What to Watch December 2025: Stranger Things, Fallout, and Percy Jackson are decking the halls this holiday season
Take a peak underneath the tree to see what’s coming to Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Paramount+ and more as 2025 finally winds down
I don’t know about you, but I need a bit more to entertain me than ‘visions of sugar plums’ these days (what are sugar plums anyway? Maybe this is why my visions are so boring). So this holiday season, I’ll probably be cozying up with my loved ones to watch one of the many TV shows and movies that are coming to my preferred streamers. And if that sounds like something you’ll be doing as well, we’re here to help.
Let Popverse’s What to Watch December 2025 guide lead you, Tchaikovsky-style, into a myriad of dreamworlds both festive and non. From a certain science-fiction horror series that’s taking its final bow to a brand new action thriller with one of the MCU’s hottest actors, we’ve got all you need to know right here.
What’s streaming on Netflix in December 2025
Likely the biggest streaming release on this list will be the final two episode dumps of Stranger Things season 5, which will tie together the story of Vecna vs. the Hawkins gang for good. Hell, we’d bet that those are just as important to the folks observing the holidays they drop on (Christmas and New Years’, respectively) than the holidays themselves.
But as one of Popverse’s biggest murder mystery fans, I urge you to not get so excited for Eleven’s story to wrap up that you forget about the next installment of Rian Johnson’s generation-defining detective series, Wake Up Dead Man. Maybe there won’t be any demogorgons, but Benoit Blanc has a new hairstyle – which I’d argue is just as cool.
Title
Streaming Date
Type
CoComelon Lane, season 6
December 1
Animated series
All The Empty Rooms
December 1
Documentary
Love is Blind: Italy, season 1
December 1
Reality series
Playing Gracie Darling, season 1
December 1
Live-action series
Troll 2
December 1
Live-action movie
My Secret Santa
December 3
Live-action movie
Stranded wth my Mother-in-Law, season 3
December 3
Live-action series
With Love, Meghan: Holiday Collection, season 1
December 3
Live-action series
I Wish You Had Told Me
December 4
Live-action movie
Lali: Time to Step Up
December 4
Documentary
The Abandons, season 1
December 4
Live-action series
The Believers, season 2
December 4
Live-action series
Fugue State 1986, season 1
December 4
Live-action series
I Wish YoU had Told Me
December 4
Live-action movie
Lali: Time to Step Up
December 4
Documentary
Love and Wine
December 5
Live-action movie
Owning Manhattan, season 2
December 5
Reality series
Sicilia Express, season 1
December 5
Live-action series
The New Yorker at 100
December 5
Documentary
The Night My Dad Saved Christmas 2
December 5
Live-action movie
The Price of Confession, season 1
December 5
Live-action series
Jay Kelly
December 5
Live-action movie
The Making of Jay Kelly
December 5
Documentary
Owning Manhattan, season 2
December 5
Live-action series
Elmo and Mark Rober’s Merry Giftmas
December 8
Live-action special
Badly in Love, season 1
December 9
Live-action series
Blood Coast, season 2
December 9
Live-action series
Masaka Kids, a Rhythm Within
December 9
Documentary
The Accident, season 2
December 10
Live-action series
Record of Ragnarok, season 3
December 10
Animated series
Simon Cowell: The Next Act
December 10
Documentary
Had I Not Seen the Sun, part 2
December 11
Live-action movie
Lost in the Spotlight
December 11
Live-action movie
Man vs. Baby, season 1
December 11
Live-action series
The Fakenapping
December 11
Live-action movie
The Fakenapping
December 11
Live-action movie
Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft, season 2
December 11
Animated series
The Town, season 1
December 11
Live-action series
City of Shadows, season 1
December 12
Live-action series
Home for Christmas, season 3
December 12
Live-action series
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
December 12
Live-action movie
The Creature Cases, chapter 6
December 15
Animated series
Culinary Class Wars, season 2
December 16
Live-action series
The Manny, season 3
December 17
Live-action series
Murder in Monaco
December 17
Documentary
What’s in the Box?, season 1
December 17
Live-action series
Emily in Paris, season 5
December 18
Live-action series
10Dance
December 18
Live-action movie
The Great Flood
December 19
Live-action movie
A Time for Bravery
December 19
Live-action movie
Breakdown: 1975
December 19
Documentary
Elway
December 22
Documentary
Sicily Express, season 1
December 22
Live-action series
King of Collectibles: The Golden Touch, season 3
December 23
Live-action series
Goodbye June
December 24
Live-action movie
The NFL Christmas Game Day – Dallas Cowboys vs Washington Commanders
December 25
Live sports event
The NFL Christmas Game Day – Detroit Lions vs Minnesota Vikings
December 25
Live sports event
Stranger Things, season 5, volume 2
December 25
Live-action series
Cover-Up
December 26
Documentary
Members Only: Palm Beach, season 1
December 29
Live-action series
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story
December 30
Documentary
Stranger Things, season 5, volume 3
December 31
Live-action series
What’s streaming on Amazon Prime Video in December 2025
Who knew the apocalypse could be so much fun?
Oh, sorry, I’m not talking about the world outside your window – I’m specifically referring to the Prime Video adaptation of the wildly popular video game franchise, Fallout. After introducing us to the delightful trio of Lucy, Maximus, and the Ghoul in season 1, the show is back for its sophomore chapter… and we’ve been hearing reports that the monsters they face this go-round will be even scarier.
Title
Streaming Date
Type
The Merchants of Joy
December 1
Documentary
Oh. What. Fun.
December 3
Live-action movie
Fallout, season 2
December 17
Live-action series
Human Specimens, season 1
December 18
Live-action series
Confessions of a Female Serial Killer
December 7
Documentary
Merv
December 10
Live-action movie
What’s streaming on HBO Max in December 2025
In December, HBO Max is taking a break from new TV series and going in on documentaries about music and sports. While the final episodes of the current seasons of It: Welcome to Dery and I Love LA are being released in December, they’ll be joined by docs on Jeff Buckley, the Counting Crows, Paul Anka, and US Football.
Title
Streaming Date
Type
Paul Anka: His Way
December 1
Documentary
Hard Knocks: In Season with the NFC East, season 1
December 2
Live-action series
Architecton
December 4
Live-action movie
It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley
December 4 at 9:00 PM ET
Documentary
Wizkid: Long Live Lagos
December 11 at 9:00 PM ET
Documentary
Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Lately?
December 18 at 9:00 PM ET
Documentary
Happy and You Know It
December 25 at 9:00 PM ET
Documentary
What’s streaming on Hulu in December 2025
Image credit: FX
As of this writing, Hulu also hasn’t released much in the way announcements for the 2025 holiday season, but in the same vein as we were just mentioning, still has plenty of reasons to subscribe. Remember, it’s the only place you can catch up on Alien: Earth ahead of its just-announced season 2, not to mention where to go if you need more of that sweet, sweet Shōgun drama.
And I guess it’s where you can go to see if All’s Fair is really as bad as everyone says? It can’t be, right?
Right?
Title
Streaming Date
Type
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Season 3 Reunion Special
December 4
Documentary
Dance Moms: A New Era, season 2
December 8
Live-action series
The Wonderful Weird World of Gumball, season 2
December 22
Animated series
Made in Korea, season 1
December 24
Live-action series
What’s streaming on Paramount+ in December 2025
Any time of year is a great time for the TMNT, but for those of us who grew up unwrapping Shredder action figures Christmas morning, it feels especially perfect for a brand new Turtles chapter to be dropping over the holidays. That would be Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, season 2, in case you didn’t know, Paramount’s latest gift to all you lovers of those Ho-Ho-Heroes in a Half Shell.
Title
Streaming Date
Type
Transformers: EarthSpark – Hometown Heroes
December 5
Animated special
Transformers: EarthSpark – Legacy of Hope
December 5
Animated special
Little Disasters, season 1
December 11
Live-action series
Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, season 2
December 12
Animated series
Dora, season 4
December 19
Animated series
What’s streaming on Disney+ in December 2025
Stranger Things hasn’t completely cornered the market when it coms to teens dealing with the supernatural this December. No, Percy Jackson and the Olympians are back to give the Greek mythology lover in all of us a new epic tale of colossi and camaraderie. But if you’re more into modern religions, then they’ve also got the Taylor Swift documentary, End of an Era, on deck.
Title
Streaming Date
Type
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, season 2
December 10
Live-action series
Taylor Swift: End of an Era
December 12
Docuseries
What’s coming to Peacock in December 2025
While we all eagerly await Simu Liu’s return to the MCU as Shang-Chi in Avengers: Doomsday (a wait that has been far too long, if you ask me), we’re thrilled that he’ll be getting to show off those action chops over at Peacock. Science-fiction espionage thriller The Copenhagen test will see Liu team up with former Scream final girl Melissa Berrera, who we’re also excited to see kick ass.
Title
Streaming Date
Type
Reality Hot Seat
December 7
Talk show
Here Come the Irish, season 2
December 8
Live-action series
Made in Korea, season 1
December 24
Live-action series
The Copenhagen Test, season 1
December 27
Live-action series
What’s coming to Apple TV+ in December 2025
Coming in last but in no way least is Apple TV+, who are lighting up the holidays the nature-doc way with the first season of Born to be Wild. The show follows the development of six baby animals whose species are endangered as they spend time in our world in order to learn how to survive in theirs.
And no, that’s not me crying, it’s you.
Title
Streaming Date
Type
The Hunt, season 1
December 3
Live-action series
Born to be Wild, season 1
December 19
Docuseries
That’s all the major streaming movies and TV shows on our radar right now, but we’ll be updating this list as more information becomes available. For those updates, and for all you need to know about the future of streaming, keep an eye on Popverse.
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