Every Marvel Disney+ Series Ranked, From Secret Invasion To X-Men 97

Marvel's Disney+ era started with an audacious sitcom pastiche about grief and, five years later, has settled into something nobody predicted: the animated shows are the best thing the studio makes, and the most acclaimed live-action property is a Netflix import.

Eighteen series in, here is the honest league table.

The Criteria

1. Does it justify being television? A six-hour film in episode-shaped pieces is a worse film, not a better show. Series with genuine episodic structure rank higher.
2. Finale quality. Marvel television's chronic weakness is the last forty minutes. A show that lands its ending gains more here than anywhere else.
3. Character advancement. Did anyone leave the series in a different place than they entered it?
4. Craft. Direction, design, score. The animated slate wins this category so decisively it reshapes the whole list.

Critical scores are listed for context but did not decide placements — Ms. Marvel at 98 per cent is a lovely show that ranks below two series with lower numbers, because criteria two and three matter more here.

The Top Five

1. X-Men '97

The highest-rated Marvel property in any medium at 99 per cent, and the only Marvel series that operates like a weekly serial rather than a limited event. Season two premiered on 1 July 2026 and a third is already confirmed. It advances characters permanently, kills people and means it, and treats its thirty-year-old source material as a continuing story rather than nostalgia bait. The Genosha episode is the single best hour of Marvel television full stop.

2. Daredevil: Born Again

Season one landed at 87 per cent in March 2025 after a well-documented creative overhaul, and season two arrived in March 2026 to near-perfect scores with Krysten Ritter's Jessica Jones back in play. Season three is greenlit. Wilson Fisk as an elected official is the smartest political idea in the MCU since The Winter Soldier, and Charlie Cox has never been better.

3. WandaVision

Still the most formally daring thing the studio has produced. Nine episodes that use half a century of sitcom grammar to dramatise a woman refusing to process a death, and it holds together right up until the final act swaps thesis for a sky fight. That wobble is why it is third rather than first. Wanda's arc from here to Multiverse of Madness is the strongest character throughline of Phase 4.

4. Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man

A 97 per cent debut in January 2025 and the best-drawn Spider-Man in any medium. It rebuilds Peter Parker from first principles with a genuinely different supporting cast, and its second season arrives in autumn 2026 introducing Gwen Stacy and Venom. It ranks above every live-action Phase 4 series because it understands weekly storytelling.

5. Loki

The only live-action Marvel series whose second season is better than its first, and the only one whose finale genuinely improves the show retroactively. Loki ends the series holding the multiverse together at the cost of everything he wanted, which is the most complete character arc in the franchise. It loses points only for the amount of exposition it asks the audience to carry.

The Full Ranking

1. X-Men '97 — 99 per cent, three seasons deep, the best Marvel television ever made.
2. Daredevil: Born Again — Kingpin in office, the best live-action Marvel show on the service.
3. WandaVision — formally brilliant for eight episodes and conventional for one.
4. Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man — the best-looking Spider-Man show, with a second season this autumn.
5. Loki — the rare Marvel series with a finale that recontextualises everything before it.
6. Wonder Man — the January 2026 surprise; a Hollywood satire that topped the charts and got a second season.
7. Agatha All Along — a witchy road trip that understands its own tone completely.
8. Hawkeye — the most purely enjoyable six hours Marvel has streamed, and Kate Bishop's perfect introduction.
9. Moon Knight — Oscar Isaac doing career work in a show that loses its nerve in the final hour.
10. Ms. Marvel — 98 per cent, wonderfully warm, and structurally the least eventful thing on the list.
11. What If...? — an anthology with three all-time episodes and a great many filler ones.
12. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier — a real argument about the shield, buried under a flat antagonist.
13. She-Hulk: Attorney at Law — the funniest premise on the service, undermined by uneven production.
14. Echo — a tight, violent, well-directed miniseries the studio buried and never followed up.
15. Ironheart — 86 per cent and quietly important; it introduced Mephisto to the MCU and then went dormant.
16. Marvel Zombies — four episodes of TV-MA carnage at 65 per cent; more of a swing than a show.
17. Vision Quest — unrated and unreleased until 14 October 2026, so provisionally unranked.
18. Secret Invasion — 53 per cent, the lowest-rated MCU series, and a waste of the best premise on this list.

The Genosha episode of X-Men 97 does more with twenty-two animated minutes than most Marvel series manage in six hours.

The Numbers

The correlation that should worry Marvel: the four highest-scoring entries include three animated series, and the highest-rated live-action show on the service is one Marvel inherited rather than devised.

What Is Coming, And What It Has To Fix

Vision Quest arrives on 14 October 2026 with Terry Matalas showrunning, Paul Bettany returning, James Spader back as Ultron and James D'Arcy as J.A.R.V.I.S. Elizabeth Olsen's involvement is unconfirmed and Marvel has not commented on it despite persistent chatter.

• Matalas is the strongest showrunner hire Marvel has made in years, and Vision is the most under-served character in the franchise.
• Spader's return is the first time the studio has brought back a film-tier villain for a streaming series at full weight.
• Season two of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man lands in autumn 2026 with Gwen Stacy and a symbiote arc — see how symbiote bonding actually works before it airs.
• Daredevil: Born Again season three is greenlit, which makes it the only live-action Marvel series with a genuine multi-season plan.

For where these shows sit against the features, see our ranking of all 37 MCU films and the moments that defined Phases 4 and 5.