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The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives

The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is a Hulu reality series (premiered September 6, 2024) following Utah #MomTok influencers including Taylor Frankie Paul, born from a 2022 soft-swinging scandal, renewed through Season 7.

The Secret of the Shiledars

The Secret of the Shiledars is a 2025 Hindi-language Indian treasure-hunt series, also called द सीक्रेट्स ऑफ़ द शील्डर्स, adapted from Pratipashchandra; six episodes on JioHotstar, directed by Aditya Sarpotdar, starring Rajeev Khandelwal.

The Secret of Us (ใจซ่อนรัก) (TV series)

The Secret of Us (ใจซ่อนรัก) is a 2024 sapphic romantic drama series broadcast on Channel 3, adapted from Meenam's web novel, starring Lingling Kwong and Orm.

The Secret Saturdays

The Secret Saturdays is an American animated series (Cartoon Network, 2008–2010) created by Jay Stephens about the cryptozoologist Saturday family, Doc, Drew, and Zak, protecting cryptids from the villain V.V. Argost.

The Secret Storm

The Secret Storm was a CBS daytime soap opera (February 1, 1954 to February 8, 1974) created by Roy Winsor, sponsored by American Home Products, centered on the Ames family of Woodbridge, New York, and directed for sixteen years by Gloria Monty.

The Secret World of Alex Mack

The Secret World of Alex Mack: American Nickelodeon science fiction children's series (October 8, 1994 to January 15, 1998; 78 episodes, 4 seasons) created by Thomas W. Lynch and Ken Lipman, starring Larisa Oleynik as a teen doused with chemical GC-161.

The Secrets of Hotel 88

The Secrets of Hotel 88 (Ang Sikreto ng Hotel 88) is a 2026 Philippine mystery-drama series by GMA Network and ABS-CBN's Star Creatives, starring ex-PBB Celebrity Collab housemates; 83 episodes, iWant premiere February 23, 2026.

The Secrets She Keeps

The Secrets She Keeps: Australian six-part psychological thriller (Network 10, 2020; season 2 Paramount+ 2022) adapted from Michael Robotham's novel, starring Laura Carmichael as Agatha and Jessica De Gouw as Meghan, two pregnant women with explosive secrets.

The Seduction (TV series)

The Seduction, also known as Merteuil, is a French historical drama series set in 18th-century Paris. It is freely adapted from the 1782 novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

The Seinfeld Chronicles

The Seinfeld Chronicles, also known as "Good News, Bad News", is the 1989 pilot of NBC sitcom Seinfeld, written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, directed by Art Wolff, featuring Kessler instead of Kramer and no Elaine.

The Sentinels (TV series)

The Sentinels (Les Sentinelles) is a French Canal+ sci-fi war series (2025, 8 episodes) created by Guillaume Lemans, adapted from Xavier Dorison and Enrique Breccia's graphic novel, about WWI super-soldiers created with the Dyxenal serum, starring Louis Peres.

The Serial Killer's Wife

The Serial Killer's Wife is a 2023 four-part Paramount+ UK psychological thriller miniseries adapted from Alice Hunter's novel, starring Annabel Scholey, Jack Farthing, and Luke Treadaway, directed by Laura Way, filmed in Kent, released December 15, 2023.

The Serpent (TV series)

The Serpent is a 2021 BBC One/Netflix eight-part true-crime drama by Mammoth Screen about Charles Sobhraj's 1970s hippie-trail murders and Herman Knippenberg's investigation, starring Tahar Rahim, Jenna Coleman and Billy Howle.

The Serpent Queen

The Serpent Queen is a Starz historical drama (2022-2024) created by Justin Haythe, based on Leonie Frieda's Catherine de Medici biography, starring Samantha Morton; two seasons, 16 episodes, cancelled October 2024 with a Minnie Driver Elizabeth I spinoff planned.

The Seven Deadly Sins (七つの大罪) (manga)

The Seven Deadly Sins (七つの大罪, Nanatsu no Taizai) is Nakaba Suzuki's fantasy shonen manga, serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine 2012–2020 across 41 volumes, winning the 39th Kodansha Manga Award and spawning the sequel Four Knights of the Apocalypse.

The Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom

The Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom (Marronnier Ōkoku no Shichinin no Kishi) is a medieval knight fantasy manga by Nao Iwamoto, serialized since 2016.

The Sex Factor

The Sex Factor is a 2016 xHamster web reality competition, created by Buddy Ruben, in which 16 inexperienced contestants competed for a $1 million porn contract; hosted by Asa Akira with judges Tori Black, Remy LaCroix, Lexi Belle, and Keiran Lee, it ran one 10-episode season.

The Sex Lives of College Girls

The Sex Lives of College Girls: HBO Max comedy-drama created by Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble, 2021-2025, three seasons, four roommates (Chalamet, Kaur, Rapp, Scott) at fictional Essex College; canceled March 2025, later on Netflix.

The Shannara Chronicles

The Shannara Chronicles is an MTV fantasy series (2016-2017) created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, adapting Terry Brooks's The Elfstones of Shannara; two 10-episode seasons, filmed in New Zealand, Metascore 52, canceled after season 2.

The Shards (TV series)

The Shards is a 2026 FX drama series created by Ryan Murphy with Bret Easton Ellis, adapting Ellis's 2023 autofictional novel. Nine episodes set in 1981 Los Angeles follow prep-school senior Bret amid the Trawler serial killings; premiered August 5, 2026.

The Shield

The Shield (FX, 2002–2008), created by Shawn Ryan, is a police drama starring Michael Chiklis as corrupt Strike Team leader Vic Mackey in Los Angeles's fictional Farmington district, inspired by the Rampart scandal; its record 4.8-million-viewer premiere established FX as a scripted-drama network.

The Shop

The Shop is an American unscripted talk series set in a barbershop, created by Paul Rivera with LeBron James and Maverick Carter for HBO, first airing in 2018.

The Shrink Next Door

The Shrink Next Door is an eight-episode Apple TV+ dark comedy limited series (2021) adapted from Joe Nocera's 2019 Wondery podcast, starring Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd as patient Marty Markowitz and manipulative psychiatrist Dr. Ike Herschkopf.

The Shy Snow Woman and the Cursed Ring

The Shy Snow Woman and the Cursed Ring (Hitozukiai ga Nigate na Mibōjin no Yukionna-san to Noroi no Yubiwa) is a Japanese adult doujinshi series by Puuzaki Puuna (2021, two volumes, English via Irodori Comics), adapted into a 2026 AnimeFesta/Studio Hōkiboshi TV short, The Lonely Snow Widow and the Cursed Ring, about a landlord and a yuki-onna widow.

The Sign (ลางสังหรณ์)

The Sign (ลางสังหรณ์, Premonition) is a 2023 Thai BL action-fantasy romance series by Idol Factory, adapted from I-Rain-Yia's novel, airing on Channel 3 from November 25, 2023, about reincarnated Garuda-Naga lovers Phaya and Tharn.

The Silent Noise

The Silent Noise is a 2026 Filipino mystery-thriller limited series from ABS-CBN Studios on Prime Video, directed by Onat Diaz, starring Angelica Panganiban and Zanjoe Marudo as parents of a deaf boy, Eli (KD Omalin), in the coastal town of Escondido; it premiered March 20, 2026, in over 240 countries and won Best Asian Content at the Global OTT Awards 2026.

The Silent Sea (고요의 바다) (TV series)

The Silent Sea (고요의 바다) is an eight-episode Korean Netflix sci-fi mystery thriller released December 24, 2021, starring Bae Doona, Gong Yoo, and Lee Joon, directed by Choi Hang-yong from his 2014 short film, about a lunar mission to Balhae Base on a water-starved future Earth.

The Simpsons

The Simpsons: American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening, developed with James L. Brooks and Sam Simon; premiered on FOX December 17, 1989 after Tracey Ullman shorts; longest-running scripted primetime series, 800 episodes, renewed through season 40.

The Simpsons future predictions

The Simpsons future predictions: claimed forecasts by the animated sitcom, led by the 2000 "Bart to the Future" Trump presidency gag and the Kamala Harris outfit parallel, with many viral claims debunked as fabricated or AI-generated images.

The Simpsons house

The Simpsons house, 742 Evergreen Terrace, is the fictional two-story Simpson family home in Springfield, with a flexible floor plan and a rarely seen rumpus room; a $120,000 real-life replica was built in Henderson, Nevada in 1997.