Lockdown is still active in some regions and covid blues are all over the world. It is still scary to go out for a chill weekend and have fun. The best possible way of lifting our mood on a weekend is binge-watching a great web series. In this monsoon season, Disney+Hotstar brings you thrilling and exciting shows which will keep you hooked. We have listed the best web series on Disney+Hotstar to watch that can help you sail through these tough times and keep you entertained as well.

Hollywood Series on Disney+ Hotstar

Are you aware that web series like Money Heist, The Peaky Blinders and Stranger Things are releasing new seasons shortly? While you wait for those, here is a list of some of the best web series you could stream on Disney+ Hotstar in the meantime.

1. Silicon Valley

• Cast: Thomas Middleditch, T.J. Miller, Kumail Nanjiani, Zach Woods, and Jimmy O. Yang.
• Genre: Comedy
• Seasons Available: 6
• IMDb rating: 8.5/10
• Dates the show was aired: 2014-2019

Silicon Valley is a comedy web series that revolves around 5 guys struggling to make it big in the highly competitive tech city with the same name. It gives us a backdoor view of all the nuances that go in the boardroom of the top tech companies and also the silly attitude of the tech billionaires. This show talks about the struggles of working in a top IT company and the struggles of living in Silicon Valley.

The comic timing of the characters and the plot keeps us hooked to our screen. Silicon Valley features some of the best stand-up comedians, which makes the show worth watching. It is a light-hearted comedy show and can be viewed by people of any group.

2. How I Met Your Mother

• Cast: Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Neil Patrick Harris, Cobie Smulders, and Alyson Hannigon.
• Genre: Comedy, Drama.
• Seasons Available: 9
• IMDb rating: 8.3/10
• Dates the show was aired: 2005-2014

“How I met your mother” is probably one of the best and most viewed sitcoms of the 90’s generation and is now available on Disney+Hotstar. This is a romantic comedy show which revolves around 5 friends trying to make a living and finding love in New York City. The short episodes and great humor in the show make it one of the best to binge-watch.

How I met your mother is about 5 friends, 3 among them are flat-mates, and tells us about their dating, professional life and the struggles they face to find love in their life while making a living in New York.

3. The Mandalorian

• Cast: Pedro Pascal, Dave Filoni, Gina Carano, Carl Weathers, Nick Nolte, and Emily Swallow.
• Genre: Action, Drama.
• Seasons Available: 2
• IMDb rating: 8.8/10
• Dates the show was aired: 2019 onwards

The Mandalorian is part of the highly acclaimed Star Wars franchise and tells the story of a lone gunfighter in the outer extremes of the galaxy. The amazing graphics and the VFX used to develop the show give a visual treat to our eyes. The action scenes, the fighting sequences, and the adventure-filled storyline take the viewer on a ride to a new fantasy world.

The Mandalorian is created by Jon Favreau who is known to make award-winning shows and movies. This show features Pedro Pascal in the lead role. The storyline will keep you hooked to your screens.

4. 24

• Cast: Carlos Bernard, Elisha Cutbert, Kiefer Sutherland, and Mary Lynn Rajskub.
• Genre: Crime, Thriller.
• Seasons Available: 9
• IMDb rating: 8.3/10
• Dates the show was aired: 2001-2014

24 is an Emmy award-winning show which promises a nail-biting thrilling experience. This show is based on a counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer in which he fights the bad guys. The show 24 revolves around the day-to-day challenges that the protagonist and his team face while fighting for his country.

24 is very well-written with great graphics and action sequences. This makes it worth watching and is a visual treat to its viewers. The storyline offers a thrilling experience as the lead untangles the traces of terrorism in his country.

5. Girls

• Cast: Jemima Kirke, Adam Driver, Zosia Mamet, Lena Dunham, and Allison Williams.
• Genre: Comedy, Drama.
• Seasons Available: 6
• IMDb rating: 7.3/10
• Dates the show was aired: 2012-2017

Girls is a light-hearted comedy-drama and also an Emmy award-winner . It is perfect for rom-com lovers and is also one of the best romantic web series on Disney plus hotstar. This show promises unlimited laughter and giggles which makes it perfect for binge-watching. The story revolves around Hannah, an aspiring writer; she believes she has what it takes to be a successful writer, but only if she would write something.

The series-Girls also focuses on her three friends and their romantic misadventures while trying to find love and make a living in New York City. This show is perfect to watch if you are looking to watch something light-hearted comedy-drama with your friends.

Bollywood Series on Disney+ Hotstar

Now that you know about some of the top English web series, here are some of the best hotstar hindi web series on Disney+ Hotstar.

1. Criminal Justice

• Cast: Rucha Inamdar, Anupriya Goenka, and Pankaj Tripathi.
• Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
• Seasons Available: 1
• IMDb rating: 8.1/10
• Dates the show was aired: 2019 onwards

Criminal Justice is an action-packed exciting thriller which tells us the story of how the protagonist’s life changes after being falsely accused of murder. It promises exciting nail-biting suspense. The show is a remake of the BBC series Criminal Justice. The performance of the lead roles makes it perfect to binge-watch.

Criminal Justice also offers legal drama as the lead struggles to prove himself innocent but he forgets everything. This is the perfect show to watch if you are looking to watch something exciting and thrilling. The suspense and the thrills in this show will make you skip a beat.

2. Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai

• Cast: Sumeet Raghavan, Rajesh Kumar, Satish Shah, Rupali Ganguly and Ratna Pathak Shah.
• Genre: Comedy, Drama.
• Seasons Available: 2
• IMDb rating: 8.8/10
• Dates the show was aired: 2004-2017

Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai is one of the best Hindi comedy shows ever made and is now available on Disney+ Hotstar. The show tells us the story of a rich Indian family and the chaos that happens when one of the boys from the family marries a middle-class woman.

Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai is one of the wittiest comedy shows ever made as it has great punch lines and well-written humor. This show will leave you in splits by the idiosyncrasies of the character. The performance of the artists and the screenplay makes it perfect to binge-watch.

3. Aarya

• Cast: Chandrachur Singh, Susmita sen and Sikander Kher.
• Genre: Crime, Thriller.
• Seasons Available: 1
• IMDb rating: 7.9/10
• Dates the show was aired: 2020 onwards

Aarya is one of the best Indian crime drama web series on Hotstar. The show is a remake of the Dutch series Penoza. Susmita Sen stars in the lead role of this show that offers nail-biting suspense.

Aarya revolves around a caring mother and her daughter, though the mother is naïve and doesn’t know about the illegal business of her husband; things take a turn when her husband, a pharma baron, is killed mysteriously. Aarya joins the drug mafia to take revenge even while taking care of her children. This show is one of the best Disney+ Hotstar originals and is a perfect web series to binge-watch.

4. Special OPS

• Cast: Kay Kay Menon, Karan Tacker, Vipul Gupta and Meher Vij.
• Genre: Crime, Thriller.
• Seasons Available: 1
• IMDb rating: 8.6/10
• Dates the show was aired: 2020 onwards

Special OPS promises action and thrill-packed drama. The show is based on some of the real espionage missions undertaken by India. It tells us the stories of an agent working for the Research and Analysis Wing who is sure that some of the terrorist attacks that have happened in the country are masterminded by a single person.

Special OPS tells us about the struggles faced by our secret agents working outside our country. The protagonist goes on to the journey of finding the terrorist. This show offers great action sequences and suspense which makes it perfect for binge-watching.

5. Hostages

• Cast: Ronit Roy, Parvin Dabas, Tisca Chopra and Aashim Gulati.
• Genre: Mystery, Crime, Thriller.
• Seasons Available: 2
• IMDb rating: 6.9/10
• Dates the show was aired: 2019-2020

Hostages is a Hostar Originals web series that features Ronit Roy in the lead. It has won Gold Awards for the best drama series. The show revolves around the conspiracy to murder a Chief Minister and a Doctor who is about to perform surgery on the Minister but instead taken as a hostage. Hostages is filled with endless mysteries and has a great action sequence that keeps the viewers on their nerves.

Hostages is a critically acclaimed and well-written series. The great performance by the cast and the thrilling suspense makes it one among the best web series on hotstar.

Stay Tuned To Enjoy Your Weekends!

We hope the above-mentioned movies can help you come out of the Covid blues and can make your weekends exciting! Stay with us for updates on the new web series on hotstar and other OTT platforms!