OTT Releases This Week: Stranger Things 5 Vol 2, Naagin 7, Nobody 2 & More Titles To Binge Watch

As the 2025 holiday season hits its loudest, most indulgent stretch, streaming platforms are going all-in with a slate that feels designed for binge-stamina: blockbuster finales, glossy thrillers, intimate family drama, and documentaries that stare straight into power and propaganda. This week swings from Hawkins’ reality fracture to Mozart’s mythologised downfall, from mafia debt carnage to corporate idol secrets, from political cover-ups to children’s music empires. If you’re looking for a week where your watchlist looks like seven different moods at once, this is it.

Here’s everything dropping between December 22 and 28, shuffled for variety, with the two headliners right on top.

Stranger Things Season 5 Volume 2 – December 26 (Netflix) Volume 2 arrives

like the final tremor after an earthquake — Hawkins is still standing, but nothing about it feels stable anymore. After Volume 1, the town remains trapped inside a failing military quarantine as Vecna’s influence peaks and reality begins to warp in ways that don’t feel like hallucination anymore, but like Hawkins being physically rewritten.

The season pivots into a rescue mission into Camazotz, a psychic realm built from memory and trauma, where Holly Wheeler and the comatose Max are trapped. The group’s fight turns spiritual and strategic at once: Eleven uses Kali’s abilities to pierce Vecna’s illusion-games, while Will is forced to lean into his terrifying hive-mind link to anticipate Vecna’s next strike — even if it costs him something permanent. Meanwhile, the situation on the ground becomes apocalyptic: Demogorgons close in on the military base, the gang uses a pirate radio station to coordinate their last offensive, and the penultimate run of episodes builds toward the ultimate collapse — the moment when the boundary between Hawkins and the Upside Down finally stops being a “gate” and becomes the new world.

Ek Deewane Ki Deewaniyat – December 26 (ZEE5)

A romantic thriller that weaponises obsession, Ek Deewane Ki Deewaniyat lives in that ugly space where power confuses itself for love. Directed by Milap Milan Zaveri, the film follows Vikramaditya Bhonsle (Harshvardhan Rane), a spoilt, politically connected heir who becomes fixated on Adaa Randhawa (Sonam Bajwa), a successful actor who refuses to be charmed, bought, or bullied.

When Adaa rejects him, Vikram’s wounded ego mutates into something predatory: he begins sabotaging her career and personal life using the machinery around him, convinced that if he controls the world around her, he controls her. Adaa pushes back in a way that turns the story feral — not as a helpless victim, but as someone willing to strike at his vanity publicly, daring the system to show its face. What follows is a downward spiral of revenge, bruised masculinity, and psychological warfare, where romance is just the disguise obsession wears to look socially acceptable.

Nobody 2 – December 22 (JioHotstar)

Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk) is back — and this time the film leans fully into the idea that you can’t “retire” from being a weapon. Hutch is trying to juggle domestic life while returning to black-ops work to pay off a $30 million debt to the Russian mafia. So naturally, he does the most normal thing possible: takes his family on a throwback vacation to a sleepy place called Plummerville, hoping to create one clean memory untouched by bloodshed.

It doesn’t last. A minor scuffle with local bullies triggers a chain reaction that reveals the town’s corrupt ecosystem: a sketchy amusement park owner (John Ortiz), a crooked sheriff (Colin Hanks), and a brutal crime boss Lendina (Sharon Stone). The vacation becomes a battlefield staged like a theme park nightmare — funhouse brawls, booby-trapped water slides, and chaos that forces Hutch’s entire family to drop the suburban act and fight like people who’ve had enough. It’s violent, ridiculous, and designed to keep escalating until your pulse forgets what “calm” feels like.

IDOL I – December 22 (Netflix)

A South Korean legal mystery romance that thrives on the collision of fantasy and reality, IDOL I centres on Maeng Se-na (Choi Soo-young), a ruthless criminal defence lawyer with an icy courtroom presence and a secret life as a devoted superfan of idol star Do Ra-ik (Kim Jae-young).

Her two worlds collide when Ra-ik is arrested as the prime suspect in a murder case — and Se-na chooses to defend him, risking her reputation to prove his innocence. The twist is cruelly human: the idol she worships is not the angel she imagined, and the investigation drags them both through corporate rot, hidden deals, and the machinery that protects celebrity at any cost. As she digs deeper, the case becomes less about proving innocence and more about discovering what kind of monster fame allows someone to become — and what kind of person love makes you ignore.

Cover-Up – December 25 (Netflix)

Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus build Cover-Up as a cinematic dossier on journalist Seymour Hersh, tracing his six-decade career through the kinds of revelations that make governments flinch: domestic spying, Abu Ghraib, Watergate, My Lai, and the long shadow of institutional violence.

Structured through interviews, restored archival material, and access to Hersh’s own notes, the documentary becomes about more than a man — it becomes about the recurring pattern of power committing harm and then hiding behind bureaucracy, secrecy, and “national interest.” At 88, Hersh is portrayed as stubborn and relentless, still pushing against official narratives even in an era where truth feels increasingly negotiable. It’s both a biography and a warning: the cover-up is never an exception — it’s often the system.

Goodbye June – December 24 (Netflix)

A Christmas-set family drama directed by Kate Winslet, Goodbye June is built around that specific kind of holiday tension where grief and obligation share the same room. The story follows June, a dying matriarch in her final hospital days, as her adult children are forced to gather — not for celebration, but for the slow reckoning that happens when a family’s “North Star” begins to disappear.

As the siblings rotate care schedules, old resentments resurface: childhood rivalries, unspoken guilt, and the brutal fear of what comes after the person who held everyone together is gone. June, quietly strategic even in decline, tries to orchestrate a last reconciliation — not through speeches, but through presence, timing, and the simple forcing function of proximity. The film leans into emotional realism: the kind where love exists, but it’s tangled up in history.

Amadeus – December 22 (JioHotstar)

This five-episode “playfully reimagined” version of Peter Shaffer’s story stages Mozart not just as genius, but as disruption. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Will Sharpe), 25 and hungry for artistic independence, arrives in 18th-century Vienna and collides with court composer Antonio Salieri (Paul Bettany), a devout man whose belief in order makes Mozart’s gift feel like an insult from God.

As Mozart battles inner chaos and a conservative court, Salieri’s envy curdles into obsession, pulling both men into a web of ambition, intrigue, and a long-running fixation that’s framed like a murder confession unfolding over decades. The show turns their rivalry into a psychological tragedy: not just about talent, but about what it does to a person to witness greatness up close and feel erased by it.

Naagin 7 – December 27 (JioHotstar)

The seventh instalment of Ekta Kapoor’s supernatural franchise expands the mythological canvas with a new shape-shifting serpent protagonist Aaran, who enters the human world and begins uncovering the truth of her divine inheritance and the destiny tied to her bloodline.

Set against the dramatic, spiritually charged backdrop of the Kumbh Mela, the season pivots into a high-stakes confrontation where “fire and poison” collide — including a new dragon-like antagonist and a fresh war over the Naagmani. Beneath the spectacle is Aaran’s emotional transformation: from an ordinary woman in disguise to the protector she was always meant to become, while the mysteries of the Anantkul dynasty thicken around her.

Happy and You Know It – December 26 (JioHotstar)

Part of HBO’s Music Box series, Happy and You Know It is a surprisingly fascinating documentary about the children’s music industry — the “toddler pop” machine behind earworms like Baby Shark and the empire-building economics of making songs that adults dread and kids demand on loop.

The doc explores how these tracks are engineered — psychologically, musically, and technologically — and how AI is reshaping both production and profit. It moves between recording studios, performers, and the cultural weirdness of an industry where imagination and pressure coexist. It’s bright on the surface, but underneath it’s an anatomy of modern attention and monetisation — starting from the youngest listeners.

Power Book IV: Force Season 3 – December 26 (Lionsgate Play)

The final season of Force pushes Tommy Egan toward endgame territory in Chicago’s drug-war landscape. Alliances fracture, threats multiply, and the stakes become painfully personal when Tommy’s girlfriend Mireya discovers she’s pregnant — turning family into leverage for every enemy watching from the shadows.

Jenard’s fentanyl trade destabilises old loyalties, Claudia Flynn returns with vengeance, and the federal investigation tightens like a noose until violence becomes the only language left. The season is built as a conclusion, meaning the story is less about expansion and more about fallout — what survives when the empire starts eating itself.

Red Sonja – December 26 (Lionsgate Play)

A grim sword-and-sorcery reinvention, Red Sonja follows Sonja (Matilda Lutz), the sole survivor of a massacre in Hyrkania. Captured by Emperor Dragan the Magnificent (Robert Sheehan), she’s thrown into gladiatorial pits — a spectacle meant to break her into entertainment.

But survival turns into rebellion. Sonja begins forging alliances with other slaves and misfits as Dragan grows obsessed with a prophecy involving a lost Hyrkanian book capable of unleashing catastrophic power. The film frames Sonja not as a chosen hero from the start, but as someone forced into myth by brutality — and then refusing to stay small inside it.

Copenhagen Test – December 28 (JioHotstar)

A paranoia-driven spy thriller, Copenhagen Test stars Simu Liu as analyst Alexander Hale, who discovers his own brain has been hacked — his thoughts and actions streamed in real time to an anonymous observer.

The horror isn’t just surveillance; it’s psychological entrapment. His agency suspects treason, the hackers threaten to take full control, and Hale has to perform “normal” every second of the day while knowing he’s being watched by forces that can destroy him with a whisper. As pressure mounts, the boundary between genuine self and manufactured self begins to dissolve — and the real question becomes whether he can even recognise his own mind anymore.