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.
Poker Face Season 2 continues Rian Johnson's Peacock mystery series, a loving throwback to the case-of-the-week detective shows of the 1970s. Natasha Lyonne returns as Charlie Cale, the wisecracking drifter with an uncanny, infallible knack for telling when someone is lying, a gift that keeps dragging her into murder after murder as she travels across America.
Back on the road in her battered Plymouth Barracuda, Charlie stumbles into a fresh set of standalone whodunits, each stocked with a rotating roster of guest stars. Season 2's lineup is loaded, featuring the likes of Cynthia Erivo, Awkwafina, Katie Holmes, Kumail Nanjiani, Giancarlo Esposito, John Mulaney and Melanie Lynskey, with the series' signature howcatchem structure showing the crime before Charlie unravels it.
The second season drew generally positive reviews, with critics again crediting Lyonne's magnetic lead performance and the show's inventive, star-studded standalone episodes, even as some felt the formula had grown familiar. Streaming on Peacock.
Only Murders in the Building Season 5 brings back Hulu's Emmy-nominated comic murder mystery, with Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez reprising their roles as true-crime podcasters Charles, Oliver and Mabel. After four seasons of solving killings inside their storied Manhattan apartment building, the Arconia, the trio face a case that strikes closer to home than ever.
This season opens with the death of Lester, the Arconia's longtime doorman, plunging Charles, Oliver and Mabel into a New York underworld of mobsters and billionaire power players in a scheme that threatens the very future of their beloved building. As ever, the show stuffs its whodunit with A-list guest stars, this season including Renee Zellweger, Christoph Waltz, Keegan-Michael Key, Tea Leoni, Logan Lerman, Beanie Feldstein and Bobby Cannavale, alongside returning Oscar winner Meryl Streep.
A consistent awards favorite, Only Murders continued its critical run with Season 5, which reviewers praised for returning to the series' fundamentals: warm banter, clever plotting and the irreplaceable chemistry of its three leads. Streaming on Hulu.
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+.
Gen V Season 2 continues Prime Video's college-set spin-off of The Boys, the savagely satirical superhero universe created by Eric Kripke. Set at Godolkin University, the school for young Supes, the season brings back Jaz Sinclair as Marie Moreau alongside Lizze Broadway, Maddie Phillips, London Thor, Derek Luh and Asa Germann, and unfolds in the shadow of Homelander's tightening grip on America.
With a menacing new dean, Cipher (Hamish Linklater), now running Godolkin and training students as soldiers, Marie and her friends stumble onto a buried secret known as the Odessa Project that reaches into Marie's own origins. As the line between hero and weapon blurs, the season ties directly into the larger war between humans and Supes building across The Boys, with several cameos bridging the two shows.
The season carried real-world weight following the death of cast member Chance Perdomo, with the production choosing not to recast his character and instead writing his absence into the story. Critics responded warmly, awarding a 91 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes and singling out Hamish Linklater's villain and the show's sensitive handling of its loss. Streaming on Prime Video.
Peacemaker Season 2 marks the return of writer-director James Gunn's raucous, foul-mouthed DC series, with John Cena back as Christopher Smith, the deluded but oddly lovable vigilante who believes in peace no matter how many people he has to kill to get it. Arriving on HBO Max in August 2025, the season is the first major television chapter of the newly launched DC Universe that Gunn now oversees.
The new episodes send Chris through a portal into an alternate dimension where the family and life he always wanted seem to exist, a world in which his abusive father and dead brother are alive and celebrated. As Chris is tempted to abandon his own reality, his ragtag 11th Street Kids, including Danielle Brooks' Leota Adebayo, Freddie Stroma's Vigilante, Jennifer Holland's Harcourt and Steve Agee's Economos, grapple with the fallout, joined by Frank Grillo's Rick Flag Sr. The result blends absurd comedy, needle-drop soundtracks and surprisingly tender emotional stakes.
Widely considered a step up from the acclaimed first season, Peacemaker Season 2 earned rave reviews, including a 94 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics praising Gunn's character work and Cena's performance even as the finale sparked debate. Streaming on HBO Max.
Squid Game Season 3 is the final chapter of Hwang Dong-hyuk's record-shattering South Korean survival drama, the series that became a global phenomenon on Netflix. Picking up immediately after the events of Season 2, it brings Lee Jung-jae's Seong Gi-hun back into the deadly arena for a concluding run of episodes that Hwang originally conceived as part of one larger story.
Reeling from the failed rebellion that closed the previous season, a hardened and grief-stricken Gi-hun re-enters the games determined to bring them down from the inside, while the masked Front Man (Lee Byung-hun) tightens his grip and welcomes the shadowy VIPs. Outside the island, detective Hwang Jun-ho (Wi Ha-joon) presses on with his desperate search as the surviving players are funneled through a final gauntlet of childhood games turned lethal. The season sharpens the show's central question: what people will sacrifice, and whether any decency can survive, inside a machine built on human desperation.
Season 3 launched to staggering numbers, drawing more than 60 million views in its first three days to become Netflix's biggest television premiere ever and topping the charts in dozens of countries. Critics praised its bleak ambition and emotional payoff even as its ending divided some fans. Streaming on Netflix.
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.
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.
Neagley is a Prime Video action-thriller series and the first spinoff from Reacher, the hit adaptation of Lee Child's novels. It hands the spotlight to Frances Neagley, the sharp, self-contained investigator and longtime ally of Jack Reacher, played by fan favorite Maria Sten, who reprises the role from the flagship show.
Set within the same world as Reacher, the series follows Neagley on a case of her own, leaning on her formidable investigative instincts, discipline, and hard-won independence rather than on brute force alone. Freed from Reacher's shadow, the show explores what makes her tick: her guardedness, her code, and the personal history that shaped one of the franchise's most beloved supporting characters.
Premiering on Prime Video in September 2026, Neagley extended the popular Reacher universe into new territory and gave Maria Sten her first leading role in the franchise. Built for the same propulsive, case-driven momentum that made its parent series a streaming juggernaut, Neagley is streaming on Prime Video.
Alice in Borderland is a Japanese-language science-fiction survival thriller on Netflix, adapted from Haro Aso's manga and directed by Shinsuke Sato. Since its 2020 debut it has become one of the streamer's biggest non-English hits, combining lethal high-concept games with a mystery about the strange, depopulated version of Tokyo in which its characters are trapped.
The series follows Ryohei Arisu (Kento Yamazaki), a listless young man who suddenly finds himself in an eerily empty Tokyo where survival depends on winning brutal games, each rated by playing-card suit and number. Alongside the resourceful climber Yuzuha Usagi (Tao Tsuchiya), Arisu fights to stay alive and to uncover the truth behind this deadly borderland and the price of escaping it.
The third season arrived in September 2025, extending the story beyond the point where earlier seasons had caught up with the manga, and continued the show's blockbuster-scale production and puzzle-box tension. A global phenomenon that helped prove the international appetite for Japanese live-action drama, Alice in Borderland is streaming on Netflix.