Best TV Shows To Binge During The Coronavirus(Covid-19) Lockdown/Quarantine

It is a bad time. Many people across the globe are sick with coronavirus(Covid-19). Those who aren’t are being encouraged to stay away from public spaces.Schools, museums, movie theaters, bars, restaurants: all closed. You’re home, and you need a distraction. Let us help. Below are some suggestions for what  T.V Shows to Binge on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hotstar, Voot, ZEE5 etc.during this horrible period of Self-Isolation/Quarantine/Lockdown. We’ll try and update it every week with a few suggestions. Be safe. The list consists of limited series that have between 8-12 episodes.

1. Asur

Streaming on- Voot

Cast: Arshad Warsi, Barun Sobti, Anupria Goenka, Sharib Hashmi, Ridhi Dogra
Creator: Ding Entertainment

Asur, according to myths, is a human who has lost their humanity. The show, titled Asur, arrives at a dark time with bodies still being fished out of drains in Delhi and a divided world seems to be tearing itself apart in the name of religion. The Voot Select original flirts with interesting themes -- religion and science, and where conscience and humanity fit in.

2. The Alienist

Streaming on- Netflix

Cast: Daniel Bruhl, Luke Evan, Dakota Fanning, Douglas Smith

Creator: Jakob Verbruggen

When a 13-year-old boy is found disemboweled on the Williamsburg Bridge, his eyes gouged out and his genitalia mutilated, Kreisler is tasked by police commissioner Teddy Roosevelt with investigating the murder. He’ll soon find out that the boy, who’d been a prostitute at a brothel housing young men dressed up as women, is one of several victims, and the ruthless killer is on the loose.
3. The People vs OJ Simpson

Streaming on: Netflix
Cast: John Travolta, David Schwimmer, Cuba Gooding
Creators: Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski


The conclusion of The People v OJ Simpson: American Crime Story played out in real life nearly 21 years ago. The strange thing is that after 10 hours of the drama, the event seems more credible now than it did after a year of watching it unfold did back then – mostly thanks to the decision by creators of the series, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, not to retry the man but to offer a detailed and panoramic view of the forces, the people and the decisions that allowed him to go free.
4. Breathe

Streaming on: Amazon Prime
Cast: R Madhavan, Amit Sadh
Creator: Mayank Sharma


Madhavan plays a loving single dad named Danny, whose 6-year-old son is suffering from a congenital lung disease. The sight of young Josh with pipes and tubes sticking out of him is a source of tremendous pain for Danny, whose steadfast belief in doing things by the book seems to be crumbling by the day. Josh is number four on the list to get a new lung, which means that four recipients would have to die before it’s his turn to be saved.
5. The Haunting of Hill House

Streaming on: Netflix
Cast: Victoria Pedretti, Oliver Jackson, Kate Siegel, Henry Thomas
Creator: Mike Flanagan, Jeff Howard


This bingeable iteration of Shirley Jackson’s Gothic horror tale, which debuts Friday, is a non-literal adaptation of its source material. Though it borrows some names and very basic plot details — Hill House: still a super-messed-up mansion where you definitely do not want to live! — the Netflix version is as much a family drama as a work of fright. 
6.  Kota Factory

Streaming on: TVF Play/YouTube
Cast: Mayur More, Jeetendra Kumar, Ahsaas Channa, Revathi Pillai
Creator: Raghav Subbu


Kota Factory is an unorthodox addition to the conveyor belt of campus shows, comes from TVF (The Viral Fever), one of India’s first Youtube content channels, but more famously a collective of accidental creators.“Unorthodox” because, ironically, Kota Factory dares to be about the orthodox Indian student. The majority. The workers.