In real life, 2025 has been a chaotic year. We've navigated the beginning of a divisive presidential term, the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, witnessed a pope from Chicago get elected, a ...

From ambitious sci-fi epics like Andor to historical dramas like Death by Lightning, these are the best streaming shows that ...

In cultural criticism, every year ends the same way—with a deluge of top 10 lists for every imaginable art form, as though music and literature and film and TV and theater and dance all produce ...

All this is to say that putting together a list of only the 10 best shows of the year was challenging, but not impossible.

Television. We watch way too much of it here, but we’re okay with that. We’re not aiming to be critics and we’re not aiming to make history here. We judge what we think is the best of the year not off ...

Check out TheWrap’s staff picks for the best TV shows of 2025 below: ...