The 10 Best TV Shows to Stream This Month (April 2026)

Everything old is new again this month, at least as far as TV is concerned. Between the arrival of The Boys’ fifth and final season and new chapters in both The Handmaid’s Tale and Strange Things universes, familiarity is a valued commodity for your favorite streamers.

But futurists have plenty to watch, too, including veteran tech journalist Kara Swisher’s deep dive into the business of living forever in an eye-opening new CNN docuseries featuring interviews with the likes of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and longevity extremist Bryan Johnson. So strap in.

Here are our 10 picks for the best TV shows to stream in April.

The Pitt

Even if you're not already one of the 10 million people watching The Pitt, you've surely heard how it has dominated the TV industry’s biggest award ceremonies, from the Golden Globes to the Emmys—and with good reason. The pulse-pounding medical drama, which reunites ER star Noah Wyle with that iconic series’ executive producer John Wells, plays out in real time over the course of 15 hours in The Pitt, the emergency room of an underfunded teaching hospital in Pittsburgh. Bright-eyed students working their first real shifts are faced with the stark realities of the job and the current state of America’s broken health care system, while a team of (mostly) battle-hardened doctors and nurses do their best to save the lives of those who come through their doors, not always successfully.

While the show’s unique real-time format and willingness to tackle ugly everyday American issues, from mass shootings to ICE deportations, keep the storylines moving, it’s the lives of the overburdened health care workers who are its beating heart. In the show’s second season, which concludes on April 16, technology enters the picture when the accuracy of AI tools and the threat of a cyberattack make an already explosive July Fourth even more difficult to navigate. The acclaimed series has been renewed for a third season, which is expected to premiere in January 2027.

The Boys

Just a few months before Martin Scorsese made headlines for calling out the Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Boys had already beat him to skewering superhero culture—albeit from a very different angle. The Amazon series, based on Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s darkly satirical comic book series, imagines a different kind of world, where superheroes are real, but their heroism is largely a ruse created by a money-hungry global corporation. Enter The Boys: a ragtag crew of vigilantes led by former SAS operative Billy Butcher (Karl Urban), armed with a seemingly endless—and often very brutal—set of tactics to prevent those superheroes (aka Supes) from gaining more power. Strip away the gore and what remains is a damning indictment of what happens when pathological greed goes unchecked. The Boys’ fifth and final season premiered on April 8 and will conclude on May 20.

The Predator of Seville

In 2013, Gabrielle Vega was a college student studying abroad in Spain and having the time of her life. All that changed toward the end of the year, when she and some friends traveled to Morocco with Discover Excursions, a Seville travel company owned by Manuel Blanco Vela, who also acted as their tour guide. As the weekend came to an end, Vela proposed that he, Vega, and her roommates share a bottle of champagne and spend some time in their hotel room. Not long after, Vela’s behavior took an odd turn—and Vega reported feeling disoriented and as if her body was paralyzed. Though her initial memories of the evening were fragmented, leading her to believe she had been drugged, recurring flashbacks to the evening led to her realizing she had been sexually assaulted.

After years of suffering in silence with her trauma, Vega eventually called out her accuser in one of the most public forums in existence: Facebook. Within just a few days, she was contacted by eight other women, most of them also American college students studying abroad, with eerily similar stories of their own encounters with Vela, who was known to many as “Manu.” This three-part docuseries traces how Vega found the courage to stand up to her attacker and how the far-reaching power of using one’s voice on social media can be used for more than just sharing memes and family photos. Ultimately, Vega’s efforts led authorities to determine that Manu had assaulted between 50 and 100 young women.

Star Wars: Maul—Shadow Lord

From The Mandalorian to Skeleton Crew, Disney+ has produced a dozen Star Wars TV shows since its streaming debut, and fans are always clamoring for more. This month, that means the premiere of Star Wars: Maul—Shadow Lord, a gritty, animated series for adults that is set after the events of the universe’s famous Clone Wars and told from the perspective of Maul, one of the space opera’s most notorious supervillains. But it unravels more like a crime-drama, as it follows Maul’s rogue attempts to use his Sith skills to rebuild his Shadow Collective, a massive crime syndicate composed of Sith leaders, Mandalorian warriors, bounty hunters, and more, all united by the goal of usurping Darth Sidious and destroying his Sith Order. IYKYK.

The Testaments

The Handmaid’s Tale marked a watershed moment for Hulu when, in 2017, it became the first streaming series to nab the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series—solidifying the streamer’s reputation as a bona fide player. As that groundbreaking series signed off in 2025 after six seasons, it’s hardly surprising that Hulu would want to keep Margaret Atwood’s dystopian world alive, so now we have The Testaments. Set 15 years after the events of the original series, much of the series takes place at an elite prep school for young women learning to be the dutiful wives of the next wave of Commanders. Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) returns to terrify a new generation of young women, including Agnes (One Battle After Another’s breakout star Chase Infiniti), a pious young woman who is beginning to question the rules she has grown up obeying, and Daisy (Lucy Halliday), a Canadian teen and recent Gilead convert—all of whom have secrets they’re keeping.

Kara Swisher Wants to Live Forever

“There’s so much bad information that the good information gets drowned.” That’s the central thesis behind famed tech journalist Kara Swisher’s decision to dive headfirst into the science (and scams) of longevity—a multibillion-dollar industry that shows no signs of slowing—in this six-episode docuseries. Armed with her investigative skills and famously dry wit, Swisher talks to the brains behind brands promising wellness acolytes longer lives with everything from gene editing and AI-driven medical care to bleeding-edge anti-aging treatments. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, outspoken “biohacker” Bryan Johnson, nepo baby venture capitalist Reed Jobs, and Nobel Prize–winning biochemist Jennifer Doudna are among those who help Swisher separate fact from fiction in the quest to live forever.

Margo’s Got Money Troubles

Margo Millet (Elle Fanning) is a clever, ambitious young woman with her whole life in front of her—until an affair with her English professor leaves her pregnant and suddenly thrust into adulthood. With mounting bills and limited options to gain real income, Margo ultimately turns to OnlyFans, where she quickly gains a large and lucrative following—and the judgment that comes along with that. Based on Rufi Thorpe’s bestselling 2024 novel, this dark dramedy cleverly uses its setup to challenge the many still-existing stigmas surrounding sex work and even single motherhood. While Fanning is the undoubted star, she is ably supported by an A-list team of costars, including Michelle Pfeiffer as her mom and former Hooters waitress Shyanne, and Nick Offerman as her dad Jinx, a former pro wrestler.

This Is a Gardening Show

First he was Between Two Ferns, now he’s got his own DIY gardening series. Emmy-winning actor-comedian Zach Galifianakis brings his absurdist comedy to this hilarious docuseries, which is (mostly) as earnest as it is funny. Each episode introduces viewers to a new group of gardeners. While it’s largely aimed at laughs, there’s also a real exploration of the many reasons why people choose to garden, which often leads to very real and important questions about mental health, sustainability, the disconnection many people feel in the modern world, the many flaws in our current “perverse” (Galifianakis’ word) food production system, and what that might mean for future generations. Appropriately, the series debuts on Earth Day (April 22).

Stranger Things: Tales From ’85

Much like Hulu wasn’t about to say goodbye entirely to The Handmaid’s Tale, just because Stranger Things said goodbye on New Year’s Eve doesn’t mean the gang from Hawkins, Indiana, is totally parting ways with Netflix. In this animated spinoff, the kids—Eleven, Mike, Will, Dustin, Lucas, and Max—are going back in time slightly, to 1985, where the friends are desperately trying to reacquaint themselves with “normal” life after their terrifying dealings with the Upside Down. But they soon realize that something is still amiss in Hawkins, and they quickly find themselves embroiled in yet another paranormal adventure. Much like the nostalgia-fueled live-action series, the animated show is meant to be reminiscent of the Saturday morning cartoons that were a staple of every ’80s kid’s pop culture diet. Notably, the show is also being heavily promoted as a more family-friendly entry in the series—meaning monsters for all. All 10 episodes will drop on April 23.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is officially dead—at least for now. In mid-March, Sarah Michelle Gellar announced via Instagram that Hulu had put a stake through the heart of the long-awaited Buffy reboot, which would see the ’90s icon reprise her role as the vampire world’s biggest headache. But just because there presumably won’t be new episodes to enjoy doesn’t mean you can’t revisit the beloved original series.

From the outside, Buffy Summers (Gellar) seems like the all-American teenager—a popular blond cheerleader who deals with all the normal rites of passage: friendships, crushes, school politics. But fate has also deemed her the chosen one and the latest in a long line of female “vampire slayers” tasked with ridding the world of these fanged foes. Unfortunately for Buffy, she also happens to be in love with a vampire, David Boreanaz’s Angel. For seven seasons, this supernatural coming-of-age series entranced viewers with its wild mix of action, horror, and comedy. While more recent allegations of misconduct and turning the set into a toxic workplace have seen the cancellation of Buffy creator Joss Whedon, the controversy has done little to tar the series’ standing as a beloved “comfort” show for those who grew up with it, and the generations who have since streamed it.