What to Watch in December: 17 Notable TV Shows & Streaming Movies

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – November 29, 2022

Need something to watch at home during the final weeks of the year? The month ahead will bring a Knives Out sequel (among a handful of intriguing Netflix movies), spinoffs from The Witcher and Yellowstone, a series adaptation of Octavia Butler's sci-fi classic Kindred, this year's Sundance winner, the return of Slow Horses, and more. In the gallery on this page, our editors have selected the most interesting TV and movie titles debuting at home in December, listed in order by premiere date.

Additional content by Keith Kimbell.

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45 The Witcher: Blood Origin: Season 1

Fantasy miniseries debuts December 25 on Netflix

You'll have to wait until summer to stream the third season of Netflix's game-to-TV adaptation The Witcher. But Christmas Day brings a six-part prequel miniseries set 1,200 years before the time of Geralt of Rivia. Blood Origin traces the origin story of the very first Witcher and stars Sophia Brown (a replacement for the originally cast Jodie Turner-Smith), Laurence O’Fuarain, Minnie Driver, and Michelle Yeoh (who, in one of the few good developments of 2022, is suddenly everywhere all at once).

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