Welcome to my Monday Newsletter! This week, I am looking at my Top 15 Most Anticipated Shows of 2025 plus a review of Going Dutch and thoughts on the Golden Globes and the Shrinking season finale.
It's a new year so here's a look at my most anticipated shows of 2025! Some shows are dated and coming very soon. Others have much less information but here's my list based on what I know now.
Close Calls: The Night Agent Season 2 (Netflix, Jan 23), Death by Lighting (Netflix, TBD), Mid-Century Modern (Hulu, TBD), The Artist (The Network, TBD), The Hunting Party (NBC, Feb 3)
15. The Four Seasons (Netflix, TBD)
Date Night reunion alert! This project puts Steve Carell and Tina Fey together in a comedy based on the 1981 film starring Alan Alda and Carol Burnett. There is very little known about this show, which also stars Will Forte and Erika Henningsen and it's not even guaranteed a 2024 premiere. But I had to put it on the list because of Carell and Fey. They may have a few misses in their repertoire but I like the chances of this being good when they are together.
The Pitt is one of the closer attempts to a network procedural that a streamer has done. It's basically 24 in a hospital with each episode of the 15 episode first season taking place over one hour in a hospital shift. Noah Wyle's putting on the scrubs again years after ER and this seems to hit a lot of the same beats as many broadcast medical dramas that came before it (just more swearing). I tend to check out quickly on medical dramas but I'm still interested in this one, or at least interested in giving it a try especially with the solid reviews it's gotten.
13. Grosse Pointe Garden Society (NBC, Feb 23)
I'm intrigued by this show because it feels a little different than the type of shows Broadcast TV have been offering us lately. It feels like it could be more like Desperate Housewives than yet another procedural drama. I wasn't really into Housewives but I'm still intrigued with a cast that includes Melissa Fumero, Aja Naomi King, Nancy Travis and others. If this proves to be something a little bit different, I hope it is rewarded by viewers so broadcast networks will branch back out a bit.
12. Etoile (Prime Video, TBD)
I'm not sure I would be into a show set in the ballet world except that Etoile is the follow-up to The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel from Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino. Maisel is one of my all-time favorite shows so I'm going to absolutely follow them to their next show, which already has a two-season order and stars Maisel's Luke Kirby. Consider me very intrigued.
