Monthly Archives: December 2025

This series focuses on a fictionalized version of Larry David, the retired co-creator of “Seinfeld,” and his daily life in Los Angeles. The semi-improvised comedy series spotlights David’s irritability and cringeworthy social interactions, and helped turn its star into a cultural archetype of petty annoyances.

This teen drama follows Rue, played by Zendaya, and her small circle of peers as they struggle with addiction, sexuality, and mental illness. The show’s maximalist aesthetic inspired glittery makeup trends that took over corners of TikTok. The show’s third season is set to air in April.

One of the most iconic sitcoms of all time, “Friends” follows a group of six friends — and lovers, and siblings — living in New York City during their early adulthood.

The fantasy drama based on George R. R. Martin’s novel series is known for its plot twists and intricate world-building. Not only did it create a global fan base and help bring adult fantasy to the fore, but the show’s popularity also created real-world travel trends to filming locations, including Croatia.

A classic, if not the classic, television portrayal of a mother-daughter relationship, this series follows Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Rory Gilmore’s (Alexis Bledel) lives in the sleepy town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut. Known for its witty dialogue, seemingly infinite references to coffee, and reliable boy drama, it remains a favorite comfort show among original fans and younger viewers.

This 2000s drama follows a group of ultrawealthy private-school students in New York City as they move through champagne-filled parties, messy relationships, and college applications. All the while, the anonymous blogger, Gossip Girl, dishes out secrets in the background. The show helped launch stars like Blake Lively and a generation of aspirational New Yorkers.

“Pretty Little Liars” follows four high school girls reeling from the disappearance and assumed death of their friend group’s former queen bee. The girls are being stalked by “A,” someone who seems to know every one of their secrets, past and present. Full of familial and romantic drama, the show created a loyal online fandom who traded theories about A on social media in the 2010s.

In its eighth season and still going strong, this adult animated science-fiction comedy follows the brilliant alcoholic scientist Rick Sanchez and his anxious teenage grandson, Morty Smith, as they navigate multiple universes and their own familial relationships. The show is also relevant beyond the big screen, showing up often in memes.

This HBO series follows four women in New York City figuring out careers, romance, and friendship. It centers on newspaper columnist Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), whose voiceovers dot most episodes. The show is also considered a staple of fashion history, and Carrie herself became a style icon.

Few shows are considered as impactful as “The Sopranos,” which follows New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) through therapy sessions, the management of a sprawling criminal enterprise, and his chaotic relationships. At once depressing and hilarious, it is credited with demonstrating that television can be as artistically complex and ambitious as film.

This series follows the Roys as the four adult children scramble for control of the family’s media empire. The comedy-drama offers an unflinching portrait of the ultrawealthy, what people will do for power, and familial dysfunction.

This political satire stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a self-centered and power-hungry vice president. “Veep” tracked real-world politics’ slide into the increasingly absurd and was a favorite among DC insiders.

Created and written by Aaron Sorkin, “The West Wing” chronicles the drama of the White House’s senior staff. It follows the president, chief of staff, communications director, and others through both national and personal crises. The show premiered in 1999 and won 26 Emmys.

Since its first season premiered in 2021, Mike White’s vacation anthology series “The White Lotus” has developed a cult following. Each season of the dark comedy-drama takes place at a different luxury resort around the world, and follows wealthy hotel guests and employees over the course of a week leading up to a death. The show often boasts big stars, like Jennifer Coolidge, Michael Imperioli, and Parker Posey.

This crime drama set in Baltimore follows a wide cast of characters and explores city bureaucracy. Each season focuses on a different topic, from the drug trade to the school system.

Stanley Kubrick’s space epic pushed the limits of visual effects, resulting in one of the most groundbreaking works ever put on the big screen. Kubrick’s other classics — “A Clockwork Orange,” “Barry Lyndon,” “The Shining,” and “Full Metal Jacket” — were also made at Warner Bros.

Ridley Scott’s trippy tale starring Harrison Ford as a detective in search of synthetic humans in a futuristic Los Angeles has inspired countless other sci-fi stories.

With an all-star cast made up of Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Peter Lorrie, Claude Rains, and Sydney Greenstreet, this drama set against the backdrop of World War II is regarded as one of the greatest love stories ever put on screen. It also features not one but two famous movie lines: “Here’s looking at you, kid,” and, “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”

Orson Welles became a sensation in Hollywood when he wrote, produced, directed, and starred in this movie about the life and times of fictional newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane. The movie’s non-linear storytelling and unique camera angles inspired countless filmmakers in the decades since; many regard it as one of the greatest movies ever made.

Before “Jaws” or “Star Wars” became blockbusters, this was the movie audiences lined up around the block to see. William Friedkin’s supernatural horror about a young girl (Linda Blair) possessed by the devil became a box office sensation and the first-ever horror movie to be nominated for a best picture Oscar.

This best picture-winning epic set in the South during the Civil War made icons out of Vivien Leigh as the strong-willed Scarlett O’Hara and Clark Gable as the dashing Rhett Butler. The two would be immortalized in movie lore thanks to the famous line delivered by Gable to Leigh, “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”

Martin Scorsese’s beloved gangster movie is highlighted by powerful performances from Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, and Joe Pesci, who play based-on-real-life despicable mob wiseguys who cause mayhem from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Under the watchful eye of Steven Spielberg, who came up with the story, director Richard Donner’s classic follows a group of teens who set out on a treasure-hunting adventure to save the small neighborhood they live in from foreclosure.

Starring Keanu Reeves as a man who awakens from what he realizes is a simulated reality, “The Matrix” features action sequences and never-before-seen CGI effects that redefined the action movie genre overnight.

Nicholas Ray’s groundbreaking work didn’t just successfully tap into teenage life, it also turned its star, James Dean, into a matinee idol.

Warner Bros. is responsible for one of the greatest Westerns ever made. In this essential John Ford movie, John Wayne plays a Civil War veteran who spends years looking for his abducted niece (Natalie Wood). Along with its powerful performances, the film’s lush vistas of Western terrain have stood the test of time.

Based on a Stephen King novella, “The Shawshank Redemption” stars Tim Robbins as banker Andy Dufresne, who is sentenced to life for the murder of his wife, though he’s actually innocent. In his two decades at Shawshank Penitentiary, Dufresne befriends an inmate (Morgan Freeman), launches a money laundering scheme with the warden, and plans a daring escape.

All the titles from the beloved fantasy franchise will soon belong to Netflix. Presumably, so will HBO’s upcoming Harry Potter TV series.

So will Peter Jackson’s trilogy of films based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s masterwork.

Batman has been a cash cow for Warner Bros. all the way back to when Michael Keaton put on the cape in 1989. Whether it’s Keaton, Christian Bale, or Robert Pattinson, Netflix will soon be home to whatever version of the Dark Knight you’re a fan of — not to mention Superman and any other DC Comics character.