Getting bored in quarantine? Looking for your next series obsession to help fill the extra time during lockdown. Well you’ve come to the right place to find out the best original series to watch during your quarantine period.
OTT media services like Amazon Prime, Voot, Hotstar, Zee5 are constantly adding new original series and old favorites for its viewers. Many of the streaming service has a mind-blowing and amazing series to binge right now. Be it a fascinating documentary, funny comedy or an action pack thriller romance, there’s at your fingertips on streaming platforms. To make things easy for you, we’ve picked the best original series to watch right now.
1. Too Hot to Handle, Netflix
A reality television dating game show with a bevy of attractive young people living together in a luxurious, tropical location. The eight-episode series, which is now streaming in full. Too Hot To Handle just hits differently during the quarantine, but it might also scratch your nostalgic itch for classic sitcoms. The host of the series is a virtual assistant, who will give the cast the rules they must follow for the season. Overall this show might give you flashbacks to your high school years when love and affection also seemed out of reach.
2. Money Heist, Netflix
A Spanish television crime drama series – originally called La Casa de Papel. It has emerged as the most watched original series worldwide. The series traces two heists by the Professor, one of the Royal Mint of Spain, and one on the Bank of Spain. There’s an undoubtable pulp element to Money Heist charging through scenes with a pop cultural savvy. Consisting of four seasons on Netflix, Money Heist is a worth watching during the lockdown.
3. Stranger Things, Netflix
Stranger Things is an American science fiction, drama-horror web television series. The show takes place in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana in the early-to-mid 1980s. The story revolves around four friends, the upside down world, demogorgons (monsters/ Mind Flayer). One of the friend ‘Will’ goes missing, And this leads to a wonderful mystery. Three seasons have three different interesting stories. It’s definitely one of the best shows to binge watch.
4. Special Ops, Disney+ Hotstar
Special Ops is an espionage thriller that chronicles the 19-year manhunt conducted by Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) officer and his task force to capture the mastermind behind major terror attacks in India. All that contributes into making a show that drags its feet moment by moment, scene by scene, and ultimately, episode by episode. Worth watch! A straightforward action thriller. All eight episodes of Special Ops are now streaming on Hotstar worldwide.
5. Asur, Voot
A unique crime thriller that pits two opposing worlds against each other. The less explored, intricate world of forensic science and the deep mysticism of ancient Indian Mythology. The psychological thriller is a murder mystery with enough of charred and mutilated bodies. The show, arrives at a dark time with bodies still being fished out of drains in Delhi and a divided world seems to be tearing itself apart in the name of religion. A mix of CID, Crime Patrol and Sacred Games, the web show is the best to watch.
6. Sex Education, Netflix
Sex Education is a British comedy-drama web television series. A show about a boy: Otis Milburn, teenage son of an acclaimed sex therapist, who becomes an armchair sex guru for his classmates as they explore their burgeoning sexual identities. It became a critical and commercial success for Netflix, with over 40 million viewers streaming. A must watch for all those who haven’t yet seen the series.
7. Little Things, Netflix
Little Things, a web series created by Pocket Aces under their channel Dice Media is a slice-of-life romantic comedy series that chronicles the sweet little things in the everyday life of a young couple. The story of Little Things revolves around a couple in their mid-twenties, who are unmarried but are living in together. Set in Mumbai, it’s about the couple appreciating the little things in their lives instead of waiting for big moments to happen. Each episode has its own story that flows and nourishes the soul. Little Things is thus nothing but a soft and gentle reminder that nothing really matters, except the little things.
8. Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Prime Video
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan is an action drama series that based on the Jack Ryan Franchise. Jack Ryan is a financial analyst that later joined the U.S. Marine Corps and served in Afghanistan. An up-and-coming CIA analyst, is thrust into a dangerous field assignment as he uncovers a pattern in terrorist communication. Definitely, a must watch series with excellent acting and writing!
9. Narcos, Netflix
Narcos is an American crime drama web television series. It tells the true-life story of the growth and spread of cocaine drug cartels across the globe. A chronicled look at the criminal exploits of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, as well as the many other drug kingpins who plagued the country through the years. A great show to watch to know about the incredible story of Pablo Escobar.
10. Hostages, Disney+ Hotstar
Hostages is an Indian crime thriller web series which is an official adaptation of an Israeli series of the same name. Four masked men break into the Anand family home, taking them hostage. Pushed into a do-or-die situation, Dr. Mira Anand has to make a choice. Will she take a life or save lives? Do watch the series to find out.
So, here’s our pick of the 10 best original series on the streaming service right now from the award-winning drama to most watched web series, such as one of the biggest TV sensations of 2020 so far.
So stop scrolling and start watching!