2025 confirms itself as an extraordinary year for television series, with productions awarded by critics and the public. From Apple TV to Netflix, from Sky to Disney+, here are all the titles to binge watch with plots and streaming platforms.
The small screen has never been so big: 2025 has confirmed television series as the public’s favorite form of storytelling, with streaming platforms and traditional networks that have often surpassed many film productions in quality and complexity. So, waiting for new productions and the expected returns of 2026the Christmas holidays are the ideal time to recover from the corporate dystopia of Split and the sequence plans of Adolescence or the cynicism and tension of Slow Horses and the science fiction maturity of Andor.
Stranger Things
You can’t help but start with Stranger Thingswhose long-awaited final season was released on Netflix from November 27th with the first 4 episodes, followed by further releases staggered until the grand finale on New Year’s Eve. Nine years after their explosive debut, the series brings the saga of the boys to a close Hawkins and paranormal phenomena Upside downwhich began with the passing of Will Byers in 1983. Ideal for a Christmas full of drama and comedy in the style of classic productions such as Stand by Me oh Goonies mixed with supernatural horror.
Split
Split debuted with the second season on January 17, confirming itself as one of the most ambitious and disturbing productions on the contemporary serial scene. The series follows Mark Scout and his colleagues at Lumon Industriesundergoing a surgical procedure that completely divides their work memories from their personal ones. A separation between the “innate” self at work and the “external” self that generates increasingly dramatic consequences. The complex plot and dystopian theme of the work made this production one of the best in recent years.
Pluribus
Pluribusthe new sci-fi series from Gilligan winscreator of breaking Badis available on Apple TV starting November 7th with 9 episodes released weekly every Friday until December 26th. Presented as a science fiction dramedy, the series sees a pandemic of happiness infect the entire planet, but Carolplayed by Rhea SeehornKim’s Better Call Saulis the only one left immune and tries to make the world less joyful and more sensible.
Slow Horses
Now a security every year, Slow Horses is back with the fifth season from September 24th on Apple TVwhich ended in 6 episodes. The series continues to tell the story of the nags, the outcast MI5 agents relegated to the Pantano house, led by the cynical Jackson Lambplayed by a Gary Oldman in a state of grace. Based on the novels by Mick Herronthe English school production doesn’t invent anything new in the spy genre, but it does it very well by mixing thriller and British black comedy. Renewed every year with a now consolidated formula which even includes a preview of the following season at the end of the last episode: the sixth season is already ready and the seventh is in production.
The Studio
The Studioa comedy series set in the world of Hollywood, triumphed at the Emmys 2025confirming itself among the most popular productions of the year for its ability to show satire of the entertainment industry from the inside. Seth Rogen in the role of Matt Remickand the new head of a failing movie studio struggling to produce successful films amid corporate pressure from Griffin Mill played by Bryan Cranstonnarcissistic and compromised artists of the world of Hollywood.
Adolescence
Another series awarded at the 2025 Emmys is Adolescenceas best miniseries. The British production tells the story of a teenager accused of murder, exploring themes such as school bullying, social isolation, mental health and online radicalization linked to the incel phenomenon. Each episode is shot in a single take, without hidden cuts.
M – the son of the century
Available on Sky And Now with 8 episodes directed by Joe Wright, M – The son of the centurywith Luca Marinelli, is based on the novel Premio Strega by Antonio Scurati and narrates the rise to power of Benito Mussolini from 1919 to 1925, from the foundation of the Fasci di Combattimento until the establishment of the dictatorship. The magazine Time placed the series in fourth place among the best television productions of 2025.
The Pitt
The Pittthe medical drama with Noah Wyleis available on Sky And Now from September 24th. The series won 5 Emmy and has been defined as a return to the great classic style ERideal for binge watching: set over 15 hours in the emergency room of a hospital in Pittsburghwith each episode chronicling an hour in the life of medical personnel between emergencies and ethical decisions.
Daredevil: Born Again
The devil from Hell’s Kitchen is back up Daredevil: Born Again Of Disney+with season two already confirmed in production. The series practically represents the fourth season of Daredevil after three historic seasons Netflix who redefined the television comic book between 2015 and 2018. The blind lawyer Matt Murdock played by Charlie Cox and the Kingpin Of Vincent D’Onofrio they keep the drama and brutality of the Netflix series intact, far from the Disney-friendly and friendly style of the cinematic MCU. The Christmas holidays are the ideal time to catch up on the three old seasons passed from Netflix to Disney+.
Andor
Andorthe second and final season of the prequel to Star Warsit’s up Disney+ and was praised as the best product of the new unfortunate course of the saga created by George Lucas in the Disney era. Mature and dramatic, set five years before the events of Rogue Onethe series relives the journey of Cassian Andor played by Diego Luna in his gradual journey towards the Rebellion against the oppression and totalitarianism of the Empire. Despite fans’ initial fear of compressing multiple expected seasons into a single final one, the writing and depth confirmed it Andor as a production that transcends the franchise to which it belongs.
