7 HBO Shows on JioHotstar You Should Be Watching Right Now

HBO built its reputation on a simple bet: give writers and directors room to be difficult, and let plotlines be a little less conventional than everything else on air. Audiences keep following anyway, and that bet has paid out for nearly three decades now, from the Baltimore drug corners of The Wire to the dragon politics of Westeros.

Some of what's on this list is brand new, some of it many years old, but the shows have the same Midas touch running through them, the kind that keeps a series watchable no matter how much time has passed since its premiere. And with the HBO Max hub sitting inside JioHotstar, Indian viewers finally get that entire run under one roof instead of scattered across licensing deals, which makes this as good a time as any to catch up on everything you've been meaning to watch. Here's where to start beyond the shows already getting the spotlight.

Brad Ingelsby, who wrote Mare of Easttown, returns to the Philadelphia suburbs for a crime drama built around two men on opposite sides of the law. Mark Ruffalo plays an FBI agent leading a task force; Tom Pelphrey plays the small-time crew leader he's chasing. Both actors turn in some of the best work of their careers.

A group of graduate hires compete for a handful of permanent positions at a London investment bank, and the show uses the machinery of finance as a backdrop for a study of ambition curdling into self-destruction. Kit Harington joined the cast for its third season, with Kiernan Shipka added in the fourth.

Danny McBride's third HBO comedy follows a family of televangelists constantly scheming against each other for control of the family megachurch empire. John Goodman plays the patriarch, and Walton Goggins plays Baby Billy, a washed-up child star turned con artist. The show wrapped its fourth and final season in 2025.

Jean Smart plays Deborah Vance, a Las Vegas comedy legend whose career is winding down until she's paired with Ava, a canceled young writer played by Hannah Einbinder. Smart has won four Emmys for the role across four seasons, and a fifth and final season is already ordered.

Bridget Everett plays Sam, a woman who moves back to small-town Kansas to care for her dying sister and has to rebuild a sense of self once she's gone. Jeff Hiller plays Joel, her coworker and former classmate, and won the Emmy for Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for the role in 2025. All three seasons are streaming.

Michaela Coel created, wrote, directed, and starred in this series about a London writer trying to piece together the night she was drugged and assaulted at a bar. She plays Arabella, an author navigating her memory of the assault alongside her friendships and an unfinished book deadline.

John Cena plays Christopher Smith, a violent vigilante convinced he's fighting for peace, in this spinoff of The Suicide Squad written and largely directed by James Gunn. Season 2 folds the character into Gunn's rebooted DC Universe alongside Superman and the Justice Gang, and Cena plays the shift from comic relief to something sadder without losing the character's edge.