Series to Watch: May 2025
DQ checks out the upcoming schedules to pick 10 new series to watch this May, from a Judy Blume adaptation and a British crime thriller to a tense friendship drama and the next projects from Lost’s JJ Abrams and Succession creator Jesse Armstrong.
Fact File: Cold Haven
Andri Ómarsson from Icelandic production company Glassriver and Pedro Lopes from Portugal’s SPI discuss six key locations from this crime thriller, which unfolds across both countries.
The Mothma prophecies
What is it that separates Andor from other Star Wars series, and why has playing Mon Mothma for 20 years meant so much to Genevieve O’Reilly? The actor tells DQ about making the Disney+ thriller, its bold storytelling choices and portraying a character who would become a Rebel leader.
Finding Safe Harbor
Safe Harbor stars Alfie Allen, Martijn Lakemeier and Colm Meaney join creator Mark Williams and producer Femke Wolting to unpack this crime thriller about two friends who cross paths with the Irish mob and become central players in a European drug ring.
The sounds of This City
Set in Liverpool, the city that gave the world The Beatles, BBC crime drama This City is Ours makes music an integral part of its storytelling. Lead director and exec producer Saul Dibb picks out some key scenes from the series where music drives the story emotionally and rhythmically.
Into the Otherworld
Anaon director David Hourrègue reflects on making this fantastical French coming-of-age series and working with teenagers again after Skam France, and explains why making the show was the “greatest experience” of his career.
Keeping up appearances
Just Act Normal creator and writer Janice Okoh joins executive producer George Ormond to discuss adapting for television her award-winning play about three siblings fighting to stay together after their mother’s disappearance, and the challenges of production on a limited budget.
Worth watching
The stories of Swedish soldiers operating during the Bosnian War are dramatised in six-part drama A Life’s Worth. Writer Mona Masri and director Ahmed Abdullahi speak to DQ about creating this suspenseful and hopeful military series that finds its characters walking the line between duty and humanity.
Arranging Reunion
BBC thriller Reunion is a story of revenge and redemption – and a bilingual series featuring spoken English and British Sign Language. Creator William Mager and star Matthew Gurney tell DQ how they made the show and how they sought to represent deaf people authentically.
Cracking Black Mirror
As Black Mirror returns, creator Charlie Brooker and exec producer Jessica Rhoades reveal the creative process behind Netflix’s mind-bending anthology while stars Emma Corrin, Sienna Kelly, Rosy McEwen, Lewis Gribben and Josh Finan offer insights into their unsettling and thought-provoking episodes.
Second act
From learning lines to writing them, actors Andrei Alén, Genevieve Barr, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson and Leah Purcell discuss their individual journeys behind the camera to become screenwriters, and how they have used their unique experiences and perspectives to shape the stories they want to tell.
Dying to live
Dying for Sex showrunners Kim Rosenstock and Elizabeth Meriwether join executive producer Nikki Boyer to discuss their adaptation of Boyer’s eponymous podcast, which charted her friend’s sexual adventure after learning she had terminal cancer.
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