My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Season 5)Ī Genius Leaves the Hood: The Unauthorized Story of Jay Z (2014) The Adventures of Puss in Boots (Season 2) Las Mágicas Historias de Plim Plim (Season 1)Ĭomedy Bang! Bang! (Season 4, more episodes) If you need to escape your own holiday family drama, curl up with the Bravermans, true masters of letting emotions out. The final 13-episode installment of NBC’s chronicle of the big Berkeley family has all the pathos you’d expect from a Jason Katims ( Friday Night Lights) show. Get your ugly-cry on: Parenthood (Season 6) Netflix announced plans to for a third season of Charlie Brooker’s grim sci-fi anthology series earlier this year, but until the next few parables about the horror of spending too much time staring at a computer screen come to your computer screen, you’ll have to be satisfied with Black Mirror’s Christmas special (already out in the U.K.), which features Jon Hamm, Oona Chaplin, and Rafe Spall in three interconnected vignettes. Hamm for the holidays: Black Mirror, “White Christmas” What results is a torturous mind warp of film, “a psychodrama,” per Vulture’s Bilge Ebiri, “shot like a horror movie.” Available December 22. In Queen of Earth, she reunites with Philip’s Alex Ross Perry for a trip to a lake house with Katherine Waterston ( Inherent Vice, Steve Jobs). Available December 8.įear the wrath of Peggy Olson: Queen of Earth (2015)įrom Top of the Lake to The One I Love and Listen Up Philip, Elisabeth Moss has started to transition away from certified badass Peggy Olson into a career in harrowing indie drama. What results is a moving, looking-glass take on Vertigo, as both members of the couple contend with chimerical visions of each other and themselves. Hoss gives a virtuoso performance as we watch Nelly reunite with her husband, who doesn’t recognize his wife but figures she looks similar enough to play the part in order to collect Nelly’s inheritance. In Phoenix, Nina Hoss plays a Nelly Lenz, a Jewish nightclub singer who survives a concentration camp after being shot in the face and left for dead, returning to the postwar world with a new face, and thus a new identity. But why risk it? If you want to ensure that you’ll get your Murray fix, settle in with Netflix’s old-fashioned, Sofia Coppola–directed variety special, which promises songs from Murray and Miley Cyrus and guest appearances from George Clooney, Amy Poehler, Michael Cera, and (inevitably) more. If you go to enough Christmas parties around town, there’s a sizable chance you’ll run into Bill Murray at one of them. Jingle bell rock the kasbah: A Very Murray Christmas (2015) Led by two hilarious performances from trans actresses Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor, the film (shot entirely on a iPhone) takes its characters’ lives seriously while also managing to be, as Vulture’s David Edelstein put it, “everything an entertaining, old-fashioned, mainstream Hollywood comedy should be but no longer is.” Available December 2. Tangerine, a Sundance film about two transgender prostitutes on Christmas Eve in West L.A., is the exact opposite of the downer that logline implies. Everyone is a unique, beautiful snowflake, so expect Real Rob to be unlike everything else - you, you know, a lot like Curb Your Enthusiasm, Louie, One Mississippi, Master of None, Maron, or whatever quirky, semiautobiographical single-camera sitcom Netflix green-lights next. Netflix’s campaign to give quirky, semiautobiographical single-camera sitcoms to every comedian who has ever used a personal anecdote in their stand-up set continues with Rob Schneider’s Real Rob. You get a Louie! And you get a Louie! Real Rob (Season 1) Feel free to note anything we’ve left out in the comments below - and for more comprehensive coverage of the best titles available on Netflix and elsewhere, check out Vulture’s What to Stream Now, which is updated throughout the month. Here is a quick list of several you might be interested in. At the start of (and throughout) every month, Netflix adds new movies and TV shows to its streaming library.
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