Tatiana Maslany plays a divorced mom who gets caught up in a weird sex worker murder extortion scam thing in this new Apple TV series. I like its weird, jumpy tone, it almost feels almost like a cross between "Search Party" and If I Had Legs I'd Kick You. Creator David J. Rosen has written for mostly shows I thought were terrible or fatally flawed ("Hunters," "Sugar," "Roadies"), but I think "Maxmum Pleasure Guaranteed" has a lot of potential, and Dolly de Leon from Triangle of Sadness steals every scene she's in. 

Steve Coogan's the lead in this crime drama about British drug smuggling in the '90s, kind of interesting to see him in something serious, he has some gravitas. Some good atmosphere and direction but not terribly gripping. 

This Amazon Prime series is based on a YA novel, kind of a goofy old-fashioned love triangle where a girl pretends to date the hockey player she's tutoring to make the musician guy she likes jealous. Except the hockey player and the musician look almost identical, even if you can eventually tell them apart because they have different accents and personalities it's just kind of funny and weird casting. I like the show, though, it's charmingly silly and Ella Bright and Belmont Cameli have genuine chemistry. 

Jack Thorne, who co-created and co-wrote my #1 show of 2025, "Adolescence," made this miniseries adaptation of the classic William Golding novel. Pretty good so far but I haven't finished it yet, Thorne definitely has a gift for working with child actors and portraying them as complex, three-dimensional characters. 

This new Netflix series from "Power" creator Courtney A. Kemp is pretty boilerplate crime drama stuff. I love Gabrielle Dennis, I'd prefer if she was still on something lighter like "The Big Door Prize" or "Rosewood," but she's good in this too.  

 

"Baby Reindeer" is probably the last huge breakout hit that won a ton of Emmys that I just didn't like at all. Creator and star Richard Gadd's new show feels pretty similar, except instead of playing the victim of a violent obsessive character, this time Gadd plays the violent obsessive one. 

I don't think I've seen British actress Molly Windsor before, but she's really good in this Netflix about a woman living in a conservative Christian sect. 

"Ozark" creator Bill Dubuque's new Peacock show is about a Miami woman out for revenge after drug runners kill her whole family, very melodramatic. 

In the seven years since "Euphoria" premiered, the show went from having one movie star in the cast to three, two other cast members died, and after a pandemic and guild strikes and a bunch of other factors specific to "Euphoria," they're only just now airing the third season. The main characters are out of high school now, so it's no longer an edgy show about teenagers, but it feels like Sam Levinson feels some need to keep upping the ante to keep it edgy as a show about twentysomethings. That being said, I feel like this season is pretty consistent with the other ones, particularly in the case of the whole over-the-top OnlyFans storyline with Sydney Sweeney's character Cassie, which people seem to hate and think is just beyond the pale. Sweeney and Alexa Demie actually get to do their best work as comedic actresses on "Euphoria," but who I really think is wasted on the show is their more famous and talented co-star Zendaya, who narrates the show but doesn't have a lot of dialogue, mostly just making goofy faces reacting to everything that happens around her character. 

I only watched a few episodes of "Your Friends & Neighbors" last year, but finished the first season and starting the second season recently, man, excellent show, some sharp dialogue and plotting. There's occasionally some clumsy stuff (speedrunning an introduction of the main character's parents just before trying to to get some emotional weight out of one of them dying), but I really enjoy it. And it's another one of those Apple TV shows where the theme song and opening sequence are by far the worst part of every episode, though, just feels like some bullshit out of a Showtime series from 15 years ago. 

I think "For All Mankind" is the first Apple TV series to get to a 5th season, and I like that they've been able to take the parallel-universe premise this far, all the way from 1969 to 2012 so far. Unfortunately, I feel like their imagination feels more and more limited as they go forward, there's a Mars colony but I don't particularly care about the story, and Joel Kinnaman is pretty much the only person who's been a consistent character through the whole thing. I am glad that Ruby Cruz has been added to the cast now, her hair in "For All Mankind" may be the cutest she's ever looked. 

The fourth season of "Hacks" really felt like it could've been the series finale until the last few minutes, and would've ended well there, but I like that they came back for one more Deborah Vance misadventure, I laugh out loud a few times in every episode. I've grown to love the whole ensemble, I'm happy that Marcus has come back into the fold and almost every line Rose Abdoo has lately is hilarious. 

I've never been a major Neil Gaiman fan, but Good Omens is my favorite thing that he's written, and I was happy with the Amazon series adaptation, even if I didn't think it was as good as the book. Then some horrible revelations came out about Gaiman and the third season was downsized into a finale movie. The second season felt a little unnecessary to me but I was like well, I got this far, I may as well watch it. A few entertaining scenes, it was fine. 

In May, two one-off 'special episodes' starring and co-written by Jon Bernthal came out -- one an episode of "The Bear" that I haven't watched yet, and this. I don't know if it's supposed to be a belated finale for the Netflix "Punisher" series or a backdoor pilot for a Disney+ sequel series like "Daredevil: Born Again," but I thought it was really stupid and pointless. Like if they'd doubled the runtime and got a little more ambitious, it'd be a decent TV movie, but 50 minutes feels kind of paltry for a one-off. 

This Taiwanese show has an entertainingly weird pulpy premise about an influencer predicting the murders of other influencers. 

I really miss "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson," that was great late night TV. So I'll even watch the game show version of "Scrabble" sometimes now that Ferguson has replaced Raven-Symone as the host.