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.
One Hundred Years of Solitude brings Gabriel Garcia Marquez's seemingly unfilmable masterpiece to the screen in a grand Netflix production that honors the sweep and magic of the beloved novel. The series follows seven generations of the Buendia family in the mythical town of Macondo, a world where the miraculous and the mundane exist side by side. Shot in Colombia with a largely Latin American cast, the production immerses viewers in the rich sensory world of the original text, from the banana plantation fever to the yellow butterflies that follow the irresistible Mauricio Babilonia.
The adaptation unfolds across sixteen episodes that allow the source material's famously intricate family saga to breathe, with clear structures helping audiences navigate the novel's generational storytelling. Showrunners Jose Rivera and Natalia Santa worked with the approval of the Garcia Marquez estate, and the series was filmed entirely in Colombia, lending it an authentic visual identity rooted in the landscapes and culture the novel describes.
For decades, Garcia Marquez himself refused to sell the rights, doubting that any adaptation could capture the novel's essential spirit. That this series exists at all is remarkable; that it manages to translate the magical realist vision with such fidelity is a genuine achievement, standing as one of the most ambitious literary adaptations in streaming history.
The Curse is the most profoundly uncomfortable television experience of recent years — a cringe comedy and psychological horror hybrid created by Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie that follows Asher and Whitney Siegel, a couple played by Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone, as they attempt to launch an HGTV-style home renovation show in Española, New Mexico while also trying to genuinely help the community they are simultaneously exploiting for content. The show's premise asks how performance of goodness relates to actual goodness, and refuses to answer in any way that lets its characters or its audience feel comfortable.
Emma Stone gives one of the finest comedic performances of her career as Whitney — a woman whose genuine desire to do good is so thoroughly contaminated by her need to be seen doing good that she can no longer distinguish between the two impulses. Nathan Fielder's Asher is her perfect counterpart — a man so thoroughly engaged in performing normalcy that his real self has become almost entirely inaccessible to him. Benny Safdie plays the couple's television producer with sycophantic menace, and the show's formal experiments — it begins shooting documentary-style and gradually destabilizes its own visual grammar — make its horror feel like a formal inevitability rather than a genre intrusion.
The Curse aired on Paramount+ and Showtime from November 2023 through January 2024, generating the most intense critical conversation of any new series that season and a finale that achieved genuine notoriety for its radical formal choices. Critics debated whether it was comedy, horror, or something neither existing genre category could adequately contain. What seemed clear was that Fielder and Safdie had created something genuinely unprecedented — a work that used the specific textures of lifestyle television to expose the violence encoded in the performance of benevolence. It streams on Paramount+.
Under the Bridge is Hulu's devastating true crime limited series adapted from Rebecca Godfrey's book of the same name, recreating the 1997 murder of fourteen-year-old Reena Virk by a group of her teenage peers in the suburbs of Victoria, British Columbia — a case that shocked Canada and raised questions about girlhood, violence, and social belonging that remain uncomfortably relevant. Created by Quinn Shephard, the series refuses the exploitation frameworks that true crime television typically brings to cases involving young victims, instead committing to understanding the social and psychological forces that made something this terrible possible.
Riley Keough plays Rebecca Godfrey herself, a writer who returns to her hometown and becomes entangled in the investigation in ways that blur the line between journalism and emotional investment. Lily Gladstone plays the detective assigned to the case, bringing her characteristic moral authority and physical stillness to a role that requires communicating enormous interior conflict through minimal expression. The ensemble of teenage actors who portray Reena's peers is uniformly extraordinary — their performances rendering the social dynamics of adolescent belonging with painful specificity rather than the simplifications that adult-cast teen dramas typically impose.
Under the Bridge premiered on Hulu in April 2024 to critical acclaim centered on its emotional honesty, the caliber of its ensemble performances, and creator Quinn Shephard's refusal to grant the audience the easy satisfactions of conventional crime narratives. The show was recognized with multiple Emmy nominations, with particular attention directed at Lily Gladstone's performance and the series' treatment of the case's Indigenous dimensions. It is a difficult but essential piece of television about the specific violence that communities enact against those who fail to belong the right way. It streams on Hulu.
The Decameron is Netflix's wickedly entertaining limited series inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio's fourteenth-century collection of tales, transposed from Florence to a rural Italian villa where a group of nobles and their servants have gathered to wait out the Black Death in 1348. Created by Kathleen Jordan, the show uses its medieval setting as permission for modern sexual politics, class dynamics, and comic mayhem — the historical frame providing a funhouse mirror rather than a documentary, and every character speaking and thinking in ways that are deliberately and productively anachronistic. The pandemic premise has obvious contemporary resonance, but the show wears it lightly.
Zosia Mamet leads an ensemble that includes Tony Hale, Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Tanya Reynolds, and Amar Chadha-Patel in a series that manages to be simultaneously bawdy, politically sharp, and genuinely touching without losing the comic energy that makes its more serious intentions feel earned rather than imposed. The villa and its grounds are rendered with gorgeous production design that makes fourteenth-century Italy feel lush and immediately inhabitable, and Jordan's writing finds contemporary emotional truth in situations that are formally absurd — the wealthy hiding from plague while their servants do the dangerous work of maintaining the illusion of safety.
The Decameron premiered in July 2024 to reviews that praised its wit, its ensemble performances, and its refusal to be simply a period comedy or simply a contemporary allegory. Critics noted that Kathleen Jordan had created something rare — a show that is actually funny in the precise, character-derived way that is genuinely difficult to achieve, while also saying something about class, gender, and survival that remained honest rather than preachy. It streams on Netflix and rewards binge-watching in the way that only genuinely comic television can manage.
The Night Agent arrived on Netflix in March 2023 as one of the most watched debuts in the platform's history, following FBI agent Peter Sutherland, played by Gabriel Basso, whose overnight monitoring of a crisis hotline is interrupted by a call that draws him into a White House conspiracy with reach extending to the highest levels of the American government. Created by Shawn Ryan from Henry Luce's novel, the series combines the procedural tension of classic Washington thrillers with the propulsive pacing of contemporary action television — a combination that immediately found a vast global audience.
Luciane Buchanan plays Rose Larkin, a tech entrepreneur thrust into the conspiracy alongside Sutherland after her aunt and uncle are killed for what they know, and the show's romantic subplot between the two protagonists is handled with rare restraint — the chemistry building through credible mutual respect and shared danger rather than manufactured contrivance. The supporting cast includes Hong Chau, Eve Harlow, and Fola Evans-Akingbola in roles whose allegiances shift with satisfying unpredictability. Ryan's thriller instincts ensure the series earns its reveals rather than simply announcing them.
The Night Agent became Netflix's most-watched English-language debut of 2023, demonstrating that traditional thriller mechanics — competent protagonist, credible conspiracy, escalating stakes — could find enormous contemporary audiences when executed with genuine craft. The series was renewed for a second and third season, with season two expanding the stakes and introducing new characters to the show's Washington milieu. It remains one of the clearest success stories of the streaming era's relationship with plot-driven genre television. It streams on Netflix.
Watson is CBS's bold reimagining of Arthur Conan Doyle's iconic Dr. John H. Watson — not as Sherlock Holmes' loyal sidekick, but as the brilliant protagonist of his own story. Morris Chestnut commands the screen as Dr. John Watson, a gifted diagnostician who emerges from Holmes' shadow following his partner's apparent death, establishing a diagnostic clinic in Pittsburgh where he assembles a team of exceptional specialists to solve the most baffling medical mysteries in the country. The series reimagines Watson as a Black American doctor in the twenty-first century, grounding the classic material in a contemporary reality that gives it fresh urgency and relevance.
Chestnut's Watson combines the intellectual rigor of a master clinician with the emotional intelligence of a man who has spent years being the most rational person in any room — a quality that makes him simultaneously the most effective and most isolated person in his own clinic. The ensemble cast delivers standout performances across the board, while each episode's medical mystery provides the structure for deeper explorations of identity, legacy, and what it means to step out of a legend's shadow into one's own light. The show's Pittsburgh setting adds a distinctively different visual texture to the medical drama landscape.
Watson premiered on CBS in January 2025 and immediately became one of the network's most-watched new dramas of the year, drawing audiences who responded to Chestnut's commanding presence and the show's willingness to take a familiar concept somewhere genuinely new. CBS renewed it for a second season before the first had even completed its run — a strong vote of confidence in a series that demonstrated network television's continued ability to find broad audiences for character-driven storytelling. It streams on Paramount+.
High Potential is the breakout procedural hit of the 2024 television season — a smart, funny, and surprisingly touching crime drama starring Kaitlin Olson as Morgan, a single mother and cleaning woman for the LAPD who happens to possess a prodigious analytical mind that repeatedly solves the cases that stump the actual detectives. Based on the French series HPI, the American adaptation leans into Olson's extraordinary comic gifts while finding genuine emotional depth in a character who has spent her whole life being underestimated by institutions that reward conventional achievement over raw intelligence.
Olson's Morgan is one of the most distinctive lead characters of recent network television — chaotic, brilliant, deeply loving as a mother, and endlessly frustrated by a world that cannot see past her circumstances. Her chemistry with Javon Walton as her teenage son and Daniel Sunjata as the detective reluctantly forced to partner with her gives the show an emotional texture that elevates it well above the standard procedural formula. Each episode's crime provides the narrative spine while the human relationships provide the show's genuine beating heart.
High Potential became one of ABC's most-watched new shows of the 2024-25 season, with Olson receiving Emmy nominations and widespread critical recognition confirming what comedy fans already knew — that she is one of the most gifted character performers of her generation. The show streams on Hulu and represents the best of what network television achieves when it casts its lead with complete conviction and gets out of the way.
Dexter: Original Sin is the origin story that fans of Showtime's landmark crime drama had long demanded — a prequel series set in 1990s Miami that traces how Dexter Morgan first became the vigilante serial killer audiences spent eight seasons following. Patrick Gibson steps into Michael C. Hall's iconic role with remarkable assurance, capturing Dexter's dry wit, clinical detachment, and barely suppressed darkness in a performance that honours the original while establishing its own distinct identity. The series returns to the early days of Dexter's career at the Miami Metro Police Department, before he perfected the code his foster father Harry instilled in him, and when the dark passenger was something he was still learning to control.
Christian Slater plays Harry Morgan with the kind of weary, knowing authority the role demands, filling in the crucial backstory of how a police detective shaped his adopted son into a killer who only kills killers. The Miami setting is recreated with authentic period detail, and the show takes considerable pleasure in populating young Dexter's world with the kinds of formative experiences that explain the fully formed character audiences already know. The supporting cast includes familiar faces from the original series alongside new characters who immediately feel essential to the mythology.
Dexter: Original Sin arrived on Paramount+ in December 2024 and exceeded expectations on every front — critics who feared a cynical cash-grab found instead a thoughtful, well-crafted expansion of a world they had never fully left behind. The show earned a second season renewal almost immediately after its premiere, demonstrating that the Dexter universe still has untapped storytelling potential. It streams exclusively on Paramount+.
X-Men '97 is the triumphant continuation of the beloved X-Men: The Animated Series that defined a generation's understanding of Marvel's mutant heroes, picking up precisely where the original 1997 finale left off with the same visual aesthetic, the same characters, and an emotional maturity that the original's younger audience couldn't fully appreciate. The series reunites surviving members of the original creative team with a new generation of writers and directors, creating a work that honours its source material while taking dramatic risks that shocked even longtime fans. Creator Beau DeMayo committed to exploring the full moral and political complexity of the X-Men's metaphor for marginalized communities with uncompromising honesty.
The show's third episode became one of the most talked-about pieces of animation in years — a gut-wrenching examination of racial violence against mutantkind that many critics described as the most powerful twenty-two minutes of television of 2024 regardless of format or genre. The writing team refused to soften the team's conflicts or their enemies' cruelty in ways that might make the material more comfortable for casual viewers, resulting in a series that feels genuinely consequential rather than merely nostalgic.
X-Men '97 won multiple Emmy Awards including Outstanding Animated Program, becoming one of the most critically decorated animated productions of its year and renewing enthusiasm for a franchise that had struggled in live-action form. It demonstrated definitively that animation can be the most uncompromising format for storytelling when creators are given the freedom to pursue their vision without compromise. It streams exclusively on Disney+.
Doctor Odyssey is Ryan Murphy's gleefully entertaining medical drama set aboard the most extravagant cruise ship in the world, following Dr. Max, played with easy charm by Joshua Jackson, as he navigates medical crises, romantic entanglements, and logistical nightmares that arise when thousands of passengers are sealed together on the high seas. The series combines the ensemble warmth of Grey's Anatomy with the heightened, knowing campiness that defines Murphy's most beloved work, resulting in a show that is simultaneously preposterous and thoroughly irresistible.
Don Johnson plays the ship's magnanimous captain with the kind of lived-in authority only genuine screen veterans can project, while Philippa Soo and Sean Teale complete the central triangle as two nurses caught in the gravitational pull of Dr. Max's complicated personal life. Murphy and his writers use the self-contained world of the ship as a pressure cooker for human drama — each episode delivering at least one medical emergency, one emotional revelation, and one spectacular setting that makes the luxury cruise feel like the most absurdly glamorous workplace ever imagined.
Doctor Odyssey premiered on ABC in September 2024 and became one of the network's biggest hits in years, driven by word-of-mouth enthusiasm and the kind of compulsive, joyful viewing energy that streaming-era television rarely generates for broadcast. The show's warm, unabashedly fun tone was celebrated as a corrective to the relentless grimness that had dominated prestige television, and it streams on Hulu for those who missed its ABC run.