2025 is set to be a bumper year for Netflix, with some potentially huge new shows nestling alongside a few returning favourites.
These include some of the streaming platform’s biggest series of all time.
But all good things must come to an end, and we’re going to be bidding farewell to some Netflix staples before the year is out.
No doubt, we’ll be shedding a tear or two at their demise in the process.
Read on to find out which of the streamer’s shows will be bowing out in 2025 – and what we can expect from those final series.
Mo
This comedy-drama stars Palestinian-American standup Mo Amer, and is loosely based on his life as a refugee living in Houston, Texas, as his family awaits the outcome of their pending asylum request.
Season two premiered on January 30, nabbing itself a coveted 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating. But despite the rave reviews, the poignant, tear-jerking season finale is the last episode you’re getting.
Its creator told Tudum: ‘I’m thankful to continue to tell a universal story of struggle that relates to so many refugees and millions of underrepresented humans trying to be seen around the globe.
‘Bring the people who loved and rooted for Mo Najjar along for the ride as we close this chapter of his story.’
Big Mouth
One of Netflix’s most popular animated shows – although this one definitely isn’t for kids – Big Mouth is a coming of age comedy about a group of middle-schoolers getting to grips with puberty and teenage life that’s given us seven seasons since it began in 2017.
The forthcoming eighth series, however, will be its last, while the spin-off series Human Resources will end too, following its forthcoming second series.
‘We didn’t ever think this was a show that should go on forever,’ co-creator Nick Kroll told The Wrap. ‘There’s ample opportunity to continue telling stories from these characters, but at the moment, it felt like we told a very complete story.’
The release date for the final series has yet to be confirmed.
You
You, based on the series of books by author Caroline Kepnes, has become hugely popular since it debuted on Netflix in 2018. We’ve seen four series’ worth so far, with Penn Badgley thoroughly creeping out viewers as obsessive killer Joe Goldberg.
But season five, which brings the action back to New York, will be the last as Joe’s story is brought to its natural end.
‘Every season they manage to find new space to make it interesting and relevant,’ Badgley told Tudum.
‘I think coming back to where it started allowed for it to just become grounded in the way that it needs to also have this kind of spectacular finish.’
You can see how it ends from April 24.
Cobra Kai
We’ve already seen part of the sixth and final season of Cobra Kai – the legacy spin-off of 80s flick The Karate Kid – reuniting that movie’s rival characters decades later, but there’s still more to come.
But once it drops, that’ll be your lot, as the series is hanging up its black belt for good.
Although we’re already quite a way through season six we’re still in the dark about how it ends, with co-creator Jon Hurwitz giving just the tiniest hint during a recent Q&A on X as he said: ‘The final scene is classic Cobra Kai and elements of it have been in our minds since the start.’
You’ll be able to find out for yourself when those long-awaited episodes drop on February 13.
Squid Game
To the biggest Netflix shows of all time now and although the second series of South Korean supershow Squid Game has only just arrived, dropping onto the streaming platform late in 2024, we’ll be getting another series within months.
The bad news is that season 3 will be the final one. However, creator Hwang Dong-Hyuk has hinted that while the main show might be ending, we may not have bid farewell to the characters for good.
‘If the time comes, and it just so happens that I’m able to come up with a character or a different story, then maybe there might be a comeback,’ he told The Hollywood Reporter. ‘But I’m thinking more along the lines of a spin-off.’
For now, you can play Red Light Green Light one final time from June 27.
Stranger Things
It’s one of the most popular Netflix shows in the platform’s history, with season 4 alone amassing 140,700,000 views.
However the long-awaited fifth season of Stranger Things will be our last chance to hop back to the 1980s and encounter the Upside Down.
The show, which has made stars of cast members including Finn Wolfhard and Millie Bobby Brown, wrapped filming for good just before Christmas.
Co-creator Matt Duffer told The Guardian the final series – which will be released in two parts – is ‘like season one on steroids’. He also hinted that ‘there may be spin-offs, but the story of Eleven and Dustin and Lucas and Hopper, their stories are done here, that’s it.’
Expect this one later on in 2025 – with the release date yet to be confirmed.
You can watch all of the above shows on Netflix.
