These are the shows we’ve gotten excited about so far this year – and where you can watch them.
Each month we’re here to help you decide what to watch—with updates to this list of our fave shows so far this year. Whether you want to watch for the first time or check out a new season of an existing fave, we hope these recommendations from our team of writers come in handy.
For the avoidance of any confusion, these are titles we covered in 2025—as opposed to what a formal release year might say—and there’s a chance not all of them will be available where you are.
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Invincible
Invincible: Season 3
Now that viewers of Invincible have worked up a tolerance for OTT violence, The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman has turned his focus to the consequences of power in this not-for-kids animated superhero show. The new season poses one of the most interesting questions you can ask of the genre, says Clarisse Loughrey’s Show of the Week column: “What does it mean to be a hero when its definition is created entirely by those whose interests they serve?”
Mythic Quest
Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet - Season 4
Four seasons in, the Always Sunny team’s other sitcom has completed its refinement after having flown under the radar (like a lot of Apple TV+ shows). Set in the company who make a World of Warcraft-like MMORPG (massive multiplayer online role-playing game), Mythic Quest “humanises workplace stereotypes while regularly calling them up on their bullshit,” writes Clarisse Loughrey. “It’s the perfect underdog. A piece of art that feels good and valiant to cheer on.”
Severance
Severance: Season 2
Much more present in the culture is another Apple TV+ workplace comedy, one that has more overtly dark, dramatic and surreal elements coming to the fore. It’s been a while between drinks for Severance, which returns three(!) years after its first, impactful season. “It wasn’t an instant sensation, but its reputation has grown steadily over the three years since its first season and, now, in its second, I can sense a kind of acceleration in the way people talk about it,” writes Clarisse Loughrey. “At first Severance was great. Now people are starting make it sound important.”
The Pitt
The Pitt: Season 1
Instead of medical dramas’ tired case-of-the-week formula, a new intense series centres on a single 15-hour shift at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Hospital. Back in scrubs after a long time in the break room—ER‘s Noah Wyle, playing head attending physician Dr. Michael “Robby” Rabinavitch. “It’s a superb work,” writes Travis Johnson, praising the propulsive pacing, great cast, black humour and commitment to showing the current situation of the American health system. “The Pitt might be the best American drama series I’ve seen in years.”
