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 by têtu·’s editorial team.
- Nicolas’s Pick: Olympo (Netflix)
We like to watch certain series while answering our emails, especially when the nude scenes distract us. That’s the case with Olympo, whose season 2 caught our eye this year. It tells the life of an elite sports complex at the heart of the Pyrenees. But we follow the series not only for the athletes’ impressive abs: it also discusses doping, sports marketing, and libido. Special mention for the relationship between the two rugby players, Sebastian and Roque, worthy of our most humid adolescent dreams, a teaser before Heated Rivalry, and its hockey players in heat.
- Tess’s Pick: Pluribus (Apple TV)
Pluribus disturbs our minds with existential questions raised with a wry second degree. We follow Carol, a lesbian author of gare fantasy novels, one of the few survivors of an extraterrestrial virus that struck humanity. Because of it, the psyche of Earth’s inhabitants fused into a shared collective consciousness. Throughout the season, the question is whether it’s better to renounce individuality to live in peace or to fight for freedom. It’s messy, bittersweet, brilliantly contemporary.
- Florian’s Pick: Adults (Disney +)
There are plenty of Friends stand-ins! Yet, in a single—very good—season, Adults managed to renew this specific 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 feeling like it’s ticking boxes, the series stands out for its humor, at once dark and biting, and its grounding in the socio-cultural reality of 2025. The bonus? The budding romance between Anton, openly gay and as irreverent as possible, and Paul Baker, the tall Canadian with a tender heart.
- Laure’s Pick: Empathy (Canal +)
Realistic, with a poetic tint, Empathy dives into the world of psychiatry, focusing above all on the power of mutual support and friendship. It’s sometimes hard but often very tender and sweet, or even funny despite the darkness of the topics: 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; we’re hardly waiting for it with anticipation.
- David’s Pick: Boots (Netflix)
After 13 Reasons Why, already on Netflix, Miles Heizer makes a forceful return with Boots, a gay military series we didn’t know we needed. And yet! Based on the memoir The Pink Marine by Greg Cope White, the series recounts the 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, moving and sexy story, Boots also explores the inner workings of the internalized homophobia of a young man in the fertile ground that is the American military.
- Tabi’s Pick: Ballroom, Dancing to Exist (France TV)
Introducing the French ballroom scene to the general public, that’s the successful bet of Amandine Gay. In her five-episode documentary broadcast on france.tv, the filmmaker follows Keiona and Vinii Revlon to immerse us in the machinations and secrets of a house where ambitions, dreams and dramas cross paths… The film earned the Father of the Revlons the têtu· 2025 award for Public Representation, which Amandine Gay (whose portrait is to be read in the têtu· winter issue) personally came to present to him.
- Ivan’s Pick: Surcompensation (Amazon Prime)
The series tells the story of Benny, who goes to great lengths to hide his homosexuality at his university: he forces himself to listen to rap, joins the fraternity of his sister’s boyfriend, and even tries to date his best friend. The storyline, the actors, the bare torsos, and Charli XCX’s brief cameo make Surcompensation a show that uplifts morale.
