As streaming has allowed TV to take bigger swings and explore more niche stories than their big-budget, high-stakes counterparts on the silver screen, television has quickly become the Wild West. In recent years, we’ve seen everything from streaming spinoffs of blockbuster hits, to trashy reality TV, strike gold — making the question of what becomes a hit far more intriguing than what has the biggest marketing budget.
In 2024, Baby Reindeer went from an obscure Netflix miniseries to an Emmy frontrunner, Fallout went from yet another video game adaptation to rewriting what an adaptation could be, and The Penguin proved that superhero spinoffs could compete with the likes of The Sopranos. 2025 will surely include its own fair share of surprises. Here are Inverse’s 15 most anticipated series of 2025, from new stories to monumental endings.
