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If you're looking for a new show to watch this week, the vast landscape of streaming networks will provide. There aren't a ton of new series-of-note this week (it's the holidays) but you can check out the streaming debut of Beast Games, a competition reality show from YouTube sensation Mr. Beast. There's also Peacock's Laid, a rom-com with a dark, intriguing premise that stars the amazing Stephanie Hsu.
Beast Games
YouTube’s most famous creator, Mr. Beast, makes a bid for crossover success with this competition reality show where 1,000 competitors compete for a grand prize of $5 million. If you’re in the market for a real-life version of Squid Game, or you find mindless spectacle TV an engaging time-waste, you’ll want to check out Beast Games.
Where to stream: Prime
Laid
Peacock describes Laid as "a f*cked up rom com" and it's not wrong; the title refers to both getting laid and being laid to rest. Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once) plays Ruby, a perpetually single woman whose body count becomes a body count when everyone she has ever had sex with starts dying. Along with warning past lovers and trying to figure out what's going on, Ruby has to navigate dating knowing that having sex with anyone could result in their demise.
Where to stream: Peacock
Dream Productions
Set in the world of Pixar's Inside Out franchise, Dream Productions takes us inside Riley's unconscious mind and shows us how the production studio that creates her dreams works. Paula Pell voices dream director Paula Persimmon whose constant struggle to produce hit dreams on time and under budget is complicated when Xeni, voiced by the great Richard Ayoade, shows up. He's a smug daydream director trying to break into the big time world of sleeping dreams.
Where to stream: Disney+
Last week's picks
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Based on the masterpiece of magical realism by Nobel-Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the epic story of generations of the cursed Buendía family, condemned to solitude for 100 years. José Arcadio Buendía (Marco González) and Úrsula Iguarán (Susana Morales) are cousins and lovers who set out to build a perfect town called Macondo, but the result is not the Utopia they'd envisioned.
Where to stream: Netflix
No Good Deed
Ray Romano and Lisa Kudrow star in this black comedy about the cutthroat world of real estate in Los Angeles. No Good Deed follows three families competing to buy the same 1920s Spanish-style villa in Los Feliz, each convinced the house will make their dreams come true. But it's actually all a bigger nightmare than trying to buy a real house in Los Angeles. The all-star cast also includes Linda Cardellini, Luke Wilson, Teyonah Parris, and Denis Leary.
Where to stream: Netflix
The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga
Wanna hear something weird? Last week I was reading about a ricin attack on President Obama that the FBI traced back to Tupelo, Mississippi and a feud between a karate instructor and an Elvis impersonator. I thought, "I need a documentary series about this right away, so I can learn more about the eccentrics involved and the place that gave birth to them." Then Netflix announced The Kings of Tupelo. Maybe I should have wished for world peace, but this show is a more-than-adequate consolation prize.
Where to stream: Netflix
Paris & Nicole: The Encore
Want to feel old? Me neither. But it doesn't change the fact that it's been 20 years since Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie starred on pioneering reality show The Simple Life. This three-part series reunites the pair. No longer carefree party girls, Hilton and Richie are getting serious, kind of. The Encore sees the pair trying to turn their "famous song" "Sanasa, Sanasa" into an opera. It's a stupid premise, but so was putting them on a farm; they're still entertaining to watch.
Where to stream: Peacock
Queer Eye, Season 9
It's time for more Queer Eye, the reality show where a pack of gay men change the lives of good-hearted, regular people who need new clothes, new furniture, and new lives. Even though this series has been running for approximately 83 years and each episode is pretty much the same, it's not boring at all. Every great story is about transformation, and watching caterpillars morph into butterflies never gets old. I've cried when I've watched this show, not gonna lie.
Starts streaming December 11.
Secret Level
Secret Level is an animated anthology series featuring stories set in the universe of various video game franchises. From the team behind the excellent sci-fi series Love Death + Robots, Secret Level features episodes set in the worlds of Pac-Man, Warhammer 40,000, Mega Man, Unreal Tournament, and many others—it's the perfect show for gamers.
Where to stream: Prime
Dexter: Original Sin
Cable TV's most famous serial killer returns in this prequel series. Dexter: Original Sin stars Patrick Gibson as a young, bright-eyed Dexter Morgan, interning with the Miami PD/CSI. But Morgan is plagued by an overwhelming need to murder. Luckily, Dexter has a role model—his father, played by Christian Slater. Pops Morgan is all too ready to teach his son how to pick the right victims and how to not be caught. If you like murder and father-and-son relationships, this is the show for you.
Where to Stream: Paramount+
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