Genre Drama

Furious

Elizabeth Meriwether, the creator of New Girl and the devastating Dying for Sex, takes an odd swerve into serial killer territory with this eight episode series loosely inspired by the 1987 thriller Black Widow. Emmy Rossum plays Alice Black, an FBI agent hunting a calculating female serial killer, played with icy charisma by Lola Petticrew, and the show's central gambit is structural: it tells the story from both sides, giving the killer's backstory and reasoning nearly equal weight, until the pursuit starts to look like a twisted courtship.

Best Medicine

FOX's American remake of Doc Martin transplants the grumpy surgeon to the fishing village of Port Wenn, and the results are exactly as mixed as every transatlantic comedy transplant before it. Josh Charles plays Dr. Martin Best, a brilliant Boston surgeon who flees to the small coastal town where he spent childhood summers, only to discover he has developed a phobia of blood, which is a problem for a country doctor. The premise survives the move; the tone is the question.

American Hostage

Jon Hamm finally gets the role his Mad Men gravitas has been circling: Fred Heckman, a beloved Indianapolis radio reporter who ends up on the wrong end of his own microphone when an armed man, Tony Kiritsis, takes him hostage live on air in 1977. Based on the scripted podcast and the real case, the eight episode MGM+ series turns a three day standoff into a period piece about media saturation, police incompetence, and a kidnapper who understood television better than the people covering him.

East of Eden

The Early Word: Netflix is betting big on Steinbeck. Zoe Kazan, whose grandfather Elia Kazan directed the 1955 film, adapts the full novel as a seven episode limited series, and the big selling point is structural: the 1955 movie only covered the book's second half, so the Trask family's founding generations, the Civil War arc, and the full Cathy story have never been filmed. Florence Pugh plays Cathy Ames, literature's most chilling sociopath, with Christopher Abbott as Adam, Mike Faist as Charles, and Hoon Lee as the family's cook and moral center Lee, a role whitewashed out of every previous adaptation.

Raising Dion

Netflix's quiet superhero family drama, from Dennis Liu's comic: a mom raises a boy whose grief makes matter bend. 17 episodes, critics liked it more than the algorithm suggested.

The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live

The event series that paid off the franchise’s biggest dangling thread: Rick Grimes, taken away by helicopter in the flagship’s final season, and Michonne, who went looking for him. Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira return for a six-episode limited run…

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon

Daryl washes ashore in France, and the show somehow turns that into the most beautiful thing the franchise has ever filmed. Shot like a European art film with walker money, the first season follows Daryl shepherding a boy who may…

Tales of the Walking Dead

The anthology experiment: six standalone stories across the timeline and map of the apocalypse, with different tones, casts, and formats. One episode is an odd-couple comedy, one is a deep character piece, and one introduces a major new villain origin…

The Walking Dead: World Beyond

The coming-of-age chapter of the franchise: two sisters raised behind walls in a post-apocalypse generation leave safety for a cross-country journey, and the story expands the mythology toward the Civic Republic, the helicopter network, and the seeds of the larger…

Fear the Walking Dead

The first companion series, and the one that answered the question every fan asked: what did the fall of civilization actually look like? The early Los Angeles seasons have a slower, sadder register than the flagship, watching a blended family…