Disney+ has brought us a ton of original shows in 2025. With Hulu, National Geographic, Star Wars, Marvel and more under the House of Mouse umbrella, you can entertain the whole family – but, how do you choose?
With everything from gnarly horror to crime-based comedies and child-friendly superhero animations, a great way to ensure you treat yourself to the very best Disney+ has to offer is to choose shows that boast the highest critic score on review aggregator, Rotten Tomatoes. Equally, if you're up for something completely fresh, you can choose from our list of everything new to Disney+ in September 2025.
Meanwhile, if you want to catch up on the pinnacle of what's been released this year on one of the best streaming services, the following shows all boast a minimum Rotten Tomatoes critical score of 90% or above. You can find the full list below, but these six are the perfect place to start.
Alien: Earth
Episodes: 8 (weekly on Tuesdays, finale releases September 24)
Main cast: Sydney Chandler, Timothy Olyphant, Alex Lawther, Essie Davis, Babou Ceesay
Rotten Tomatoes critical score: 95% from 108 reviews
Where to watch: Hulu (US), Disney+ (UK and AU)
Easily the best entry to the franchise since Aliens, Alien: Earth looms terrifyingly large over almost everything else released this year. In fact, with its colossal 95% rating on the critical tomatometer, it’s the best-rated Alien show or film on the platform, period.
Any concerns that the franchise’s first foray to the small screen would be all nostalgia are swept away by its philosophically-daring, dystopian story about five companies that effectively control the world, with the goal of realizing immortality at any cost.
Like last year’s Alien: Romulus, Alien: Earth injects something new into the gore-soaked saga while still offering plenty of fan service for long-serving veterans of the Nostromo.
Only Murders in the Building season 5
Episodes: 10 (weekly on Tuesdays, finale releases October 28)
Main cast: Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez, Michael Cyril Creighton
Rotten Tomatoes critical score: 97% from 36 reviews
Where to watch: Hulu (US), Disney+ (UK and AU)
Only Murders in the Building is by now a cosy crime sensation, and fans of the lovable podcasting trio will need no excuse to be reunited with Charles, Oliver, and Mabel for a fifth season in five years, which started just this month. Thankfully, this star-studded comfort blanket has lost none of its charm in season 5: for us in our Only Murders in the Building season 5 review, “it’s the best season of the hit Hulu show yet.”
While the format is familiar, season 5 raises the stakes with, naturally, another murder, plus menacing mobsters, and a host of stellar guest stars including Renée Zellweger, Christoph Waltz, and Keegan Michael-Key. Still, none of the shine is taken away from Martin, Short, and Gomez, with the best cosy crime show around getting even better.
Andor season 2
Episodes: 12
Main cast: Diego Luna, Stellan Skarsgård, Genevieve O’Reilly, Forest Whitaker, Adria Arjona
Rotten Tomatoes critical score: 96% from 210 reviews
Where to watch: Disney+ (US, UK and AU)
The first season of Andor was, quite sniffily, regarded as ‘Star Wars for adults’; it wasn’t just an excellent Star Wars show, but near-perfection in its own right. Carrying on where the first left off, Andor season 2 brings Cassian Andor’s small-screen story to a conclusion with aplomb.
Once we’ve seen off a sticky beginning with some irritating co-rebels, each three-episode arc depicting important moments in the formation of the Rebellion against the Empire establishes Andor as arguably the best thing to happen to the series from far, far away.
It’s a white-knuckle ride of edge-of-your-seat tension, riveting political intrigue, and all-out action that’ll have you launching right into the film Andor sets up: the criminally under-rated Rogue One.
High Potential
Episodes: 13
Main cast: Kaitlin Olson, Daniel Sunjata, Javicia Leslie, Deniz Akdeniz, Amirah Johnson, Matthew Lamb
Rotten Tomatoes critical score: 96% from 25 reviews
Where to watch: Hulu (US), Disney+ (UK and AU)
Morgan Gillory is a single mother of three, a cleaner at the LAPD, and a secret crime-solving genius – despite a lack of faith from the detectives, Kaitlin Olson’s charming lead is as good at cleaning up messy murder investigations as she is high chairs. It technically started last year, but High Potential finished this April with its 13th episode, so I’m counting it.
It’s Olson’s warmth and liveliness that helps you get past the show’s more unlikely moments and (at times) predictable, procedural structure – and even though the supporting cast don’t quite reach her heights, this is one of the more bingeable shows of 2025. Even better, High Potential season 2 starts this month.
Dying For Sex
Episodes: 8
Main cast: Michelle Williams, Jenny Slate, Rob Delaney, Jay Duplass
Rotten Tomatoes critical score: 98% from 62 reviews
Where to watch: Hulu (US), Disney+ (UK and AU)
Dying For Sex’s makes this list with its expert balance of heavy themes undercut with light-hearted laughs. We start by finding Michelle William’s Molly struggling to come to terms with her terminal cancer diagnosis, only to realize one thing she hasn’t experienced in her life: an orgasm.
The show approaches themes of death and sexuality with the boldness and seriousness they deserve, but there are crucial moments of levity to take the edge off the darker moments. Dying For Sex is thought-provoking, sensitive, and one of the best shows of 2025 on any streaming service.
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man
Episodes: 10
Main cast: Hudson Thames, Eugene Byrd, Grace Song, Hugh Dancy, Kari Wahlgren
Rotten Tomatoes critical score: 97% from 38 reviews
Where to watch: Disney+ (US, UK and AU)
If everyone knows the origin story of Spider-Man by now, do we need another re-telling? Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (YFNSM) is the latest Peter Parker animation that says, emphatically, yes.
The DNA of the – admittedly superior – X-Men 97 can be seen here with YFNSM, as the same studio helps it bounce between soap opera stylings and darker moments – but this is an excellent addition to the web slinger’s on-screen appearances, even if the animation style has proved divisive. Regardless, it’s a fun, action-packed, and stylish take on a classic superhero tale.
What else reached 90% or above on Disney+ and Hulu this year?
The above list is only a selection of the shows that released this year on Disney+ and Hulu (in the US) that reached 90% or above on the Tomatometer at the time of writing, but here are all the others so you don't miss anything worth watching:
- DAN DA DAN season 2 (Hulu) – 100% from 9 reviews
- Adventure Time season 10 (Hulu) – 100% from 14 reviews
- It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia season 17 (Hulu) – 90% from 12 reviews
- Eyes of Wakanda – 92% from 37 reviews
- The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball (Hulu) – 100% from 5 reviews
- Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time – 100% from 9 reviews
- Rick and Morty season 8 (Hulu) – 93% from 14 reviews
- Phineas and Ferb season 5 – 100% from 9 reviews
- Such Brave Girls season 2 (Hulu) – 100% from 10 reviews
- Welcome to Wrexham season 4 (Hulu) – 100% from 6 reviews
- Tucci in Italy – 100% from 6 reviews
- Nine Puzzles – 100% from 6 reviews
- Doctor Who season 2 – 92% from 120 reviews
- Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld – 100% from 13 reviews
- Light and Magic – 100% from 14 reviews
- David Blaine Do Not Attempt – 100% from 5 reviews
- Deli Boys (Hulu) – 96% from 24 reviews
- Shoresy season 4 (Hulu) – 100% from 5 reviews
- Big Boys season 3 – 100% from 6 reviews
- Dope Girls (Hulu) - 91% from 11 reviews
- Am I Being Unreasonable season 2 (Hulu) – 100% from 5 reviews
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