What I Watched on Netflix in 2025

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This is a list of what I watched on Netflix in 2025, and that I particularly liked in some way. The shows are listed in alphabetical order. There is a summary of what each one is about.

These movies are ones that the storyline stayed with me for a while after I watched them. They are action films, thrillers, and dramas.

Movies:

1. Carry On – Jason Bateman blackmails a young TSA officer into allowing a nerve agent on board a flight, which will kill 250 and people, during Christmas Eve
2. iHostage – When a gunman enters an Apple Store in the heart of Amsterdam, the police face a delicate challenge to resolve the stand-off.
3. It Ends With Us – Blake Lively plays florist Lily Bloom (Lively), whose abusive relationship with neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid (Justin Baldoni) is compounded when her ex-boyfriend Atlas Corrigan re-enters her life.
4. Leave the World Behind – Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke on a family vacation on Long Island, which is interrupted by two strangers bearing news of a blackout. Both families must decide how best to survive the potential crisis. All while grappling with their own place in this collapsing world.
5. Mudbound – The film depicts two World War II veterans – one white, one black – who return to rural Mississippi to address racism and PTSD in his own way.
6. The Covenant – The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal. A U.S. Army Green Beret Master Sergeant is sent home after surviving a Taliban ambush and a harrowing trek to safety. He plans a subsequent journey to rescue Ahmed, his Afghan interpreter, whom John feels indebted to for saving his life.
7. The Lincoln Lawyer – Matthew McConaughey is a a Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who operates out of the backseat of a chauffeur-driven Lincoln Town Car.
8. The Woman in Cabin 10 – Keira Knightley stars as a journalist on a lavish yacht for an assignment. She sees a passenger go overboard. But when no one believes her, she risks her life to uncover the truth.
9. Train Dreams – Robert Grainier lives all of his years in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, working on the land, helping to create a new world at the turn of the 20th century.
10. Wind River – Jeremy Renner is a wildlife officer who finds the body of an 18-year-old woman on an Indian reservation in snowy Wyoming. When the autopsy reveals that she was raped, FBI agent Jane Banner arrives to investigate.

Top 3 Choices

My top three picks, or the movies I enjoyed the most, were Mudbound, Train Dreams, and Wind River.

TV Streaming Series:

The following streaming Netflix series are in alphabetical order, and are ones I particularly enjoyed watching. I added a summary for each show.

1. Adolescence – A 13-year-old boy is arrested after the murder of a girl in his school. Each episode was shot in a single continuous take.
2. Animal Kingdom – Based on the Australian series of the same name, the Codys run a criminal family enterprise in Oceanside, California, governed by the respected matriarch Janine “Smurf” Cody.
3. Black Doves – British spy action thriller about a spies-for-hire organisation that obtains secrets for the highest bidder
4. Black Rabbit – The owner of a New York City hotspot allows his chaotic brother back into his life, and he opens the door to escalating dangers that threaten to bring down everything he’s built.
5. Dark Winds – The series follows three Navajo Tribal Police officers, Joe Leaphorn, Bernadette Manuelito, and Jim Chee, in the 1970s Four Corners area of the American Southwest.
6. Dept. Q – The Scottish government has decided to temporarily concentrate on unsolved crimes to improve public opinion regarding the police force with good headlines.
7. Homeland – Claire Danes, a CIA officer with bipolar disorder, is convinced that decorated Marine Corps scout sniper Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis) was “turned” by al-Qaeda and poses a threat to the United States.
8. Mind Hunter – The detective series follows the founding of the Behavioral Science Unit in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the late 1970s and the beginning of criminal profiling.
9. The Beast in Me – Claire Danes is an author who begins writing a book about her new next-door neighbor, a real estate executive who allegedly killed his wife.
10. Untamed – In the vast expanse of Yosemite National Park, a woman’s death draws a federal agent into lawless terrain, where nature obeys no rules but its own.

Dept Q, starring Matthew Goode, has been renewed for a second season. The darkly humorous show takes the viewer into the complex mysteries of the cases and of the detectives themselves.

Season 1 spent six weeks in the Global Top Ten shows on Netflix. The Dept Q series is based on the novels by Jussi Adler-Olsen. There is no solid date for the premiere of season two.

Untamed, starring Eric Bana, has been renewed for a second season. It is a character-driven mystery thriller that follows Kyle Turner, a special agent in an elite branch of the National Parks Service who works to enforce human law in nature’s vast wilderness.

Season 1 of the new Yosemite-set mystery series hit No. 1 on the global Top 10 English TV list, with 24.6 million views.

Production for Untamed is set to get underway in February 2026.

Top 3 Choices

My top 3 picks, or the series I enjoyed the most, were Adolescence, Animal Kingdom, and The Beast in Me.

My TV Routine:

I like to watch TV in my bedroom with the blackout curtains drawn so that I feel as though I’m in a movie theater. There is no TV in my living room, per my choice. I tend to watch TV more often at night for this reason.