Streaming platforms largely played it safe in 2025. Amidst talk of budget cuts and skittishness over new launches, streaming services opted to continue existing shows rather than take a chance with new titles. Despite the challenges, the year saw a decent number of original series across genres.
Black White & Gray The best streaming series of 2025 by leaps and bounds. Pushkar Mahabal’s genre-defying Hindi show brilliantly weaves together a supposed documentary about a serial killer with an account of the killers’ victims.
The Scroll review observed: “The series takes viewers through a warren of half-truths and self-serving lies, reminding us that murkiness underpins assumptions about innocence and complicity.”
Available on Sony LIV.
Perfect Family This compelling series follows a family that is dysfunctional in the most functional way. The Karkaria clan is forced to seek group therapy after the 11-year-old granddaughter has an episode at school. The sessions reveal each character’s unhealed wounds and crushed desires.
“Powered by an excellent cast as well as insightful writing and direction, Perfect Family doles out valuable home truths about the most basic social unit,” said the Scroll review.
Available on YouTube.
Source: The best Indian streaming shows of 2025: Black White & Gray, Khauf and more
