They Made Us Laugh, Cry, Think, and Above All, Kept Us on the Edge of Our Seats: Here Are the Editors’ Favorite Series of 2025 According to the têtu· Editorial Team
- Nicolas’s Choice: Olympo (Netflix)
We enjoy watching certain series while we answer our emails, especially when the nude scenes immediately distract us. This is the case with Olympo, whose season 2 caught our eye this year. It tells the life of an elitist sports complex in the heart of the Pyrénées. But we follow Olympo not only for the athletes’ sculpted abs: it also deals with doping, sports marketing, and libido. Special mention for the relationship between the two rugby players, Sebastian and Roque, worthy of our wettest adolescent fantasies, a teaser before Heated Rivalry, and its hockey players who are hot-blooded.
- Nicolas’s Choice: Pluribus (Apple TV)
Pluribus blows our minds with existential questions raised with humor and irony in every episode. We follow Carol, a lesbian author of pulpy fantasy novels, one of the few survivors of an extraterrestrial virus that struck humanity. As a result, the psyche of Earth’s inhabitants has fused into a kind of shared collective consciousness. It’s chaotic, bittersweet, brilliantly contemporary. Throughout the season, we try to figure out whether it’s better to renounce one’s individuality to live in peace or fight for one’s freedom.
- Nicolas’s Choice: Adults (Disney +)
There are tons of imitations of Friends! Yet, in a single – very good – season, Adults managed to renew this particular kind of sitcom. On screen, five struggling friends share a home in the family house of one of them, in Queens, New York. Inclusive without giving the impression that it is ticking boxes, the series stands out for its humor, both black and biting, and its grounding in the socio-cultural reality of 2025. The bonus? The budding couple between Anton, openly gay and as impertinent as possible, and Paul Baker, the tall Canadian with a tender heart.
- Nicolas’s Choice: Empathy (Canal +)
A realistic dive tinged with poetry into the world of psychiatry, Empathy speaks above all of the strength of mutual support and friendship. It’s sometimes hard but often very tender and sweet, or even funny despite the darkness of the topics addressed: grief, trauma, mental illness, family secrets, etc. We grow fond of the Florence Longpré/ Thomas Ngijol duo, where all the ambiguities of human relationships are woven. Season 2 is in preparation: it goes without saying that we are eagerly awaiting it.
- Nicolas’s Choice: Boots (Netflix)
After 13 Reasons Why, already on Netflix, Miles Heizer makes a blazing return with Boots, a gay military series that we didn’t know we needed. And yet! Inspired by the memoir The Pink Marine by Greg Cope White, the series tells the difficult daily life of Cameron, a young gay man in the Marines, at a time when non-heterosexuals were barred from enlisting in the army. An initiatory, funny, touching and sexy story, the series delves into the mechanics of internalized homophobia in a young man within the fertile ground that is the American military.
- Nicolas’s Choice: Ballroom, dancing to exist (France TV)
Discovering the French ballroom scene through multiple characters, and thus multiple angles and experiences, is priceless. With Keiona and Vinii Revlon, among others, we dive into the scheming and secrets of a house where ambitions, dreams, and drama cross paths. France.TV presents us with a five-episode series that is raw, vibrant, and absolutely necessary.
- Nicolas’s Choice: Surcompensation (Amazon Prime)
Surcompensation tells the story of Benny who goes to great lengths to hide his homosexuality at his university: he forces himself to listen to rap, he joins the fraternity of his sister’s boyfriend, and he even tries to date his best female friend. The story, the cast, the bare chests, and Charli XCX’s brief appearance make Surcompensation a quintessential feel-good series.
