The 15 Best Hulu Shows to Stream in 2026

The biggest TV show of 2024, winner of 18 Emmys including Outstanding Drama Series. Hiroyuki Sanada as Lord Toranaga, Anna Sawai as Mariko (one of the all-time great supporting performances), Cosmo Jarvis as Blackthorne. James Clavell's epic novel turned into the most cinematic broadcast drama in years.

Season 2 is in production for a late 2026 or 2027 premiere. Season 1 was supposed to be limited and won the limited series race before getting recategorized for Season 2. Easy first recommendation.

Jeremy Allen White as Carmy Berzatto, the fine-dining chef who came home to run his dead brother's Chicago sandwich shop. Ayo Edebiri and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Sydney and Richie, the two cast members who turned an ensemble drama into a three-way character study. Four seasons in. The third was uneven. The fourth got the show back on track.

Christopher Storer's direction is the best in current TV. The kitchen has never sounded more terrifying.

The Handmaid's Tale sequel series based on Margaret Atwood's 2019 follow-up novel. Chase Infiniti and Lucy Halliday as students at Aunt Lydia's (Ann Dowd, reprising) elite prep school for future wives of Gilead's powerful. Ann Dowd is the show's secret weapon. The premiere dropped in April 2026 and the buzz has been substantial.

If you watched The Handmaid's Tale through to the end, this is required follow-up.

Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez investigating murders in their Upper West Side apartment building. Five seasons in. The premise should have run out years ago. It hasn't. Each season hits with sharper mystery construction, better guest casting (Meryl Streep, Paul Rudd, Eva Longoria), and the same three-way chemistry that's been the engine since the pilot.

The most reliable comedy on streaming. Period.

Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi's coming-of-age comedy about four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma. Three seasons. The show ended in 2023 but its reputation has only grown. D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Devery Jacobs, Lane Factor, and Paulina Alexis are the core ensemble. The supporting cast (Zahn McClarnon, Gary Farmer, Lily Gladstone) is the deep bench of dreams.

The most quietly beautiful show Hulu has ever housed. If you haven't watched it, start tonight.

Quinta Brunson's network mockumentary about teachers at an underfunded Philadelphia elementary school. Five seasons (the renewal for Season 6 is locked). Tyler James Williams, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Janelle James, Lisa Ann Walter, Chris Perfetti, William Stanford Davis. Mr. Johnson is the secret MVP.

Streams next-day on Hulu after ABC airings. The most consistently funny sitcom currently in production.

Elisabeth Moss as June. Six seasons. The show ended in 2025. Worth watching the early seasons (1-3 are the strongest) before The Testaments picks up. The political relevance has only sharpened, the world-building has only deepened, and the ending earned the ride.

This is the show that put Hulu on the prestige map in 2017. It's still the spine of the library.

Sterling K. Brown as a Secret Service agent investigating the murder of a former president (James Marsden) in a hidden underground bunker community after a global cataclysm. Dan Fogelman's first post-This Is Us swing. Season 1 dropped in early 2025 and was the biggest Hulu hit of the year that didn't have "Bear" in the title. Renewed for Season 2.

The premise is bonkers. The execution is precise. Brown is doing some of the best work of his career.

The FX docuseries about Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney's actually-happening ownership of a Welsh fifth-division football club. Five seasons. The club has been promoted twice. The narrative arc has been better than most scripted dramas. The supporting cast of actual Wrexham players and townspeople is what makes the show work.

If you've never watched a soccer documentary, this is the one.

Noah Hawley's anthology drama set in the same Coen Brothers universe as the 1996 film. Five seasons. Each season is its own self-contained crime story. Season 5 (Juno Temple, Jon Hamm, Joe Keery, Lamorne Morris) is one of the strongest in the show's history. Lamorne Morris won an Emmy.

If you haven't seen it, start with Season 1 (Allison Tolman, Martin Freeman, Billy Bob Thornton). Or jump in at Season 5 if you'd rather not commit.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge's two-season British comedy. Twelve total episodes. The second season may be the best season of television produced in the last decade. Andrew Scott as the Hot Priest. Olivia Colman as the stepmother. The fourth-wall breaks. The closing scene at the bus stop.

There's no excuse for not having seen this. Start tonight.

The Disney+ original that streams on Hulu in the US. A 1980s-set British dramedy based on Jilly Cooper's novel, with David Tennant, Aidan Turner, Alex Hassell, Bella Maclean. Season 2 dropped in early 2026. Soapy, glamorous, knowing about its own excess.

Comfort viewing for people who like their comfort viewing dressed up.

The four-episode revival miniseries returning Frankie Muniz and the original cast to the Wilkerson family decades later. Dropped April 2026. Higher than expected on nostalgia. Surprisingly strong on its own terms.

Not essential, but easy to enjoy if you grew up with the original.

Grace Van Patten and Jackson White's slow-burn relationship drama with toxic-romance bones. Three seasons. The kind of show that lives in the "I can't stop watching this even though I disapprove of everyone" register. Strong word-of-mouth on Season 3.

For the Euphoria-shaped hole in your viewing diet.

Noah Hawley's first TV swing outside Fargo. Set in 2120, two years before the events of the original Alien. Sydney Chandler as a "synthetic" with a child's consciousness. The xenomorph aesthetic is preserved. The corporate-horror world-building is excellent.

Season 1 wrapped in late 2025. Season 2 is in production. The strongest Alien franchise expansion since Aliens.