Best 2025 TV Shows for soundtrack quality

#1 Spartacus: House of Ashur
5.0

The music is included among the elements one enthusiastic reviewer calls phenomenal.

Pros: franchise connection, character development

Cons: story quality, sexual content level

#2 The Beast In Me
5.0

The soundtrack gets a memorable boost from a particularly well-chosen Talking Heads cue that briefly shifts the mood without breaking the thriller’s tension.

Pros: bingeability, main cast performance

Cons: plot twists, writing quality

#3 The Witcher, Season 4
5.0

One positive reviewer included the season’s music among its top-notch production elements.

Pros: action quality, villain quality

Cons: entertainment value, faithfulness to source material

#4 What It Feels Like For A Girl, Season 1
4.6

The soundtrack is a standout nostalgia engine, with references to UK garage, 2000s dance music, and Blackberry-era pop texture. It helps make the club scenes feel infectious and specific.

Pros: story quality, main cast performance

Cons: audience appeal, age appropriateness

#5 Squid Game: The Challenge, Season 2
4.5

A highlighted Nina Simone cue is used as a clever counterpoint to the chaos, giving at least one major challenge a sharply judged musical touch.

Pros: emotional impact, plot originality

Cons: entertainment value, character likability

#6 The Seduction
3.8

The late use of “Hallelujah” divides opinion: it can feel familiar and overplayed, yet other reactions find the modern melancholy surprisingly fitting and effective in the finale.

Pros: visual style, character development

Cons: faithfulness to source material, season pacing

#7 Amadeus
3.5

The music divides critics more than expected. Some say it comes alive thrillingly, while others argue Mozart’s work is pushed into the background when it should dominate the series.

Pros: entertainment value, soundtrack quality

Cons: plot originality, season pacing

#8 Pluribus, Season 1
3.0

Music is generally treated as atmospheric and purposeful, although not every reviewer finds it especially memorable.

Pros: acting quality, story quality

Cons: season pacing, character likability

#9 Emily in Paris season 5
2.5

Music is uneven. Mindy’s performance material earns both enthusiastic praise and strong criticism, and one reviewer says the early soundtrack feels unusually muted.

Pros: character development, entertainment value

Cons: character balance, story quality

#10 Summerwater, Season 1
1.5

The soundtrack draws a clear complaint in one review, which says it aims for ethereal unease but lands as tuneless and annoying.

Pros: suspense

Cons: entertainment value, story quality

#11 The Abandons
1.0

The soundtrack draws criticism where it is discussed, especially for modern or alt-country choices that some reviewers find jarring against the period setting.

Pros: main cast performance, production design

Cons: character development, season pacing