20 best new TV shows of 2025, according to Rotten Tomatoes

Metro

30-04-2025

From Netflix to Amazon Prime to Disney Plus to Apple, we're spoilt for choice when it comes to streaming platforms and their content.
But with so many TV shows dropping on the daily, it can be hard to decide what to watch.
Luckily, we also have access to Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregation website for films and television.
Its key feature is the Tomatometer, which provides a score for the title, calculated based on the percentage of positive reviews from a pool of critics.
And honestly, it's our most trusted source. So without further ado, here are the 20 best TV shows of 2025.
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That's your viewing content sorted for a few weeks then…
This Disney+ series is a revival and continuation of Daredevil.
In this show, Matt Murdock (played by Charlie Cox) finds himself on a collision course with Wilson Fisk (played by Vincent D'Onofrio) after their past identities are revealed.
Action adventure? Tick. Crime drama? Tick. Superhero vibes? Big tick.
Based on the 1985 dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale was adapted into this hit Emmy-winning series.
In general, the plot is set in the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian theocracy that has overthrown the United States.
Fertile women in Gilead – referred to as Handmaids – are forced into sexual servitude to bear children for the elite.
Though series six hasn't even dropped yet in the UK (it's set for release on May 3 on Amazon Prime), Rotten Tomatoes has already declared it a masterpiece.
Clean Slate is a sitcom co-created by and starring Laverne Cox and George Wallace.
Harry is an old-school car wash owner from Alabama.
His laid-back life is interrupted when his estranged child comes back into his life after 17 years, now a determined, proud trans woman named Desiree.
Anything starring Stephen Graham is worth a watch.
In A Thousand Blows, he plays Sugar Goodson, a dangerous, veteran boxer in Victorian London's East End.
When he comes across Hezekiah and Alec, two best friends from Jamaica, it turns into a fight for survival for the pair.
Medical drama lovers, The Pitt should be on your watch list.
Set in a fictional hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the show is centred around the personal and professional lives of its healthcare workers.
Beware, the episodes can get pretty intense, especially in terms of the hospital employees revealing the emotional toll the job takes on them.
The Last of Us has had the world in a chokehold since the release of season 2.
For those yet to see the apocalyptic drama, it's based on the video game franchise developed by Naughty Dog.
Set twenty years into a pandemic caused by a mass fungal infection – which causes people to transform into zombie-like creatures – a hardened survivor takes a 14-year-old girl under his wing to try and save humanity.
This series is loosely based on Mo Amer's own life as a Palestinian refugee descendant living in Houston, Texas.
Amer plays the titular character. Though the subject matter is serious, the show is scripted into a comedy-drama format.
Mir and Raj are two pampered Pakistani-American brothers who suddenly find themselves thrust into the real world when their convenience store magnate father dies.
Forced to take over the store, the siblings soon realise that their father wasn't only a local businessman, but the leader of a drug empire that they knew nothing about.
Kaitlin Olson is epic in this crime drama series.
World's away from her narcissistic It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia character, Dee, she plays single mum Morgan, who despite working as a cleaner in the police department, has an exceptional mind.
When she rearranges some evidence during one of her shifts, she actually ends up solving an unsolvable crime.
Seth Rogen and satire? Absolutely.
Rogen plays Matt Remick, the newly appointed head of Continental Studios.
While desperate for celebrity approval, Remick and his team find themselves balancing corporate demands and creative ambitions – all alongside trying to keep the studio and the movie industry relevant.
The Wheel of Time is set in a fantasy universe where magic exists.
The twist? Only some people can access it.
During the series, a woman named Moiraine takes five young people on a quest in the hopes that one of them has the power to save their world.
Hacks has been going since 2021, but according to Rotten Tomatoes, the latest series is one of the best yet.
It follows a legendary – but struggling – comedian, played by Jean Smart, who hires a young, unemployed writer to help liven up her material. What ensues is a unique mentorship that blossoms into friendship.
This animated action based on Marvel Comics is set in an alternate timeline in the multiverse, exploring Peter Parker's origin story and his early days using the Spider-Man persona.
Another show based on books – this time by renowned thriller author Lee Child – Reacher follows the escapades of Jack Reacher, a former U.S. Army military police major.
In season three, Reacher heads undercover with the DEA to investigate a suspicious rug-importing business, which is actually a front for a huge arms trafficking operation.
Part of the Star Wars franchise and a prequel to the film Rogue One, Andor chronicles the formation of a Rebel Alliance in opposition to the Galactic Empire.
One of the characters involved is Cassian Andor, a thief who joins – and becomes an essential member of – the Rebellion.
Michelle Williams plays Molly Kochan, a woman who receives a diagnosis of Stage IV metastatic breast cancer.
After learning she doesn't have long left, she leaves her husband to explore her sexual desires.
Her best friend Nikki is by her side the entire time.
Last month, the world stopped and listened as Stephen Graham dropped his triggering – but important – Adolescence.
It tells the story of 13-year-old Jamie Miller, who is accused of murdering his female classmate.
The series dives into the current issue of the radicalisation of young boys and men online, and shines a light on misogyny and incel culture.
Toxic Town is based on the real-life Corby toxic waste case, a significant environmental scandal in the UK.
When dozens of babies in the Northamptonshire town of Corby are born disabled, their mothers find themselves in a battle they didn't ask for, but on which they are determined to win.
Their question – who was responsible?
Millie-Jean Black is a Jamaican-born detective who is forced out of Scotland Yard. More Trending
Upon returning to Kingston, she joins the Jamaican Police Force to work in the missing persons department.
When she comes across one particular case, Millie finds her life turned upside down, and is forced to confront her past.
This adult animated series chronicles the lives of two former high school lab partners.
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When they stumble across a mushroom that can heal almost every ailment, they also unravel a conspiracy involving big pharma and the government to suppress public knowledge of the medicine.
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