Marvel Zombies is an adult animated horror series from Marvel Studios Animation, created by Bryan Andrews and Zeb Wells for Disney+. Expanding the fan-favorite "What If…? Zombies?!" episode into its own story, it drops a roster of familiar heroes into an alternate timeline overrun by a superpowered undead plague.
A band of survivors — including Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel (Iman Vellani), Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld), and Riri Williams / Ironheart (Dominique Thorne) — fights across a ruined landscape in search of a way to end the outbreak, all while battling zombified versions of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's most powerful figures. The voice cast also features Elizabeth Olsen, Simu Liu, Florence Pugh, Paul Rudd, and Tessa Thompson.
Premiering in September 2025, the four-episode series became Marvel Studios Animation's first project to carry a TV-MA rating, leaning into gore and body horror that its live-action counterparts avoid. Critics gave it a 66% Rotten Tomatoes score, calling it a gleefully cruel treat for both MCU fans and horror lovers.
Malice is a glossy psychological revenge thriller on Prime Video, created and written by James Wood, that unfolds like a sun-drenched cross between The Talented Mr. Ripley and a modern eat-the-rich satire. Premiering in November 2025 across six episodes, it gives comedian Jack Whitehall his first leading dramatic role, cast sharply against type as a charming young man harboring a dark and patient agenda.
Whitehall plays Adam Healey, a personable tutor who insinuates himself into the household of the fabulously wealthy Tanner family, first at their idyllic Greek island retreat and later in London. David Duchovny stars as the family's tech-magnate patriarch, Jamie Tanner, with Carice van Houten as his wife Nat. As Adam makes himself indispensable, it becomes clear that his warmth masks a meticulous scheme of revenge, and the series tightens into a game of manipulation in which the audience is never quite sure who is playing whom.
Reviews were mixed, with some critics finding the plotting deliberate to a fault, but audiences made it a genuine streaming hit, drawn by its glamorous settings, its soapy tension, and Whitehall's surprising dramatic turn. Filmed in London and on the Greek island of Paros, Malice is streaming on Prime Video.
Chad Powers is a Hulu sports comedy series co-created by and starring Glen Powell, expanding a viral comedy bit into a full six-episode showcase for one of Hollywood's fastest-rising stars. Developed by Powell with Michael Waldron, the writer behind Loki and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the series premiered in September 2025 and leans fully into big-hearted, broad sports-movie comedy.
Powell plays Russ Holliday, a spectacularly arrogant college quarterback whose career self-destructs in a moment of infamy that makes him a national punchline. Years later, desperate for redemption and unrecognizable under heavy prosthetics, he reinvents himself as Chad Powers, an earnest, goofy walk-on who tries out for a struggling college football team without anyone knowing who he really is. As Chad becomes the heart of the team, Russ must reckon with the ego that ruined him. Steve Zahn and Perry Mattfeld co-star.
The show grew out of a character Powell originally created with Eli Manning for an ESPN Eli's Places segment, in which Manning donned a disguise to secretly try out for a college team. Audiences responded warmly to the series' underdog charm and Powell's game, prosthetic-aided performance, and Hulu renewed it for a second season. Chad Powers is streaming on Hulu.
The Lowdown is an FX drama series created by Sterlin Harjo, the co-creator of the beloved Reservation Dogs, marking his return to television with another richly regional story rooted in his home state of Oklahoma. Premiering in September 2025 and streaming on Hulu, it blends noir mystery, shaggy comedy, and social conscience into a distinctly Tulsa-flavored character study.
Ethan Hawke stars as Lee Raybon, a self-styled truthstorian, an obsessive amateur historian, rare-book dealer, and gadfly journalist who cannot stop digging into the buried secrets of his city. When his investigation into a prominent local family's death pulls him into a web of corruption, old money, and long-suppressed history, Lee's compulsive truth-telling puts him and those around him in real danger. The character is loosely inspired by the late real-life Tulsa historian and activist Lee Roy Chapman, grounding the series in genuine local lore.
Critics embraced the show as a warm, idiosyncratic showcase for Hawke and for Harjo's deep affection for Oklahoma's people and contradictions, praising its blend of mystery-of-the-week momentum and lived-in regional texture. Like Reservation Dogs before it, The Lowdown finds the universal in the specific. It streams on Hulu.
Death by Lightning is a Netflix limited series that dramatizes one of the strangest and most tragic chapters in American political history: the assassination of President James A. Garfield. Adapted from Candice Millard's acclaimed nonfiction book Destiny of the Republic, the four-part drama was created by Mike Makowsky and executive produced by a team that includes David Benioff and D. B. Weiss of Game of Thrones fame.
Michael Shannon stars as Garfield, the reluctant, principled Ohioan swept into the presidency in 1880 almost against his will, while Matthew Macfadyen plays Charles Guiteau, the delusional, chronically failed office-seeker who came to believe he was destined to kill the president. The series braids their two lives together, tracing Garfield's improbable ascent and Guiteau's descent into fatal grandiosity, before turning to the grim aftermath in which the president's own doctors may have done more harm than the assassin's bullet. Nick Offerman, Betty Gilpin, Shea Whigham, and Bradley Whitford round out the ensemble.
Critics praised the series for its dark wit, its detailed period craft, and the performances of its two leads, with Macfadyen's twitchy, tragicomic Guiteau drawing particular attention. Both a political tragedy and a mordant character study, it revives a largely forgotten American story for a modern audience. Death by Lightning is streaming on Netflix.
Washington Black is a sweeping Hulu limited series adapted from Esi Edugyan's acclaimed 2018 novel, a coming-of-age adventure that carries its hero from bondage to the far corners of the globe. Ernest Kingsley Jr. stars as the adult George Washington “Wash” Black, a boy born into slavery on a Barbados sugar plantation whose prodigious scientific gifts are recognized by an eccentric abolitionist inventor. When a death forces him to flee, Wash embarks on an odyssey across oceans and continents that transforms him from fugitive to scientist, artist, and explorer.
Sterling K. Brown, who also executive produces, plays Medwin Harris, a charismatic community leader in Halifax whose role is expanded from the novel, while Eddie Karanja plays the younger Wash and Tom Ellis, Iola Evans, and Sharon Duncan-Brewster fill out the cast. Told across dual timelines and multiple continents, the series pairs the propulsive momentum of a nineteenth-century adventure yarn with a thoughtful meditation on freedom, identity, and who gets to author their own story.
Adapting a novel that won Canada's Giller Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker, the series reaches for the grandeur of classic adventure storytelling while centering a Black hero's journey toward self-invention. Lavishly mounted and spanning locations from the Caribbean to the Arctic, Washington Black streams on Hulu.
The Chair Company is an HBO comedy series co-created by Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin, the duo behind the cult sketch phenomenon I Think You Should Leave, marking Robinson's first leading role in a fully serialized narrative rather than a sketch showcase. Robinson stars as Ron Trosper, an ordinary corporate everyman whose life is upended by a mortifying public incident, after which he stumbles onto what appears to be a sprawling conspiracy hidden beneath the mundane surfaces of everyday commerce.
What begins as one man's attempt to recover a shred of dignity spirals into an obsessive, ever-deepening investigation, and the show channels Robinson's signature comedy of social humiliation and escalating absurdity into a single continuous story. His character's inability to let go — to simply move past his embarrassment — becomes the engine that drags him, and everyone around him, into increasingly deranged territory. Produced with Adam McKay among its executive producers, the series marries excruciating cringe comedy to the structure of a paranoid mystery.
Reviewers embraced The Chair Company as a natural, ambitious evolution of Robinson's comic voice, praising its commitment to sustaining his particular brand of discomfort across a full narrative arc. A word-of-mouth hit, it was renewed for a second season at HBO Max, where it streams.
Down Cemetery Road is an Apple TV+ mystery-thriller adapted from the 2003 debut novel by Mick Herron, the author who would later become a sensation with his Slow Horses spy series. Emma Thompson stars as Zoë Boehm, a prickly, formidable private investigator, opposite Ruth Wilson as Sarah Tucker, an Oxford housewife whose comfortable life is upended when a house on her street explodes and a little girl vanishes in the aftermath. Convinced the authorities are hiding the truth, Sarah begins digging — and pulls both women into a lethal government conspiracy.
Adapted by Morwenna Banks and carrying the same wit, paranoia, and distrust of institutions that define Herron's work, the series pairs its two leads in a slow-burning investigation that steadily widens from a single tragedy into something far more sinister. Thompson is caustic and commanding as the world-weary Boehm, while Wilson charts Sarah's transformation from bored suburbanite to obsessive amateur sleuth, and the mismatched duo's crackling dynamic drives the show.
Drawing inevitable comparisons to the hit Slow Horses — also based on Herron's novels — the series was praised for its performances and its blend of dark comedy and conspiracy thriller. Apple renewed it for a second season, confirming appetite for more of Herron's Oxford-set mysteries. It streams on Apple TV+.
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 Waterfront is a soapy, sun-drenched Netflix crime drama from Kevin Williamson, the writer behind Dawson's Creek and the Scream films, returning to his native North Carolina for a story of family, legacy, and criminal temptation. The series centers on the Buckleys, a once-dominant fishing dynasty in the fictional coastal town of Havenport whose empire is crumbling. To save the family business, patriarch Harlan Buckley and his relatives are drawn back into the drug-running that built and nearly destroyed them a generation earlier.
Holt McCallany stars as Harlan, a hard, proud man recovering from heart attacks and desperate to hold his territory, with Maria Bello as his sharp-edged wife Belle and Melissa Benoist as his troubled daughter Bree, a recovering addict fighting to regain custody of her son. As the family's smuggling operation reignites, long-buried secrets, rival criminals, and law enforcement all close in, and the Buckleys discover how much they are willing to sacrifice to protect their name.
Williamson has said the show is his most personal, drawing on his own father's history, and that lived-in specificity gives the pulpy melodrama a surprising emotional weight. Anchored by a committed ensemble and Williamson's gift for cliffhangers, The Waterfront became a summer streaming hit and is available on Netflix.
Untamed is a gripping Netflix limited series that fuses a murder mystery with the sweeping grandeur of the American wilderness. Eric Bana stars as Kyle Turner, a special agent for the National Park Service's Investigative Services Branch — a real but little-known law-enforcement unit that polices crimes committed on federal parkland. When the body of a young woman is discovered at the base of El Capitan in Yosemite, Turner's investigation pulls him deep into the park's hidden dangers and the buried traumas of his own past.
Created by Mark L. Smith, the screenwriter behind The Revenant, together with his daughter Elle Smith, the series uses its vast natural setting as more than a backdrop — the wilderness becomes a character in its own right, beautiful and indifferent to the human violence it conceals. Bana anchors the show with a weathered, haunted performance as a man as remote and forbidding as the landscape he patrols, while Lily Santiago plays a rookie ranger drawn into the case and Sam Neill offers grounded support as the park's veteran chief.
A surprise summer hit, Untamed became one of Netflix's most-watched titles of the year and was quickly renewed for a second season set to relocate to a new national park. Praised for its atmosphere, its twisting plot, and Bana's magnetic lead turn, the series is streaming on Netflix.