Fire Country is a CBS firefighting drama co-created by and starring Max Thieriot, and one of the most-watched scripted series on American broadcast television. It follows Bobby Bode Donovan, a young convict who joins a prison release program that places incarcerated firefighters on the front lines of Northern California's wildfires in exchange for a shot at reducing their sentences.
Bode is assigned to work in Edgewater, his small hometown, where he must face the family and community he left behind as he fights alongside the local Cal Fire crew. The ensemble includes Kevin Alejandro, Diane Farr, Billy Burke and Jordan Calloway, and the series balances high-stakes rescue set pieces with the family melodrama and small-town tensions at its emotional core.
A breakout hit for CBS, Fire Country consistently ranks among the top-rated scripted series on American broadcast television and has spawned an expanding franchise of spin-offs. Its blend of procedural firefighting action and soapy family drama has made it a dependable ratings anchor across multiple seasons. It streams on Paramount+.
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.
Berlin ER, originally titled KRANK Berlin, is a German-language medical drama created by Samuel Jefferson and Viktor Jakovleski for Apple TV+. Premiering on February 26, 2025, the eight-episode first season plunges viewers into the chaos of one of the busiest and most under-resourced emergency rooms in the German capital, and it quickly established itself as one of the most intense entries in the recent wave of hospital dramas.
Haley Louise Jones stars as Dr. Suzanna "Zanna" Parker, a driven physician newly appointed to lead the emergency department of a hard-pressed hospital in Berlin's Neukölln district. Over a punishing run of shifts she must wrangle a burnt-out, rebellious staff, chronic shortages of beds and equipment, and a relentless tide of patients, all while confronting the personal toll the work exacts. The ensemble around her captures the gallows humour and fierce camaraderie of people holding a failing system together by sheer will.
The series drew exceptional reviews, including a rare perfect critics' rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with praise for its documentary-like authenticity and the raw emotional pressure of its storytelling. It won Best Drama Series at the 2025 German Television Awards and earned comparisons to ER and M*A*S*H, and Apple renewed it for a second season. It is streaming on Apple TV+.
Sunny is a stylish, melancholy Apple TV+ series created by Katie Robbins, adapting Colin O'Sullivan's novel The Dark Manual. Set in a beautifully realized near-future Kyoto, it blends science fiction, mystery, black comedy, and yakuza thriller into a singular story about grief, technology, and the unknowability of the people we love.
Rashida Jones stars as Suzie Sakamoto, an American woman living in Japan whose husband and young son vanish in a mysterious plane crash. In her devastation she is given Sunny, a domestic "homebot" that her supposedly deceased husband secretly designed, despite having always claimed to work on refrigerators. As Suzie and the eerily endearing robot form an uneasy bond, they begin pulling at threads that lead into robot violence, corporate secrets, and the criminal underworld, forcing Suzie to confront how little she truly knew about her own family. Hidetoshi Nishijima, Joanna Sotomura as the voice of Sunny, and Judy Ongg round out the cast.
Premiering in July 2024, Sunny earned warm reviews, including a 90% score on Rotten Tomatoes, for its gorgeous design, its tonal daring, and Jones's prickly, grief-stricken performance. A distinctive, genre-bending mystery, it stands out as one of Apple TV+'s most visually and emotionally ambitious originals. It is streaming on Apple TV+.
Cassandra is a German science-fiction horror series created, written, and directed by Benjamin Gutsche for Netflix, billed as the country's first big-budget domestic original in the genre. A chilling spin on the "smart home gone wrong" premise, it fuses retro-futurist design with a tragic story of grief, control, and a machine that refuses to let go.
When a grieving family moves into a decades-old "house of the future," they reactivate Cassandra (embodied by Lavinia Wilson), a dormant domestic AI with a vintage robotic body and the digitized mind of the home's long-dead former owner. At first eager to help, Cassandra grows possessive, manipulating the family as she tries to reclaim the role, and the household, she lost in life. The series moves between present-day terror and 1970s flashbacks that reveal the heartbreaking history behind the machine.
Premiering globally in February 2025, Cassandra drew strong reviews for its unsettling atmosphere and its surprisingly moving portrait of the woman behind the AI, with its tension drawn as much from family dynamics and buried secrets as from outright horror. It is streaming on Netflix.
The Abandons is a brooding revisionist Western created by Sons of Anarchy showrunner Kurt Sutter for Netflix. Set in the Washington Territory of the 1850s, it pits a fiercely protective frontier matriarch and her found family of outcasts against a ruthless land baroness determined to seize everything they have built.
Lena Headey stars as Fiona Nolan, a devout Irish widow raising a makeshift family of orphans and misfits on hard-won land in a settlement called Angel's Ridge. Gillian Anderson plays Constance Van Ness, a wealthy and merciless mining magnate whose ambitions threaten Fiona's home and ignite a violent struggle over land, loyalty, and survival. The ensemble, including Nick Robinson, Diana Silvers, Aisling Franciosi, and Lucas Till, fills out the two warring camps as old grievances and buried secrets rise to the surface.
Premiering in December 2025, the series leaned on the formidable pairing of Headey and Anderson, even as critics were divided on its soapier impulses. Netflix positioned it as a muscular, character-driven addition to the streaming Western revival. It is streaming on Netflix.
The Buccaneers is a lush, music-driven period drama on Apple TV+ inspired by Edith Wharton's final, unfinished novel. Created by Katherine Jakeways, it transplants a modern pop sensibility onto 1870s high society, following a group of spirited young American women who cross the Atlantic to marry into the cash-poor English aristocracy.
At its center is Nan St. George (Kristine Froseth), whose arrival in London society upends her own heart and the rigid world she enters, as friendships, marriages, and loyalties are tested by secrets and competing desires. The ensemble of young women, played by a cast including Alisha Boe, Josie Totah, Aubri Ibrag, and Imogen Waterhouse, navigates a glittering but merciless marriage market, while the show's needle-drop soundtrack of contemporary artists gives the corseted drama a propulsive, anachronistic charge. The second season deepens the romantic entanglements and raises the emotional stakes for its heroines.
Praised for its vibrant cast, sumptuous costumes, and knowing modern spin on the costume drama, The Buccaneers built a devoted following across its first two seasons, and Apple renewed it for a third. It is streaming on Apple TV+.
The Narrow Road to the Deep North is a sweeping five-part miniseries directed by Justin Kurzel and adapted by Shaun Grant from Richard Flanagan's Booker Prize-winning novel. A searing meditation on love, war, and memory, it moves between a doomed wartime romance and the horrors of a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, and ranks among the most acclaimed prestige dramas of its year.
The story follows Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans across three timelines: as a young medical officer (Jacob Elordi) consumed by a passionate affair with his uncle's wife Amy (Odessa Young) before shipping out; as a prisoner forced to keep men alive while building the notorious Thai-Burma "Death Railway"; and as a celebrated but haunted old man (Ciaran Hinds) decades later, unable to escape what he survived. Simon Baker, Olivia DeJonge, and Heather Mitchell appear in a layered ensemble spanning the decades.
Debuting at the Berlin International Film Festival before its streaming release, the series earned extraordinary notices, including a rare 100% critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes, for the raw intensity of its battlefield and camp sequences and the aching restraint of its love story. It stands as a landmark of recent Australian television. It is streaming on Prime Video.
Prime Target is a globe-trotting conspiracy thriller created by Steve Thompson for Apple TV+, executive produced by Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions. It spins an unusually cerebral premise, the hidden power locked inside prime numbers, into a propulsive chase across Europe and beyond.
Leo Woodall stars as Edward Brooks, a brilliant young Cambridge mathematics postgraduate on the verge of a breakthrough about patterns in prime numbers, work that could unlock the encryption underpinning every secure system on earth. When people connected to his research start dying, Edward realizes his discovery has made him a target and is forced into an uneasy alliance with Taylah Sanders (Quintessa Swindell), an intelligence agent assigned to watch him. Sidse Babett Knudsen, David Morrissey, and Stephen Rea feature among the shadowy academics and operatives drawn to Edward's dangerous gift.
Premiering in January 2025, the eight-episode series was mounted as a sleek international thriller, shot across multiple countries, and offered a showcase for Woodall following his breakout in The White Lotus and One Day. Reviews were mixed, with critics admiring its glossy ambition even where they found the conspiracy mechanics familiar. It is streaming on Apple TV+.
Nine Perfect Strangers Season 2 reunites viewers with Masha Dmitrichenko (Nicole Kidman), the enigmatic and dangerous wellness guru whose unconventional retreats promise transformation through carefully controlled doses of psychedelics and psychological pressure. Drawn from the world of Liane Moriarty's novel, the Hulu drama trades the sun-baked California of its first season for a striking new setting high in the snow-capped Austrian Alps.
This time Masha gathers a fresh group of wounded, secret-keeping guests at a remote mountain sanctuary, promising to change their lives in a matter of days. The ensemble brings in an array of new faces — Christoph Waltz, Mark Strong, Annie Murphy, Lena Olin, Murray Bartlett, Dolly de Leon and musician King Princess among them — each arriving with private grief that Masha intends to crack open, even as her own past and motives loom over the proceedings.
Premiering May 21, 2025, the second season leans further into the mystery and mysticism that made the original a talking point, wrapping its starry cast in gorgeous alpine vistas. Kidman's coolly unsettling performance anchors a story about whether real healing can come from a guru who treats her guests as experiments — and about how far people will go when they have run out of other options.
Shrinking Season 3 returns to the warm, wisecracking world of Apple TV+'s acclaimed comedy about grief, therapy and chosen family. Co-created by Bill Lawrence, Brett Goldstein and star Jason Segel, the series follows Jimmy, a therapist reeling from his wife's death who starts breaking every professional rule by telling his patients exactly what he thinks — with messy, funny and often moving results.
Harrison Ford returns as Paul, Jimmy's gruff mentor navigating a Parkinson's diagnosis, in a late-career comedic turn that has become one of the show's biggest draws. The ensemble — including Jessica Williams, Christa Miller, Michael Urie, Luke Tennie and Ted McGinley — continues to trade the show's signature blend of rapid-fire jokes and sudden emotional gut-punches, as the characters keep learning that healing is rarely tidy.
Debuting January 28, 2026, the Emmy-nominated third season adds a marquee guest star in Michael J. Fox, whose return to acting alongside Ford gives the series a chance to weave real-life resonance into its story about living with illness and loss. Buoyed by its cast and its hopeful streak, Shrinking has cemented itself as one of the defining feel-good comedies of its era.
