7am The best TV of 2025
Dec 21, 2025
Sarah Krasnostein, a celebrated author and television critic known for her works like The Mushroom Tapes and The Trauma Cleaner, shares her insights on the best TV of 2025. She dives into gripping narratives, from the chilling influence of the manosphere on a lonely teen in Adolescence to the complex hive-mind world of Pluribus. Krasnostein discusses the neo-noir charm of The Lowdown on Disney and the ambitious storytelling in The Rehearsal. She highlights how even the bleakest tales inspire hope for rebuilding in a fractured world.
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Violence As A Socially Produced Outcome
- Adolescence reframes a teenage murder as the end result of social and online pressures.
- Sarah Krasnostein shows violent acts can be traced through family, school and manosphere influences.
Manosphere's Appeal To Lonely Teens
- The manosphere appeals by offering empowerment, belonging and community to isolated boys.
- Krasnostein highlights many missed intervention points before radicalisation turns violent.
A Hive Mind As A Moral Thriller
- Pluribus imagines instantaneous assimilation into a benevolent hive mind and centers a resistant protagonist.
- Krasnostein argues the show feels Gilligan-esque while standing as its own moral and narrative experiment.