Reacher Season 3 continues Amazon Prime Video's hit action series based on Lee Child's best-selling novels about Jack Reacher, a hulking former military police investigator who drifts across America and inevitably collides with violent conspiracies. One of Prime Video's most-watched originals, the show adapts a different book in the series each season.
Alan Ritchson returns as the imposing, sharp-witted Reacher, this time in an adaptation of Child's fan-favorite novel Persuader, which sends him deep undercover to infiltrate a dangerous criminal operation. Maria Sten returns as his ally Frances Neagley, with new faces including Anthony Michael Hall and, as a towering enforcer, the seven-foot-plus Dutch Giant Olivier Richters.
The season premiered in February 2025 and launched to the strongest reviews in the show's history, around 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics noting that Reacher finally faced an opponent his own size. It remained one of Prime Video's biggest draws. Streaming on Prime Video.
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.
Star City is an Apple TV+ alternate-history drama and a spinoff of the acclaimed series For All Mankind, developed by that show's creators Ben Nedivi, Matt Wolpert and Ronald D. Moore. Premiering in May 2026, it shifts the vantage point of the space race to the other side of the Iron Curtain, telling the story of the Soviet program with the same blend of political intrigue and personal drama.
Rhys Ifans stars as Sergei Korolev, the secretive Chief Designer who masterminded the USSR's early triumphs in orbit. The ensemble includes Anna Maxwell Martin, Agnes O'Casey, Alice Englert and Adam Nagaitis as cosmonauts, engineers and intelligence officers at Star City, the closed training complex where the KGB hunts for a suspected traitor even as a secret mission to Venus takes shape.
Filmed in Vilnius, Lithuania and premiered at the 2026 Canneseries festival, the series earned rapturous reviews, with a 94 percent critics' score, and became one of Apple TV+'s biggest hits of the year. Because the site has no dedicated Apple TV+ field, its streaming link is listed as the source website. It is streaming on Apple TV+.
Ponies is a Peacock espionage thriller created by Susanna Fogel and David Iserson that became one of the streamer's standout original series of 2026. Premiering in January with all eight episodes released at once, it is set in 1977 Moscow at the height of the Cold War and pairs sharp period atmosphere with a wry, character-driven approach to spycraft.
Emilia Clarke stars as Bea Grant and Haley Lu Richardson as Twila Hasbeck, two secretaries at the U.S. Embassy whose CIA-officer husbands die under mysterious circumstances. Rather than retreat, the pair volunteer to become operatives themselves, proving unexpectedly effective precisely because the KGB would never suspect two embassy typists of being spies. Adrian Lester co-stars as their handler.
Critics praised the show's 1977 texture and, above all, the chemistry between its two leads, who play cleverly against the types audiences associate with them; it earned a 94 percent critics' score. Filmed in Budapest standing in for Soviet Moscow, it was nonetheless canceled after a single season despite its acclaim. It is streaming on Peacock.
