Top 8 must-watch new English series of 2025: Pluribus to Dept Q, Task and more

It's not easy to pick a list of the top series that dropped on OTT, given the sheer number and variety that was on offer. Yet, here are a few titles that grabbed eyeballs in the year gone by

The best new English series of 2025

It was a great year for fans of long-form story-telling. There were returning seasons of popular shows across genres like Stranger Things, Severance, Mayor of Kingstown , Tulsa King , Silo, The White Lotus , Reacher, The Summer I Turned Pretty, Fallout, High Potential , Poker Face , Elsbeth , Landman , Hacks , The Bear , Only Murders in the Building , Abbot Elementary , Slow Horses, Daredevil Born Again , The Diplomat, among so many others, that were on pretty much everyone’s binge-lists.

But there were also a bunch of new additions that grabbed eyeballs almost instantly. While the initial intrigue for most was driven by the star cast and/or creators, and then, of course, for the content, a few, like The Chair Company, for instance, worked primarily because of the merit in the story-telling about the conspiracy behind a faulty chair.

Here’s a look at a few new English series of 2025 that we think should be on everyone’s must-watch list if they aren’t already…

Pluribus

From the maker of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, Vince Gilligan, comes a new series, Pluribus, about an alien virus that turns all but 13 people on earth into a blissfully happy hive mind. While most of the 13 accept the new order of things, one, Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn), tries to save humanity by reversing whatever’s been done to them.

Set in Albuquerque, the sci-fi show Pluribus has a total of nine episodes, ending on Boxing Day. The show has been renewed for a second season.

Streaming on: Apple TV+

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The Chair Company

When the facilities manager of a new big mall has a humiliating fall at the launch event, when the chair he sits on gives way, his attempts to file a complaint with the manufacturing brand leads him on an obsessive investigation into a scam about used chairs being refurbished and sold as new.

Actor and comedian Tim Robinson, best known for his stint on Saturday Night Live, leads the 8-episode comedy thriller.

Streaming on: JioHotstar (Via OTTplay Premium also)

Dept Q

DCI Morck (Matthew Goode) and his partner James Hardy’s visit to a murder crime scene, takes an ugly turn, when they are ambushed by the perpetrator that a rookie officer failed to notice during a perimeter check. In the attack, the rookie is killed, Hardy takes a bullet that leaves him paralyzed waist down, while Morck also sustains injuries. Taken off active duty, DCI Morck ‘s return sees him exiled to the basement and asked to drive a cold-case unit. He and his civilian partner take on the case of a missing prosecutor. The series, set in Scotland, has 9 episodes and has been renewed for a second season.

Streaming on: Netflix

The Studio

Long-time studio executive Matt Remick (Seth Rogen) dream of someday heading Continental Studios comes true, when his boss is fired. But his desire to make high-quality meaningful cinema is quashed, when it is made abundantly clear to him that all that matters are money-spinners, no matter how absurd the content is. To start with, he has to deliver a billion-dollar franchise based on the Kool-Aid Man. The 10-episode satire is the closest one gets to see the real workings of a Hollywood Studio.

Streaming on: Apple TV+

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Paradise

Three years after a Doomsday level event, a select number of ‘survivors’ live in a crime-free underground bunker, awaiting the day it becomes safe to venture out again. The peace and quiet of this city are disturbed when their President, Cal Bradford (James Marsden), is found dead, and is security detail, Special Agent Xavier Collins (Sterling K Brown) becomes the chief suspect. While trying to clear his name, Xavier stumbles upon disturbing information that the people of ‘Paradise’ had been lied to and that there were survivors outside the dome they call home, including his presumed-dead wife. The 8-episode series has been renewed for a second season.

Streaming on: JioHotstar (via OTTplay Premium also)

Down Cemetery Road

Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson lead the 8-part adaptation of the 2003 novel by Mick Heron. The show follows Sarah Strafford (Wilson), who hires a private investigator to look into the disappearance of a neighbour’s young daughter, after a gas explosion kills the parents. But when the investigator is found dead of apparent suicide, Sarah and the former’s wife, Zoe Boehm (Thompson) uncover a government conspiracy about a chemical weapon test on UK soldiers and the lengths official agencies go to cover it up.

Streaming on: Apple TV+

Mobland

This 10-episode British crime drama follows the Harrigan crime family, led by Conrad (Pierce Brosnan) and Maeve (Helen Mirren), and their feud with another such family, the Stevensons. Tom Hardy fills in as a fixer for the Harrigans, who tries to mitigate the escalating conflict between the two families that threatens their empires.

Streaming on JioHotstar (via OTTplay Premium also)

Task

The FBI sets up a cross-agency task force led by Special Agent Tom Brandis (Mark Ruffalo), to investigate a spate of robberies at drug houses, after one such hit goes south and people end up dead and a child goes missing. The drug houses belong to biker gang Dark Hearts and are hit on days they are cash rich. As the FBI investigates, the Dark Hearts also set out to find out who this crew is and where they stashed drugs worth millions stolen from the last house they hit.

Streaming on JioHotstar (via OTTplay Premium also)

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No list would be complete without the limited series Adolescence. The show follows the aftermath of the death of a young girl, murdered by her 13-year classmate Jamie Miller, who feigns innocence for the longest, but eventually begins to show toxic traits and the influence of online extremist groups. The psychological drama created by Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham won an Emmy for Outstanding Limited series, apart from direction and acting awards for Graham, Owen Cooper and Erin Doherty.

2025 English series FAQs

Q: Did The Studio win at the Emmys 2025?

A: Seth Rogen won three Emmys for writing, directing, and starring in The Studio.

Q: Which series won Best Drama Series at the Emmy Awards 2025?

A: The Pitt won Outstanding Drama Series at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards 2025.

Q: Which show won Best Comedy Series at the 2025 Emmys?

A: The Studio won Outstanding Comedy Series, along with multiple other awards including acting, directing, and writing.

Q. Where to watch the series, Task?

A. The HBO original series Task is on JioHotstar in India. It can be watched via OTTplay Premium as well.

Q. Who leads the series Task?

A. Task is headed by Mark Ruffalo as an FBI special agent, leading a task force investigating a spate of robberies.

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