2025 Ranking My Reviews

10. Shifting Gears

Tim Allen’s third foray into being a television dad on ABC is there. The show is fine. It’s a perfectly enjoyable way to spend a half hour. However, it really isn’t standing out in any way. Matt Parker seems to be some hybrid of Tim Taylor and Mike Baxter. Tim Allen has never had a lot of range, but he knows how to play an everyman and a dad well. The show is aggressively mediocre, but it’s not bad. There’s just better shows on television right now.

9. Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage

The third installment in The Big Bang Theory universe has been settling in nicely in its second season. It started rough but seemed to find its footing by the end of the first season. The second season has done a good job building on that foundation. Partnered with Ghosts on Thursday nights on CBS, Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage has been the lesser of the two shows overall. However, it has found ways to stand out and even have the better episode of the night from time to time. It’s an enjoyable ride.

8. Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man

An animated Spider-Man series set in the multiverse jumped onto Disney Plus in early 2025. It was a solid outing that told of Peter’s rise as Spider-Man if Dr. Strange was involved in his origin and if Norman Osbourne arrived at his house in the fancy car instead of Tony Stark who arrived in Captain America: Civil War. It was an enjoyable series, but there’s been enough previous Spider-Man animated series that it failed to stand out against the other MCU projects. Still, I liked it.

7. Marvel Zombies

Greenlit under the specter of COVID, the Zombies episode of Marvel’s What If…? was one of the most enjoyable of that series. That episode spun off this four episode miniseries. However, Marvel took time to let the series simmer rather than rush it out the door. This helped the series be a fun callback to properties of that time. While the MCU has evolved, it brought together a lot of the characters introduced in phases four through six in major roles and turned it into a fun event that can be revisited down the line. I hope it doesn’t get lost to time.

6. School Spirits

Paramount Plus brought back its hit series about a girl who ended up trapped in her school after a spirit took control of her body. The second season demonstrates what the spirit of Janet did after dying in a fire decades before the events of the series. It gives viewers a thrilling ride and ends on one of the more unexpected cliffhangers that virtually guaranteed a season three. That third season was greenlit in the days immediately after the second season finale aired and is set to return in January 2026.

5. Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

This is one of two series on this list that actually began its run in late 2024. However, the final two episodes of the series aired in January 2025, so I’m counting it for this ranking. SKELETON CREW was intended to be a more childlike series about kids flying away on a spaceship and getting involved with pirates. However, it featured some of the darkest themes I can remember in Star Wars (an army of child soldiers? Come on.) It was able to have joy and whimsy while building the Star Wars universe as a whole. I really enjoyed what it proved to be.

4. Creature Commandos

This is the second series on the list that actually started in 2024 but released new episodes in January 2025. It also served as a soft launch for the new DCU. Creature commandos followed Task Force M. Similar to the Suicide Squad, the series follows monsters on dangerous missions rather than human criminals. The animated series wasn’t intended to be the first official DCU project, but delays due to strikes and other issues led to this being released before Superman. It was a good series but isn’t something you can enjoy with the entire family. Still, if you love the DCU, this series is worth checking out.

3. Ghosts

This is constantly one of my favorite shows to watch and review. The American version of a classic British sitcom is currently in its fifth season and has already been renewed for two more. The ghosts have grown and brought laughs and heart to Thursday nights on CBS and Paramount Plus the next day. It’s my favorite sitcom on US network television. I hope it continues the high bar it has constantly been clearing since its premiere.

2. Daredevil: Born Again

The masked crime fighter from Hell’s Kitchen made the jump from Netflix to Disney Plus in 2025. Marvel brought back Daredevil and Kingpin in the new series, Daredevil: Born Again which picks up some time after the events of the Netflix series. This series was a bit uneven as Disney originally intended a new direction before figuring out that wouldn’t work since it was supposed to be the same characters. Once it found its groove though, this series did amazingly well. If they had started with the final direction they went, it might’ve been the best series I reviewed this year. Unfortunately, that early confusion hurt it a little bit.

1. Peacemaker

This is my favorite show I reviewed in 2025. Introduced as part of the DCEU in The Suicide Squad, James Gunn brought the character into his new DCU when the show was greenlit for a second season. Featuring Frank Grillo as Rick Flag Sr. who appeared in Creature Commandos and Superman and a big guest appearance from Nicholas Hoult as Superman’s biggest nemesis, Lex Luthor, this series is really connecting the tissue across the films and television series in the DCU. Plus, John Cena stretches his acting muscles here and proves he’s much more than an action star with this comedic character.