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.
Chad Powers returns for a second season on Hulu, continuing the big-hearted sports comedy co-created by and starring Glen Powell. The show grew out of a viral ESPN bit dreamed up with Eli Manning, and it turns that gag into a full underdog saga: disgraced former college quarterback Russ Holliday, whose ego torched his own career, reinvents himself under heavy prosthetics as the goofy, earnest walk-on Chad Powers.
Season 2 picks up with Russ still guarding his secret identity as he tries to carry the fictional South Georgia Catfish toward a College Football Playoff berth. Steve Zahn returns as head coach Jake Hudson and Perry Mattfeld as coach Ricky Hudson, whose growing suspicion threatens to expose Chad, while Toby Huss's Hollywood-makeup-artist dad steps up to supply Russ with new disguises and fresh complications. Frankie A. Rodriguez, Clayne Crawford, and Wynn Everett round out the ensemble.
Developed by Powell with Loki writer Michael Waldron, the series leans fully into broad, warmhearted sports-movie comedy, and Hulu renewed it after a first season that won over audiences with its underdog charm. The six-episode second season dropped all at once on September 3, 2026. Chad Powers Season 2 is streaming on Hulu.
Industry Season 4 returns HBO's razor-edged finance drama, created by former bankers Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, for another plunge into the ruthless world of high-stakes capital. After a third season that pushed the survivors of the Pierpoint & Co. trading floor into the wider arenas of media, politics, and private wealth, the fourth season reshapes the show as a full-blown corporate thriller, with the creators citing Michael Clayton as a touchstone.
Myha'la returns as the relentless Harper Stern, with Marisa Abela as Yasmin Kara-Hanani, Ken Leung as Eric Tao, Sagar Radia as Rishi, and Kit Harington reprising his role as financier Henry Muck. The new season brings in a wave of fresh faces, including Max Minghella and Kal Penn as the leaders of a fast-rising payments company, along with Charlie Heaton, Kiernan Shipka, and Toheeb Jimoh, as the fallout from Yasmin's family secrets continues to bind her and Harper together.
Premiering in January 2026 on HBO Max, the season drew reviews praising it as an ambitious reinvention that cranked the show's intensity higher than ever while keeping its addictive, morally slippery energy intact. Long a critical favorite operating just outside the mainstream, Industry remains one of television's sharpest studies of money and ambition. Industry Season 4 is streaming on HBO Max.
The Paper returns for its second season on Peacock, continuing the mockumentary comedy set in the same universe as The Office. Created by Greg Daniels and Michael Koman, the series follows the very documentary crew that once immortalized Dunder Mifflin as they keep their cameras trained on a new subject: the Toledo Truth Teller, a withering Midwestern newspaper fighting to stay alive.
Domhnall Gleeson returns as earnest editor-in-chief Ned Sampson, alongside Sabrina Impacciatore as managing editor Esmeralda Grand and Oscar Nuñez, reprising accountant Oscar Martinez from the original Office. Season 2 deepens the ensemble of volunteer reporters and newsroom eccentrics, with Chelsea Frei, Melvin Gregg, Gbemisola Ikumelo, and Alex Edelman among the returning staff, and a run of guest turns from comic ringers including Jon Lovitz and Andy Richter.
The first season won warm reviews for finding its own rhythm while honoring the DNA of its predecessor, and Peacock renewed it well ahead of the second season's arrival. By anchoring its workplace comedy to a dying local newspaper, the show keeps a bittersweet, timely edge beneath the laughs. The Paper Season 2 premiered on September 9, 2026, and is streaming on Peacock.
House of the Dragon Season 3 returns HBO's blockbuster Game of Thrones prequel to the heart of the Targaryen civil war, the ruinous succession conflict known as the Dance of the Dragons. Developed by George R.R. Martin and showrunner Ryan Condal, who now steers the series solo, the eight-episode third season picks up from the shattering events that closed Season 2 as both claimants to the Iron Throne finally commit to open war.
Emma D'Arcy and Tom Glynn-Carney return as the rival monarchs Rhaenyra Targaryen and Aegon II, with Olivia Cooke as Alicent Hightower, Matt Smith as the mercurial Daemon, and Ewan Mitchell as the fearsome Aemond. The new season widens the board with major additions including James Norton as Ormund Hightower and Tommy Flanagan as Roderick Dustin, as alliances harden, dragons are drawn into battle, and the realm braces for slaughter on a scale the franchise has not yet shown.
The season premiered on HBO Max on June 21, 2026, and immediately reasserted the show's dominance, drawing more than twenty million viewers worldwide to its premiere and holding a 91% score on Rotten Tomatoes. With a fourth and final season already ordered, Season 3 escalates the tragedy toward its inevitable, fiery conclusion. House of the Dragon Season 3 is streaming on HBO Max.
Nine Puzzles is a Korean crime-mystery thriller released on Disney+ in 2025, which became the platform's most-watched Korean title of the year. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Yoon Jong-bin in a notable move into series television, the show is a twisty, atmospheric hunt for a serial killer built around a chilling signature.
Kim Da-mi stars as Yun-i, a gifted criminal profiler who, years earlier, was the prime suspect in the shocking murder of her uncle — a case that left her an outsider haunted by suspicion. When a new string of killings begins, each crime scene marked with a piece of a puzzle, she is pulled back in alongside a wary detective played by Son Suk-ku, and the scattered pieces slowly point toward her own buried past.
Praised for its moody visuals, its intricate plotting, and the tense dynamic between its two leads, Nine Puzzles helped reinvigorate Disney+'s Korean slate and was a critical and popular success. Its deliberate, clue-by-clue construction rewards viewers piecing the mystery together alongside its heroine. It is streaming on Disney+.
Bon Appétit, Your Majesty is a Korean fantasy romance drama that streamed on Netflix and aired on tvN in 2025, becoming one of the year's surprise breakout hits. Blending time-travel fantasy, historical intrigue, and mouthwatering culinary spectacle, the series pairs a modern cooking prodigy with a fearsome Joseon-era monarch.
Im Yoon-ah (of Girls' Generation) stars as Yeon Ji-yeong, an acclaimed contemporary chef who is mysteriously transported to the Joseon dynasty, where she must cook to survive at the court of the tyrannical King Yi Heon, played by Lee Chae-min. As she wins favor — and stirs romance — through extraordinary food, her modern techniques collide with palace politics and the king's fearsome reputation, turning each dish into a matter of life and death.
The series was a ratings success in Korea and a strong performer on Netflix internationally, praised for its lavish food styling, comic energy, and the crackling chemistry between its leads. Its winning mix of gastronomy and fairy-tale romance made it one of 2025's most talked-about feel-good K-dramas. 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+.
The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call is a Netflix original Korean medical-action series based on a hit web novel and its webtoon adaptation. Premiering in January 2025, the eight-episode series was one of the streamer's first big global successes of the year, fusing high-stakes hospital drama with a propulsive, almost action-movie energy.
Ju Ji-hoon stars as Baek Kang-hyeok, a brilliant, unorthodox trauma surgeon with battlefield experience who is recruited into the under-funded, understaffed trauma center of a major hospital. Blunt, fearless, and often infuriating to the bureaucrats around him, he sets about transforming the department and galvanizing a demoralized team, with Choo Young-woo as the young doctor pulled into his orbit. The series balances grisly, fast-moving emergency cases with sharp humor and institutional satire.
The Trauma Code shot to the top of Netflix's global non-English charts on release, praised for its brisk pacing, dark comedy, and Ju Ji-hoon's charismatic lead performance, and a second season is in the works. It stands out as a rare Korean medical drama built for pure momentum. It is streaming on Netflix.
Maxton Hall - The World Between Us is a German romantic drama produced for Prime Video, adapted from Mona Kasten's bestselling novel Save Me, the first book in her Maxton Hall trilogy. After its first season became a breakout global hit in 2024 — one of the most-watched non-English titles in Prime Video's history — the series returned for a second season in late 2025.
The story follows Ruby Bell (Harriet Herbig-Matten), a scholarship student with Oxford ambitions at the elite Maxton Hall private school, and James Beaufort (Damian Hardung), the wealthy, arrogant heir who is drawn to her against the rigid expectations of his powerful family. The second season, adapting the darker second novel Save You, deepens their turbulent romance as grief, family duty, and class divides threaten to pull them apart.
A phenomenon particularly among young-adult and romance audiences, the series was renewed for further seasons on the strength of its passionate international fandom. Blending swoony romance with high-gloss production, Maxton Hall has become one of Prime Video's signature international franchises. It streams on Prime Video.
When Life Gives You Tangerines (Korean title Pokssak Sogatsuda) is a Netflix original Korean drama written by Lim Sang-choon and directed by Kim Won-seok, released in 2025 to extraordinary acclaim. Structured as a decades-spanning life story told across sixteen episodes and four seasonal parts, it stands as one of the most celebrated Korean dramas in recent memory.
Set in motion on the southern island of Jeju, it follows the spirited, rebellious Ae-sun and the steadfast, devoted Gwan-sik from their youth in the mid-twentieth century through a lifetime of love, hardship, and family. IU and Park Bo-gum play the couple in their younger years, with acclaimed film actors Moon So-ri and Park Hae-joon portraying them in later life, tracing the sweep of modern Korean history through the intimate joys and sorrows of a single family.
The series became a global phenomenon on Netflix and a critical darling, praised for its luminous performances, its poetic writing, and the emotional force of its multi-generational story, which moved viewers around the world to tears. Widely hailed as a modern classic of the form, it cemented IU and Park Bo-gum as one of the most beloved on-screen pairings of the year. When Life Gives You Tangerines is streaming on Netflix.