Secrets We Keep, known in its native Denmark as Reservatet, is a six-part Danish thriller that premiered globally on Netflix in May 2025. A sleek entry in the Nordic-noir tradition created by Ingeborg Topsøe, it uses the gleaming surfaces of an affluent Copenhagen suburb to probe the uncomfortable power imbalances hidden inside privileged households.
The story begins when a Filipina au pair working for a wealthy family in a gated enclave suddenly vanishes, and the official indifference to her disappearance gnaws at Cecilie, a neighbour played by Marie Bach Hansen. As Cecilie starts asking the questions her own comfortable circle would rather she leave alone, she is drawn into a web of secrets involving the families who employ migrant domestic workers and the quiet exploitation that underpins their polished lives. Simon Sears, Danica Curcic and Excel Busano feature among the cast.
Critics welcomed the series as a tense, morally serious thriller that uses its whodunit engine to examine class, race and complicity, and its deliberately ambiguous ending became a widely discussed talking point. A polished, bingeable addition to Netflix's deep bench of Scandinavian crime dramas, it drew comparisons to the streamer's other Nordic hits. It is streaming on Netflix.
Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story is the fourth installment of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan's Netflix true-crime anthology, following the seasons devoted to Jeffrey Dahmer, the Menendez brothers, and Ed Gein. It turns to one of America's oldest and most enduring murder mysteries: the 1892 killings of Andrew and Abby Borden in Fall River, Massachusetts, and the trial of Andrew's daughter Lizzie, who was accused of the crime and famously acquitted.
Ella Beatty stars as Lizzie Borden, with Charlie Hunnam as her father Andrew, Rebecca Hall as her stepmother Abby, Vicky Krieps as the household maid Bridget Sullivan, and Billie Lourd as Lizzie's sister Emma. Across eight episodes the season reconstructs the killings and the trial that gripped Gilded Age America, using the case to probe Victorian misogyny, class, and the suffocating expectations placed on women of the era — the first time the franchise has built a season around an alleged female perpetrator.
Released on September 17, 2026, the season debuted at number one on Netflix and drew millions of views in its opening days, keeping the Monster franchise among the streamer's most-watched original brands even as critics remained divided over its lurid, stylized approach. It is streaming on Netflix.
Tempest is a Korean political-action thriller released on Disney+ in 2025, one of the platform's most ambitious and expensive Korean originals to date. Directed by Kim Hee-won and mounted with the scale and star power of a feature film, it was among the most anticipated K-dramas of the year.
Jun Ji-hyun (credited internationally as Gianna Jun) stars as Seo Mun-ju, a celebrated former diplomat and ambassador drawn into a lethal geopolitical conspiracy, while Gang Dong-won plays a mysterious mercenary who becomes her uneasy ally. As an assassination and a web of international intrigue threaten the Korean peninsula, the two are pulled across borders in a high-stakes game of espionage. American actor John Cho appears in a key supporting role, underscoring the show's international ambitions.
Positioned as a globe-trotting tentpole, Tempest drew huge attention for pairing two of Korea's biggest screen stars and for its cinematic production values, delivering shootouts, political brinkmanship, and shifting allegiances across its run. It streams on Disney+.
Slow Horses Season 5 returns to Slough House, the dead-end posting for MI5's disgraced spies, in Apple TV+'s acclaimed adaptation of Mick Herron's espionage novels. Gary Oldman is back as the flatulent, brilliant Jackson Lamb, leading a cast that includes Jack Lowden as River Cartwright and Kristin Scott Thomas as MI5's steely Diana Taverner. This fifth run adapts Herron's novel London Rules.
The season kicks into gear when a wave of seemingly random, coordinated attacks strikes London and the trail leads uncomfortably close to home after the team's own tech misfit, Roddy Ho (Christopher Chung), acquires an improbable new girlfriend. What begins as an office joke spirals into a conspiracy that pulls Lamb's misfits into the middle of a national crisis, mixing the show's trademark gallows humor with genuine menace.
Slow Horses has become one of Apple TV+'s most reliably praised dramas, and the fifth season continued its streak of strong reviews for Oldman's performance and the series' sharp, propulsive storytelling. The show's popularity has been such that Apple renewed it several seasons ahead. Streaming on Apple TV+.
The Terminal List is a Prime Video action-thriller series based on the bestselling debut novel by former Navy SEAL Jack Carr. Premiering in 2022, it stars Chris Pratt as James Reece, a decorated SEAL who returns home after his entire platoon is killed in a catastrophic ambush, only to discover that the disaster was no accident.
As Reece's memories fracture and dark truths surface, he uncovers a conspiracy reaching into the highest levels of government and business, and sets out on a methodical, increasingly violent campaign of revenge against those responsible. Directed in part by Antoine Fuqua and grounded in Carr's firsthand knowledge of special operations, the series blends military authenticity with a paranoid, propulsive thriller structure. Constance Wu, Taylor Kitsch, and Riley Keough co-star.
Though critics were divided, The Terminal List became one of Prime Video's most-watched titles, connecting powerfully with audiences and spawning both a prequel spinoff and a forthcoming second season. Anchored by Pratt in a rare dramatic leading role, it is streaming on Prime Video.
Scarpetta is a Prime Video crime thriller and the first successful screen adaptation of Patricia Cornwell's best-selling Kay Scarpetta novels, developed and showrun by Liz Sarnoff. It pairs two Oscar winners: Nicole Kidman, who also executive produces, as the brilliant forensic pathologist, and Jamie Lee Curtis as her estranged sister.
Kidman plays Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a chief medical examiner who uses cutting-edge forensic science to hunt killers while confronting a fractured family and her own past. Jamie Lee Curtis co-stars as Dorothy, Kay's needling older sister, in a relationship that supplies much of the series' friction, as the investigations range across Virginia, Florida, and Charleston.
Released in March 2026 with all eight episodes at once, Scarpetta drew mixed reviews, around 57% on Rotten Tomatoes, even as critics singled out its stacked cast; Prime Video had committed to two seasons in advance. It is streaming on Prime Video.
Ponies is a Peacock espionage thriller created by Susanna Fogel and David Iserson that became one of the streamer's standout original series of 2026. Premiering in January with all eight episodes released at once, it is set in 1977 Moscow at the height of the Cold War and pairs sharp period atmosphere with a wry, character-driven approach to spycraft.
Emilia Clarke stars as Bea Grant and Haley Lu Richardson as Twila Hasbeck, two secretaries at the U.S. Embassy whose CIA-officer husbands die under mysterious circumstances. Rather than retreat, the pair volunteer to become operatives themselves, proving unexpectedly effective precisely because the KGB would never suspect two embassy typists of being spies. Adrian Lester co-stars as their handler.
Critics praised the show's 1977 texture and, above all, the chemistry between its two leads, who play cleverly against the types audiences associate with them; it earned a 94 percent critics' score. Filmed in Budapest standing in for Soviet Moscow, it was nonetheless canceled after a single season despite its acclaim. It is streaming on Peacock.
Get Millie Black is a gritty crime drama created by the Booker Prize-winning novelist Marlon James, marking his first work written for television. A co-production for HBO and the UK's Channel 4, the five-part series is among the first major HBO dramas set and filmed largely in Jamaica, steeping its mystery in the streets, patois and social fault lines of Kingston.
Tamara Lawrance stars as Millie-Jean Black, a Jamaican-born detective who trained at Scotland Yard before returning home to work missing-persons cases for the Jamaica Constabulary Force. When a routine disappearance collides with a Scotland Yard investigation led by a visiting detective, played by Joe Dempsie, Millie is pulled toward a dangerous web of trafficking and long-buried family wounds. Gershwyn Eustache Jnr plays her partner Curtis, and Chyna McQueen appears as Millie's sister Hibiscus.
The limited series earned rapturous reviews on both sides of the Atlantic, holding a perfect critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes and drawing praise for its performances and its vivid, unsentimental sense of place. It aired on HBO and Max in the United States in late 2024 and on Channel 4 in the UK in early 2025. It streams on HBO Max.
