Hey guys, you did it! I was able to survive another year! Well, almost. It’s pretty close. we are actually there. December is disappearing as we speak. In January, I am doing warm-up exercises and preparing to receive the baton. If we try for one more week, we will definitely arrive in 2025.
What better way to spend the last weekend of the year than to vacation? — in the good old-fashioned way. And by “old school,” we mean movies and shows released in 2024, which is very close to being classified as completely a thing of the past. So queue up for a star turn from one of this year’s most popular actors, an entire series launched in the past 12 months, or some inspiring doc. See you here again in 2025. A new year in film and television begins.
First things first, what’s new with Netflix?
Hibiscus Blooms Again: Season 2 of The Squid Game arrives on Thursday, December 26th, and is the perfect gift for the day after Christmas. Ki-hoon (Lee Jeong-jae) returns in a new chapter of director Hwang Dong-hyuk’s hugely popular dystopian thriller series (Season 1 begins airing in 2021). And he seeks revenge. Not your game? Get some post-holiday laughs with Nate Bergatze on Your Friend, the comedian’s third special on Netflix after 2019’s The Tennessee Kid and 2021’s The Greatest Average American. Sho.
If only for one night…
Spend time with one of this year’s most famous faces (he wears many hats). As part of 2024 Breakout, Glen Powell reteamed with Everybody Wants Some!! Hitman, a comedy film co-written by Richard Linklater and co-written by the director and star, was released in May. Inspired by a wild true story, Powell plays a modest professor who takes on a side job posing as a hitman in a police sting, adopting an elaborate new persona each time. But when he begins to fall in love with a potential client (Adria Arjona), his regular life begins to unravel. And if you want a second installment of Powell’s star power, make it a double feature with last year’s Anyone But You, a Shakespearean romantic directed by Will Gluck and co-starring Sidney Sweeney. .
If you have a whole day…
Please feel something. Distract yourself from your end-of-year anxiety with a day of watching three highly rated documentaries celebrating humanity’s ability to connect that premiered at Sundance in January. Director Josh Greenbaum’s heartfelt Will & Harper follows Will Ferrell and his old friend Harper Steele on a cross-country road trip shortly after Harper comes out as a trans woman. I will. Then look at the bonds that transcend space and endure after death with Benjamin Ree’s The Remarkable Life of Ibelin. The film looks back at the unexpected and adventurous life, both online and offline, of a young gamer who died from a rare disease. Finally, put your broken hearts back together again with Natalie Ray and Angela Patton’s heartfelt “Daughters,” documenting a father-daughter dance in a Washington, D.C., prison.
If you have time for a whole weekend…
A yearlong tour will be broadcast on TV. The last day of December can be spent on some of the most talked about new series that have launched over the past 12 months and are sure to continue to dominate the conversation in upcoming follow-up seasons. Let’s start with David Benioff, DB Weiss, and Alexander Wu’s March release The Three-Body Problem. This vivid adaptation of the world-famous novel The Three-Body Problem revolves around a group of scientists who follow a series of bizarre clues to a shocking incident over the course of centuries. revelation. Continue to entertain in style with Guy Ritchie’s crime comedy The Gentlemen. It is a spin-off from the filmmaker’s 2019 film of the same name and was released in March. Theo James plays a young British aristocrat who inherits more than he bargained for. And end things on a romantic note. Erin Foster’s romantic comedy Nobody Wants This was a huge hit when it was released in September, starring Kristen Bell as an irreverent Angeleno with whom Adam Brody shares charming chemistry. I am playing the role of a rabbi.
Remember, you have one last chance…
to break the case. Andy Breckman’s procedural drama “Monk” stars Tony Shalhoub as an obsessive-compulsive private investigator in San Francisco. It lasted eight seasons from 2002 to 2009, so start your marathon now. There’s nothing to fear, except that you’ll be no longer streaming in two weeks.
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