Best mind-bending English web series on JioHotstar in India
By the KyaDekhu team · Updated · Availability for India from JustWatch, ratings from IMDb
197 web series on JioHotstar in India match this list, with an average IMDb rating of 7.6. Newest addition: Elsbeth, added to JioHotstar on 8 Oct. Ranked by vote-weighted IMDb rating and popularity; showing the top 30.
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1. Game of Thrones (2011)
Web series · English · 8 seasons · A · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · IMDb 9.2 (26.8L votes)
Visually stunningMatureTwistyEdge-of-seat
Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horror
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2. Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005)
Web series · English · 3 seasons · U · Animation, Action & Adventure · IMDb 9.3 (4.6L votes)
Visually stunningTwistyEdge-of-seatHeartwarming
In a war-torn world of elemental magic, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic quest to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar, and bring peace to the world.
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3. The Wire (2002)
Web series · English · 5 seasons · Crime, Drama · IMDb 9.3 (4.4L votes)
Slow-burnTwistyMatureCold & detached
Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.
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4. The Sopranos (1999)
Web series · English · 6 seasons · A · Crime, Drama · IMDb 9.2 (6.0L votes)
TwistyMatureDark & grittyEdge-of-seat
The story of New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads. Those difficulties are often highlighted through his ongoing professional relationship with psychiatrist Jennifer
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5. True Detective (2014)
Web series · English · 5 seasons · U · Drama, Mystery · IMDb 8.8 (7.8L votes)
TwistySlow-burnVisually stunningMature
An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.
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6. Gravity Falls (2012)
Web series · English · 2 seasons · U · Action & Adventure, Animation · IMDb 8.9 (1.9L votes)
TwistyFunnyFast-pacedHeartwarming
Twin brother and sister Dipper and Mabel Pines are in for an unexpected adventure when they spend the summer helping their great uncle Stan run a tourist trap in the mysterious town of Gravity Falls, Oregon.
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7. Succession (2018)
Web series · English · 4 seasons · A · Drama, Comedy · IMDb 8.8 (3.7L votes)
TwistyMatureFast-pacedFunny
Follow the lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control.
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8. House (2004)
Web series · English · 8 seasons · U · Drama · IMDb 8.7 (6.0L votes)
TwistyFast-pacedCold & detachedFunny
Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.
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9. Dexter (2006)
Web series · English · 8 seasons · A · Crime, Drama · IMDb 8.6 (9.6L votes)
MatureTwistyDark & grittyEdge-of-seat
Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who have slipped through the cracks of justice.
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10. Marvel's Daredevil (2015)
Web series · English · 3 seasons · Crime, Drama · IMDb 8.6 (5.4L votes)
Visually stunningMatureEdge-of-seatTwisty
Lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock uses his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight crime at night on the streets of Hell’s Kitchen as Daredevil.
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11. This Is Us (2016)
Web series · English · 6 seasons · U · Drama · IMDb 8.7 (1.8L votes)
TwistyHeartwarmingSlow-burn
Follows the lives and families of three adults living and growing up in the United States of America in present and past times. As their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, we find that several of them share the same birthday - and so much more than anyone would expect.
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12. Six Feet Under (2001)
Web series · English · 5 seasons · A · Drama · IMDb 8.7 (1.7L votes)
MatureTwistyDark & grittySlow-burn
When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as—and far less predictable than—the one inside.
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13. Arrested Development (2003)
Web series · English · 5 seasons · Comedy · IMDb 8.6 (3.5L votes)
FunnyTwistyMatureFast-paced
The story of a wealthy family that lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together.
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14. Andor (2022)
Web series · English · 2 seasons · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure · IMDb 8.6 (2.9L votes)
Visually stunningTwistyEdge-of-seatDark & gritty
In an era filled with danger, deception and intrigue, Cassian Andor will discover the difference he can make in the struggle against the tyrannical Galactic Empire. He embarks on a path that is destined to turn him into a rebel hero.
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15. The X-Files (1993)
Web series · English · 11 seasons · U · Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · IMDb 8.6 (2.8L votes)
TwistyEdge-of-seat
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's
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16. Oz (1997)
Web series · English · 6 seasons · Crime, Drama · IMDb 8.7 (1.2L votes)
MatureCold & detachedDark & grittyEdge-of-seat
The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.
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17. Shōgun (2024)
Web series · English · 1 season · Drama, War & Politics · IMDb 8.6 (2.5L votes)
Visually stunningMatureEdge-of-seatTwisty
In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village.
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18. The Penguin (2024)
Web series · English · 1 season · Drama, Crime · IMDb 8.6 (2.5L votes)
Visually stunningMatureEdge-of-seatDark & gritty
With the city in peril following the seawall's collapse, Oswald "Oz" Cobb seeks to fill the power vacuum left by the death of Carmine Falcone and finally give his mother Francis the life he's always promised. But first, Oz must confront his enemies and his own demoralizing reputation as "the Penguin."
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19. Mr. Robot (2015)
Web series · English · 4 seasons · U/A 16+ · Crime, Drama · IMDb 8.5 (4.8L votes)
TwistyMatureDark & grittyEdge-of-seat
A young programmer, Elliot, suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the people that he cares about. Elliot finds himself in the intersection between a cybersecurity firm he works for and the underworld o
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20. Futurama (1999)
Web series · English · 11 seasons · Animation, Comedy · IMDb 8.5 (2.8L votes)
FunnyTwistyVisually stunningMature
The adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryogenically frozen for one thousand years, finds employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company in the retro-futuristic 31st century.
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21. The Last of Us (2023)
Web series · English · 2 seasons · A · Drama · IMDb 8.4 (7.5L votes)
Visually stunningMatureDark & grittyEdge-of-seat
Twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed, Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse the United States and depend on each other for su
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22. X-Men '97 (2024)
Web series · English · 2 seasons · Animation, Action & Adventure · IMDb 8.7 (60.8K votes)
Visually stunningTwistyEdge-of-seatFast-paced
The X-Men, a band of mutants who use their uncanny gifts to protect a world that hates and fears them, are challenged like never before, forced to face a dangerous and unexpected new future.
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23. Boardwalk Empire (2010)
Web series · English · 5 seasons · U · Crime, Drama · IMDb 8.5 (2.2L votes)
Visually stunningMatureTwistyCold & detached
Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the town's treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, who is equal parts politician and gangster.
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24. Supernatural (2005)
Web series · English · 15 seasons · Drama, Mystery · IMDb 8.4 (5.5L votes)
Dark & grittyTwistyMatureEdge-of-seat
When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the W
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25. How I Met Your Mother (2005)
Web series · English · 9 seasons · U · Comedy · IMDb 8.3 (7.9L votes)
TwistyFunnyHeartwarmingLow-stakes
A father recounts to his children - through a series of flashbacks - the journey he and his four best friends took leading up to him meeting their mother.
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26. Big Little Lies (2017)
Web series · English · 2 seasons · Drama · IMDb 8.4 (2.5L votes)
TwistyMatureVisually stunningDark & gritty
The tale of three mothers of first graders whose apparently perfect lives unravel to the point of murder.
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27. Mare of Easttown (2021)
Web series · English · 1 season · Drama, Crime · IMDb 8.4 (2.3L votes)
TwistyMatureDark & grittyEdge-of-seat
A detective in a small Pennsylvania town investigates a local murder while trying to keep her life from falling apart.
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28. Prison Break (2005)
Web series · English · 5 seasons · U · Action & Adventure, Crime · IMDb 8.3 (6.8L votes)
Edge-of-seatTwistyFast-pacedDark & gritty
Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside out.
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29. The Night Of (2016)
Web series · English · 1 season · Crime, Drama · IMDb 8.4 (2.0L votes)
TwistyMatureCold & detachedDark & gritty
After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and is charged with her murder.
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30. Banshee (2013)
Web series · English · 4 seasons · Crime, Drama · IMDb 8.4 (1.5L votes)
MatureFast-pacedEdge-of-seatCold & detached
Banshee is an American drama television series set in a small town in Pennsylvania Amish country and features an enigmatic ex-con posing as a murdered sheriff who imposes his own brand of justice while also cooking up plans that serve his own interests.
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