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It took five years for Disney Plus to become a formidable streaming platform. That’s a commendable accomplishment. Is it really that shocking, though? Where else can you find copious entries from the catalogs of Marvel and Star Wars? Do I even need to mention Bluey?
In true Disney fashion, the company’s TV streaming service has something for every family member: riveting comic book adventures, magical tales for young adults, educational docuseries, and engaging unscripted shows. And though we’re still two years away from the recently announced Bluey movie, there are plenty of episodes featuring the Heeler family for you and your loved ones to enjoy.
Simply put, the Disney brand has power and it’s on full display on Disney Plus.
With endless hours of entertainment at your disposal, it’s easy to get lost like Alice down the rabbit hole. That’s where we come in. Below is our curated guide to the best Disney Plus original TV shows. Any of these titles are worth a binge. Just click Play. You’ll be glad you did.
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Matt Kennedy/Lucafilm Ltd. Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew dials the tone back to the Amblin days of the 1980s. There’s no trace of Luke Skywalker in this show. Instead, Skeleton Crew takes place in a reality where stories of the Jedi are viewed as fairy tales. That is, until a ragtag group of kids stumble upon an abandoned starship and accidentally shoot themselves into space. The result: a (literally) out-of-this-world adventure.
Marvel Studios What If…?
Marvel Animation X-Men ’97
X-Men: The Animated Series ended its five season run in 1997. Almost three decades later, X-Men ’97 continues the story of everyone’s favorite mutant superhero crew. The pacing is quick, the writing is tight and the 2D animation style acts as a nice bow tying together this lovely nostalgic gift for ’90s kids everywhere.
Chuck Zlotnick/Marvel Studios Echo
Echo (Alaqua Cox) was first introduced in a three-episode arc in Hawkeye. Marvel’s Echo is centered on the hearing-impaired antihero. She’s also a member of the Choctaw Nation, which leads the series to wonderfully explore these aspects of her identity. Her association with Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) further connects the MCU shows on Disney Plus with those previously on Netflix — and sets up the arrival of Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) and crew quite nicely.
Lucasfilm Ltd. Star Wars: The Bad Batch
The Bad Batch is an intense, action-packed spin-off of the celebrated Star Wars animated series The Clone Wars. Audiences have seen the fallout of Order 66 take shape in various forms throughout the Star Wars franchise, but never like this. The Bad Batch follows a squad of elite clone troopers with genetic defects. They may have special abilities, but that doesn’t make them invisible to the top-secret execution order. In turn, the animated series fills in some blanks in Star Wars lore. It does so in an incredibly entertaining way.
Disney Plus Ms. Marvel
Ms. Marvel is a breath of fresh air for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The Disney Plus series flips the script on what we have grown to expect from Marvel shows on the streamer. Iman Vellani is a revelation as the titular hero. It’s a challenge for a show to balance the heavy responsibilities of being a superhero with the trials and tribulations of high school. The story pulls it off, and does so with a welcome helping of Muslim representation.
Disney Plus WandaVision
WandaVision started it all on Disney Plus. It’s the first original series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to hit the streamer. It’s a genre-bending adventure that finds Wanda and Vision living out different realities inspired by TV sitcoms, from I Love Lucy and The Dick Van Dyke Show to The Brady Bunch and Family Ties. How does the emotional fallout of Avengers: Endgame (and Vision’s death, specifically) affect Wanda? Well, let’s just say her grief takes her down one heck of a weird rabbit hole.
Read our full WandaVision review.
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