The 20 most exciting TV shows of spring 2025

The winter months are finally coming to a close, and while that means longer and warmer days, it also means a whole new slate of TV shows to kick off the spring season. And this spring in particular has some tremendously exciting TV to choose from.

This spring sees a few high-profile returns to television from shows like Andor and The Last of Us, as well as a new lease on life for Daredevil with his new Disney Plus show. There are also new seasons of Drive to Survive and Doctor Who, The Righteous Gemstones and Netflix’s John Mulaney talk show, and even a new Alexander Skarsgård-led sci-fi show. And that’s just naming a few of the great-looking options.

To help you keep track of all the best shows that you’re going to want to keep up with over the next several months, we’ve put together a list of the 20 best shows of spring 2025.

Daredevil: Born Again

Release date: March 4
Where to watch: Disney Plus

The Man Without Fear returns, with the first of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Netflix shows to make the leap to Disney Plus for a revival. Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio return as Matt Murdock/Daredevil and his nemesis the Kingpin, with Jon Bernthal reprising his role as Frank Castle/The Punisher. —Susana Polo

Drive to Survive season 7

Release date: March 7
Where to watch: Netflix

Another year around the sun, another few hundred laps around the track. Drive to Survive is back with another look back at last year’s F1 season. With some pretty major team moves happening between seasons, suffice it to say this Drive to Survive has plenty to dig into (should F1’s documentary crews let us). —Zosha Millman

Dark Winds season 3

Release date: March 9
Where to watch: AMC

Picking up six months after season 2, Dark Winds season 3 (expanded to eight episodes this season) follows Lt. Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon) and Jim Chee (Kiowa Gordon) as they investigate two young boys that went missing. Their only clues? An abandoned bicycle and a bloodstained patch of dirt. —ZM

The Righteous Gemstones season 4

Release date: March 9
Where to watch: HBO

The Gemstones family is living the dream — a lot of dreams, in fact. It’s the fourth and final season of The Righteous Gemstones, and with Uncle Baby Billy well on his way to making his new show (it’s about Teen Jesus, “Teenjus”) and Eli out to sea (literally), it’s a helluva time to be worshipping at the megachurch. —ZM

Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney

Release date: March 12
Where to watch: Netflix

John Mulaney’s new late-night talk show airs live on Netflix this spring, after the success of his six-episode live Netflix talk show miniseries, John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in LA. It’s expected to reproduce the format of that show, with a live monologue, interviews, call-in segments, and some pretaped sketches. —SP

Temptation Island

Release date: March 12
Where to watch: Netflix

Netflix is bringing back the big one: Four unmarried couples travel to a tropical island to separate for two weeks and see if they feel drawn to have an affair with all the other hot singles around. It’s been 24 years since the original run premiered — can Temptation Island still bring the heat now that there’s so many more shows like it? —ZM

Long Bright River

Release date: March 13
Where to watch: Peacock

Mickey (Amanda Seyfried) is a Philadelphia police officer who’s trying to make a difference in the community she grew up in. When her estranged sister suddenly goes missing, right at the same time a string of murders begins in her district, Mickey does what all good TV cops do: become dangerously obsessed with solving the case. —ZM

Wheel of Time season 3

Release date: March 13
Where to watch: Prime Video

Following the plot of The Shadow Rising, Rand (Josha Stradowski) is finally ready to accept his fate as the Dragon Reborn. And he’s just in time, too — not only is the Dark One assembling his team, but all hell is about to break loose with the Aes Sedai. —ZM

The Residence

Release date: March 20
Where to watch: Netflix

The bad news: There’s a dead body in the White House. The worse news? It happened during a massive state dinner. The great news? Eccentric detective Cordelia Cupp (Uzo Aduba) is on the case — it won’t calm the vexed White House staff, but it is great for those of us who love comedic murder mysteries. —ZM

Happy Face

Release date: March 20
Where to watch: Paramount Plus

Dennis Quaid stars as Keith Hunter Jesperson, convicted of the serial murders of eight women as the “Happy Face Killer,” in this adaptation of the Happy Face true-crime podcast created by Jesperson’s daughter Melissa Moore. —SP

Devil May Cry

Release date: April 3
Where to watch: Netflix

Adi Shankar (Captain Laserhawk) partners with Studio Mir (The Boondocks, The Legend of Korra) for this adaptation of the classic Capcom video game franchise. The series follows franchise mainstay Dante as he presumably hunts a lot of demons, with Johnny Yong Bosch taking on voice acting duties. —SP

Iyanu: Child of Wonder

Release date: April 5
Where to watch: Cartoon Network, Max

Based on the Lion Forge graphic novel series of the same name, Iyanu follows its titular teenage heroine through her magical adventures fighting evil in the Nigerian-inspired fantasy world of Yorubaland. —SP

he Handmaid’s Tale season 6

Release date: April 8
Where to watch: Hulu

Though it’s crazy to think about, the show that once seemed like the prescient answer to the first Trump administration is going out with its sixth and final season in the first year of the second Trump administration eight years later. It’s been a lot of ups, downs, escapes, and brutality. Now, with June (Elisabeth Moss) on the run to Vancouver, the question remains: Can she ever find peace? —ZM

Doctor Who series 15

Release date: April 12
Where to watch: Disney Plus

The Fifteenth Doctor is returning — and with a new companion to boot. Don’t fret; Ruby Sunday is still around. But when the Doctor meets Belinda (Andor’s Varada Sethu), they get stuck in an epic journey to “get her back to Earth.” Given that it sounds like they’re trapped in space, and Ruby is hanging out with officials back on Earth, it’s possible we’re dealing with a bigger threat than the Doctor has ever seen before. —ZM

The Last of Us season 2

Release date: April 13
Where to watch: HBO

The TV adaptation of the Naughty Dog video game franchise returns to adapt the beginning of The Last of Us Part 2. Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey return as Joel and Ellie, adding Kaitlyn Dever (Dopesick) as Abby, Isabela Merced (Turtles All the Way Down) as Dina, and Catherine O’Hara in an original role. —SP

Andor season 2

Release date: April 22
Where to watch: Disney Plus

2022’s riveting Star Wars drama finally returns for its second season. The Diego Luna-starring show will air weekly in three-episode chunks, with a time skip between each chunk. Ben Mendelsohn and Alan Tudyk join the cast to reprise their roles of Director Krennic and K-2SO from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. —SP

Asterix & Obelix: The Big Fight

Release date: April 30
Where to watch: Netflix

The French comedy-adventure comic phenomenon — about absurdly strong Gaulish everymen resisting a flummoxed Roman military — comes to Netflix this spring, with an adaptation of the seventh Asterix & Obelix story, “Asterix and the Big Fight.” The trailer looks charming as heck. —SP

You season 5

Release date: April 24
Where to watch: Netflix

The stakes for Joe (Penn Badgley) have never been higher: He’s owning up to his past — sorta — and going public with how he’s been misunderstood. Will that be enough to keep his murderous demons at bay? Will it be enough to get his enemies off his back? This being the final season… seems like finally anybody’s life is in the balance.—ZM

Murderbot

Release date: May 16
Where to watch: Apple TV Plus

This 10-episode thriller comedy adapts the first novella of Martha Wells’ popular and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series, about the adventures of a soap opera-loving, self-hacked rogue security android (Alexander Skarsgård) who still wants to protect humans, even though it finds them mostly annoying, and so keeps its free will carefully secret. —SP

Big Mouth season 8

Release date: Spring
Where to watch: Netflix

Our little perpetual animated teenagers are growing up. After all those years of wrestling with their hormone monsters and their feelings for each other, the kids of Bridgeton Middle School are in their final season (of the show; presumably their lives continue, horny and all, after whatever happens in the finale). —ZM