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+.
The Sandman is a Netflix fantasy drama adapted from Neil Gaiman's landmark comic book series, published by DC's Vertigo imprint between 1989 and 1996 and long considered one of the most influential and reputedly "unfilmable" works in the medium. After decades of stalled film attempts, it finally reached the screen as a lavish series, bringing Gaiman's dreamscapes and mythology to life.
Tom Sturridge stars as Dream, also known as Morpheus, one of the seven Endless, cosmic embodiments of concepts like Death, Desire, and Destiny. The story begins with Dream escaping a century of captivity and setting out to rebuild his neglected realm, before broadening into a sweeping saga about gods, humans, and the responsibilities of power. The ensemble features Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Boyd Holbrook, and Gwendoline Christie, among many others.
The second season, released in two parts in 2025, served as the series' conclusion, adapting the comics' later, darker arcs to a strong and emotional reception. Praised for its faithful, richly designed realization of a story once thought impossible to film, The Sandman is streaming on Netflix.
The Witcher is Netflix's flagship fantasy series, created by Lauren Schmidt Hissrich and adapted from the novels and short stories of Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, which also inspired CD Projekt Red's globally popular video games. Since its 2019 debut it has been one of the streamer's signature epics, blending monster-hunting adventure, court intrigue, and a fractured, time-hopping structure across a war-torn continent.
The series follows Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster hunter known as a witcher, whose destiny becomes bound to the powerful sorceress Yennefer and the runaway princess Ciri. For its first three seasons Geralt was played by Henry Cavill, a devoted reader of the books and player of the games; beginning with the fourth season, released in October 2025, Liam Hemsworth takes over the role, a rare recasting of a series' central character that the show addresses within its own story.
The Witcher became a global sensation on release, driving renewed interest in Sapkowski's novels and a surge in sales of the video games, and spawning spinoffs and animated films. Its lavish battles, dark fantasy tone, and Emmy-nominated design have kept it among Netflix's most-watched originals. All seasons are streaming on Netflix.
Adults is a young-adult ensemble comedy that premiered on FX and streams on Hulu, created by Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw, two former late-night writers making their series debut. Executive produced by Nick Kroll, it follows a group of friends in their early twenties fumbling through the first stumbles of adulthood.
Set largely in one character's inherited family house in Queens, New York, the show tracks five friends, played by Malik Elassal, Lucy Freyer, Jack Innanen, Amita Rao, and Owen Thiele, as they navigate jobs, dating, health scares, and disastrous dinner parties with far more enthusiasm than competence. The comedy mines the gap between how grown-up its characters believe they are and how grown-up they actually are.
Debuting in 2025, Adults was embraced as a scrappy, joke-dense hangout comedy, with several critics comparing its friend-group chemistry to a Gen-Z Friends. It is streaming on Hulu.
Margo's Got Money Troubles is an Apple TV+ comedy-drama from prolific creator David E. Kelley, adapted from Rufi Thorpe's best-selling 2024 novel. Warm, offbeat, and led by a powerhouse cast, it follows a young single mother who finds an unlikely way out of financial free-fall.
Elle Fanning stars as Margo Millet, a twenty-year-old waitress left broke and alone after an affair with her college professor leaves her pregnant. To stay afloat, she launches an online subscription account and reluctantly enlists her estranged father, a washed-up professional wrestler played by Nick Offerman, whose showmanship helps reinvent her public persona. Michelle Pfeiffer and Nicole Kidman also feature.
Premiering in 2026, the series became one of Apple TV+'s most warmly received comedies, praised for Fanning's performance and its big-hearted handling of a thorny premise, and Apple renewed it for a second season. It is streaming on Apple TV+; because the site has no dedicated Apple TV+ field, its streaming link is listed as the source website.
Young Sherlock is a Prime Video mystery-adventure series created by Matthew Parkhill, with Guy Ritchie directing the opening episodes and executive producing. A stylish origin story for Arthur Conan Doyle's detective, it reimagines Holmes as a nineteen-year-old and carries Ritchie's signature kinetic flair.
Hero Fiennes Tiffin stars as the young Sherlock, a brilliant but untested Oxford student who becomes the prime suspect when a fellow student is murdered. Clearing his name pulls him into a globe-spanning conspiracy involving stolen artifacts and a deadly weapon plot. Donal Finn appears as a young James Moriarty, with Joseph Fiennes as Sherlock's father and Colin Firth in a supporting role.
Debuting in March 2026 with all eight episodes, Young Sherlock earned generally favorable reviews, an 84% score on Rotten Tomatoes, for its energetic take on the character, and its trailer set a Prime Video record with 223 million views in a week; a second season is already in production. It is streaming on Prime Video.
Scarpetta is a Prime Video crime thriller and the first successful screen adaptation of Patricia Cornwell's best-selling Kay Scarpetta novels, developed and showrun by Liz Sarnoff. It pairs two Oscar winners: Nicole Kidman, who also executive produces, as the brilliant forensic pathologist, and Jamie Lee Curtis as her estranged sister.
Kidman plays Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a chief medical examiner who uses cutting-edge forensic science to hunt killers while confronting a fractured family and her own past. Jamie Lee Curtis co-stars as Dorothy, Kay's needling older sister, in a relationship that supplies much of the series' friction, as the investigations range across Virginia, Florida, and Charleston.
Released in March 2026 with all eight episodes at once, Scarpetta drew mixed reviews, around 57% on Rotten Tomatoes, even as critics singled out its stacked cast; Prime Video had committed to two seasons in advance. It is streaming on Prime Video.
The Testaments is a Hulu dystopian drama and the sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, adapted from Margaret Atwood's 2019 Booker Prize-winning novel. Created by Bruce Miller, who stepped away from running the original series specifically to develop it, the show returns to the theocratic nation of Gilead more than a decade after Offred's story.
Ann Dowd returns as the fearsome Aunt Lydia, narrating the machinery of Gilead from the inside. The story follows two young women on opposite sides of the border: Agnes (Chase Infiniti), raised entirely within Gilead's rigid order, and Daisy (Lucy Halliday), a defiant teenager in Canada. Their converging fates drive a coming-of-age tale about resistance and complicity, with Elisabeth Moss returning as June Osborne.
Premiering in April 2026, The Testaments earned generally favorable reviews, with an 88% score on Rotten Tomatoes, for extending the franchise through a younger lens, and Hulu renewed it for a second season after it crossed 45 million hours streamed. It is streaming on Hulu.
Lanterns is an HBO original series set in James Gunn and Peter Safran's rebooted DC Universe, developed by Chris Mundy with acclaimed comics writers Damon Lindelof and Tom King. Rather than cosmic spectacle, it reframes the Green Lantern mythology as a grounded, earthbound crime drama in the vein of True Detective.
Aaron Pierre stars as John Stewart, a newly chosen Green Lantern and former Marine, partnered with the veteran, world-weary Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler). When a murder in rural Nebraska hints at a deeper, otherworldly conspiracy, the two intergalactic cops are drawn into a mystery that unspools across decades. Kelly Macdonald and Nathan Fillion, as Guy Gardner, round out the ensemble.
Premiering in August 2026, Lanterns drew strong reviews as one of the most promising pieces of the new DCU, with critics praising the chemistry between Pierre and Chandler and its patient, character-driven storytelling. It is streaming on HBO Max.
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials is a Netflix period mystery adapted by Chris Chibnall, the creator of Broadchurch and a former Doctor Who showrunner, from Christie's 1929 novel The Seven Dials Mystery. Directed by Chris Sweeney and released in January 2026 as a three-part miniseries, it revives one of the author's lighter, thriller-tinged whodunits with a starry British cast.
Set in 1925, the story follows the spirited Lady Eileen 'Bundle' Brent, played by Mia McKenna-Bruce, who investigates the suspicious death of a Foreign Office colleague and uncovers a shadowy secret society known as the Seven Dials, along with a conspiracy tangled up in her own father's death years earlier. Martin Freeman plays Superintendent Battle, with Helena Bonham Carter as Lady Caterham, Iain Glen as Lord Caterham and Edward Bluemel among the ensemble.
The debut production of the newly formed Orchid Pictures, the series filmed across Bristol, Bath and Ronda in Spain, using the stately Badminton House to stand in for the country estate known as 'The Chimneys.' Reviews were solid, praising the cast and the handsome period trappings. It is streaming on Netflix.
Rooster is an HBO Max comedy from Bill Lawrence, the co-creator of Ted Lasso, Scrubs and Shrinking, developed with Matt Tarses. Premiering in March 2026, it hands Steve Carell one of his richest television roles since The Office and became a breakout hit for the platform, blending warm character comedy with a streak of midlife melancholy.
Carell plays Greg Russo, a middle-aged author who arrives at a small New England college ostensibly to give a talk, but whose real mission is to check up on his adult daughter Katie, an art-history instructor whose marriage is falling apart. Charly Clive plays Katie, with Danielle Deadwyler, Phil Dunster, John C. McGinley and Lauren Tsai rounding out a campus ensemble full of complications.
The series became HBO's most-watched comedy premiere in more than a decade, drawing millions of viewers in its opening days, and was quickly renewed for a second season. Carell earned an Emmy nomination for the role, anchoring a show about the messy business of being needed. It is streaming on HBO Max.
