[20] He next co-wrote, produced, and starred in a two-season sketch-comedy web series, Moe & Jerryweather along with fellow Juilliard grad Adam Langdon (2014–2016).

[21] In 2016, director Rob Reiner cast Corenswet as a co-lead in his planned television series, The Tap, set at Yale College in 1969.

[21] In Netflix's The Politician (2019–2020), he portrayed River Barkley, the lover and high-school political rival of Payton Hobart (Ben Platt).

[26][27][28] Corenswet next starred as Jack Castello[29][30] in Hollywood (2020), a Netflix limited series about the post-World War II film business in Los Angeles.

"[33] He also expressed interest in portraying Superman and hoped to eventually see a bright and optimistic version of the character after providing positive feedback about the dark and gritty tone in Man of Steel (2013).

[34] In We Own This City (2022), a fact-based[35] HBO limited series from The Wire's writers and executive producers David Simon and George Pelecanos, Corenswet co-starred as the veteran police investigator David McDougall, whose work in 2016 helped uncover years of corruption in the Gun Trace Task Force of the Baltimore police department.

[39][40] In 2024, along with Lucy Boynton, Justin H. Min, and Austin Crute, Corenswet co-stars in The Greatest Hits, a film for Searchlight Pictures written, directed, and produced by Ned Benson.

[44] Corenswet also appeared alongside Natalie Portman in the Apple TV+ series Lady in the Lake, directed by Alma Har'el.