We round up everything coming to streaming services this week, including Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV, ThreeNow, Neon and TVNZ+.
Fallout (Prime Video, 17 December)
Fallout fans rejoice! The TV show adaptation of the beloved post-apocalyptic video game of the same name is returning for a second season, with new factions and locations on the orange-hued horizon. Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins reprise their roles as Lucy and The Ghoul respectively, digging deeper into Vault-Tec’s sinister secrets, as the uneasy allies journey to the post-apocalyptic city of New Vegas, hoping to find Lucy’s father. “Immaculately made” and “supremely witty”, the reviewers say.
Still Alice (Netflix, Neon, 21 December)
An adaptation of Lisa Genova’s novel of the same name, this critically acclaimed drama sees Juliane Moore give an Oscar-winning turn as Alice, an esteemed linguistics professor diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. Focusing on Alice’s point of view, the film, with excruciating proximity, chronicles the character’s inevitable decline as the very core of her being begins to fade away. This heartbreak lands even harder knowing that co-director Richard Glatzer would lose his fight against ALS shortly after the film’s premiere. Still Alice might tackle a difficult subject matter, but “the message we take away is defiant and ultimately uplifting.”
The Great Flood (Netflix, 19 December)
Set in a rapidly sinking apartment building during an extinction-level weather event, The Great Flood follows up-and-comer Kim Da-mi as An-na, an AI researcher fighting to keep herself and her son afloat. The twist? A conspiracy is afoot as the biblical flood might not be mother nature’s fault. Also starring Squid Game’s Park Hae-soo as Hee-jo, a mysterious security agent who’s assigned to retrieve the researcher, this “engrossing and nerve-jangling disaster film” is primed to make a splash.
What’s In The Box? (Netflix, 17 December)
In Netflix’s newest high-stakes gameshow, How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris leads pairs of contestants through rounds of fast-paced trivia as they race to guess what’s inside 13 ginormous gold boxes. A white-kunckle test of smarts, strategy and stamina, contestants must work with and against each other, as once they’ve guessed what life-changing prizes are inside the boxes, they must use their wits to safeguard their winnings. The title may be a sly reference to the climatic finale of Se7en, but What’s In The Box? is fun for the whole whānau.
Friendship (Neon, 15 December)
In Andrew DeYoung’s directorial debut, Tim Robinson stars as Craig, a reclusive, socially awkward marketing executive who strikes up an unlikely friendship with Paul Rudd’s Austin. The local weatherman has just moved in down the block, but after a social faux pas, their blossoming bromance soon turns sour, leaving the film to paint a “portrait of male loneliness so totalizing, and so scarily close to the bone, that laughs and screams all but bleed together.” Friendship may feel a “little too real,” but if you can stomach it, this surreal comedy has all the makings of a future cult classic.
Pick of the Flicks: It Ends (Letterboxd Video Store, 10 December)
Arriving on the recently launched Letterboxd Video Store, this underseen gem has been described as a “brilliant, existential road thriller for and by Gen Z.” Taking home the Best First Feature at Fantasia International Film Festival, It Ends follows four friends on the precipice of adulthood whose plans for a celebratory late night drive takes a terrifying turn. Finding themselves on a never-ending road, where otherworldly terrors lurk beyond the confines of the two-lane hellscape, the quartet must decide whether to accept their fate or to attempt an escape. A “metaphor for young people about to head out on the unending road of adult life,” It Ends is one wild ride.
The rest
Netflix
The Creature Cases S6 (15 December)
Culinary Class Wars S2 (16 December)
What’s In The Box? (17 December)
The Manny: S3 (17 December)
Emily in Paris: S5 (18 December)
10DANCE (18 December)
The Great Flood (19 December)
A Time For Bravery (19 December)
You, Always (19 December)
Life After Fighting (21 December)
Still Alice (21 December)
Bluey S3 (21 December)
TVNZ+
Robin Hood (15 December)
Molly’s Game (16 December)
Open Water (16 December)
Open Water 2: Adrift (16 December)
Love Island: Beyond the Villa (17 December)
The Repair Shop Christmas Special 2025 (19 December)
Junior Bake Off S10 (20 December)
Red’s Fishing Adventures: The Bucket List (20 December)
I Escaped A Murderer (21 December)
Stranded on Honeymoon Island UK (21 December)
American Crime Story: The People vs O.J. Simpson (21 December)
ThreeNow
The Spanish Princess S1-S2 (19 December)
Married to the Game S2 (21 December)
Neon
Michal And Moe (15 December)
Friendship (15 December)
Sex Diaries (16 December)
Man Of The House (16 December)
Love On The Right Course (17 December)
Critical Incident: Death At The Border (18 December)
Laughing All The Way (19 December)
Out Of The Furnace (19 December)
Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Lately? (19 December)
Tiny Toons Looniversity: Winter Blunderland (20 December)
Still Alice (21 December)
Bluey S3 (21 December)
Prime Video
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (15 December)
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (15 December)
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (15 December)
The 100 S1-S7 (15 December)
A Walk to Remember (16 December)
Fallout S2 (17 December)
Disney+
Abbott Elementary S5 (17 December)
Bob’s Burgers S16 (17 December)
Lost Treasures of Egypt S2–S5 (17 December)
Apple TV
Born to be Wild (19 December)
DocPlay
Riefenstahl (18 December)
The Eichmann Trial (18 December)
AroVision
The Travellers (17 December)
Shelby Oaks (17 December)
The Strangers: Chapter 2 (17 December)
Letterboxd Video Store
It Ends (10 December)
Sore: A Wife From The Future (10 December)
Kennedy (10 December)
Tiger on the Beat (10 December)
Poison (10 December)
Kisapmata (10 December)
It Must Be Heaven (10 December)
Before We Vanish (10 December)
