New on Netflix: ‘Stranger Things’ finally comes to an end

Premieres Wednesday, Dec. 24:

Goodbye June — Family members gather around the bedside of their dying mother (Helen Mirren) in a film Kate Winslet directed from a script by her son, Joe Anders. Boy, wonder what she thought when he handed her that one. Did it go straight onto the refrigerator, or did she get the hint? (Netflix)

Tom Segura: Teacher — The dudebro comic performs in a special that’s reaching streaming in record time, considering it was filmed in front of a live audience just last month. But that’s how you have to do it if you want to make room for timely routines like “Dems Will Never Cave on the Shutdown.” (Netflix)

Premieres Thursday, Dec. 25:

Christmas Gameday — The options for avoiding your family are copious this year, with Netflix streaming the Cowboys versus the Commanders at 1 p.m. and the Lions versus the Vikings at 4:30, followed by Prime Video getting into the act with the Broncos versus the Chiefs at 8:15. And if that doesn’t do the trick, there’s always a long ride in the country with Christopher Walken.

Premieres Friday, Dec. 26:

Cover Up — Retrace the career of crusading investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, who exposed our military’s atrocities in Vietnam and Iraq. Critics have derided his reliance on anonymous sources — in case you were wondering why the film ends with Susie Wiles singing “The Man That Got Away.” (Netflix)

Stranger Things 5 Volume 2 — The run-up to the big series finale on New Year’s Eve consists of three episodes that pick up on Vecna’s threats to use children to transform the world. Which might explain why the leading market on Polymarket for the last month has been “Is Vecna Whitney Houston?” (Netflix)

Premieres Saturday, Dec. 27:

The Copenhagen Test — Old Shang-Chi himself, Simu Liu, plays a Chinese-American intelligence analyst whose brain gets hacked, affording our enemies a ringside seat to his daily experiences. Bet they ask for their money back when they find out about Signal. (Peacock) 

Premieres Monday, Dec. 29:

Members Only: Palm Beach — The latest reality opulence fest is set in Florida’s very own Palm Beach County, where common sense and good taste take a back seat to obscene wealth. And remember, these are the people we’re fighting redistricting to hold onto. (Netflix)

Premieres Tuesday, Dec. 30:

Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story — There’s already been a Hulu series about Ruby Franke, the parenting expert who was found guilty of horrifically abusing her own children. So now we get a documentary about her professional partner, Jodi Hildebrandt, who is doing time as her accomplice. Franke was brought up on six charges of aggravated child abuse, but Hildebrandt faced only four — I guess because she merely tortured someone else’s offspring. And if that seems unfair to you, you must not have done much of your shopping in physical stores this Christmas. (Netflix) 

Ricky Gervais: Mortality — In his latest stand-up special, the gleeful provocateur continues his recent focus on the inevitability of his eventual demise. Just try not to be distracted by the picture-in-picture of a trans woman eating popcorn. (Netflix) 

Premieres Wednesday, Dec. 31:

Stranger Things — Numerous Greater Orlando multiplexes are showing this two-hour series finale tonight, but you can just stay home and watch it the old-fashioned way if you don’t want the experience ruined by a bunch of chatty drunks. OK, by a bunch of chatty drunks you don’t know! (Netflix)

Premieres Thursday, Jan. 1:

Run Away — And in a reassuring bit of continuity, the new year begins with — what else — a Harlan Coben adaptation. This one focuses on a dad who fights to retrieve his daughter from a shadowy drug underworld. And just in time too, because I hear you can come down with a serious case of TDS in those places. (Netflix)

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This article appears in Dec. 24-30, 2025.

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