Best 2025 TV Shows for editing quality

#1 The Beast In Me
5.0

Editing is a notable strength in the best-regarded episodes, with deft cuts and sustained tension helping the show move cleanly between suspicion, confrontation, and revelation.

Pros: bingeability, main cast performance

Cons: plot twists, writing quality

#2 Squid Game: The Challenge, Season 2
4.8

Editing is one of the clearest technical strengths, especially in social-deduction sequences and the improved handling of a huge cast. Information is withheld or revealed in ways that actively build...

Pros: emotional impact, plot originality

Cons: entertainment value, character likability

#3 Pluribus, Season 1
4.8

Editing is praised for giving the series a distinctive rhythm, with carefully shaped montages and unconventional transitions reinforcing its fresh narrative voice.

Pros: acting quality, story quality

Cons: season pacing, character likability

#4 What It Feels Like For A Girl, Season 1
3.2

The editing style can be brash, with fast cuts grouped alongside music and narration that may make some viewers cringe. It adds energy but is not the show’s smoothest element.

Pros: story quality, main cast performance

Cons: audience appeal, age appropriateness

#5 Spartacus: House of Ashur
2.5

The recurring slow-motion action style is a nostalgic franchise hallmark, but one longtime fan now finds it dated.

Pros: franchise connection, character development

Cons: story quality, sexual content level

#6 The Seduction
2.0

The editing is a notable weakness in the harshest assessment, which argues that too many unnecessary scenes remain and should have been cut.

Pros: visual style, character development

Cons: faithfulness to source material, season pacing

#7 The Witcher, Season 4
2.0

Some fight scenes were criticized for being too heavily edited or sped up, which reduced the impact of otherwise solid choreography.

Pros: action quality, villain quality

Cons: entertainment value, faithfulness to source material

#8 IT: Welcome To Derry
1.5

Editing draws unusually sharp criticism for jarring transitions and weak rhythm.

Pros: genre satisfaction, acting quality

Cons: writing quality, CGI quality

#9 The Abandons
1.0

The edit is widely blamed for the season’s fragmented feel. Critics point to carved-up structure, missing connective tissue, and characters disappearing from important stretches.

Pros: main cast performance, production design

Cons: character development, season pacing