gleeson, and Li Jun Li are among the cast.
Premiering in 2026, Spider-Noir stands out as the first live-action solo Spider-Man television series and an unusually stylish, adult-leaning take on the character. Building on the popularity of Cage's scene-stealing Spider-Verse role, it reimagines a comic-book hero through the lens of 1930s pulp detective fiction. Spider-Noir streams on Prime Video.
Butterfly is a slick, globe-trotting espionage thriller on Prime Video, adapted from the Boom! Studios graphic novel by Arash Amel. Daniel Dae Kim — who also executive produces — stars as David Jung, a former United States intelligence operative living in the shadows in South Korea years after faking his own death. His carefully hidden life collapses when he is targeted by Rebecca, a lethal young agent from a shadowy private intelligence outfit called Caddis, setting off a relentless cat-and-mouse chase across the Korean peninsula.
The series' central twist reframes the pursuit as something far more personal than a routine assignment, binding hunter and hunted together through a buried family secret. Reina Hardesty plays Rebecca with steely intensity, and the show balances wall-to-wall action — foot chases, shootouts, and hand-to-hand combat through Seoul's streets and neon-lit interiors — with a genuine interest in identity, belonging, and the ties that survive betrayal.
Shot almost entirely on location in South Korea, Butterfly showcases the country as more than an exotic setting, weaving Korean language, culture, and craft into its DNA. For Daniel Dae Kim, born in South Korea and raised in the United States, the project was a personal milestone, and the series arrived as one of Prime Video's most distinctive action offerings of the year. It streams on Prime Video.
The Terminal List: Dark Wolf is a Prime Video action-thriller that serves as a prequel to the 2022 hit The Terminal List, shifting the spotlight from Chris Pratt's James Reece to his enigmatic friend and fellow warrior Ben Edwards. Taylor Kitsch, who introduced the character in the original series, headlines here in an origin story that charts Edwards' fateful transition from decorated Navy SEAL to morally compromised CIA operative. Adapted from author Jack Carr's best-selling novel, the series was developed by Carr and showrunner David DiGilio, who also guided the first show.
The story follows Ben as he is recruited into the shadowy world of the CIA's Ground Branch, taking on off-the-books missions across Europe and the Middle East that steadily erode the line between duty and self-preservation. Chris Pratt returns as Reece and Tom Hopper co-stars as Raife Hastings, grounding the prequel in the loyalties and betrayals that will echo through the wider saga. The series leans hard into gritty, grounded action and the psychological toll of covert warfare, trading some of the original's revenge-thriller propulsion for a darker character study.
Critics responded well, with many arguing that the prequel actually improved on its predecessor thanks to Kitsch's brooding, magnetic lead performance and a tighter sense of moral consequence. Muscular and bleak, The Terminal List: Dark Wolf is streaming on Prime Video.
Chief of War is a sweeping historical epic on Apple TV+ co-created by and starring Jason Momoa, who has described it as the most personal project of his career. Told largely from an Indigenous Hawaiian perspective, the series dramatizes the brutal, consequential campaign to unify the Hawaiian Islands in the late eighteenth century, a story rarely if ever given this scale on screen. Momoa, who is of Native Hawaiian descent, developed the show with Thomas Pa'a Sibbett as an act of cultural reclamation as much as entertainment.
Momoa stars as Ka'iana, a warrior chief navigating shifting alliances, foreign incursion, and the ambitions of rival rulers as the islands are pulled toward unification and, simultaneously, toward contact with a wider and more dangerous world. The series stages large-scale battles and intimate political maneuvering with equal attention, and its performances lean into the weight of a civilization at a turning point. Much of the drama unfolds in the Hawaiian language, an unusual and deliberate choice for a major streaming production.
Critics responded enthusiastically, with the series earning a strongly positive reception and comparisons to prestige epics like Game of Thrones for its ambition and craft. It stood out as one of Apple TV+'s most distinctive 2025 offerings, praised both for its spectacle and for centering an Indigenous story on its own terms. Chief of War streams on Apple TV+.
X-Men '97 is the triumphant continuation of the beloved X-Men: The Animated Series that defined a generation's understanding of Marvel's mutant heroes, picking up precisely where the original 1997 finale left off with the same visual aesthetic, the same characters, and an emotional maturity that the original's younger audience couldn't fully appreciate. The series reunites surviving members of the original creative team with a new generation of writers and directors, creating a work that honours its source material while taking dramatic risks that shocked even longtime fans. Creator Beau DeMayo committed to exploring the full moral and political complexity of the X-Men's metaphor for marginalized communities with uncompromising honesty.
The show's third episode became one of the most talked-about pieces of animation in years — a gut-wrenching examination of racial violence against mutantkind that many critics described as the most powerful twenty-two minutes of television of 2024 regardless of format or genre. The writing team refused to soften the team's conflicts or their enemies' cruelty in ways that might make the material more comfortable for casual viewers, resulting in a series that feels genuinely consequential rather than merely nostalgic.
X-Men '97 won multiple Emmy Awards including Outstanding Animated Program, becoming one of the most critically decorated animated productions of its year and renewing enthusiasm for a franchise that had struggled in live-action form. It demonstrated definitively that animation can be the most uncompromising format for storytelling when creators are given the freedom to pursue their vision without compromise. It streams exclusively on Disney+.
