The most anticipated series of 2025

As the year 2024 draws to a close, streaming platforms are preparing a program full of new releases and highly anticipated returns for 2025. Overview of the best series to discover on streaming platforms, from the final season of Stranger Things to the spin-off of Blade Runner with Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer, without forgetting the resorts idyllic The White Lotus.

Season 2 of Yellowjackets (2023) © Showtime.

Season 3 of Yellowjackets with Hilary Swank

Critically acclaimed upon its release in 2021, the drama series Yellowjacketshalfway between Lost et Darkreturns for a third season on Valentine's Day. Sublimated by its talented cast (Ella Purnell, Elijah Wood, Christina Ricci), the series broadcast on Canal+ takes us back to the unforgiving forest of Canada, where the plane of a young women's football team crashed at the start of season 1. Yellowjackets turns away from neither the cannibalism nor the atrocities suffered by the group of survivors. New? For its season 3, these are Hilary Swank (Million Dollar Baby) et Joel McHale who join the cast in roles still kept secret.

Yellowjackets (since 2021) by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, with Hilary Swank, available on Netflix February 14, 2025.

The teaser for season 5 of Stranger Things (2025).

The fifth and final season of Netflix's sci-fi gem Stranger Things

Delayed by the writers' strike which hit Hollywood in 2023, season 5 of Stranger Things finally becomes clearer. Netflix confirmed in a first preview that this fifth and final part of the series should arrive on the platform in 2025. In this new chapter located in the fall of 1987, one year after the events of season 4, Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) and his friends would have to face dark forces, more dangerous than ever. Which members of Hawkins' gang will emerge unscathed?

Stranger Things (since 2016) by the Duffer brothers, with Millie Bobby Brown, David Harbor and Winona Ryder, available on Netflix in 2025.

The teaser for season 2 of Wednesday (2025).

Season 2 of Wednesday with Jenna Ortega and Lady Gaga

Good news for fans of the universe of The Addams Family (1991). Netflix is ​​preparing a season 2 of its series Wednesday and its filming (which took place in Ireland) is finished. On the casting side, Jenna Ortega takes on the role of the young girl with the blasé pout alongside a newcomer: the excellent favorite actor of the Coen brothers, Steve Buscemi.

Another surprise, the star Lady Gaga – including an accelerated version of Bloody Mary had accompanied the viral dance videos on TikTok featuring Wednesday's choreography – will make an appearance. If Jenna Ortega had received a nomination for the Emmy Award for Best Actress in 2023, could she win the famous statuette with this new season?

Wednesday (since 2022) by Tim Burton, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, with Jenna Ortega and Lady Gaga, available on Netflix in 2025.

Penn Badgley in season 4 of You © Netflix. most anticipated series of 2025
Penn Badgley in season 4 of You (2023) © Netflix.

The grand finale of the series You with Penn Badgley

After almost two long years of absence from our screens, the famous Netflix series You returns for its fifth season in 2025. With Penn Badgley back in the shoes of the obsessive psychopath Joe Goldberg, You will bow out with a final season where several characters from past seasons should make their return. Among them, we hope, that of Jenna Ortega which could finally put Joe Goldberg behind bars. A satisfying ending after so many murders committed. In their New York cocoon, Joe Goldberg and his beloved Kate (Charlotte Ritchie) must, in any case, remain on their guard…

You (since 2018) by Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble, with Penn Badgley, available on Netflix in 2025.

The teaser for season 2 of The Last of Us (2025).

Season 2 of The Last of Us with Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey

HBO studios have not seen such good audience records since the final season of Game of Thrones according to the American media The Hollywood Reporter. In just 10 episodes, the post-apocalyptic series The Last of Us brought together more than 30 million spectators in front of their screens.

The pitch ? Cordyceps, an extremely contagious fungus, has ravaged the planet, transforming any human it infects into a mindless zombie. In the middle of a land desolate by the epidemic, Joël (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) form a strange father-daughter duo, linked only by the force of destiny. But when Ellie turns out to be immune to the disease, Joël is ready to do anything to protect it – even if it means jeopardizing the future of humanity…

The Last Of Us (since 2023) by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, with Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey, available on Max in 2025.

The teaser for season 3 of The White Lotus (2025).

Season 3 of The White Lotus with Charlotte Le Bon and Lisa from Blackpink

After the Hawaiian beaches and the Italian coasts, The White Lotus heads to Thailand for its third part. A vitriolic portrait of the ultra-rich, the series follows the passions and excesses of a handful of wealthy people in the middle of idyllic settings. If The White Lotus explored in its previous seasons the questions of money and sex, this new chapter will be placed under the sign of spirituality and the ego.

In the casting, we will find the actress and director Charlotte Le Bon, Lisathe ex-singer of the group Blackpinkbut also Parker Posey (Lost in Space), Carrie Coon (The Gilded Age), Aimee Lou Wood (Sex Education) et Natasha Rothwell – seen in season 1 of The White Lotus.

The White Lotus (since 2022) by Mike White, with Charlotte Le Bon and Lisa, available on Max on February 17, 2025.

Cailee Spaeny in Alien : Romulus (2024) by Fede Álvarez. © 2024 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.
Cailee Spaeny in Alien : Romulus (2024) by Fede Álvarez. © 2024 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.

Alien: Earththe spin-off from the Ridley Scott saga

Produced by Hulu, the series Alien: Earth will be broadcast in on Disney+ and will stage Sydney Chandler (Don’t Worry Darling), Timothy Olyphant (Scream 2) et Alex Lawther (The End of the F**king World). A new casting for this program originally planned for 2024. Alien : Earth will recount the arrival of the first Xenomorph on Earth, an event prior to the film Ridley Scott from 1979. The series was put on hiatus for a long time due to the writers' strike in Hollywood… At the helm, Noah Hawley, creator of the series Fargo.

Alien: Earth by Noah Hawley, available on Disney+ in 2025.

Charlie Cox in the series Daredevil (2015) © Netflix.
Charlie Cox in the series Daredevil © Netflix.

Daredevil: Born Againthe new Marvel series with Charlie Cox

After several years of waiting, the Marvel hero Daredevil is finally entitled to a renewal on the platform side Disney+. After a very popular appearance in She-Hulk (2022), the character leads this new series, which serves as a sequel to the three seasons broadcast on Netflix in 2015, but also a new beginning for the masked vigilante. Daredevil: Born Again will reunite again Charlie Cox et Jon Bernthal in 18 episodes mixing action and legal scenes. Season 1 will air from March 4, 2025.

Daredevil: Born Again by Matt Corman and Chris Ord, with Charlie Cox, available on Disney+ in 2025.

Welcome to Derry (2025) © HBO Max.
Welcome to Derry (2025) © HBO Max.

Welcome to Derrythe horror film prequel That

Scheduled for release in 2025, the series Welcome to Derry invites us once again to the small town of Derry where the money-grubbing clown, played by Bill Skarsgårdspreads terror. After the immense success of the films That released in 2017, 2019, adapted from the eponymous novel by Stephen KingIt is HBO who takes the reins of the series. A prequel with a darker tone supervised by Andrés Muschiettidirector of the two films, set in the heart of the 60s and which will follow the adventures of a group of friends ready to do anything to find one of their missing loved ones. A nine-episode series that promises its share of red balloons, an ever-Machiavellian clown and a good dose of thrills.

Welcome to Derry by Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti, available on Prime Video in 2025.

Harrison Ford in Blade Runner 2049 (2017) by Denis Villeneuve. © Sony Pictures / Warner Bros. Pictures.
Harrison Ford in Blade Runner 2049 (2017) de Denis Villeneuve. © Sony Pictures / Warner Bros. Pictures.

Blade Runner 2099, with Hunter Schafer and Michelle Yeoh

It is undoubtedly one of the most legendary works of science fiction cinema. The cyberpunk universe of Blade Runner will have the right to its adaptation in series, after a first film of Ridley Scott in 1982, then a second Denis Villeneuve in 2017. Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) plays the leading role in this project produced by Ridley Scottset fifty years after the original film. Hunter Schaferrevelation of the series Euphoriawill appear in the distribution of this sequel titled Blade Runner 2099adaptation of a novel by Philip K. Dick.

Blade Runner 2099 by Silka Luisa, starring Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer, available on Prime Video in 2025.

Black Mirror saison 4 (2027) © Netflix.
Season 4 of Black Mirror (2027) © Netflix.

Black Mirrorthe seventh season of the Netflix dystopian series

Miley Cyrus, Daniel Kaluuya, Salma Hayek or even Josh Hartnettmany stars have passed through the dystopian anthology series Black Mirror. Seen as an exploration of the excesses of technology, the series met with triumphant success upon its broadcast on Netflix in 2011. For its seventh season, the cast once again promises to be impressive and diverse: Paul Giamatti (Winter Break), Awkwafina (The Farewell) et Issa Rae (Barbie, Insecure). One of the six new stories will also serve as a sequel to an old cult episode with Cristin Milioti (The Penguin) et Jesse Plemons (Kinds of Kindness).

Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror, available on Netflix in 2025.

And to go further…

Among the other flagship programs expected for this year 2025, we should find several sequels, original series but also adaptations based on pre-existing works including: Tomb Raider (Prime Video), The studio (Apple ), The Bear season 4 (Canal+), Andor season 2 (Disney+), Black Rabbit (Netflix), Carrie (Prime Video)…

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