We honestly have to wonder if Netflix even really needs to purchase Warner Bros. because the streamer is already so strong on the content front. The Netflix December line-up is a flex, including the next batch of Stranger Things Season 5 episodes (leading up to the New Year’s Day show-ending finale), and the third all-star Knives Out mystery, Wake Up Dead Man, heading the entertainment pack. Below you’ll find what we’ll be watching, followed by everything else on the line-up.
Pfangirl Top Picks
Troll 2
Netflix Film releases 1 December
When a dangerous new troll is awakened, unleashing devastation across Norway, beloved adventurers Nora, Andreas and Captain Kris are thrust into their most perilous mission yet. To stop the creature’s ruthless rampage, they must enlist new allies and delve into the country’s ancient history, searching for answers. As the clock ticks and the troll’s path of destruction grows wider, our heroes face impossible odds in their fight to save their homeland from falling into darkness.
The Abandons
Netflix Series releases 4 December
Washington Territory – 1854 – The matriarchs of two very different families — one of wealth and privilege bound by blood, the other a found family of orphans and outcasts bound by love and necessity — find their fates linked by two crimes, an awful secret, a star-crossed love, and a piece of land with silver underneath. The collision echoes the American struggle of the haves and have-nots, in a place just beyond the reach of justice.
Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft
Season 2 releases 11 December
When adventurer Lara Croft discovers a trail of stolen African Orisha masks, she joins forces with her best friend Sam to retrieve the precious artifacts. Lara’s thrilling new adventure takes her around the globe as she delves deeper into the hidden secrets of Orisha history, dodges the machinations of a dangerous and enigmatic billionaire who wants the masks for herself, while discovering these relics contain dark secrets and a power that defies logic. Power that may, in fact, be divine.
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Netflix Film releases 12 December
Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) returns for his most dangerous case yet in the third and darkest chapter of Rian Johnson’s murder mystery opus. Starring Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, and Thomas Haden Church.
Stranger Things
Season 5 continues with Volume 2 on 25 December and Volume 3 on 31 December
The grand finale of the Stranger Things phenomenon comes to Netflix screens at the end of this month.
Goodbye June
Netflix Film releases 24 December
In Goodbye June, an unexpected turn in their mother’s health thrusts four adult siblings and their exasperating father into chaos as they navigate messy family dynamics in the face of potential loss, all just before Christmas. But their quick-witted mother, June, orchestrates her decline on her own terms — with biting humour, blunt honesty, and a lot of love. Starring Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren, Andrea Riseborough, Timothy Spall, Johnny Flynn and Toni Collette.
More December Netflix Releases
My Next Guest with David Letterman and Adam Sandler – Netflix Special releases 1 December
All The Empty Rooms – Netflix Film releases 1 December
Sean Combs: The Reckoning – Netflix Series releases 2 December
Red Dead Redemption – Releases on Netflix Games on 2 December
Stranded with my Mother-in-Law – Season 3 releases 3 December
My Secret Santa – Netflix Film releases 3 December
With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration – Netflix Special releases 3 December
The Believers – Season 2 releases 4 December
The Night My Dad Saved Christmas 2 – Netflix Film releases 5 December
Love and Wine – Netflix Film releases 5 December
STEPHEN – Netflix Film releases 5 December
Jay Kelly – Netflix Film releases 5 December
The New Yorker at 100 – Netflix Film releases 5 December
Owning Manhattan – Season 2 releases 5 December
The Price of Confession – Netflix series releases 5 December
Masaka Kids, A Rhythm Within – Netflix Film releases 9 December
Pax Massilia (Blood Coast) – Season 2 releases 9 December
Badly in Love – Netflix Series releases 9 December
The Accident – Season 2 releases 10 December
Record of Ragnarok – Season 3 releases 10 December
Man vs Baby – Netflix series releases 11 December
Lost in the Spotlight – Netflix Film releases 11 December
Home for Christmas – Season 3 releases 12 December
City of Shadows – Netflix Series releases 12 December
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman – Season 6 releases 16 December
Culinary Class Wars – Season 2 releases 16 December
What’s in the Box? – Netflix Series releases 17 December
10DANCE – Netflix Film releases 18 December
Emily in Paris – Season 5 releases 18 December
Breakdown: 1975 – Netflix Documentary releases 19 December
The Great Flood – Netflix Film releases 19 December
Jake Paul vs. Anthony Joshua – Netflix Live Event showing on 19 December
Elway – Netflix Film releases 22 December
King of Collectibles: The Goldin Touch – Season 3 releases 23 December
Cashero – Netflix Series releases 26 December
Cover-Up – Netflix Film releases 26 December
Members Only: Palm Beach – Netflix Series releases 29 December