The 30 Best TV Shows On Hulu (January 2025)

The best TV shows on Hulu feature some of the best television shows from network television over the last three decades, as the streaming service offers more popular shows than almost any of its rivals. Hulu has some of the more mainstream TV shows available, and in January 2025, it will add proggramming like the 25th season of American Pickers, the new season of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, several Biography specials, and the season premiere of Goosebumps: The Vanishing.

Also coming in January 2025 is the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. As for news coming from Hulu, the streaming service announced that it renewed Tell Me Lies for a third season, the renewal coming just two months after the second season arrived on the platform. The news also came that several major movies were arriving on Hulu this month, including Heat, the first three John Wick filmms, the first three Insidious entries, and the network TV shows that stream the day after their premiere on TV.

• What We Do in the Shadows

  (2019-Present) [Comedy-Horror] – A mockumentary about a group of vampires living in the United States who unexpectedly find themselves simply enjoying everything modern life has to offer.

• It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

  (2005-Present) [Dark Comedy] – A group of narcissistic friends own and run a bar in Philadelphia named Paddy’s Pub and are some of the most morally corrupt sitcom characters ever conceived.

• Abbott Elementary

  (2021 – Present) [Mockumentary Sitcom] – Abbott Elementary takes the mockumentary format which made shows like The Office and Modern Family so popular and focuses on the staff of the fictional Willard R. Abbott Elementary School.

• New Girl

  (2011-2018) [Romantic Sitcom] – Gentle, frequently hilarious, and available on Hulu in its entirety, New Girl is about Jessica Day, a bubbly and optimistic young woman who, following a breakup, moves in with three men.

• Adventure Time

  (2010-2018) [Animated Fantasy] – Following the psychedelic adventurers Finn the Human and Jake the Dog, Adventure Time is a cult hit with bizarre battles in the Land of Ooo.

• Reservation Dogs

  (2021-2023) [Comedy Drama] – Featuring a cast made up of nearly all Indigenous actors, the series follows a group of four friends in rural Oklahoma as they dream of running away to California, all while dealing with the stresses of growing up.

• Modern Family

  (2009-2020) [Mockumentary Sitcom] – Although Modern Family‘s documentary-style camera work was nothing new, the hit comedy nonetheless manages to be completely original thanks to its colorful characters and chaotic, hilarious situations.

• Schitt’s Creek

  (2015-2020) [Sitcom] – Schitt’s Creek chronicles the fall and redemption of the affluent Rose family as they’re forced to rebuild their lives while bumping against the down-to-earth and provincial citizens of a small town.

• Atlanta

  (2016-2022) [Comedy-Drama] – Donald Glover stars in an innovative comedy-drama that follows college dropout and music manager Earn (Glover) as he tries to make it big, though things get unsettling and harrowing at times.

• Bob’s Burgers

  (2011-Present) [Animated Sitcom] – The Fox animated series features Bob Belcher and his family as they make ends meet in New Jersey while facing several wild setbacks along the way.

• High Potential

  (2024) [Crime Drama] – Based on the 2021 French show HPI and created by Drew Goddard, High Potential stars It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’s Kaitlin Olson as a single mother who starts to work for the LAPD major crimes division.

• Lost

  (2004-2010) [Mystery Thriller] – A group of survivors from a plane crash try to survive on a deserted island with polar bears, smoke monsters, and cultish islanders prepared to ensure no one leaves the island alive.

• The Bear

  (2022-Present) [Kitchen Drama] – The Bear is a black comedy-drama about a classically trained chef (Jeremy Allen White) who has to return to his hometown in Chicago to help run the family restaurant, but it is never that easy.

• The Rookie

  (2018-Present) [Crime Drama] – Nathan Fillion stars in The Rookie as John Nolan, a newly divorced construction company owner in his mid-40s who enrolls as the oldest rookie in the LAPD.

• Shogun

  (2024) [Period Drama] – A work of historical fiction that follows an English navigator who becomes a samurai under a powerful feudal lord and helps in a great war with political rivals.

• The Handmaid’s Tale

  (2017-Present) [Sci-Fi Drama] – Based on the novel of the same name, The Handmaid’s Tale takes place after a fictional second American Civil War, which leads to a dystopia where men are the ruling class, and women are strictly controlled – especially regarding bodily autonomy.

• Rick and Morty

  (2013-Present) [Animated Sci-Fi] – Rick and Morty remains one of the smartest sci-fi animated adult series on television, with time travel, alternate Earths, and even a Pickle named Rick.

• Futurama

  (1999-Present) [Animated Sci-Fi] – The crew of the fictional delivery ship The Planet Express embark on journeys across futuristic galaxies, all from the man who created The Simpsons.

• Firefly

  (2002-2003) [Sci-Fi Adventure]—One of the most notorious and oft-cited one-season wonders in television history, Firefly combines Spaghetti Western elements with an original sci-fi setting in a war-torn galaxy.

• The X-Files

  (1993-2002) [Sci-Fi Mystery] – FBI agents Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) investigate strange and unexplained cases as an unseen threat seeks to stop them.

• Sons of Anarchy

  (2008-2014) [Crime Drama] – Painting a somewhat romanticized portrait of biker culture, Sons of Anarchy takes a California motorcycle gang and places them in a Shakespearian tale of betrayal and intrigue.

• Fargo

  (2014-Present) [Crime Mystery] –Fargo follows an anthology format, with each season telling a different story, mostly set in the world of crime and underhanded dealings.

• Only Murders in the Building

  (2021-Present) [Crime Mystery] – Three true-crime enthusiasts decide to band together to solve a murder in their building, only to find themselves thrown into more cases as the seasons wear on.

• The Old Man

  (2022-Present) [Action Thriller] – A former CIA operative and veteran of Afghanistan whose past comes back to haunt him when he ends up killing a home invader and has to go on the run.

• Sherlock

  (2010-2017) [Mystery Thriller] – Originally airing on the BBC between 2010 and 2017, Sherlock stars Benedict Cumberbatch’s titular detective alongside Martin Freeman as his incredibly reluctant sidekick, Watson, in a unique take on Sherlock Holmes set in present-day London.

• Prison Break

  (2005-2017) [Crime Thriller] – Two brothers, one of whom has been sentenced to death for a crime he didn’t commit, prepare to break out of prison but soon learn there is a greater conspiracy at hand.

• Grotesquerie

  (2024) [Horror] – One of the best new horror TV shows on Hulu comes from the mind of Ryan Murphy, with a detective teaming up with a local nun to find out who is committing heinous crimes that has shaken up their community.

• American Horror Story

  (2011-Present) [Horror] – American Horror Story introduces a new horrific setting and premise with every season, dealing with everything from alien abduction to cults, circuses, and covens in the process.

• the strain

  (2014-2017) [Horror] – The Strain is a bold reinvention of the vampire myth, where, instead of the suave and seductive creatures of the night, it imagines vampires as a literal plague, brought to life by infectious viral worms that have the power to consume the planet.

• Buffy The Vampire Slayer

  (1997-2003) [Action Horror] – Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is a young high school girl who learns she is next in line to defend the world against vampires and other supernatural threats along with her friends, the Scooby Gang.

The above represents the best TV shows on Hulu in November, but for more specific selections check out Screen Rant’s guides to the best Hulu crime drama shows, best Hulu original comedies, and best anime shows on Hulu.

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