Premieres Wednesday:
Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever — Follow the nature-defying odyssey of tech mogul Bryan Johnson, who’s already spent $2 million on his quest for eternal youth and vitality. From what I understand, the key is finding just the right mix of raw milk and heroin. (Netflix)
The Love Scam — Italian brothers try to fix their cash crunch by swindling a rich woman, but matters of the heart end up putting their whole plan in jeopardy. This is why financial planners say that before going on a date, you should always look at your landscaping bill and jack off twice first. (Netflix)
Missing You — In the latest series adapted from the work of Harlan Coben, a female detective’s world is turned upside down after she stumbles across a profile of her long-missing fiancé on a dating app. If it’s Grindr, there’s no telling how many seasons this thing could run. (Netflix)
Number 24 — The runup to World War II is the setting for a dramatization of the life of resistance fighter Gunnar Sønsteb, who became a Norwegian national hero by refusing to kowtow to the Nazis. Wait a minute: You can do that? (Netflix)
Premieres Thursday:
Cunk on Life — Intrepid reporter/commentator Philomena Cunk (Diane Morgan) applies her trademark mix of inquisitiveness and utter brain death to some of the weightiest mysteries of existence, confronting leading thought experts with probing queries like “What’s the point of it all?” Go ahead and laugh, but I bet you can’t think of anything either. (Netflix)
Lockerbie: A Search for Truth — Colin Firth stars as the victims’ advocate who sought justice for the families of those who were lost in the 1988 explosion of Pan Am Flight 103. Coming in 2025: Andy Samberg takes on Boeing in That’s Not the Door to the Restroom, Sir! (Peacock)
Stranded With My Mother-in-Law — Season 2 sends six new families to a Brazilian island to see which team of marrieds and battleaxes will excel at finely targeted challenges — like not killing one another. All together now: Outwit, outplay, outkvetch. (Netflix)
Premieres Friday:
Bandidos — Season 2 of the Mexican heist saga puts our crew of crafty crooks on the hunt for a diamond known as the Tear of Fire. If it’s anything like the Heart of the Ocean, their first step should be scouring all the local cantinas for 100-year-old skanks. (Netflix)
Love Is Blind: Germany — FUN FACT: In this iteration, love was blinded as part of a gruesome eugenics experiment. (Netflix)
Selling the City — Selling Sunset and Selling the OC get an East Coast successor in the form of this series set in the Douglas Elliman brokerage house, which handles some of the plushest properties in New York. Expect extra complications this time around, because to sell Manhattan to anyone, you have to buy it back from the Russians first. (Netflix)
Umjolo: My Beginning, My End! — A strait-laced South African woman is tempted to dump her sensible fiancé when she falls under the spell of an alluring sax player. If she’s going to throw everything away for someone marginally employable, doesn’t Joe Scarborough deserve a shot? (Netflix)
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl — Well, here’s your first evidence that 2025 might not be a total bust after all. The folk heroes of claymation are back, in a new adventure that also marks the return of penguin miscreant Feathers McGraw (making his first non-cameo appearance since the classic 1993 short “The Wrong Trousers”). No offense to Colin Farrell, but this is the penguin the Zeitgeist has been missing. (Netflix)
Premieres Saturday:
When the Stars Gossip — An astronaut and a tourist find love on an orbiting platform in what’s being billed as streaming’s first Korean Earth-to-space romance. Meanwhile, those tightasses at the Oscars won’t even add a category for revenge porn. (Netflix)
Premieres Monday:
My Happy Marriage — Season 2 of the anime romance poses the thorny conundrum “Can a relationship survive if one of you has the blood of Usuba flowing through your veins?” That’s probably a serious danger when you’re young, although at a certain point you’re more likely to be driven apart by osteoporosis. (Netflix)
WWE Raw: 2025 — A lot has happened since World Wrestling Entertainment inked a $5 billion deal with Netflix to carry events like this one on a weekly basis. For one thing, the service proved that its real-time programming could have all the fast-paced immediacy of updating Netscape in 1996. Christ, $5 billion? It’s costing Vince McMahon less than half that to have Linda replace Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. (What, you hadn’t heard about that?) (Netflix)
Premieres Tuesday:
The Breakthrough — The annals of Swedish crime yield a dramatic miniseries in which the job of solving a double murder falls to the unlikely duo of a detective and a genealogist. Fun fact: Their success in cracking the case led to the founding of the website 23andOHFUCKTHERESANICEPICKINMYSKULL. (Netflix)
Gabriel Iglesias: Legend of Fluffy — From the stage of the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, that comic you watch because your wife kinda likes him takes on some truly groundbreaking topics, like how unpleasant it can be to travel by air. Nope, 27 years in the business doesn’t make a guy’s act feel insular at all! (Netflix)
Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action — Two decades later and a mere 20 months after the death of its namesake, the seminal work of trash TV gets a critical reappraisal. Was it just innocuous entertainment, or did it represent a dangerous coarsening of the American psyche? For expert analysis, Tyler Henry will contact the ghost of Morton Downey Jr. (Netflix)
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This article appears in Jan 1-7, 2025.