Premieres Wednesday:
Dream Productions — Transpiring between the events of Inside Out and Inside Out 2, Disney’s latest spinoff series takes us inside the mental production house where Riley’s dreams are generated. Enjoy it while you can, because if real life is any precedent, they’re going to shutter the place within a year and replace it with a churro stand. (Disney+)
The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga — A three-part documentary pits an Elvis impersonator against a dangerous conspiracy that threatens the lives of our elected leaders, all the way up to the White House. Sorry to interrupt your holidays there, King, but you can get this one wrapped up before like, February? (Netflix)
Maria — Angelina Jolie acts out the last days of opera great Maria Callas in a film by Pablo Larraín, who’s previously given us dramatizations of the lives of Jackie Kennedy and Princess Di. This is the end of his “great women” trilogy, Larraín says, so I guess we all know what that means: Jo Anne Worley is getting hosed again. (Netflix)
One Hundred Years of Solitude — Authentic Colombian locations enhance the first half of a 16-episode series based on the Gabriel Garcia Márquez novel about an intended utopia that ends up becoming anything but. Hey, if that’s what they were going for, why didn’t they just shoot in Celebration? (Netflix)
Queer Eye — Clients range from librarians to former showgirls as the series moves to Las Vegas for Season 9. For an extra challenge, the fellas will dig up the corpse of Bugsy Siegel from the desert to see if he could have pulled off teal. (Netflix)
Premieres Thursday:
Bookie — Guest stars in Season 2 include Charlie Sheen, Ray Romano, Zach Braff and Brad Garrett. Or as they’re known at CAA, “Two and a Half Careers.” (Max)
La Palma — An entire miniseries’ worth of suspense and character development are in the offing when a vacationing Norwegian family is forced to contend with an erupting volcano. Not to be confused with Hulu’s upcoming documentary profile of that nation’s greatest WWE export, The Norwegian Volcano. (Netflix)
No Good Deed — Dead to Me creator Liz Feldman brings us a darkly comic series in which married homeowners Ray Romano and Lisa Kudrow field offers for their seemingly perfect house that’s actually far less than meets the eye. Listen, in today’s real-estate market, the only dealbreaker would be if they haven’t fished Matthew Perry out of the jacuzzi. (Netflix)
Premieres Friday:
1992 — Boy, those Yellowstone spinoffs sure do keep on coming, don’t they? Actually, this is a Spanish miniseries revolving around a murder spree that appears to have a mysterious connection to the Seville Expo ’92. At least we can console ourselves that it could never happen here, because getting murdered as far south as the Convention Center is now totally passé. (Netflix)
The Bravest Knight Season 2 Part 1 — One day, we will find it hard to believe there ever was an animated kids’ show about a male knight in a same-sex marriage who was trying to bring up his adopted daughter according to his own code of morality and honor. That day, of course, will be Jan. 21, 2025. (Hulu)
Carry-On — On Christmas Day, a TSA agent (Taron Egerton) is blackmailed into letting a passenger bring potentially lethal cargo onto a plane. On behalf of everyone who’s stuck working the holiday shift at MCO, I am prepared to argue that this is a Guy Fawkes Day movie. (Netflix)
Disaster Holiday — A South African dad tries to mollify his family by pretending he’s taking them on a fun vacation when they’re really headed to one of his work retreats. Word has it this version relies a bit more heavily on comedy than its American inspiration, The Alex Murdaugh Story. (Netflix)
Joe Bob’s Christmas Carnage — Joe Bob and Darcy present a double feature of schlock horror with a Yuletide slant. (Come to think of it, what a perfect description of Christmas dinner with your family.) (Shudder)
Mismatched — Season 3 follows Rishi (Rohit Saraf) and Dimple (Prajakta Koli) onto their new turf of Hyderabad, where they’re finding it more difficult than ever to juggle their romance with their burgeoning tech careers. Fair warning: If they try to maximize their couples’ time by taking support calls together, I’m puking twice and canceling my Amazon. (Netflix)
Seven Doors — A Nigerian of the 18th century is elected king of his village, but it only amplifies and adds to the complications of his life. Hungry for your kids to learn about the history of other cultures? Tell them you’ve scored a boot of that Lion King prequel and see how long it takes them to catch on. (Netflix)
Premieres Tuesday:
Aaron Rodgers: Enigma — While the gridiron has-been and scumbag disinfo goon ponders whether he’ll deign to disgrace the Jets anew in ’25, here’s an instantly obsolete docuseries chronicling his miraculous “comeback.” But Netflix has to run it, because they’re low on content this month after losing that Fugees holiday revue. (Netflix)
Ronny Chieng: Love to Hate It — In his third stand-up special, the Daily Show correspondent clues us in on the ongoing humiliation that is his life, including how embarrassing it was to participate in the IVF process. If this means we’re going to just up and outlaw everything that makes men look foolish, can we start with podcasts instead? (Netflix)
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This article appears in Dec 11-17, 2024.