We may be living in a golden age of TV, but panning through all the dross to find that gold can be time-consuming and tedious. For every much-discussed hit like Severance, House of the Dragon, and The Bear, there are dozens of new original shows that barely tip the cultural needle. And with so many new streaming services competing with HBO, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and Disney Plus, it’s impossible to keep up with everything new to view. But The Verge’s TV section is ready to help. Our news, reviews, and interviews help you find the next Stranger Things or Star Trek: Strange New Worlds in time to keep up with the cultural conversation. And our essays and analysis invite you to consider the deeper context of what you’re watching.
Something is breaking free in the latest teaser for Hulu’s Alien: Earth, which lands this summer. This looks like our first actual footage from the series, and gives us plenty to pore over: a new Xenomorph design (are those wings!?), a ship with more than a passing resemblance to the original film’s Nostromo, and a warning announcement that sounds just a little like a certain Sigourney.
And that includes the new title sequence, which is a surreal way to start each episode. You can watch it below. And for more on the new season, be sure to check out our interviews on Severance’s bizarre computers and its inspired approach to cliffhangers.
Paramount Plus’ new Star Trek film is the sound of scene chewing in space, which is to say, it’s pretty damn fun.
It looks like there will be plenty of conflict in the next season of Yellowjackets, with all kinds of bloodshed spanning both time periods. It’s been a bit of a wait — season 2 premiered in 2023 — but the show is back on February 14th.
Castlevania: Nocturne season 2 gets philosophical about what it means to be a monster who loves.
After a long hiatus, Severance has returned for its second season on Apple TV Plus. I haven’t seen it all, but the season certainly gets off to a great start. Just as important: those weird (and functional!) computers are back.
The actor was joined by the rest of the ‘innies’ from Apple TV’s ‘Severance’, plus producer Ben Stiller, in a recreation of their oppressive Lumon office to tease the show’s imminent return. This might be taking return-to-office mandates a step too far.
While Richter Belmont and his allies absolutely dogwalked Erzsebet Báthory last time they fought, the vampire messiah looks like she’s coming back with a vengeance in the latest trailer for Castlevania: Nocturne’s upcoming second season.
Though WWE Monday Night Raw’s premiere on Netflix was marked by a heartening round of boos when Hulk Hogan popped up, the show reportedly racked up 4.9 millions views between Monday and Tuesday.
That figure isn’t huge by Netflix’s standards, but according to The Hollywood Reporter, it’s more than twice the viewership that Raw drew in last year on USA Network.
[The Hollywood Reporter]
Rabbits My Melody and Kuromi have been fixtures in Hello Kitty’s life for a few decades now, and today Netflix and Sanrio announced that the pair are set to be the stars of their own stop-motion animated series due out some time this July.
Today at CES, NBCUniversal announced that Peacock is adding a curated selection of vertical video clip playlists and games to its iOS and Android apps to “drive even deeper fan engagement around its most popular titles.”
Per Slate, the first games we can expect to see on Peacock are Daily Swap (a word puzzler), Venn (a matching game), and Predictions, which will let players guess which sports team will win upcoming matches.
If you search for “Squid Game” on the web or mobile, an invitation card will appear at the bottom of the screen. Click on it, and you’ll see a group of characters you have to carefully guide toward Squid Game’s giant doll when it’s not looking.
If you’re an Apple TV Plus subscriber, you can watch the first eight minutes of Severance season two from the Apple TV Plus app or website under the show’s “Bonus Content” section. The second season comes out on January 17th.
Here’s what to watch over the holidays in case all those live sports broadcasts don’t work out.
After years of brand tie-ins and ill-conceived spinoffs, the series is back — and it’s just as tense as ever.
We got a healthy dose of Star Wars and Marvel shows on Disney Plus this year, but the more mature series from Hulu helped balance things out.
It was another sci-fi-heavy year for Apple’s streaming service.
According to a report in Bloomberg, Arcane racked up the views on Netflix but couldn’t translate that success into profit. The show’s two seasons cost Riot Games roughly $250 million to produce with a Riot spokesperson sharing that the second season was successful enough to, “at least break-even for us financially.”
This year’s Prime Video streaming content was led by adaptations and spinoffs like Fallout and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
Between The Penguin, Dune: Prophecy, and I Saw the TV Glow, Max has you covered when it comes to last-minute streaming options to get you through the holidays.
That’s Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk talking to Variety in a story that explores how the show became a worldwide phenomenon and a massive business for Netflix. Most notable, though, is how much the creator seems done with it all:
I’m so sick of my life making something, promoting something. So I’m not thinking about my next project right now. I’m just thinking about going to some remote island and having my own free time without any phone calls from Netflix.
