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If you're looking for a new show to watch this week, the vast landscape of streaming networks will provide plenty of them. The biggest news: A new season of Squid Game is on Netflix now.
Squid Game, Season 2
Netflix's big Christmas present is coming a day late with the Dec. 26 release of season two of Korean dystopian sci-fi drama Squid Game. Season two was written, directed, and produced by Hwang Dong-hyuk, the genius behind season one, and Lee Jung-jae will return as Player 456, who's re-entering the game to tear it apart from the inside. Season one cast members Lee Byung-hun, Wi Ha-jun, and Gong Yoo are coming back too, where they'll join a fresh crop of competitors, so everyone can play a new bunch of deadly games. Can't wait.
Where to stream: Netflix
Landman
In Landman, Oscar winner Billy Bob Thornton stars as Tommy Norris, a "crisis executive" (aka fixer) for a major oil company. Created by Yellowstone auteur Taylor Sheridan and set in the boomtowns of West Texas, Landman dramatizes the ethical quandaries and moral gray areas that are inextricably linked to the juice we use to power everything in our lives.
Where to stream: Paramount+
The Secret Lives of Animals
Apple TV+ and the BBC teamed up for The Secret Lives of Animals, a for-the-whole-family documentary series that takes us deep into the worlds of bears, birds, monkeys, and other critters as they leave home, look for food, find mates, and generally do their animal things. If you have smaller kids, rest assured this is not one of those traumatizing nature documentaries in which the strong prey upon the weak and death is all around.
Where to stream: Apple TV+
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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+
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