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.
The last few minutes of the season 2 finale are an important indication of where the story is going.
You’re supposed to pick up on some of the visual uncanniness of Mark S.’ sprint through Lumon HQ in the first episode of Severance’s second season, but this behind-the-scenes breakdown video from Industrial Light & Magic highlights just how much of the scene was created with VFX wizardry.
Though Apple TV Plus’ upcoming historical drama Chief of War chronicles the real story of how Native Hawaiian warrior Kaʻiana (Jason Momoa) rebelled against king Kamehameha I, the miniseries’ first trailer kinda feels like an audition tape for another project about a (fictional) man at war.
Carmy and the crew are still going to be struggling to get on their feet when The Bear returns for its fourth season on June 25th. But everyone at the restaurant seems like they’re ready to give it all in the season’s latest trailer.
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’s Ryan Kiera Armstrong has been cast in Hulu’s new Buffy the Vampire Slayer sequel series. Aside from Sarah Michelle Gellar returning to reprise her role from the original series, details on the new show are still thin, but it sounds we’re going to see Buffy leaning into the mentor life.
The next Game of Thrones spinoff is now coming out in 2026 instead of 2025, Variety reports. HBO content chairman and CEO Casey Bloys apparently said at an event that it would come out in “winter,” though, so seems like it will be an early 2026 debut.
Warner Bros. Discovery did the right thing today — people mostly hated when HBO was cut from “HBO Max.”
What do normal people think the Apple Vision Pro is worth? Well, the highest bid was just $1,270 in this clip from a recent The Price is Right episode, posted by Vision Pro enthusiast Justin Ryan.
Host Drew Carey takes great care as he enunciates: “...actual retail price is three thousand, four hundred and ninety nine dollars.”
The new series Alien: Earth will premiere with two episodes on August 12th, airing on Hulu and FX in the US, or Disney Plus internationally. Thanks to Deadline we also have a first look at the cast kitted out, and know more about the plot, which hinges on the creation of the first “hybrid” androids, “infused with human consciousness.”
We’re still waiting for the show’s first trailer, but its early teasers have been... icky.
Amazon showed off a first image of Nicolas Cage as the live-action Spider Noir for the upcoming Prime Video and MGM Plus TV show. A premiere date hasn’t been shared yet.
The Wanted Man will see Laurie play Felix Carmichael, the “elusive and powerful head of notorious British crime syndicate ‘The Capital,” according to Apple’s press release. After going to prison, Carmichael learns he’s been betrayed, and so decides to try to escape to exact revenge.
The show comes from George Kay, who also created the Idris Elba-starring Hijack. The Wanted Man’s other stars include Thandiwe Newton, Fionn Whitehead, and Gina McKee.
For Rian Johnson, the fun of Poker Face season 2 was figuring out how to give its lie-detecting lead new relationships.
Long Story Short, the new animated series from BoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg has a premiere date: it’ll be streaming on Netflix on August 22nd. The series follows the story of a single family, but jumps around in time, letting you “follow the Schwooper siblings from childhood to adulthood and back again.” You can get a first glimpse at it in these images.
More than anything else, Shinichirō Watanabe wanted Kamasi Washington to trust his musical instincts.
While we all impatiently wait for more news about the final season of Stranger Things, Netflix has shared a little about the show’s animated spinoff. It’s called Tales From ’85 and, well, that’s about all we know right now. The Duffer brothers say that the vibe will be “in the vein of the Saturday morning cartoons that we grew up loving,” which provides some idea of what to expect whenever it does stream.
In addition to dropping a new trailer for Wednesday’s upcoming second season, Netflix has confirmed that the series’ next chapter will be split in two with the first half debuting on August 6th, and the second on September 3rd.
Andor’s final chapter feels like a series of mini-movies about how wars for freedom are won in fits and starts.
Hayden Christensen will return to Ahsoka as Anakin Skywalker and rebel commander Admiral Ackbar will go “head-to-head” with Grand Admiral Thrawn, series creator Dave Filoni told the audience at Star Wars Celebration in Japan last night.
That’s according to Deadline, which also writes that the series will feature Rory McCann as the fallen Jedi Baylen Skol, following the May 2023 death of actor Ray Stevenson.
