Netflix Summer TV Preview 2025

Don't miss the best shows coming your way on the most popular streamer

Tim Appelo,

AARP

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Published April 23, 2025

arnold schwarzenegger standing with his hands on the back of a black chair in a still image from the show fubar

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Netflix tends to keep its future releases top secret until the last minute, but they gave AARP readers a peek at their upcoming TV series that will light up your summer and beyond. Here’s what to look forward to in the coming months.

Nonnas (May 9)

Stricken by grief after the loss of his mother, Joe (Vince Vaughan, 54) opens an Italian restaurant with local grandmas (nonnas) as the chefs, played by four of the greatest actresses over 70: Susan Sarandon, 78, Lorraine Bracco, 70, Talia Shire, 78, and Brenda Vaccaro, 85.

Sirens (May 22)

Charismatic high-society philanthropist Michaela Kell (Julianne Moore, 64) holds the guests at her luxurious island estate under some kind of strange psychic spell, especially her employee Simone (Milly Alcock). So one Labor Day weekend, Simone’s alarmed sister Devon (The White Lotus’s Meghann Fahy) tries to intervene — but she has no idea what she’s getting herself into. Kevin Bacon, 66, plays Michaela’s billionaire stoner husband, and brilliant Bill Camp, 63, plays Devon and Simone’s dad, afflicted with early-onset Alzheimer’s.

FUBAR, Season 2 (June 12)

CIA spy Luke (Arnold Schwarzenegger, 77) kept his family in the dark about his hush-hush job, but found out last season that his daughter (Monica Barbaro) is secretly a spy too. So they became partners on his last anti-terrorist mission. The new wrinkle this season: Luke’s old flame Greta Nelson (The Matrix’s Carrie-Ann Moss, 57), an ex-East German spy, is back in his life.

Squid Game, Season 3 (June 27)

After his Season 2 rebellion failed to stop the wicked, sadistic Squid Games that killed his best friend and others, our hero Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) is in handcuffs and despair. But in the final season of Netflix’s Korean smash hit, will he beat the bad guys at their own game at last?

The Waterfront (June 19)

In a fact-inspired story by Kevin Williamson, 61 (Scream), the Emmy winner Maria Bello, 58 (Beef, NCIS) plays a desperate woman trying to save her family’s disintegrating North Carolina fishing business by increasingly dangerous means.

Wednesday, Season 2 (Summer 2025)

Tim Burton’s wry show about Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) and her folks Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones, 55) and Gomez (Luis Guzman) promises to be ooky and spooky as ever, and a bit darker, with new castmember Steve Buscemi, 67. And some illustrious guest stars: AbFab’s Joanna Lumley, 78, Thandiwe Newton, 52, The Sixth Sense’s Haley Joel Osment, Fred Armisen, 58, and Christopher Lloyd, 86.

Too Much (Summer 2025)

Lena Dunham (Girls) writes, directs and stars in a romcom about a workaholic who flees a breakup in New York for London, where she encounters the arms of Will Sharpe (The White Lotus). The stellar supporting cast boasts Sleepless in Seattle’s Rita Wilson, 68, Cheers’ Rhea Perlman, 77, Hacks’ Megan Stalter, Stephen Fry, 67, and Richard E. Grant, 67.

Untamed (Summer 2025)

In a murder mystery series set in Yosemite, Hulk’s Eric Bana, 56, plays a National Parks Service special agent investigating crime in the woods, with a bit of help from the grandfatherly longtime chief park ranger (Jurassic Park’s Sam Neill, 77).

Leanne (Summer 2025)

Chuck Lorre, 72 (The Big Bang Theory, The Kominsky Method) brings you a sitcom with Leanne Morgan as a grandma in menopause whose husband of 33 years dumps her. But life goes on, with lots of input from Leanne’s total opposite , her true-blue, twice-divorced, barfly sister (Kristen Johnston, 57, 3rd Rock From the Sun, The Righteous Gemstones).

Black Rabbit (2025)

The owner of one of Manhattan’s hottest nightspots (Jude Law, 52, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Sherlock Holmes) welcomes his out-of-control brother (Jason Bateman, 56) back into his life. Big mistake! Now chaos engulfs his world. The first two episodes are directed by Bateman, and the next two by his Ozark costar Laura Linney, 61.

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Tim Appelo covers entertainment and is the film and TV critic for AARP. Previously, he was the entertainment editor at Amazon, video critic at Entertainment Weekly, and a critic and writer for The Hollywood Reporter, People, MTV, The Village Voice and LA Weekly.