Streaming Day 2025: Bridgerton To Heartstopper, Top 10 OTT Shows For Every Mood

Streaming Day 2025: We all know about Netflix, Prime Video, JioHotStar, and more such popular streaming platforms that have made entertainment easy and accessible for us all. But do we know about the day that honors them?

National Streaming Day 2025

For the unversed, 20th May is National Streaming Day every year to celebrate streaming media and the advancements of technology that made it possible. It is an unofficial holiday started in 2014 by Roku to celebrate the anniversary of their first streaming device launch, The Netflix Player, on May 20, 2008.

Bridgerton(All Seasons)

Mood: Romantic Fantasy 

If you are looking for an escape from the real world because the corporate coffee is stripping your luster, then you need lush gowns, longing gazes, and scandalous affairs. Bridgerton, streaming on Netflix, is just the show to help you get that. This is your perfect fantastical getaway from Lady Whistledown’s scandalous paper to Anthony Briderton’s obsessive love for Kate. 

Adolescence

Mood: Coming-of-age/Social Issues

If you are craving something intense and relatable starring a young protagonist navigating his hormonal mess of social conditioning, then Adolescence on Netflix can take you to the time when being a teenager took a toll on what you did and how you did it. 

The White Lotus 

Mood: Dark Satire 

So what if you cannot go on a staycation, a Prime Video anthology can take you there. Tune into The White Lotus to experience what the lives of the rich are like as they make messy and morally questionable decisions.

The Last of Us

Mood: Apocalyptic 

The world around you seems to be crumbling down? Then why not watch a show that is set in a post-apocalyptic world with gut-wrenching visuals and nail-biting tension? Streaming on JioHostar

The Family Man 

Mood: Desi Action 

If you want to watch something exciting but also rooted in the mundane of everyday middle-class life, then Srikant Tiwari’s dual life as a world-class spy and a middle-class husband and father is for you. Streaming on Prime Video.

Mirzapur 

Mood: Gritty Desi Gangster Drama 

All things guns and gaalis (abuses), Mirzapur on Prime Video is one of the first popular dramas of the Indian OTT scene. The desi gangsters from the lanes of Uttar Pradesh can surely sweep you off your feet quite literally with a gritty action drama.  

Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story 

Mood: Underdog High 

Feeling like the world around you does not acknowledge your potential? Don’t worry, Harshad Mehta would have. This is your moment to live the rags-to-riches story on screen until it becomes a reality for you as well. Stream it on Sony Liv.

Fleabag

Mood: Existential Comedy (Hot Priest Of course!)

A commendable show breaking the fourth wall to communicate with its viewers in surreality, Fleabag, streaming on Netflix, is most relatable when you are questioning your life. And can you ignore the hot priest, a man who is charismatic and communicative!

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Mood: Witty and Empowering 

In the mood for smashing patriarchy and cutting casual sexism short? Watch Midge Maisel on Prime Video leave the comfort of her conventional home to pursue stand-up comedy as a woman in the 1950s. 

Heartstopper

Mood: Wholesome and Queer 

When the world seems to be too crude and harsh, take refuge in a tender and inclusive teen comed ,(which is not for teens alone) to swoon you with love, affection, and friendship.