Best 2025 TV Shows for writing quality

#1 What It Feels Like For A Girl, Season 1
4.8

The writing is praised for warmth, empathy, humor, and thematic reach. It balances class, sex work, trauma, and trans identity without sanding off the characters’ rough edges.

Pros: genre satisfaction, main cast performance

Cons: family friendliness, violence level

#2 Spartacus: House of Ashur
4.3

Most positive critics praise the writing as dynamic, tightly constructed, or even better than the original in places. The major dissent is a long-form full-season review that finds consistency deteriorates...

Pros: episode structure, finale satisfaction

Cons: makeup quality, family friendliness

#3 Pluribus, Season 1
4.3

Writing is widely praised for trusting the audience, subverting familiar science-fiction tropes, and building character and ideas patiently, even when the pacing becomes divisive.

Pros: dialogue quality, franchise connection

Cons: season finale quality, finale satisfaction

#4 The Seduction
3.7

Writing reactions are mixed. Some praise sharp dialogue and forward motion, while the harshest critique blames weak writing and stretched plotting for the season’s boredom.

Pros: episode structure, cast chemistry

Cons: character consistency, editing quality

#5 The Beast In Me
3.1

Writing quality is one of the main fault lines: positive takes praise sharp, character-driven, taut work, while negative reviews call it simplistic, weak, clunky, or insensitive in how it handles...

Pros: plot clarity, series finale quality

Cons: family friendliness, age appropriateness

#6 Amadeus
2.7

Writing gets sharply mixed reactions: some praise exquisite exchanges and big swings, while harsher reviews call the script banal or less substantial than earlier versions.

Pros: finale satisfaction, acting quality

Cons: renewal interest, family friendliness

#7 The Abandons
2.0

Writing is one of the most persistent weaknesses. Critics repeatedly cite shallow characterization, awkward dialogue, weak connective tissue, and familiar plotting, though a few reviews find the scripts improve or...

Pros: cast chemistry, renewal interest

Cons: episode structure, character consistency

#8 Emily in Paris season 5
1.9

Writing quality is a major concern. Forced romances, narrative convenience, character-first logic failures, and familiar shortcuts repeatedly undercut the season’s strongest ideas.

Pros: plot clarity, release schedule

Cons: finale satisfaction, cliffhanger effectiveness