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The future looks Bright for holiday streaming
What better way to wrap up the year and settle into the holidays than with a marathon or two, sandwiched between your annual screening of Home Alone (and Home Alone 2 but never Home Alone 3) and Netflix’s A Christmas Prince (for the third time), the streaming network has the fourth season of Peaky Blinders premiering this week, along with the premiere of Bright, Will Smith’s latest, co-starring Joel Edgerton and Noomi Rapace.
But if it’s laughs you’d prefer, Kumail Nanjiani’s Beta Male hits CraveTV on Dec. 29, while Dave Chappelle’s Equanimity is available on Netflix beginning Dec. 31.
Here’s all that’s new to streaming services over the coming holidays:
NETFLIX
❚ December 18 Hello, My Twenties! (Season 2)
❚ December 19 Miss Me This Christmas Russell Howard: Recalibrate You Can’t Fight Christmas
❚ December 20 La Casa de Papel (Season 1)
❚ December 21 Peaky Blinders (Season 4)
❚ December 22 72 Dangerous Animals: Latin America (Season 1) Bright Dope (Season 1) Fuller House (Season 3) Inconceivable The Toys That Made Us (Season 1)
❚ December 23 Bright: The Music Videos Creep 2 Myths & Monsters (Season 1)
❚ December 25 Fallen Cable Girls (Season 2)
❚ December 26 El Vato (Season 2) NYE Countdowns Todd Barry: Spicy Honey
❚ December 27 Chronically Metropolitan Correspondence McLaren My Life as a Zucchini The Ottoman Lieutenant
❚ December 29 Bill Nye Saves the World (Season 2: Part 1) La Mante (Season 1) Sicario The Climb
❚ December 30 All Roads Lead to Rome
❚ December 31 Aliens: Zone of Silence Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World Dave Chappelle: Equanimity Dead Draw Fun Mom Dinner Haze Standing Tall
CRAVETV
❚ December 18 Ill Behaviour (Episode 6) December 31 SMILF (Season 1, Episode 8)
❚ December 22 The Beaverton (Season 2, Episode 8) Hit the Road (Season 1) The Shannara Chronicles (Season 2) Risky Drinking
❚ December 29 The Detour (Season 2) Kumail Nanjiani: Beta Male Every Brilliant Thing
SMILF ON CRAVETV
Why go out on New Year’s weekend when you can form a considerable dent in your couch and catch up on SMILF, which wraps its first, short and sweet season on December 31? Following a young single mother struggling to keep her acting dream alive while still being an attentive parent, the show may not quite sound like a comedy, but it has a lot of funny bite. That, and it’s led by newly Golden Globe-nominated writer-director-star Frankie Shaw, borrowing just a little bit from her real life with Rosie O’Donnell perfectly cast as her tells-itlike-it-is Boston mom.