What started as a half-crazy show about a charity that helps make silly cartoon characters smile, has now become full-crazy. The third season of “Smiling Friends” has been rolling out new episodes weekly for the past few weeks on Adult Swim and HBO Max. Developed by co-creators Michael Cusack – known for Adult Swim series “YOLO” and various animated YouTube shorts – and Zach Hadel (better known as PyschicPebbles) – the YouTube animator behind “Hell Benders” – the show gives an outlet for these two wacky, chaotic creators to take the internet by storm.
Josh Gordon, Special To The Chronicle
• November 4, 2025
When talking about science fiction shows on Netflix, people tend to mention the modern “classics” such as “Dark,” “Sense8,” “Stranger Things” or “Love, Death & Robots.” But Netflix has recently added a long-loved science fiction show that can stand out among the best science fiction shows currently on Netflix.
Ryan Murphy, a prominent Hollywood producer, depicts the lives of notorious killers through his biographical drama series “Monster.” The newest season, “Monster: The Ed Gein Story,” was released on Oct. 3.
On April 20, the third and final season of “Star Trek: Picard” concluded on Paramount+ in a triumphant finale that rocked audiences to their core. Without a doubt, the series brought “Star Trek” back to its best in over 20 years.
Following the mixed negative reception of the last two seasons from audiences, along with previous showrunners Alex Kurtzman and Akiva Goldsman departing to work on their own “Star Trek” projects, Terry Matalas, former production associate of “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” and writer of “Star Trek: Enterprise,” was brought on board to write season three. It is clear that this is a finale that was written by the fans, for the fans.
The third season of “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba” aired on Sunday, April 9, and it has become one of the most popular shows of the spring 2023 season.
“The Last of Us” is the newest HBO Max series that has taken the world by storm. Based on the award-winning video games of the same name, the show has nine episodes and finally wrapped up Season 1 on Sunday, March 12.
Eighteen years after Nicolas Cage’s character Benjamin Franklin Gates announced he was going to steal the Declaration of Independence, and fifteen years after the same character kidnapped the President of the United States, a new generation of treasure hunters comes to the small screen in the new Disney+ show “National Treasure: Edge of History.”
Wednesday Addams has been a household name since the original “Addams Family” television show premiered in the 1960s. Tim Burton’s version of the character now resonates with a whole new generation of fans, and it is not the version older age groups grew up watching.
When CBS’s hit television show “Criminal Minds” left air after 15 seasons, many people thought that this was the end for the beloved series, which featured a rotating cast of characters working to catch serial killers in the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU).
“Andor,” the newest in a slew of “Star Wars” streaming series on the platform Disney+, finished its first season on Nov. 23. The series follows Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), a thief on the run who becomes involved in a raid on an Imperial fortress, which leads to his arrest, escape and ultimate enlistment in the Rebellion as a spy as introduced to audiences in 2016’s “Rogue One.”
“Bad Sisters” is Apple TV+’s newest show which wrapped up its first season, a 10-episode run, on Friday, Oct. 14.
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