New on Netflix: ‘Stranger Things 5, Volume 1’ arrives just in time for the Hellfire Club to receive their AARP cards

Premiering Wednesday:

The Beatles Anthology — The landmark 1995 ABC docuseries gets a modern-day restoration and expansion, with a new chapter that shows … the creation of the original docuseries. How meta! Yes, these guys really want you to remember they’re the ones who wrote “Glass Onion.” (Disney+) 

Jingle Bell Heist — An American woman and a British guy fall for each other while plotting the Christmas Eve robbery of a swank London department store. But it’s OK, you see, because they’re only trying to get money to take care of their kids. You know, just like everybody at Dancers Royale is majoring in poli sci at UCF. (Netflix)

Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age — Season 3 profiles creatures like the woolly mammoth, the sabertooth tiger and the snow sloth, which exerted a fragile control over the frigid terrain of Earth’s first and greatest climate catastrophe. Each episode ends with commentary by Bill Gates, who has thought it all over and decided it’s bullshit. (Apple TV) 

Stranger Things 5, Volume 1 — Arriving just in time for the Hellfire Club to receive their AARP cards, the show’s eagerly awaited conclusion finds our heroes determined to eliminate Vecna once and for all. Supposedly, we’ll also discover the true nature of the Upside Down. You mean we aren’t living in it? (Netflix)

WondLa — In the third and final season of this animated fantasy, human heroine Eva fights to save her world by recapturing the purloined Heart of the Forest. But is all that trouble really worth it for something that couldn’t make it off James Cameron’s drawing board? (Apple TV)

Premiering Friday:

The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo — Remember that famous pic of a Vietnamese girl getting blasted by napalm? The shot that was credited to AP photographer Nick Ut? Well, modern investigators suspect it may have actually been the work of a Vietnamese stringer. I don’t know, man. They’re going to have to work hard to sell me on the idea that a local came out on the short end of that war. (Netflix)

Premiering Monday:

All the Empty Rooms — A documentary crew hits on a novel way to underline the epidemic of gun violence: photographing the bedrooms of children lost to school shootings. You know what would be even more persuasive? If they TOLD THE PARENTS THEY WERE SHOWING UP FIRST. (Netflix)

Love Is Blind Italy — The latest international edition of the hit dating franchise is hosted by sportscaster Fabio Caressa and his wife, news presenter and culinary expert Benedetta Parodi. Expect to see her dishing all kinds of dirt about the contestants on her Twitter, because she can just explain it’s a Parodi account. (Netflix)

My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman — Dave welcomes the legendary Adam Sandler. And if that prospect doesn’t thrill you, just remind yourself that the last guy he platformed was Warren Zevon. (Netflix)

Troll 2 — This sequel to the 2021 schlock-horror hit raises the stakes by depicting the coming of a fresh and fearsome menace, the Megatroll. It’s like a newer and more virulent version of Nick Fuentes assembled from the bodies of several lesser Nick Fuenti. (Netflix)

Premiering Tuesday:

Matt Rife: Unwrapped: A Christmas Crowd Work Special — Last year’s favorite stand-up comic celebrates the holiday in his trademark fashion: by letting the paying customers do his work for him. Stay tuned for New Year’s Eve, when he’ll be going for the really big laughs by making a withdrawal from a food bank. (Netflix)

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This article appears in Nov. 26–Dec. 2, 2025.

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