Season One. Aired On: Disney+. Release Date: 01/29/25. Genre: Action. Adventure. Comedy. Drama. Fantasy. The Verdict: A Must-See Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man respectfully takes inspiration from the early work of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko’s Spider-Man comics giving it a unqiue feel. While the animation style does take some getting past the "Archie "  Peter Parker design, after a while it does prove to act as panels stripped directly out of the comic. The action in pa

Season One. [Episodes 1 - 3] Aired On: Hulu. Release Date: 01/28/25. Genre: Drama. Thriller. The Verdict: A Maybe Fresh off the conclusion of NBC's hugely popular show This Is Us , Hulu has tapped creator Dan Fogelman to helm a new series featuring breakout star Sterling K. Brown, who joins the project to star and produce fresh from his recent Oscar nomination. The show, titled Paradise , encapsulates everything one might expect from a Fogelman production, echoing the emergi

Season Two. [Episodes 1 - 6] Aired On: Apple TV. Release Date: 01/17/25. Genre: Drama. Mystery. SciFi. Thriller. The Verdict: A Must-See It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly three years since the first season of Severance graced our screens with the fine working folks at Lumon. Now after a quick recap to refresh the memory, Season two of Severance has arrived and is thankfully a brilliant continuation.    Severance is just as revolutionary and genius as every aspect of th

Season Two. Aired On: Disney+ / Hulu. Release Date: 01/10/25. Genre: Adventure. Drama. Horror. Mystery. SciFi.  The Verdict: A Must-See Goosebumps: The Vanishing consists of eight episodes covering yet another handful of R.L. Stine’s legendary books. As someone who was not an avid reader growing up, Goosebumps was a book series I adored. While not reading most of them during my youth, the ones I did manage left an impression into adulthood. From the unbelievably cheesy 90s

Season Three. [Episodes 1 - 3] Aired On: Peacock. Release Date: 01/09/25. Genre: Game-Show. Reality-TV. The Verdict: A Must-See Truth be told… I’ve just in recent years started on my reality competition show adventure. Now decently well versed in such shows as Survivor , Big Brother , The Amazing Race , and The Challenge - season three of The Traitors was the first time I ever set my eyes on the proceedings under Alan Cumming’s rule. What I gathered after 3 episodes is tha

Season Two. Aired On: Netflix. Release Date: 12/26/24. Genre: Action. Drama. Mystery. Thriller. The Verdict: A Must-See The second season of Netflix’s 2021 breakout hit, Squid Game , has landed with big sets, big characters and even bigger stakes. Breaking down this new season and why it is worth watching will be difficult without spoiling key aspects and plot threads. Many specific details must be experienced to fully understand; some plot reveals may be harder to comprehen

Season One. Aired On: Prime Video. Release Date: 12/19/24. Genre: Reality-TV. Competition.  The Verdict: A Must-See When Survivor first premiered in 2000, the premise was straightforward: Who can survive in the wilderness the longest, on the brink of starvation, while surrounded by strangers? The appeal of the show lay in its exploration of how such grueling conditions would impact social behavior and who the group would ultimately decide to vote off the island with each pa

Season One. Aired On: Paramount+. Release Date: 12/13/25. Genre: Crime. Drama. Mystery. The Verdict: A Must-See Dexter: Original Sin is a clever way to extend the lore of Dexter through the eyes of a dying man. It’s a solid beginning for what’s to come with an overabundance of Easter eggs and casting successes.    Longtime fans should be pleased as the Dexter Morgan as we know him isn't absent, played by Michael C. Hall, is providing the mental insight of our young protago

Season One. Aired On: HBO Max. Release Date: 12/05/24. Genre: Drama. SciFi. The Verdict: A Must-See For those unfamiliar with the source material (such as myself), Creature Commandos is a great introduction to the world that James Gunn is in the process of adapting. It's bloody genius at times, deeply moving at others and just damn brutal. A worthy beginning to the DCU.    The first two episodes of this seven episode trek are a bit of an exposition pain to get through. But

Season One. Aired On: Netflix. Release Date: 12/05/25. Genre: Action. Drama. Mystery. Thriller. The Verdict: A Mistake Netflix’s Black Doves is a Christmas special that lacks any real link to the Christmas season. For a show that opens in a bar lit with Christmas lights, centered on Santa Claus as he makes his way into snowy London, Black Doves has little to say about the Christmas season.   What frustrates me endlessly about Black Doves is in its execution. There are mult

Season One. [Episodes 1 - 2] Aired On: Paramount+. Release Date: 11/29/25. Genre: Drama. Thriller. The Verdict: A Must-See After six years on assignment, a spy is called up one afternoon and told that it’s time to come home. Naturally, he packs up and obeys his order without any pushback. But he can’t help but wonder if he’s done something wrong, or if his cover has been blown. Though we have no idea what this guy has done, we are immediately invested. That is how good the n

Season One. Aired On: Netflix. Release Date: 08/31/23. Genre: Action. Adventure. Fantasy. The Verdict: A Must-See One Piece is a tight 8 episodes of silly anime come to live-action, while simultaneously wearing its heart on its sleeve. Coming from an outsider’s perspective, One Piece was a series I had only heard about in passing and who hasn’t seen the “straw-hat boy” somewhere. Now the connection has been made and it brings along this bombastic, thrilling pirate adventure

Season One. Aired On: Netflix. Release Date: 05/18/23. Genre: Comedy. Drama. Romance. The Verdict: A Mistake XO, Kitty is an expansion upon the world of Jenny Han’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before , separating Kitty from Lara Jean and sending her out on her own way. In terms of the To All the Boys trilogy, they only descended in quality after the wonderful original and this series (which is not looking to stop after just one outing) is yet another plummet in quality for