The best series of 2025 from “Mr. Scorsese” to “Alien: Earth”. Discover the highlights of the year.
From Scorsese’s life’s work to the first German world-class series: these ten shows have shaped 2025. Here are the highlights of the year for you.
1. Mr Scorsese
Whether you’ve read countless books about Martin Scorsese and think you know everything about him, or you’re just encountering his life and work for the first time, the wonder of Rebecca Miller’s portrait of the greatest living filmmaker is that everything seems new and fresh. Scorsese himself is the gift that keeps on giving: his openness and willingness to provide the deepest insights into private and professional life make the five-part miniseries an experience that touches you more deeply than you would initially expect.
2.Task
“Task” looks like the maker of “Mare Of Easttown” had his own private “The Wire” made. In his second HBO show, Brad Ingelsby sends an FBI team led by Mark Ruffalo to intervene in a gang war in the Philadelphia countryside. What initially seems familiar takes unexpected paths, never loses sight of the story, but reveals characters in a depth that hurts: What we do to ourselves!
3. American Primeval
Peter Berg shows you what Kevin Costner’s “Horizon” could have been with this epochal series about the battle for the frontier, the birth of the USA, created from blood, dirt and tears. Taylor Kitsch finally has the role he was born to play, a descendant of They Called Him Hombre, one of the great tragic figures of American serials.
4. The Studio
Rarely have you had to laugh more and at the same time learned more about Hollywood than in Seth Rogen’s crazy series about the new management of a traditional studio, which has every obstacle imaginable thrown in its way. Nothing is better than the first and last episodes.
5. SICK Berlin
It is gratifying that Germany is finally making series on an international level. No one did that better in 2025 than this hospital series on Apple TV, which reinvents the conventions of the format like a fever dream.
6. The Diplomat, Season 3
Only in the middle does this exceptional series with Keri Russell and Rufus Sewell as a diplomatic couple on the front political front, always on the verge of the Third World War, briefly subside. Ends even stronger for it!
7. Slow Horses, Season 5
Every season is a little better: Gary Oldman has perfected his performance as Anti-Bond in this brilliantly groovy adaptation of Mick Herron’s novel series.
8. Alien: Earth
After a disappointing trip to the cinema, “Fargo” maker Noah Hawley has found his old form again with the first “Alien” series. As disappointing as the films have been recently, this clash between the alien and our good old Earth really rocks.
9. Call My Agent Berlin
And another German series that does everything right. Because it adopts exactly what made the French original work so well. And sets new accents exactly where they are needed.
10. Etoile
Let’s briefly and just once sing the praises of the new series from the makers of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”, which recommends itself as a lively sister to “Mozart In The Jungle”, but was already shot down by Prime after season 1. Too bad.