Over the span of six sensible episodes, The Rehearsal season 2 identifies an issue (airplane crashes), diagnoses its resolution (lack of pilot communication), and rolls up its sleeves to repair every thing (by means of rehearsal, in fact). By the point you get to Fielder’s “Miracle Over the Mojave,” The Rehearsal‘s second season has actually entered into the “social advocacy comedy docuseries” style Corridor of Fame alongside just about simply different Nathan Fielder tasks. It’s a slender class.
Severance
Viewers need solutions relating to thriller field storytelling. Within the case of Severance season 2, which means resolutions to questions like “Who was Kier Eagan?,” “Why is Lumon doing all of this,” and naturally “What’s with the goats.” On the identical time, nonetheless, wrapping up any thriller simply ends that thriller. How can a present like Severance preserve its viewers engaged with out stringing them alongside?
Season 2 makes that tightrope act look absurdly simple. Sure, some questions are answered on this batch of 10 episodes on Apple TV+ (together with the goat one, consider it or not!). However the seasons actual strengths lie within the quiet moments between these discoveries. Between Ben Stiller’s revelatory route, immaculate manufacturing design, and a pitch good forged led by Adam Scott, there may be actually by no means a boring second on the Macrodata Refinement ground.
Squid Sport
Because of Netflix’s inventive (and albeit annoying) launch technique, Squid Sport got here near airing two full seasons of tv this yr, with season 2’s Dec. 26, 2024 launch date lacking the lower by solely six days. The truth that solely season three’s six episodes premiered in 2025 would possibly make its inclusion on this listing controversial. The concluding arc to creator Hwang Dong-hyuk’s fashionable dystopian masterpiece was divisive to say the least.
We’d argue it shouldn’t be, nonetheless. Other than the aforementioned launch mannequin that made it really feel like half a season, Squid Sport season 3 was one other pitch good spherical of darkish storytelling. The central video games, that are all the time equal components thrilling and disgusting, took on an added foreboding resonance as viewers have been pressured to take care of the introduction of the last word harmless contestant and the lingering query of whether or not Participant 456 might truly survive the brutal gauntlet twice. Someway a really cynical, at occasions indignant present discovered room to get even angrier whereas nonetheless introducing the slightest little bit of hope for a brighter future.
The Studio
Regardless of feeling as if his job is to destroy them, Continental Studio head Matt Remick (Seth Rogen) actually loves motion pictures. The TV present constructed round him, The Studio, additionally loves motion pictures…however perhaps not as a lot because it loves tv. Along with being a satirical love letter to Hollywood, even in its imperfect IP period, The Studio has a deep appreciation of what works for its small display screen brother. On this case which means gags…a lot of ’em.
