Overview
In the modern world of entertainment, content can feel a little bit non-stop. There's always new things to watch, but a lot of it is better than ever. Each month, we're cutting through the streaming noise and helping you figure out what's worth bingeing on release day and what you can save for some downtime later in the year. Here are the new seasons and series we'll be watching in April.
Prefer something with a longer runtime? Check out our guide to the movies releasing in theatres and on streaming this month instead.
Imperfect Women — Thriller, Mystery
Friendships can be complicated. But your friend group drama pales in comparison to the story that unfolds in Imperfect Women, an adaptation of Araminta Hall's novel of the same name. Here, the decades-old friendship between three women (Elizabeth Moss, Kate Mara, Kerry Washington) comes crashing down after a death, revealing long-standing secrets, desires and mistakes that all come rushing to the surface at once.
Streaming weekly on Apple TV now.
Invincible: Season four — Animation, Superhero
When Amazon's hit animated action series Invincible returns for season four, the stakes will be their highest yet. Still recovering from a series of devastating global conflicts, Mark (Steven Yeun), aka Invincible, has to find a way to protect Earth from enemies on all sides — a task made even more difficult when his father returns from his exile and imprisonment to recruit him for a war that will decide the fate of the galaxy.
Streaming weekly on Prime Video now.
Deadloch: Season two — Comedy, Crime
The Australian crime-comedy hit Deadloch is ditching Tasmanian noir for a tropical mystery in its second season. Detectives Dulcie Collins (Kate Box) and Eddie Redcliffe (Madeleine Sami) are up north on a case from Collins' past, but are reassigned when a John Doe is discovered inside a dead croc in the remote town of Barra Creek, fuelling bad blood between the hot-headed locals and pinning Collins and Redcliffe in the middle.
Streaming weekly on Prime Video now.
Heartbreak High: Season three — Coming of Age, Feel-Good
Another one of Netflix's perennial series is coming to an end in 2026, with the third and final season of Heartbreak High set to land on the streamer this month. When term four rolls around at Hartley High, the students are on their final stretch to graduation and the reality of life after school. But there might be just enough time left to muck around with a bit of chaos and self-discovery first, if they're smart about it.
Streaming on Netflix now.
Daredevil: Born Again: Season two — Superhero, Drama
In the second season of Marvel's Daredevil: Born Again, Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) has gone underground. With Mayor Fisk (Wilson Donofrio) firmly in control of the city and arresting anyone who publicly opposes him — he's a fugitive in and out of the Daredevil suit. Maybe some old friends, superpowered and otherwise, can help him take the fight against "Mayor Kingpin" from the streets to city hall.
Streaming weekly on Disney+ now.
Your Friends & Neighbours: Season two — Crime, Dark Comedy
In Your Friends & Neighbours, Andrew Cooper (John Hamm) is a recently divorced former hedge-fund manager fallen on hard times who turns to robbing his wealthy neighbours to keep his family's life intact. In season two, things are looking up for Coop, until a mysterious new neighbour arrives (James Marsden) who quickly catches on to the scheme — putting Coop in a precarious situation that could get him rich…or get him arrested.
Streaming weekly on Apple TV from Friday, April 3.
Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord — Animation, Sci-Fi
The iconic Star Wars villain Maul returns in this new series from Lucasfilm Animation. In the immediate aftermath of the Clone Wars and the destruction of the Jedi Order, the Empire is rapidly spreading its influence across the galaxy. On the run from the law and the Empire alike, Maul moves to cement his place in the criminal underworld and recruit a reluctant ally to destroy those who have wronged him.
Streaming weekly on Disney+ from Monday, April 6.
The Testaments — Drama, Coming of Age
Adapting Margaret Atwood's novel of the same name, The Testaments returns to Gilead after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, introducing a group of young women entering the oppressive system that transforms women into wives. For Agnes (Chase Infiniti), it's a dream come true, but for Daisy (Lucy Halliday), who's from beyond Gilead's borders — it's a life or death mission to save these women from a system that will consume them.
Streaming weekly on Hulu via Disney+ from Wednesday, April 8.
The Boys: Season five — Superhero, Dark Comedy
In the final season of Amazon's breakout superpowered drama, enemies will collide, and the bodies are guaranteed to pile up. Homelander (Anthony Starr) has achieved absolute power over America through his fascist regime. Before his planned superpowered supremacy can conquer the world, Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) and The Boys must consider the bloody means they'll need to kill him, and if they'll have to wipe out every 'supe' on the planet to do it.
Streaming weekly on Prime Video from Wednesday, April 8.
Malcolm in the Middle: Life's Still Unfair — Comedy, Feel Good
20 years later, Malcom has finally got it all figured out. A good job, a daughter and a girlfriend. He just has to stay far, far away from his family. When his family discovers he's intentionally been hiding his life from them, they'll come crashing back into it like a runaway train, bringing all their "non-stop anti-social behaviour" and "mindless myopic priorities" with them — his words, not ours — it's set to be 2026's biggest reunion.
Streaming on Hulu via Disney+ from Friday, April 10.
Euphoria: Season three — Drama, Thriller
HBO's award-winning series is returning after four long years, and its cast of characters has left high school far behind, moving on to bigger and stranger ways of life than they could have ever imagined. Rue (Zendaya) is finding faith and fending off Laurie (Martha Kelly) and other gangsters, Nate (Jacob Elordi) is married to Cassie (Sydney Sweeney), who is now an adult content creator, and Jules (Hunter Schafer) is in art school, living the high life of a sugar baby.
Streaming weekly on HBO Max from Monday, April 13.
Margot's Got Money Troubles — Comedy, Family Drama
A24 and Apple have partnered to adapt Rufi Thorpe's bestselling novel, where college dropout and aspiring young writer Margot (Elle Fanning) finds her life and career to-be derailed by an unexpected pregnancy. Staring down an endless pile of bills and running out of patience for her parents' expectations (Nick Offerman and Michelle Pfeiffer), she turns to OnlyFans to earn the income she and her newborn baby so desperately need.
Streaming weekly on Apple TV from Wednesday, April 15.
Beef: Season two — Thriller, Dark Comedy
You might have thought that Netflix's Steven Yeun and Ali Wong-starring dark comedy Beef was a one-and-done story of suburban life turned inside out by a dispute, aka beef. Turns out it's an anthology series now — with season two introducing a young couple (Cailee Spaeny and Charles Melton) who witness a fight between their boss (Oscar Isaac) and his wife (Carey Mulligan), triggering a four-dimensional chess match of favours, blackmail and beef in the world of an elitist billionaire-owned country club.
Streaming on Netflix from Thursday, April 16.
From: Season four — Mystery, Horror
Everyone loves a small town getaway, but when getting away from said small town is impossible — that holiday becomes a nightmare. That's what's happened in From, where a small town in America inexplicably won't let anyone leave, and every night the residents are hunted by supernatural horrors from the surrounding forest. In season four, the answers to their prison are closer than ever, but the residents will find their struggles to escape are becoming more dangerous by the day.
Streaming weekly on Stan from Monday, April 20.
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