What’s Good and What’s Garbage on Netflix for December 2017

There is still a week to go before November ends, but NetFlix has already released information about what is coming in December 2017. November brought both Marvel’s The Punisher and Barbra: The Music, The Memries (a Barbara Streisand documentary) so that should give you an idea of the range of original content on the platform.

For December however, the streaming service will be bringing in a slew of Christmas and holiday season classics. Moreover, several beloved NetFlix originals will resume and come back, including the second season of The Crown, Doctor Who Season 9 and more.

Also coming is a Netflix original movie called Bright (2017) starring Will Smith and Joel Edgerton. It is essentially Training Day meets Alien Nation meets End of Watch. With Smith and Edgerton playing a buddy-cop duo except Edgerton is an Orc. In fact their entire world includes all fantasy character archetypes set in modern day Los Angeles. It is directed by David Ayer who also directed End of Watch (2012), S.W.A.T. (2003), Street Kings (2008) and Suicide Squad (2016).

Since there are so many releases, there are bound to be some duds in there such as Love Actually (2013). For some reason that movie has become a holiday season staple. Despite the fact that it has the most vile, cynical view of love there is. It is not just a dud, it is actually one of the most disgustingly awful movies ever made.  It is the anti-thesis of what a love story is, and an anti-thesis to what Christmas and the holiday season is about. The characters are all shallow, selfish, sexist and I find it hard to believe that people actually relate to any of them.

It is a good thing there are plenty of other options available.

NetFlix December 2017 Releases

Here is the full release list with the launch date. Some might not be available in some regions since these are for UK users. I’ve marked my recommended picks, as well as those you should avoid as garbage.

1st December

• A Gray State
• A Quiet Passion
• A StoryBots Christmas
• All Hail King Julien: Season 5
• American Graffiti (Recommended)
• Bad Day for the Cut (Recommended)
• Balto
• Brother’s Keeper
• Dark: Season 1 (Recommended)
• Devil
• Diana: In Her Own Words
• Dirt
• Dream Boat
• DreamWorks Home: For the Holidays
• Easy: Season 2
• Emelie (Recommended)
• Fahrenheit 9/11
• Forbidden Games: The Justin Fashanu Story
• Hired Gun
• Kick-Ass (Recommended)
• Meet Joe Black
• Midnight Run (Recommended)
• Monster Island
• Motivation 3: The Next Generation
• Playing for Time
• Romantic Comedy
• Sharknado
• Swelter
• The Awakening
• The Comfort of Strangers
• The Grudge (Recommended)
• The Hollywood Masters: Season 2
• The Legend of 420
• Three Kinds Of Heat
• To Kill For
• Voyeur
• Waterworld
• Wild Child
• Winter People
• You Can Tutu

2nd December

• Daddy’s Home
• Shutter (Recommended)
• Temple (Recommended)

4th December

• Lockup: County Jails: Collection 1

5th December

• Craig Ferguson: Tickle Fight
• Life of Crime
• Wallander: Series 4

6th December

• Friends with Money

7th December

• Doctor Who: Season 9 (Recommended)
• The Secret

8th December

• El Camino Christmas
• The Crown: Season 2 (Recommended)

9th December

• My Name is Lenny
• Secrets of Great British Castles: Season 2

10th December

• Peaky Blinders: Season 3 (Recommended)

11th December

• Monster House (Recommended)

12th December

• Judd Apatow: The Return
• Manhunt: Unabomber (Recommended)
• Nowhere Boy
• The Collector
• The Resident
• Triangle (Recommended)

13th December

• Maid in Manhattan
• The 6th Day
• Upstart Crow: Season 1

14th December

• Adventure Angler: Seasons 4 & 5
• Age Gap Love: Season 1
• Back to the Future I, Part II and Part III (YES! Recommended)
• Changing Faces: Season 1
• Combat Countdown: Season 1
• Encounters With Evil: Season 1
• Love Actually (GARBAGE)

15th December

• Boj: Season 1
• Breaking Free
• Brighton Rock
• Christmas Inheritance
• Discovering Bigfoot
• El Chapo: Season 2
• Erased: Season 1
• Fiore
• Freeway: Crack in the System
• Pottersville
• Reggie Yates Outside Man: Volume 2
• Seoul Searching
• Sommersby
• The Avengers (Recommended)
• The Foreigner (Recommended)
• The Hollywood Masters: Season 3
• The Ranch: Part 4
• The Vault
• Trollhunters: Part 2
• Ultimate Beastmaster: Season 2
• Under an Arctic Sky (Recommended)
• Universal Soldier: Regeneration
• Wormwood

16th December

• 2 Guns
• The 5th Wave

17th December

• Gods of Egypt
• Poster Boys

18th December

• Marcella: Season 1

19th December

• Autopsy of Jane Doe (Recommended)
• Miss Me This Christmas
• Patriots Day
• Russell Howard: Recalibrate
• The Indian Detective: Season 1
• The Road
• Waking Ned Devine
• You Can’t Fight Christmas

20th December

• Bridge of Spies
• La Casa de Papel: Season 1
• The Benchwarmers
• The Last Word

22nd December

• 72 Dangerous Animals: Latin America: Season 1
• Bright (Recommended)
• Dope: Season 1
• Fuller House: Season 3, Part 2
• The Toys That Made Us: Season 1

23rd December

• Alone in Berlin
• Creep 2
• Myths & Monsters: Season 1

24th December

• Mad Max: Fury Road (Recommended)

25th December

• Bushwick
• Krampus
• Las Chicas del Cable: Season 2

26th December

• El Vato: Season 2
• Puffin Rock: New Year’s Eve Countdown 2018
• Todd Barry: Spicy Honey
• Travelers: Season 2 (Recommended)
• Trespass Against Us

27th December

• Ultraviolet (GARBAGE)

29th December

• Bill Nye Saves the World: Season 2, Part 1 (GARBAGE)
• How to Get Away with Murder: Season 3
• The Climb
• Wadi: Season 1

30th December

• Goon: Last of the Enforcers (Recommended)
• Goosebumps
• Spotlight (Recommended)

31st December

• Another Mother’s Son
• Berlin Syndrome
• Dave Chapelle: Equanimity (Recommended)
• Final Portrait
• Fun Mom Dinner
• Now You See Me 2
• Saving Christmas