From Staff Reports
In Summary:
December on Netflix kicks off on December 1 with a wave of licensed favorites and new originals, including the school-shooting short doc All The Empty Rooms, the kids series CoComelon Lane Season 6, and the reality spin-off Love Is Blind: Italy. Mid-month brings the big guns: Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery and Home for ChristmasSeason 3 arrive December 12, followed by Emily in Paris Season 5 on December 18 and sports documentary Elway on December 22. The month (and the year) ends in Hawkins, as Stranger Things 5 Volume 2 drops on Christmas Day and the feature-length finale lands on December 31.
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Netflix is ending 2025 the way many of us will end the year: under a blanket, glued to the screen. December’s lineup is one of the streamer’s most stacked in recent memory, with major finales, buzzy originals, and a blizzard of holiday comfort watches arriving almost every day of the month.
Related: Everything streaming in November.
The month opens on December 1 with a mix of heavy and cozy. Short documentary All The Empty Rooms examines the bedrooms of children lost to school shootings, while families get new episodes of CoComelon Lane Season 6 and reality fans meet Love Is Blind: Italy, the franchise’s Italian spin on blind dating. That same day, Netflix drops a haul of classic films—Pulp Fiction, The Wolf of Wall Street, the Kung Fu Panda trilogy, Downton Abbey, and more—perfect for background viewing through the holidays.
The first week continues with stand-up (Matt Rife: Unwrapped), the holiday rom-com My Secret Santa on December 3, prestige western series The Abandons on December 4, and Adam Sandler–George Clooney drama Jay Kelly on December 5, joined by companion doc The New Yorker at 100 and thriller The Price of Confession.
Mid-month brings documentary Masaka Kids, A Rhythm Within (December 9) and, on December 12, the big mystery play: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, alongside Home for Christmas Season 3.
On December 18, Emily in Paris Season 5 returns with more fashion, romance, and questionable professional choices, while December 22 spotlights Hall of Fame quarterback John Elway in the aptly titled doc Elway. Christmas week leans emotional with family drama, Goodbye June on December 24, then cranks up the volume as Stranger Things 5 Volume 2 lands December 25. The saga finally ends on December 31 with a feature-length finale, giving fans one last trip to Hawkins before the ball drops in 2025.
December calendar
| Date |
Highlights |
| Dec. 1 |
All The Empty Rooms, CoComelon Lane S6, Love Is Blind: Italy, My Next Guest with David Letterman and Adam Sandler + big licensed drop (Pulp Fiction, The Wolf of Wall Street, Kung Fu Panda trilogy, Downton Abbey, more) |
| Dec. 2 |
Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches S2, Matt Rife: Unwrapped – A Christmas Crowd Work Special |
| Dec. 3 |
Holiday rom-com My Secret Santa, The Northman, reality series Stranded with my Mother-in-Law S3 |
| Dec. 4 |
Western series The Abandons, A Lot Like Christmas, Mean Girls (2004 & 2024), Forrest Gump |
| Dec. 5 |
Film Jay Kelly, doc The Making of Jay Kelly, The New Yorker at 100, legal thriller The Price of Confession |
| Dec. 9 |
Masaka Kids, A Rhythm Within, Blood Coast S2, The West Wing S1–7 |
| Dec. 12 |
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, Home for Christmas S3, The Amazing Digital Circus eps. 5–7 |
| Dec. 14–15 |
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie (Dec. 14); new holiday films A Cowboy Christmas Romance, Christmas at the Chalet, Christmas on the Alpaca Farm (Dec. 15) |
| Dec. 18 |
Emily in Paris S5, plus anime 10DANCE |
| Dec. 22 |
Crime doc Elway, The Closer S1–7, Sicily Express |
| Dec. 24 |
Film Goodbye June, Downton Abbey: A New Era, stand-up Tom Segura: Teacher |
| Dec. 25 |
Stranger Things 5 Volume 2; NFL specials Christmas Gameday: Cowboys vs. Commanders and Lions vs. Vikings |
| Dec. 31 |
Stranger Things 5: The Finale, plus comedy Sleeping with Other People |
Key Points:
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Event finales lead the month. Stranger Things 5 wraps with new episodes on December 25 and a final episode on December 31, while Emily in Paris Season 5 and Home for Christmas Season 3 return with fresh chapters for fan-favorite characters.
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Big originals and prestige films. Highlights include mystery threequel Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (December 12), starry drama Jay Kelly (December 5), and companion doc The New Yorker at 100, plus emotionally charged doc All The Empty Rooms (December 1).
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Holiday fare and comfort rewatches. Viewers can dive into rom-com My Secret Santa (December 3), multiple new Christmas movies mid-month, and an early-December dump of comfort classics like Pulp Fiction, The Wolf of Wall Street, the Kung Fu Panda trilogy, and Downton Abbey.
