Our Holiday 2025 Binge-Watch List
Celebrate some "you time" this holiday season by cozying up on the couch and finally catching up on the shows that everyone is talking about. Here are 20 of our current favorites for binge-watching! Image: iStock
As we prep for festivities and unwind afterwards, it’s nice to catch up on the shows everyone’s been talking about … and maybe find some gems of your own to share. We’ve compiled a fully updated binge-watch list of TV series perfect for the holiday break. Whether you’re looking for a bit of drama, suspense, or laughs, we have you covered.
TWISTY DOMESTIC/FAMILY THRILLERS
The Girlfriend
This psychological thriller weaponizes a terrifying premise: meeting “the new person” in your child’s life and realizing your instincts might be right … or they might be destroying everything. Robin Wright stars (and directs) as Laura, whose seemingly stable world fractures when her son’s girlfriend sparks a spiral of suspicion, class tension, and increasingly unsettling truths. This is sleekly twisty and shockingly messy.
Number of seasons: 1
Where to watch: Prime Video
All Her Fault
Marissa (Sarah Snook from Succession) arrives to pick up her son from a playdate, but the woman who answers the door insists she has no idea what Marissa is talking about. This initial shock begins a broader excavation of secrets, optics, and the cracks in a “perfect” life. Another one that leaves you speechless and confused until the last episode.
Number of seasons: 1
Where to watch: Peacock
The Better Sister
This limited series is a family secrets pressure cooker: two sisters with a complicated past are pulled back into each other’s orbit when a shocking crime detonates one sister’s high-society coastal life. Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks are terrific as the central duo, and it’s a perfect holiday binge because the episodes play like dominoes. Everyone is a suspect until the last episode.
Number of seasons: 1
Where to watch: Prime Video
The Beast In Me
This limited thriller is a tense psychological duel when a famous author (played by Claire Danes) becomes obsessed with her wealthy new neighbor (Matthew Rhys), who may have killed his wife. The “investigation” becomes a mind game riddled with grief, power, and credibility. You’ll click “next episode” without thinking.
Number of seasons: 1
Where to watch: Netflix
Your Friends & Neighbors
Another knockout drama from Apple TV that seems to have been written for Jon Hamm. When his financial titan character finds himself divorced and jobless, he’s forced to ask how far he’ll go to maintain a cushy lifestyle, circle of friends, and sense of normalcy. The ending is 10-out-of-10, no-notes good.
Number of seasons: 1
Where to watch: Apple TV
Tell Me Lies
This show is like watching a crash you cannot look away from. Set against a backdrop of messy college years, toxic relationships, and questionable life choices, it just seems to get better and twistier with each season. It’s a worthy masterclass in narcissism and psychological abuse. A new season is coming January 13, so catch up on the first two now.
Number of seasons: 2
Where to watch: Hulu
POLITICAL/GOVERNMENT THRILLERS
Task
Everyone’s been talking about this one, and for good reason. Task is a bleak but riveting HBO crime series about an FBI agent leading a Philadelphia task force investigating a string of violent stash-house robberies tied to outlaw motorcycle gangs. Mark Ruffalo stars as the complicated, disgruntled FBI agent Tom Brandis opposite Tom Pelphrey, and the cat-and-mouse tension makes you watch two episodes when you planned on one.
Number of seasons: 1
Where to watch: HBO Max
Slow Horses
Oscar-winner Gary Oldman leads a vibrant cast of dysfunctional characters in this quick-witted British spy drama. Each season brings a new threat to England’s national security, and a mismatched team of M15 agents and their relentless boss tries to outwit many forces for the good of their country. The show’s fifth season just wrapped, so you’ll have a lot to binge!
Number of seasons: 5
Where to watch: Apple TV
The Diplomat
In this utterly binge-able show, the diplomat (Keri Russell) is juggling global crises, a crumbling marriage, and enough backroom scheming to make House of Cards look like amateur hour. The stakes are high, the dialogue is whip-smart, and every episode leaves you wondering if she can actually quell the latest fire. The third season was recently released, so get watching!
Number of seasons: 3
Where to watch: Netflix
SCI-FI & DYSTOPIAN
Pluribus
Vince Gilligan’s (of Breaking Bad fame) new sci-fi drama drops you into a world altered by “The Joining,” a phenomenon that pushes humanity into a serene, hive-mind happiness. The few people who can’t be absorbed and are still capable of independent thought become the story’s rare (and endangered) outliers. This one is twisty and philosophical with Vince Gilligan’s signature dark humor, moral traps, and cliffhangers.
Number of seasons: 1
Where to watch: Apple TV
Stranger Things
Now in its final season, Netflix’s supernatural blockbuster follows kids in small-town 1980s Indiana as a missing-boy mystery cracks open into government conspiracies, telekinesis, monsters, and the nightmare realm known as the Upside Down. The show’s blend of nostalgia, horror, and friendship is essentially engineered for winter binge-watching. It’s a rare series where a rewatch actually pays off because the mythology stacks season to season, and there is A LOT to wrap up.
Number of seasons: 5
Where to watch: Netflix
Fallout
Based on the iconic video game franchise but fully accessible to newcomers, Fallout imagines a retro-futuristic wasteland centuries after nuclear apocalypse, where bunker-raised idealism collides with the brutal reality of the surface world. Lucy (Ella Purnell) is a Vault dweller discovering what survival actually costs, alongside Walton Goggins (a scene-stealing ghoul with a moral code). This show balances rich world-building, dark humor, and violence in a steadily unfolding mystery.
Number of seasons: 2 (currently week-to-week)
Where to watch: Prime Video
DRAMEDY & ROM-COM
Nobody Wants This
Netflix’s celebrated rom-com pairs Kristen Bell as an agnostic podcaster with Adam Brody as an unconventional rabbi. Their chemistry is electric, but nobody wants them to be together. The show tackles interfaith romance with humor and depth, making you root for this unlikely duo. Season two has recently been released and takes both the main and subplots to some engaging, heartfelt, and humorous places.
Number of seasons: 2
Where to watch: Netflix
Emily in Paris
Emily Cooper is a relentlessly optimistic American marketing exec dropped into Paris (and now Rome) and forced to navigate culture clashes, love triangles, and workplace politics with couture-level styling. The show has settled into its sweet spot as comfort TV that knows exactly what it is. The episodes are light, fast, and visually transporting. And by now there’s enough story momentum (and relationship chaos) to keep you hooked.
Number of seasons: 5
Where to watch: Netflix
Hacks
Hacks is the kind of comedy that feels like a masterclass in snark, and it’s got the Emmys to show for it. Jean Smart plays a legendary comedian trying to stay relevant in a TikTok-addicted world. Enter her entitled, down-on-her-luck millennial writer, and you’ve got a dynamic duo with endless witty banter, hilarious insults, and emotional moments that sneak up on you.
Number of seasons: 4
Where to watch: HBO Max
BASED ON TRUE EVENTS, DOCUSERIES, & REALISTIC
The Pitt
If you miss high-adrenaline hospital TV but want it with prestige realism, The Pitt is your new addiction. The award-collecting series tracks the emergency department staff of a Pittsburgh trauma center over one punishing 15-hour shift, with each episode covering roughly an hour. If you’re not squeamish, it’s a great holiday binge because you can watch an episode like a “chapter,” but the cumulative intensity makes it very hard to stop. Season two is set to begin January 8, 2026!
Number of seasons: 1
Where to watch: HBO Max
Murdaugh: Death in the Family
Hulu’s new, big, buzzy scripted saga is the latest addition to the Murdaugh content we can’t get enough of. Informed and inspired by the reporting/podcasting of Mandy Matney, it traces the Lowcountry family’s privileged dynasty, the fallout from the fatal boat crash, and the mounting mysteries orbiting Alex Murdaugh. Starring Jason Clarke, Patricia Arquette, and Brittany Snow, the acting, attention to detail, and storytelling are phenomenal.
Number of seasons: 1
Where to watch: Hulu
Sean Combs: The Reckoning
This juicy four-part Netflix series, executive-produced by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and directed by Alexandria Stapleton, chronicles P. Diddy’s rise through the Bad Boy era and the long shadow of controversies and accountability questions that surround him. It’s especially bingeable because it’s compact, headline-relevant, and built around current cultural touchstones like media control, fame, and the cost of it.
Number of seasons: 1
Where to watch: Netflix
COZY HOLIDAY SHOWS
Home for Christmas
Originally titled Hjem til jul, this Norwegian gem follows Johanne, a thirty-something woman who impulsively lies to her family about having a boyfriend, then gives herself 24 days to actually find one before Christmas Eve. What unfolds is a warm, funny, and surprisingly grounded exploration of modern dating, family expectations, loneliness, and the quiet pressures that surface during the holidays. This is the only holiday-themed show on this list, but we have a whole article on holiday movies to watch.
Number of seasons: 3
Where to watch: Netflix
The Great British Baking Show
There are few cozier, more heart-warming shows than Bake Off, especially during the holidays. Over thirteen weeks, you’ll get to love thirteen amateur bakers (who’ve fought against extreme odds to get on the show). They bake their hearts outs each week to get to the next round until a winner is crowned. A brand-new season is out, so you have much to binge!
Number of seasons: 9 (Collections 5 through 12)
Where to watch: Netflix
Happy binging!
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Zoe Yarborough
Zoe is a StyleBlueprint staff writer, Charlotte native, Washington & Lee graduate, and Nashville transplant of eleven years. She teaches Pilates, helps manage recording artists, and likes to "research" Germantown's food scene.