‘Tis the season for Netflix to wheel the fairy lights, tinsel, and baubles out from that dusty box in the shed as its algorithm begins to churn out Christmas-based suggestions for everyone to indulge in… or not. Surprisingly, despite December’s traditional festivities, Netflix clearly hasn’t received the memo, at least as far as its output of new Christmas series is concerned. That said, what the streaming giant has planned is definitely worth getting excited about, and in some instances, it really is like Christmas has come early. Let’s look at all the original series coming to Netflix in December.

Sweet Home
Streaming Dec. 1

South Korea is a nation currently leading the way in terms of the quality of its output in the television and film industries. From the global phenomenon that was Squid Game to Bong Joon-Ho’s Academy Award romp with his cinematic masterpiece, Parasite, there has been an overabundance of noteworthy titles coming out of the Southeast Asian country in recent years.

Sweet Home continues that trend as another product of the booming industry in South Korea. Originally a web series that recorded over 2 billion views in 2020, the streaming giant picked up the highly anticipated second season and is due to land on Netflix at the start of December. The second season is set to detail the rest of the titular character, Cha Hyun-soo’s (Song Kang) journey as he attempts to evade this pandemic of humans turning into monsters.

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Blood Coast
Streaming Dec. 6
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Entering Netflix’s extensive portfolio of original series for its maiden offering is the French show Blood Coast. This highly-charged crime drama is set to follow a group of specially trained investigative police operatives in the city of Marseille as they attempt to hunt down a morally bankrupt criminal who threatens to pull the already crime-ridden city into further criminal depravity, as a gang war and further bloodshed loom.

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Carol & the End of the World
Streaming Dec. 15
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Netflix has, year by year, begun to fashion an exciting assembly of original animations in both feature form and for the platform’s original series collection. As of Dec. 15, another title will be added to that list, with Carol & the End of the World scheduled to premiere. This limited adult animation series by the acclaimed writer of Rick and Morty as well as Community, Dan Guterman, will hit our screens on Dec. 6 with a 10-part installment.

The show’s basic premise follows the lead, Carol (voiced by Martha Kelly), who must navigate the seemingly imminent end of the world as a mysterious planet hurtles toward Earth. While the rest of the world celebrates a sense of liberation, diving headfirst into over-indulgence, Carol takes an altogether different approach.

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My Life With The Walter Boys
Streaming Dec. 7

This Netflix Original series, My Life With The Walter Boys, adapted from Ali Novak’s coming-of-age novel of the same name, chronicles a tragic accident experienced by a young girl, Jackie Howard, and her subsequent life on a Colorado farm with a group of 12 boys. Forced to accept the hand she has been dealt after her entire family is wiped out in a car accident, the stuck-up and slightly haughty Jackie is thrown in with a disorganized rabble of rowdy young lads.

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World War II: From the Frontlines
Streaming Dec. 7
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There are many tear-jerking war documentaries, and it looks as though the Netflix-backed World War II: From the Frontlines is due to slot seamlessly into that catalog come Dec. 7. This six-part docuseries relies on moving archival footage, interviews with those who fought, as well as specialist WWII historians. Narrated by Star Wars’ John Boyega, Netflix promises that the documentary “plunges the viewer directly onto the frontlines of WW2 in a new way”.

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Hilda Season 3
Streaming Dec. 7

Another animated series produced and distributed by the American streaming service is, of course, Hilda. Having premiered in 2018, the show is now entering its third season, with Bella Ramsey set to reprise her role as the titular character. After a three-year wait, fans of the show are understandably excited for the season, which will follow Hilda in the aftermath of the movie, and according to creator Luke Pearson, it will have “a more focused, ongoing story.”

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Analog Squad
Streaming Dec. 7
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As Netflix looks to establish itself in territories all around the world with new and original content, one of the corporation’s latest contributions is to the Thai television and film industry. Analog Squad is set to debut on the platform in the lead-up to Christmas, with the show following the story of a faux family, who are assembled by one man after he learns of his estranged father’s illness in one last ditch effort to make amends.

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I Hate Christmas Season 2
Streaming Dec. 7
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Surprisingly, the only Netflix Original offering that actually has anything to do with Christmas. I Hate Christmas Season 2 certainly doesn’t sound like a show that embraces the festive period, but as the first season demonstrates, this rom-com is far from what it says on the tin. While little has been revealed about the plot of the next installment of this Italian-language series, several of the first season’s cast are set to reprise their roles for this Christmas Cracker.

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Pokémon Concierge
Streaming Dec. 28
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In this spin-off of the cherished Japanese franchise, aptly named Pokémon Concierge, due to drop on Netflix in the latter half of December, we follow the whole Pokémon gang as they take a well-deserved trip to a Southern holiday resort. Concierge Haru is subsequently tasked with tending to their every need. It is a show that will certainly keep kids occupied during that slightly peculiar barren period between Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve.

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Berlin
Streaming Dec. 29
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This prequel to the massively successful Money Heist documents the various escapades of the masterful, Berlin (Pedro Alonso). Berlin traverses the story of a gang of bank robbers assembled by Berlin in Paris to take on a daring yet extremely rewarding robbery that could bank them an absolute fortune.

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