It’s that time of year again, time for us to count our favorites of the year that was. First up, we list our favorite TV shows of 2025. As an independent and small media presence, Capes and Tights didn’t find time to watch ALL television available this year, but got a good number of shows under our belt. With this said, we tend to focus more of those shows the fit the scope of our website such as comics, horror, and the similar which can lead to a different list than the big media will put out.
Here is our list of our favorite TV shows of 2025.
10. The Pitt
Where to Watch: HBO Max
Next Season?: Season two premieres on January 8, 2026
A realistic examination of the challenges facing healthcare workers in America as seen through the lens of the frontline heroes working in a modern-day hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
9. Daredevil: Born Again
Where to Watch: Disney+
Next Season?: Season two premieres on March 4, 2026
Daredevil: Born Again begins several years after the events of Daredevil (2015–2018), and a year after blind lawyer Matt Murdock stopped his activities as the masked vigilante Daredevil. In the first season, Murdock continues his fight for justice as a lawyer while former crime boss Wilson Fisk is elected mayor of New York City, putting the pair on a collision course. After Fisk consolidates power, declares martial law, and begins targeting vigilantes, the second season sees Murdock gathering allies to resist Fisk and his Anti-Vigilante Task Force (AVTF).
8. Adolescence
Where to Watch: Netflix
Next Season?: Limited Series
A family’s world turns upside down when 13-year-old Jamie Miller is arrested for murdering a schoolmate: the charges against their son force them to confront every parent’s worst nightmare.
7. Alien: Earth
Where to Watch: FX on Hulu
Next Season?: The series was renewed for a second season with a TBA release date
In the year 2120, the Earth is governed by five corporations: Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic and Threshold. Cyborgs and synthetics exist alongside humans, but the game is changed when the Prodigy Corporation unlocks hybrids. The first hybrid prototype named Wendy marks a new dawn in the race for immortality. After Weyland-Yutani’s spaceship collides into Prodigy City, Wendy and the other hybrids encounter mysterious life forms, which are more terrifying than anyone could have ever imagined.
6. The Studio
Where to Watch: Apple TV
Next Season?: The series was renewed for a second season with a TBA release date
Matt Remick is the newly appointed head of Continental Studios; desperate for celebrity approval, he and his executive team at the movie studio must juggle corporate demands with creative ambitions as they try to keep movies alive and relevant.
5. Severance
Where to Watch: Apple TV
Next Season?: The series was renewed for a third season with a TBA release date
Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives; when a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.
4. The Chair Company
Where to Watch: HBO Max
Next Season?: The series was renewed for a second season with a TBA release date
The Chair Company tells the story of William Ronald Trosper, who begins investigating a vast and elaborate conspiracy after an embarrassing workplace incident.
3. It: Welcome to Derry
Where to Watch: HBO Max
Next Season?: TBA
In 1962, a couple with their son move to Derry, Maine just as a young boy disappears. With their arrival, very bad things begin to happen in the town.
2. Revival
Where to Watch: Syfy Channel / Peacock
Next Season?: TBA
One miraculous day in rural Wisconsin, the recently deceased suddenly return to life. But these are not zombies, as the “revived” appear and behave just as they did before. As the mystery of this phenomenon fuels unrest, Dana Cypress, a down-on-her-luck and crass police officer and single mother, is thrust into a peculiar murder investigation-one where the murder victim is now alive, and everyone, whether living or revived, is a suspect.
1. Pluribus
Where to Watch: Apple TV
Next Season?: The series was renewed for a second season with a TBA release date
Pluribus follows Albuquerque author Carol Sturka, who is one of only 13 people in the world immune to the effects of the “Joining”, an event in which an extraterrestrial virus transformed the rest of humanity into a peaceful and content hive mind known as the “Others”. The hive mind happily accommodates the wishes of those who remain unaffected, but admits that it will ultimately seek to assimilate them when it figures out how to do so.
Runners Up: The Paper (NBC), Stranger Things (Netflix), Ghosts (CBS), Andor (Disney+), Dept. Q (Netflix), The Last of Us (HBO), The Lowdown (FX), Death by Lightning (Netflix)
