The last global Top 10 streaming chart of 2025 works less as a snapshot of a single day and more as an emotional, industrial, and narrative X-ray of the year. When you look at the whole picture — different platforms, parallel rankings, titles that repeat obsessively — a very clear design emerges: 2025 was a year of return, consolidation, and comfort, not rupture.

It’s hardly incidental that, as the calendar closes, the world is collectively watching familiar stories, well-known universes, and characters with whom it has maintained long-standing emotional ties.

1. The year was dominated by franchises that never really left

The most eloquent data point sits right at the top: Stranger Things leads Netflix globally by a wide margin. In 2025, the series wasn’t merely an episodic or seasonal phenomenon — it confirmed itself as a structural pillar of the platform, something that goes beyond the traditional idea of a “season.”

The same pattern appears across nearly every platform:

• Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York dominate Disney+, digital stores, and cross-platform charts.
• Avatar: The Way of Water and Avatar continue to perform as if they were recurring releases.
• The Harry Potter universe appears on both HBO Max and digital storefronts, reaffirming the power of the eternal catalog.

The message is simple — and uncomfortable for those who bet exclusively on novelty: in 2025, streaming was about permanence, not discovery.

2. Christmas returned as the great organizer of viewing habits

December’s rankings make one thing unmistakably clear: Christmas isn’t just a theme — it’s an algorithmic engine. The obsessive recurrence of holiday titles across all platforms points to something structural:

• The Grinch
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• The Polar Express
• Elf
• Love Actually

all resurface as if time itself were circular.

This reveals something essential about 2025: audiences weren’t just looking for entertainment — they were seeking ritual. In a year marked by political tension, economic instability, and information fatigue, streaming became a space of safe repetition — stories we already know how they begin and, crucially, how they end.

3. Auteur-driven drama survives — but as a prestige exception

Among the titles that escape the “franchise + comfort” axis, the performance of One Battle After Another on HBO Max, digital stores, and Apple TV stands out.

It’s not a Christmas blockbuster. It’s not an obvious sequel. And yet it establishes itself as the clearest example that auteur cinema still has space, as long as it’s anchored by recognizable names and strong platforms.

The same can be said of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, which blends auteur signature with franchise logic. 2025 made one thing clear: pure risk is rare; packaged risk can still work.

4. Apple consolidates itself as the home of “stable prestige”

If Netflix dominates the popular imagination and Disney rules Christmas, Apple TV+ ends 2025 as the territory of consistency.

Its series ranking reads almost like an editorial manifesto:

• The Morning Show
• Slow Horses
• Ted Lasso
• Severance

These aren’t momentary viral hits. They are series that grow over time, sustain brand identity, and build loyalty among adult audiences — something 2025 valued more than it might seem at first glance.

5. Streaming in 2025 was less about “what’s next” and more about “what lasts”

This may be the most honest synthesis the Top 10 allows. The final ranking of the year doesn’t point forward — it looks backward, reaffirms legacies, and rewards familiarity.

2025 wasn’t a year of narrative revolutions in streaming. It was a year of emotional anchoring, of returning to known worlds, of characters that function as collective affective memory.

And that says a great deal about audiences — but also about the industry. In a landscape shaped by budget cuts, mergers, creative caution, and increasingly conservative algorithms, success became less about surprise and more about endurance.

If 2026 promises to be the year of bold bets and renewed risk-taking, the closing image of 2025 is clear: before moving forward, streaming had to hold tightly to what it already knows how to do — and what audiences already love to watch.

Miscelana Top 10

1 — Stranger Things (Netflix)
2 — Emily In Paris (Netflix)
3 — Puribus (Apple TV+)
4 — Uma Batalha Depois da Outra (HBO MAX)
5 — Adeus June (Netflix)
6 —  Avatar: Fogo de Cinzas (Disney Plus – Cinema)
7 — Taylor Swift: The End of An Era (Disney Plus)
8 — Um Natal Surreal (Amazon Prime Video)
9 — Robin Hood (MGM+)
10- Landman (Paramount+)