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It’s that time of the year again when the sleigh bells start jingling, and everyone begins to panic about last-minute Christmas shopping. As the temperature drops and everyone begins fully embracing the holiday spirit, though, few things put you in the Festive mood more than watching a good Christmas movie or TV show. Naturally, Netflix has filled our stockings this year with all kinds of treats, in addition to several new offerings that don’t necessarily scream Christmas but do undoubtedly spell binge-watch while eating turkey sandwiches after the big day.

The big release of the holidays has to be Squid Game season two, which will hit the streaming giant on Boxing Day. According to Netflix, the new season of the unprecedented Korean success story will see Lee Jung-jae’s Seong Gi-hun return with an agenda, having resolved to take down the creators of the vicious game instead of fleeing for the US.

December 5th will see the debut of Black Doves, a spy series created by Giri/Haji’s Joe Barton. The official synopsis reads, “When a spy posing as a politician’s wife learns her lover has been murdered, an old assassin friend joins her on a quest for truth — and vengeance.”

Given Barton’s other works, including The Lazarus Project and Netflix’s The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself, the show will likely have a healthy streak of black humour to accompany its espionage thrills.

The big movie release of the season is Carry-On, which will be available to stream from December 13th. It stars Taron Egerton as an airport security officer in a deadly battle of wits with a mysterious stranger (Jason Bateman) trying to force him into allowing a dangerous package to make its way onto a Christmas Eve flight.

Other intriguing offerings include the Netflix Original animated movie That Christmas on December 4th, which is written by Richard Curtis and features the voices of Brian Cox, Bill Nighy, and Jodie Whittaker, and the sixth season of hit romantic drama Virgin River, which drops on December 19th.

Every film and series hitting Netflix in December:

December 1st

• Bunk’d: Season Seven
• Burlesque
• Daddy Day Care
• The Happytime Murders
• Little
• Midway
• Project X
• We’re the Millers
• Zero Dark Thirty

December 4th

• The Children’s Train
• Churchill at War
• The Only Girl in the Orchestra
• Tomorrow and I
• That Christmas
• The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On: Season Three

December 5th

• BEASTARS: Final Season: Part 1
• Black Doves
• Compliance
• Jentry Chau vs the Underworld
• Subservience
• Top Chef: Boston
• Top Chef: Kentucky
• Top Chef: Seattle

December 6th

• A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter
• Biggest Heist Ever
• Camp Crasher
• Echoes of the Past
• Mary

December 9th

• The Great British Baking Show: Holidays: Season Seven
• Rubble & Crew: Season One

December 10th

• Polo
• Rugged Rugby: Conquer or Die

December 11th

• The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga
• Makayla’s Voice: A Letter to the World
• Maria
• One Hundred Years of Solitude: Part One
• Queer Eye: Season Nine

December 12th

• La Palma
• No Good Deed

December 13th

• 1992
• Carry-On
• Disaster Holiday

December 16th

• The Dead Don’t Die
• The Equalizer

December 17th

• Aaron Rodgers: Enigma

December 18th

• Julia’s Stepping Stones
• The Manny: Season Two

December 19th

• The Dragon Prince: Season Seven
• Project Runway: Season 18 and 19
• Virgin River: Season Six

December 20th

• Ferry 2
• The Six Triple Eight
• Umjolo: Day Ones
• UniverXO Dabiz

December 21st

• Flipping Out: Season Six to Eight

December 26th

• Squid Game: Season Two