It took five years Disney Plus to become a formidable streaming platform. It is a commendable achievement. Is it really that shocking, though? Where else can you find abundant records from the catalogs of Marvel and Star Wars? Do I even need to mention Bluey?
In true Disney fashion, the company's TV streaming service has something for every member of the family: exciting comic book adventures, magical stories for young adults, educational docuseries and engaging unscripted shows. And even though we are still separated by two years from recently announced the movie Blueythere are many episodes with the Heller family for you and your loved ones to enjoy.
Simply put, the Disney brand has power and is on full display on Disney Plus.
With endless hours of entertainment at your disposal, it's easy to get lost like Alice down the rabbit hole. That's where we come in. Below is our curated guide to the best Disney Plus original TV shows. Any of these titles are worth a sip. Just click Play. You'll be glad you did.
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Star Wars: Skeleton Crew calls the tone back to the Amblin days of the 1980s. There is no sign of Luke Skywalker in this show. Instead, Skeleton Crew takes place in a reality where the stories of the Jedi are seen as fairy tales. That is, until a group of kids stumble upon an abandoned starship and accidentally shoot themselves into space. The result: an (literally) out-of-this-world adventure.
Agatha All Along is not a direct sequel to WandaVision, but the stories are definitely related. Kathryn Hahn reprises her deliciously diabolical role in the terrifying new series, which follows Agatha and a group of angry witches on a journey down the Witch Road to help Mrs. Harkness regain her powers. Spoiler: It won't be easy.
Star Wars: Visions is a fun and suspenseful animated anthology series that adds an exciting new element to Lucasfilm's long-running franchise. Seven Japanese animation studios were tapped to create nine unique non-canon episodes for the program. In the second part of the series, additional episodes were released from Spain, Ireland, Chile, United Kingdom, South Korea, France, India, Japan and South Africa.
Doctor Who began 60 years ago, and since then, the sci-fi series has been renewed multiple times. Actors such as David Tennant and Matt Smith helped bring the iconic Time Lord into the present day with the Modern Era Seasons program. Nkuti Gatwa is the latest actor to take the reins as the Doctor, marking the first time in the programme's history that a black man has stepped into the role. Doctor Who moved to Disney Plus in 2023. New episodes (starting with season 14) will air exclusively on the streamer.
Bluey is a phenomenonplain and simple. The children's show, which follows a family of anthropomorphic dogs — Bluey, her sister Bingo, dad Bandit and mom Chili — was the most streamed series in 2023and with good reason. Almost all episodes are around 8 minutes long, making it an easy binge. And while the tone remains light and playful, the series digs into relevant and poignant themes in a way that never speaks down to its audience. Who knew a show about an Australian dog family would be so addictive? Disney Plus knew.
Simply put, I mean Andor is the best Star Wars series Disney Plus has made. The program ditches the flashy, and often clichéd, production values of its predecessors and goes all-in on intense ground-level storytelling. Expanding on the story of the characters featured in the Rogue One one-shot, Andor hits the emotional stakes thanks to its clever writing and great performances from the cast. Phenomenal stuff, right here.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
This new take on Rick Riordan's prized books aims to erase the live-action movies from our collective memories. And, for the most part, it does its job. The eight-episode first season follows the events of Lightning Thief, which is the first book in the series. Thanks to a younger cast and lighter stakes, this Percy Jackson series is positioned to be a YA hit for Disney Plus.
Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau took their love of Star Wars to new heights with The Mandalorian. It was the first live-action Star Wars series to appear on Disney Plus and set the standard for everything that followed. Stylistically inspired by the likes of the Lone Wolf and Cub manga, Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo and Sergio Leone's iconic Dollars trilogy (starring Clint Eastwood as the Man With No Name), the series follows a lonely bounty hunter who gets a second chance at life when he's hired to protect a little green alien you may know simply as Baby Yoda.
This three-part documentary series takes us into the creative maelstrom of one of the world's greatest musical groups. Directed by Oscar winner Peter Jackson, The Beatles: Come Back gives a cinematic look at a band at the top of their game and on the verge of collapse. This never-before-seen footage shows John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr rehearsing for their infamous rooftop concert at their Apple Corps headquarters on London's Savile Row. It was their last live performance. It's breathtaking, inspiring and heartbreaking. And definitely worth seeing.
X-Men: The Animated Series ended its five-season run in 1997. Almost three decades later, X-Men '97 continues the story of everyone's favorite mutant superhero team. The pacing is fast, the writing is tight, and the 2D animation style acts as a nice bow that ties this wonderful nostalgic present to '90s kids everywhere.
Echo (Alacqua Cox) was first introduced in a three-episode arc in Hawkeye. Marvel's Echo is centered on the hearing-impaired antihero. She is also a member of the Choctaw Nation, which leads the series to beautifully explore these aspects of her identity. Her connection to Wilson Fisk (Vincent D'Onofrio) further ties Disney Plus' MCU shows to those previously on Netflix — and sets up the arrival of Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) and crew quite nicely.
The bad streak is an intense, action-packed spin-off of the acclaimed Star Wars animated series. The Clone Wars. Audiences have seen the consequences of Order 66 take shape in various forms throughout the Star Wars franchise, but never quite like this. The Bad Batch follows a squad of elite clone troopers with genetic defects. They may have special abilities, but that doesn't make them invisible to the top-secret executive order. In turn, the animated series fills in some gaps in the Star Wars lore. It does so in an incredibly entertaining way.
Ms. Marvel is a breath of fresh air for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The Disney Plus series flips the script on what we've grown to expect from Marvel shows on the streamer. Iman Velani is a revelation as the titular hero. It's a challenge for a show to balance the heavy responsibilities of being a superhero with the trials and tribulations of high school. The story pulls it off, and it does so with welcome help to the Muslim representation.
WandaVision it all started on Disney Plus. It's the first original series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to hit the streamer. It's a genre-bending adventure that finds Wanda and Vision living in different realities inspired by TV sitcoms, from I Love Lucy and The Dick Van Dyke Show to The Brady Bunch and Family Ties. How does the emotional fallout of Avengers: Endgame (and Vision's death, specifically) affect Wanda? Well, let's just say her grief is taken down a strange rabbit hole.
Read our full WandaVision Review.
Tom Hiddleston has appeared as Loki, the God of Evil, throughout the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the past decade. Thanks to Disney Plus, he finally leads his own strange adventure. An unusual sci-fi series puts Loki in the unlikely position of a hero. Here, he works with a range of interesting characters, including Mobius M. Owen Wilson's Mobius, to fix the timeline. It's an amazing, fun, and downright weird series that appeals to die-hard fans and newbies alike.
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
What happens when Captain America hangs up his shield? That's Marvel's question The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Here, Sam Wilson (aka The Falcon) and Bucky Burns (aka The Winter Soldier) team up in a surprisingly funny and heartfelt series that deals with trauma, grief and classics as the world picks up the pieces of earth-shattering events. Avengers: Endgame.
This new look at RL Stine's beloved Goose bumps The books give Disney Plus the chills. Justin Long headlines the supernatural series that follows a group of teenagers who investigate the death of a child named Harold Beadle. As they learn about the boy, insidious secrets come to light that connect their parents to his death three decades ago.
Knight of the Moon Oscar Isaac stars as Stephen Grant, a troubled man with dissociative identity disorder. These aren't simple anxiety issues—no, Grant actually shares his body with a mercenary named Mark Spector. The discovery of this alter-ego leads Grant on an adventure that pits him against evil cult leader Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke) and a gang of terrifying Egyptian gods. It's a blistering ride that might even scratch the Indiana Jones itch.
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Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem Band get top billing in Muppets Mayhem, the latest Disney Plus series inspired by Jim Henson's Muppets. Here, the Electric Mayhem Band struggles to record another album. But record company politics and other past mistakes complicate things for the crew—and boy, do those complications lead to some hilarious on-screen antics! Of all the Muppets programs that have appeared on TV in recent years, Muppets Mayhem comes closest to the wacky, fun atmosphere of the original.