It’s time to pull up a chair—these upcoming releases on the spring 2026 TV calendar will keep you seated all season. Euphoria is finally back after a four-year wait, Hacks is ending on its own terms, and somehow Dan Levy, Tatiana Maslany, Elle Fanning, Oscar Isaac, and Richard Gadd all have new shows dropping within weeks of each other. We went through everything coming out between now and July and pulled the ones actually worth clearing your schedule for.
The Testaments
Network: Hulu
Starring: Chase Infiniti, Lucy Halliday, Ann Dowd, and Rowan Blanchard
What It’s About: Set four years after The Handmaid’s Tale, the series follows two teenagers—Agnes, who has grown up as a privileged daughter inside Gilead, and Daisy, a Canadian outsider with a hidden connection to the regime—as they navigate Aunt Lydia’s finishing school for future wives.
Why It’s Worth a Look: While the first series dropped at the beginning of the first Trump presidency, The Testaments picks up right where its predecessor left off—and is no less timely. You don’t need to watch all six seasons of The Handmaid’s Tale to dive into its sequel, but you may want to after getting sucked into Margaret Atwood’s dystopian world.
Big Mistakes
Network: Netflix
Starring: Dan Levy, Taylor Ortega, Laurie Metcalf, and Jack Innanen
What It’s About: Siblings Nicky, an uptight pastor, and Morgan, a failed actress, are struggling in the way typical of young adults, until their lives take a comical and dark twist. After accidentally stealing a necklace belonging to Russian gangsters, the two are forced into a dysfunctional and disorganized crime spree that seems them trying to dig themselves out of their own mess.
Why It’s Worth a Look: Co-direction by consummate stars Dan Levy and Rachel Sennott should be reason enough for a watch, but it’s Laurie Metcalf’s breakout performance that makes this an unmissable launch.
Hacks Season 5
Network: HBO Max
Starring: Jean Smart, Hannah Einbinder, Megan Stalter, and Paul W. Downs
What It’s About: For the final season of the hit HBO comedy, Deborah Vance returns to Las Vegas after a non-compete clause killed her late-night show. She and Ava are back working together, trying to rebuild her legacy.
Why It’s Worth a Look: It’s the last ride for one of the best comedy duos on television. For even more off-screen Hacks content, check out our roundtable with the cast here.
The Audacity
Network: AMC
Starring: Billy Magnussen, Sarah Goldberg, Zach Galifianakis, and Rob Corddry
What It’s About: A darkly comedic and satirical drama set inside Silicon Valley, the show follows a data-mining CEO and the scandal that begins when his company comes apart. Created by Succession alum Jonathan Glatzer, The Audacity also centers on the CEO’s fraught relationship with his therapist.
Why It’s Worth a Look: Glatzer knows how to write people you love to hate—he did it on Succession, and he’s doing it here. If you need any more convincing, the show has already been renewed for a second season.
Euphoria Season 3
Network: HBO Max
Starring: Zendaya, Jacob Elordi, Sydney Sweeney, Hunter Schafer, and Alexa Demie
What It’s About: Five years after the events of season two, the East Highland students are scattered and grown up. The show picks up with the cast trying to figure out who they are after high school and their (mostly failing) attempts at adulthood.
Why It’s Worth a Look: Four years is a long time to wait for a new season. With the loss of Angus Cloud and departure of Barbie Ferreira after season two—and the show’s undebatable hold on the teen and young adult zeitgeist—season three will undoubtedly be the talk of this month, no matter how it’s received.
Margo’s Got Money Troubles
Release Date: April 15
Network: Apple TV+
Starring: Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer, Nick Offerman, and Nicole Kidman
What It’s About: Based on Rufi Thorpe’s novel of the same name, the show follows Margo—a broke college dropout, aspiring writer, and new mother—who reconnects with her estranged, ex-wrestler father and starts an OnlyFans account to stay afloat.
Why It’s Worth a Look: This A24 production made waves at SXSW in Austin, and a fantastical trailer coupled with an all-star cast almost ensures this show will perform as well as it’s been received thus far.
Beef Season 2
Release Date: April 16
Network: Netflix
Starring: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Charles Melton, and Cailee Spaeny
What It’s About: For season two, show creator Lee Sung Jin is introducing an entirely new story. Two young country club employees accidentally witness their boss and his wife having a brutal, incriminating fight. They spend the rest of the season getting pulled deeper into the couple’s unraveling marriage through a web of favors and manipulation.
Why It’s Worth a Look: Lee said this season will be a more passive-aggressive slow burn, unlike the first season’s frequent screaming matches between its two main characters.
Half Man
Release Date: April 23
Network: HBO
Starring: Richard Gadd and Jamie Bell
What It’s About: The show is Richard Gadd’s follow-up to his surprise-hit confessional miniseries Baby Reindeer. He and Jamie Bell play two men who have been brotherly since childhood. When one shows up to the other’s wedding acting strange, a violent incident sends the story back through 30 years of their relationship.
Why It’s Worth a Look: Baby Reindeer publicly introduced Gadd as a writer, comedian, and actor worth keeping up with. His new show has a dark feel and precision not unlike his last production, but with a focus on brotherhood, male fragility, and decades of complicated history.
Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed
Release Date: May 20
Network: Apple TV+
Starring: Tatiana Maslany and Jake Johnson
What It’s About: Tatiana Maslany plays Paula, a newly divorced mom who becomes convinced she witnessed a crime at her kid’s soccer game. While fighting through a custody battle and an identity crisis, she starts investigating—and discovers something much bigger than she expected.
Why It’s Worth a Look: Director David Gordon Green is leading this project, and if The Righteous Gemstones is any indication, his latest show will be another cult success.
The Boroughs
Release Date: May 21
Network: Netflix
Starring: Geena Davis, Alfred Molina, Alfre Woodard, Clarke Peters, and Bill Pullman
What It’s About: This supernatural mystery is set in a sun-drenched retirement community in the New Mexico desert. When a grieving newcomer has an encounter with something monstrous, he falls in with a group of fellow residents who discover the community is hiding something much darker than its manicured surface suggests.
Why It’s Worth a Look: The Duffer Brothers (of Stranger Things fame) are executive producing this off-kilter Breaking Bad meets Cocoon supernatural series with an impressive cast and unmatched resume.
Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America
Release Date: June 26
Network: HBO Max
Starring: Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Hader, and Katherine Hahn
What It’s About: A seven-part sketch comedy series timed to the U.S. bicentennial, from the mind of America’s most beloved curmudgeon. Each episode drops David into a different moment in American history—improvised from an outline in true Curb Your Enthusiasm fashion. Guest stars play everyone from Abraham Lincoln to the Wright brothers.
Why It’s Worth a Look: Unmissable moments for comedic boundary-pushing run far and wide: Bill Hader and Kathryn Hahn as the Lincolns, Jon Hamm and Sean Hayes as the Wright brothers, Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld as Lewis and Clark, and a sketch with Barack Obama included.
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