If the movie business has been struggling a bit in the early weeks of 2025, the TV and streaming offerings have been strong, and April in particular looks to be a big month. We’ve got a couple of big returning shows closing out with final seasons, some critically acclaimed fan favorites, and at least one oddball series that inspired a bit of a cult following.
We asked which show you were most looking forward to, and while the top choices were fairly predictable, there were a couple of big surprises in the list. Read on for the Most Anticipated TV or Streaming Shows of April!
No. 1
The Last of Us: Season 2
(2025)
Release Date: April 13, 2025
No surprise here: Even with a lot of big shows coming back this month, the biggest of them all is Craig Mazin’s adaptation of the popular dystopian horror video game The Last of Us. The The second season of the Emmy award-winning HBO show sees the return of Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey as Joel and Bella, respectively, and will follow the events of the second installment of the game, set five years after the events of season 1.
No. 2
Andor: Season 2
(2025)
Release Date: April 22, 2025
Following close behind The Last of Us is another popular returning show — and arguably the best Star Wars story we’ve gotten in recent memory. Andor: season 2 will pick up where season 1 left off, with Diego Luna returning to play the titular character as he becomes further enmeshed in the efforts of the burgeoning Rebel Alliance. Disney+ will release season 2 in four chapters consisting of three episodes, with each chapter corresponding to one of the four years leading up to A New Hope.
No. 3
Black Mirror: Season 7
(2025)
Release Date: April 10, 2025
Almost two years after its last batch of episodes, Black Mirror returns to Netflix on April 10 with new stories and new stars, including Peter Capaldi, Awkwafina, Issa Rae, Paul Giamatti, Rashida Jones, Cristin Milioti, and many others. The new season of Charlie Brooker’s show highlighting the dystopia created by advancing technology comprises six new episodes, with an unprecedented return to one of its former stories, namely the season 4 episode “USS Callister.”
No. 4
Release Date: April 17, 2025
We told you there would be some surprises. Coming in fourth with 7% of the vote is #1 Happy Family USA, an animated comedy on Prime Video created by and starring Ramy Youssef. The series centers on the Hussein family, “the most patriotic, most peaceful, and most definitely-not-suspicious Muslim family” living in post-9/11 America as they attempt to “navigate the early 2000s under the watchful eyes of their terrified neighbors.” Youssef has had a lot of success on TV the past several years, so while this one has flown under the radar a bit, it’s pretty reasonable to have high expectations for it.
No. 5
Devil May Cry: Season 1
(2025)
Release Date: April 3, 2025
Lastly, falling into fifth place with 6% of the vote, we have another pleasant surprise in the form of Netflix’s Devil May Cry, another adaptation of a popular video game series, albeit an animated one this time. The story follows a demon hunter who attempts to fight off a demonic invasion of Earth, and the voice cast includes people like Scout Taylor-Compton, the late, great Tony Todd, and Mr. Voice-of-Batman himself, Kevin Conroy. For those interested, the series is animated by the South Korean Studio Mir, which also did The Legend of Korra, Voltron: Legendary Defender, and X-Men ’97, among others.
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