Best 2025 TV Shows for supporting cast performance

#1 The Beast In Me
4.7

The supporting ensemble is widely admired, with Brittany Snow repeatedly singled out and smaller roles often praised for adding weight, texture, or menace around the central pair.

Pros: bingeability, main cast performance

Cons: plot twists, writing quality

#2 Spartacus: House of Ashur
4.7

The supporting ensemble is a major asset, with Korris, Cossutia, Achillia, and the gladiator group often described as increasingly compelling and sometimes stronger than the central lead.

Pros: franchise connection, character development

Cons: story quality, sexual content level

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

The supporting cast is a major strength, from Michael Socha’s terrifying father to Hannah Walters, Jake Dunn, and the Fallen Divas. Several responses describe the ensemble as excellent with no...

Pros: story quality, main cast performance

Cons: audience appeal, age appropriateness

#4 Summerwater, Season 1
4.5

Shirley Henderson stands out in the supporting cast. Her role opposite Dougray Scott is one of the more warmly received parts of the present-day relationship drama.

Pros: suspense

Cons: entertainment value, story quality

#5 Pluribus, Season 1
4.4

Supporting performers are well regarded, especially Karolina Wydra, Samba Schutte, Carlos Manuel Vesga, and Miriam Shor, who give Carol’s isolated story needed contrast and texture.

Pros: acting quality, story quality

Cons: season pacing, character likability

#6 The Seduction
4.3

Supporting performances are generally well regarded even when the characters are underwritten. Abita, Kircher, and others are credited with doing more than the material sometimes gives them.

Pros: visual style, character development

Cons: faithfulness to source material, season pacing

#7 Emily in Paris season 5
4.0

The supporting cast is widely seen as talented, but their material is inconsistent. Some reviewers say they carry the season; others argue the same performers are badly underused.

Pros: character development, entertainment value

Cons: character balance, story quality

#8 The Witcher, Season 4
3.7

The supporting ensemble is generally a strength when the material serves it, especially the traveling companions and new additions, though cohesion varies.

Pros: action quality, villain quality

Cons: entertainment value, faithfulness to source material

#9 IT: Welcome To Derry
3.0

Adult supporting work is generally respected, even when critics feel the material gives those actors too little to do.

Pros: genre satisfaction, acting quality

Cons: writing quality, CGI quality

#10 The Abandons
2.2

Supporting performances are less consistent than the leads. Some reviews praise the ensemble or individual standouts, but others call the younger cast bland, wasted, or unable to lift thin subplots.

Pros: main cast performance, production design

Cons: character development, season pacing