Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Dustin Rowles | TV | June 24, 2025
To no one’s surprise, Paramount+ has renewed Tom Hardy’s Mobland for a second season, and for good reason. It’s terrific, and the series did a great job of paying off all the season one storylines while setting up a second season. If you want to see Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren chew some goddamn scenery, Mobland is the place to be.
It feels like Outlander has been ending for years, but it apparently still has one season left, due later this year or in early 2026. Before it goes out, however, Starz will launch a spin-off series, Outlander: Blood of My Blood, in August. That spin-off, despite not airing yet, has already received a second season, because no one will ever let go of anything, ever, except for Everything Sucks, which was a great Netflix series canceled before its time and an apt description of the world right now.
I have not yet seen Tom Segura’s Bad Thoughts because I do not typically care for vignettes. But the dark comedy, based on “the twisted comedic sensibility of his stand-up,” has been picked up for a second season. Segura is also part of the Joe Rogan universe, which is also why I haven’t bothered to watch and probably will not.
Last week, Netflix also renewed David Letterman’s My Guest Needs No Introduction, wherein David Letterman interviews famous and/or notable people he likes whenever he feels like it, and Netflix airs it whenever they feel like it. It’s a great partnership, it’s probably cheap for Netflix, and it keeps Dave busy.
I have not yet seen Bet, the Canadian Netflix series based on the Japanese manga Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler by Homura Kawamoto and Tōru Naomura, but I am intrigued by its premise, via Deadline: It follows the students at a boarding school for the global elite, where underground gambling determines the school’s hierarchy. When Yumeko (Miku Martineau), a mysterious transfer student, arrives, her gambling prowess puts her in the crosshairs of the powerful Student Council, while her secret quest for revenge threatens to upend the school’s status quo entirely. A month after its release, Netflix has picked it up for a second season after it spent three weeks in the Netflix top ten. Reviews were middling, and it has also been accused of Asian erasure and of overly Westernizing the source material.
Finally, Paramount+ has renewed Star Trek: Strange New Worlds for a fifth and final season, which may feel confusing because its third season won’t premiere until next month. Paramount likes to get ahead of things, evidently. This is the prequel to Star Trek, which follows Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) but also features a young Spock (Ethan Peck).
