Sweaty palms. Heart racing. A shaky leg. No, this isn’t us listing symptoms of a fever, but rather some of the ways that a punchy and tense thriller can get under your skin. Last year, we were treated to so many brilliant thrilling TV shows, including The Day Of The Jackal, Sweetpea and 3 Body Problem, and there is just as brilliant thrillers to look out for in 2025 too. 

Here are some of the best edge-of-your-seat thriller series to look out for this year, including a new Tom Hardy-led thriller, that is sure to get the heart pumping and the cortisol levels spiking.

MobLand

MobLand stars Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren, and Pierce Brosnan as the head of an organised crime family, fighting for power within a global crime syndicate. Hardy plays Harry Da Souza, a fixer working for the criminal family, the Harrigans, by Brosnan’s Conrad. Mirren plays Conrad’s wife, Maeve, who is heavily involved in the criminal comings and goings of her family.

The new series is centred on a potential gang war between the Harrigans and the Stevensons, a rival gang led by Richie Stevenson (played by Geoff Bell).

Alongside, Hardy, Brosnan and Mirren, the cast also includes: Paddy Considine (House Of The Dragon), Joanne Froggatt (Downton Abbey), Lara Pulver (Da Vinci’s Demons), Anson Boon (Pistol), Mandeep Dhillon (CSI: Vegas), Jasmine Jobson (Top Boy), Geoff Bell (Top Boy), Daniel Betts (Fate: The Winx Saga), Lisa Dwan (Blackshore), and Emily Barber (Industry).

Release date: Available to watch via Paramount+

Missing You

Loved Harlan Coben’s Fool Me Once? Well, this one’s for you. According to the series synopsis: “Eleven years ago, Detective Kat Donovan’s fiance, Josh, the love of her life, disappeared and she’s never heard from him since. Now, swiping profiles on a dating app, she suddenly sees his face and her world explodes all over again. Josh’s reappearance will force her to dive back into the mystery surrounding her father’s murder and uncover long-buried secrets from her past.”

Release date: Available to watch via Netflix

The Crow Girl

Beginning with the discovery of a teenage boy’s body, The Crow Girl sees DCI Jeanette Kilburn (Eve Myles) work with psychotherapist Sophia Craven (Katherine Kelly) to search for the killer – despite her bosses at work telling her not to pursue the case.

The investigation draws the women into a dangerous world marked by historic abuse and murder, and together they uncover a chain of shocking events that have gone overlooked for decades – as well as evidence of police corruption within DCI Kilburn’s own ranks.

Release date: Available to watch via Paramount+

Severance, season 2

With the first season of Severance ending on a huge cliffhanger, we can expect a lot more suspense and tension as the Lumon employees grapple with bringing their innies into the outside world. After all, the innies are bound to learn some things about their outies that shock them…

Release date: Available to watch via Apple TV+

Prime Target

In this new thriller, Leo Woodall (One Day) plays young maths postgraduate Edward Brooks, who’s on the verge of a major breakthrough in his work: if he succeeds in finding a prime number pattern, he’ll hold the key to every computer in the world. But before his idea even comes to fruition, something is trying to destroy his work and throwing him into a completely different world, where he meets NSA agent Taylah Sanders.

Release date: Available to watch via Apple TV+

Paradise

Paradise is set in a serene community inhabited by some of the world’s most prominent individuals. But this tranquillity explodes when a shocking murder takes place and a high-stakes investigation unfolds.

Release date: Available to watch via Disney+

Zero Day

A new limited series from Netflix, Zero Day stars Robert De Niro as respected former US president George Mullen, who, as head of the Zero Day Commission, is charged with finding the perpetrators of a devastating cyber-attack that has caused chaos around the country and thousands of fatalities.

As disinformation runs rampant and the personal ambition of Wall Street power brokers and government collide, Mullen’s search for the truth forces him to confront his own dark secrets.

Release date: Available to watch via Netflix

The Assassin

Set against the idyllic backdrop of a remote Greek island, retired assassin Julie (Keeley Hawes) and her estranged son Edward (Freddie Highmore) are forced to work together in a fight for survival. Amid questions around Edward’s paternity and Julie’s dangerous past catching up with her, the pair is forced to flee the island and go on the run together.

Release date: coming to Prime Video

Reunion

Written by Sheffield-born deaf writer William Mager, Reunion is an emotional thriller of revenge and redemption following the journey of Daniel Brennan, played by Matthew Gurney (Name Me Lawand), a deaf man determined to right his wrongs while unravelling the truth behind the events that led to his imprisonment.

Brennan embodies the struggle of a man caught between two worlds, unable to fully integrate into the hearing world and shunned by his closest friends and the wider deaf community following his heinous crime. Amid this isolation, Brennan’s only meaningful relationship is with his estranged daughter Carly, played by Lara Peake (How To Have Sex), who he has not had any contact with since his arrest over a decade ago.

Release date: 7 April via BBC

The Stolen Girl

If you’re obsessed with Harlan Coben adaptations, then buckle up as the producers of Fool Me Once and Missing You have created a new original series, The Stolen Girl. 

The five-part series is set to drop on Disney+ in 2025 and stars One Day’s Ambika Mod, alongside Denise Gough, Jim Sturgess, Holliday Grainger, Bronagh Waugh and Michael Workeye.

The series is said to “tell the story of fascinating, relatable and complex women in an unimaginable situation”. We’re already seated for it. 

Release date: 16 April via Disney+

Black Rabbit

Set in the exclusive world of New York nightlife, the new series centres on a pair of brothers. According to the official synopsis: “When the owner of a New York City hotspot (Jude Law) allows his chaotic brother (Jason Bateman) back in his life, he opens the door to escalating dangers that threaten to bring down everything he’s built.” Sounds eerie.

Release date: coming to Netflix

The Night Manager, season 2

According to the BBC, season two of The Night Manager will pick up with Tom Hiddleston’s Jonathan Pine eight years after the explosive finale of season one, going beyond the original bestselling book (written by John le Carré in 1993) that inspired the series. Details of exactly where we’ll meet Pine for season two have yet to emerge, but after successfully infiltrating a global crime syndicate in season one, we’re sure that the hotel business will be well and truly behind him.

Release date: coming to BBC

The Choice 

Suranne Jones plays Abigail Dalton, a newly elected British prime minister whose popularity is waning due to an ongoing healthcare crisis. Across the Channel, Vivienne Toussaint (played by Julie Delpy), who made history as the country’s first female French president, is campaigning for re-election no matter what it takes. So, a summit between the two could help them both.

However, things take a turn for the tense when Dalton’s husband is kidnapped and Toussaint is blackmailed, leaving them in a fierce rivalry and both fighting for survival.

Release date: coming to Netflix

Fear 

Based on Dirk Kurbjuweit’s book of the same name, Fear follows a family that finds itself terrorised by a neighbour but with no way out, posing the question: how far would you go to protect your family?

Things are great at first when Martyn and Rebecca move from London to a beautiful new home in Glasgow with their two young children. But when their neighbour, Jan, starts making unnerving comments to Rebecca, the family’s fresh start turns into something much more chilling.

Release date: coming to Prime Video

Saviour

In new ITV crime thriller Saviour, we follow medical student Ben, who goes to a fancy-dress party in his dad’s police uniform. Ben only has eyes for Xenia, and when he sees her being attacked by a man on his way home, he feels he has no choice but to intervene, urged on by a bystander innocently assuming he is a real police officer. But when things go wrong, he makes a desperate call to his dad, who tells Ben exactly what to do next.

Release date: coming to ITV

In Flight

Led by Katherine Kelly (Mr Bates vs The Post Office), In Flight is a new Channel 4 thriller in which a flight attendant finds her life turned upside down when she’s blackmailed into drug smuggling after her son is arrested. There aren’t too many details on the series yet, but we do know that filming is currently underway.

Release date: coming to Channel 4

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