Long Story Short is a Netflix adult animated comedy-drama created by Raphael Bob-Waksberg, his first new animated series since the acclaimed BoJack Horseman. Trading Hollywood satire for something more intimate, the show is a warm, melancholy, and very funny portrait of a single family told across the sweep of its members' entire lives.
The series follows the Schwooper family, jumping freely and non-chronologically through the decades, from childhood and adolescence to marriage, parenthood, and old age, so that a character might be a squabbling kid in one scene and a weary adult in the next. This restless time-hopping structure lets the show explore how families carry their history with them, how old wounds and inside jokes echo across generations, and how small moments accumulate into a life. Its voice cast includes Abbi Jacobson, Ben Feldman, Lisa Edelstein, Paul Reiser, and Nicole Byer.
Rooted in Bob-Waksberg's own Jewish American upbringing, Long Story Short earned strong reviews for balancing sharp comedy with genuine emotional depth, the same alchemy that made his previous work resonate. It is streaming on Netflix.
Murder in a Small Town is a cozy-but-crafty crime mystery created by Ian Weir, based on the acclaimed Karl Alberg novels by Canadian author L.R. Wright. Airing on Fox in the United States, it transplants the classic whodunit into the misty, close-knit setting of a Pacific Northwest coastal town, where old secrets have a way of surfacing.
Rossif Sutherland stars as Karl Alberg, a big-city detective who takes the job of police chief in the seaside community of Gibsons in search of a quieter life, only to find no shortage of murders to solve. Kristin Kreuk plays Cassandra Lee, the local librarian who becomes his confidante and love interest, while Aaron Douglas rounds out the core cast; the second season adds Marcia Gay Harden as the town's mayor. Each season builds its central investigation around the fractures beneath a picturesque surface.
The first season premiered in 2024 and proved popular enough to earn a second in 2025 and a subsequent renewal, establishing the show as a dependable, character-driven mystery. Its scenic setting and unhurried, human-scaled storytelling set it apart from flashier procedurals. It streams on Hulu.
Grosse Pointe Garden Society is a soapy dark-comedy mystery created by Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs for NBC. Set in an affluent Michigan suburb, it follows four members of a local gardening club who become bound together by a shared, deadly secret, unfolding its story across two timelines that gradually reveal how ordinary neighbors ended up burying a body among the flower beds.
Melissa Fumero, Aja Naomi King, Ben Rappaport, and AnnaSophia Robb lead the ensemble as the mismatched club members whose tangled personal lives — infidelity, custody battles, ambition, and reinvention — collide with a murder they must conspire to conceal. The series toggles between the crime's aftermath and the months leading up to it, doling out clues and misdirection while mining sharp comedy from the manicured hypocrisies of suburban life.
Premiering on NBC in February 2025, the series drew a solid response for its game cast and twisty structure, offering a glossy, bingeable blend of whodunit and domestic satire in the tradition of Desperate Housewives. Its single season delivered a self-contained mystery that rewarded attentive viewers. It streams on Peacock.
Platonic is an Apple TV+ comedy created by Francesca Delbanco and Nicholas Stoller that reunites the comedic pairing of Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne. The series mines big laughs and real feeling from a premise Hollywood rarely explores with such honesty: the intense, messy, entirely non-romantic friendship between a man and a woman in the throes of midlife.
Rogen plays Will, a newly divorced brewmaster, and Byrne plays Sylvia, a former lawyer turned stay-at-home mom; after years apart, the old friends reconnect and promptly become a chaotic, enabling influence on each other's lives. Their rekindled bond is warm, hilarious, and frequently disruptive to the more settled parts of their worlds, and the show treats the friendship with the stakes and scrutiny usually reserved for romance. The chemistry between the two leads, honed across films like Neighbors, anchors every episode.
The first season debuted in 2023 to strong reviews, and the acclaimed second season arrived in 2025, deepening the characters while keeping the manic comic energy intact and earning the series a renewal for a third season. Smart, generous, and genuinely funny about adult friendship, Platonic has become one of Apple TV+'s most reliable comedies. It streams on Apple TV+.
House of Guinness is a lavish historical drama created and written by Steven Knight, the mind behind Peaky Blinders, for Netflix. Set in 1868, it opens in the aftermath of the death of Sir Benjamin Guinness, the patriarch who transformed the Dublin brewery into a global empire, and traces the fortunes of the four adult children left to inherit his complicated legacy.
Anthony Boyle and Louis Partridge lead as brothers Arthur and Edward Guinness, thrust into running the business together, while Emily Fairn and Fionn O'Shea play their siblings Anne and Benjamin. James Norton co-stars as the formidable fixer Sean Rafferty, and Jack Gleeson appears as Byron Hedges, as the family navigates rivalries, secrets, romance, and the political turbulence of Ireland on the brink of change. Knight frames the brewing dynasty as a saga of power and inheritance, drawing frequent comparisons to Succession and Downton Abbey.
Premiering in September 2025, the eight-episode series became one of Netflix's most talked-about period dramas, earning warm reviews for its sweep, style, and performances and a swift renewal for a second season. Rooted in the real history of one of Ireland's most famous families, it turns the story behind the black stout into rich, character-driven drama. It streams on Netflix.
Étoile is a comedy-drama from Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino, the married creative team behind Gilmore Girls and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Set in the rarefied world of professional ballet, the series follows two storied but struggling dance companies — one in New York, one in Paris — that hatch an audacious plan to survive: they will swap some of their most gifted stars for a season, hoping the exchange generates the publicity and artistic spark each institution desperately needs.
Luke Kirby and Charlotte Gainsbourg lead as the harried directors on either side of the Atlantic, with Gideon Glick, Lou de Laâge, Simon Callow, and newcomer Taïs Vinolo among the dancers and staff swept up in the scheme. True to the Palladinos' signature style, the show pairs rapid-fire, literate dialogue with a genuine reverence for its milieu, casting real professional dancers and staging extended performance sequences alongside its backstage comedy.
Released on Prime Video in the spring of 2025, Étoile was mounted as an ambitious, bilingual production shot across two countries. Despite an initial two-season order, Prime Video ultimately declined to continue the series beyond its first season, leaving its single run as a distinctive, globe-spanning ode to the art form. It streams on Prime Video.
Common Side Effects is an adult animated thriller-comedy created by Joseph Bennett and Steve Hely for Adult Swim, executive produced by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels through their Bandera Entertainment. The story follows Marshall Cuso, an eccentric, burned-out mycologist who discovers a rare mushroom capable of healing almost any ailment — even reversing death. When he reconnects with a former high-school classmate now working at a pharmaceutical giant, his miraculous find sets off a dangerous chase as powerful interests scramble to control, suppress, or exploit it.
Rendered in a lush, hand-drawn style far removed from typical adult cartoons, the series pairs paranoid conspiracy-thriller plotting with dry humor and surprising sincerity about health care, grief, and corporate greed. Dave King and Emily Pendergast lead the voice cast as Marshall and the conflicted pharma executive Frances, with Mike Judge, Danny Huston, and Joseph Lee Anderson among the supporting players, giving the show both comedic bite and genuine tension.
Debuting on Adult Swim in early 2025 and streaming on HBO Max, Common Side Effects became one of the most acclaimed animated series of the year, earning a rare wave of critical enthusiasm and a second-season renewal before its first season had even finished airing. It streams on HBO Max.
Suits LA is a legal drama created by Aaron Korsh, a spin-off of his long-running hit Suits that relocates the franchise from Manhattan to the entertainment capital of Los Angeles. Stephen Amell stars as Ted Black, a former federal prosecutor from New York who has reinvented himself as a powerful attorney to the rich and famous, running a firm that handles both criminal defense and the high-stakes world of Hollywood dealmaking. When his practice is thrown into turmoil, Ted must fight to hold his empire together.
The series leans on the glossy, fast-talking appeal that made Suits a streaming juggernaut, pairing courtroom maneuvering with celebrity clients, office rivalries, and personal betrayals. Amell — familiar to genre audiences from Arrow — headlines a cast that includes Josh McDermitt, Lex Scott Davis, Bryan Greenberg, and Victoria Justice, building its own ensemble while nodding to the world fans already know.
Premiering on NBC in February 2025 and streaming on Peacock, Suits LA arrived on a wave of renewed interest in the original series, which had become a record-breaking streaming sensation years after its finale. Though NBC ultimately did not continue the show beyond its first season, it delivered the star cameos and slick drama that franchise fans came for. It streams on Peacock.
Toxic Town is a four-part British drama miniseries created by writer Jack Thorne and directed by Minkie Spiro, based on one of the United Kingdom's most significant environmental scandals. Set in the former steel town of Corby, it follows a group of mothers who come to realize that a shocking cluster of children born with limb differences may be linked to the way toxic waste was handled during the reclamation of the town's old steelworks. What begins as private grief becomes a collective fight for accountability.
Jodie Whittaker leads the cast as Susan McIntyre, one of the mothers who refuses to stay silent, alongside Aimee Lou Wood, Claudia Jessie, Robert Carlyle, Rory Kinnear, and Brendan Coyle. The series charts the families' long, exhausting battle to be believed — by officials, by the courts, and by a system inclined to look away — building to a landmark legal reckoning that would set a precedent in British environmental law.
Released globally on Netflix in early 2025, Toxic Town was praised for its righteous anger and its grounded, deeply human performances, drawing comparisons to other true-story dramas about ordinary people confronting powerful institutions. It streams on Netflix.
The Savant is an Apple TV+ thriller starring and executive produced by Jessica Chastain, inspired by a true story first reported in a ProPublica investigation. Chastain plays a woman known by the code name "the Savant," who works undercover inside online extremist communities, posing as a sympathizer in order to identify individuals plotting acts of violence and stop them before they can act. Operating largely in secret, she navigates a shadowy world where a single misstep could expose her.
Created by Melissa James Gibson, the eight-part series builds its tension around the psychological toll of the Savant's double life — the strain of immersing herself in hateful rhetoric while protecting her own family and identity. Chastain anchors the drama with a controlled, watchful performance, supported by an ensemble that grounds the high-stakes investigation in domestic reality. The show frames its subject as a study of vigilance, moral cost, and the quiet work of prevention.
Originally scheduled for a 2025 premiere, The Savant was postponed by Apple amid heightened public concern over political violence, before finally arriving in the summer of 2026. Its release drew renewed attention to the real-world reporting behind it and to Chastain's advocacy for the project. It streams on Apple TV+.
Doc is an American medical drama that premiered on Fox in January 2025 and quickly became one of the most-watched new network series in years. Molly Parker stars as Dr. Amy Larsen, a brilliant and demanding chief of internal medicine whose life is upended when a car accident erases roughly the last eight years of her memory. She wakes believing she is a different person — happily married, with a living son — and must relearn who she has become, both professionally and personally, while continuing to practice medicine.
Created by Barbie Kligman and developed with Hank Steinberg, the series uses its high-concept premise to explore identity, regret, and second chances: the version of Amy who lost those years was warmer and less guarded than the woman her colleagues came to fear. The strong ensemble — including Omar Metwally, Amirah Vann, Jon Ecker, and Scott Wolf — surrounds Parker as Amy navigates fractured relationships and the disorienting gap between who she was and who she is now.
Doc delivered Fox its best drama debut in five years and grew into a global streaming phenomenon, earning praise for Parker's layered central performance and a swift renewal. Its blend of procedural medical cases and serialized emotional stakes struck a chord with audiences hungry for character-driven network drama. It streams on Hulu.