What To Watch This Week: Stream Our Top 7 TV and Movie Picks (Dec. 15–21)

The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula Holiday of Horrors | AMC+, Shudder | Reality

Special, Tuesday, Dec. 16: The fabulous Boulet Brothers (The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula) and David Dastmalchian (Late Night with the Devil) teamed up for this horror anthology special. It features four scary shorts by the Boulet Brothers, Dastmalchian, Akeela Cooper (Malignant, M3GAN), and Kate Siegel (The Haunting of Hill House). We have no details on the shorts (aside from the tantalizing trailer—see left), but Shudder says the special “blends atmospheric horror, practical gore, and haunting holiday imagery into a new seasonal classic.”

Fallout | Prime Video | Drama, science fiction

Season 2 premiere, Wednesday, Dec. 17: Amazon’s first season of Fallout totally hit the spot for a video game adaptation—it was definitely high-fives all around! (Personal note: next time, more monsters and mayhem, please!). As a huge fan, I’m practically buzzing because Season Two is taking our crew—Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell), Maximus (Aaron Moten), The Ghoul/Cooper Howard (Walton Goggins), and trusty Dogmeat—on a road trip to New Vegas! That’s the iconic setting from my beloved Fallout: New Vegas game. Even though the show lands 15 years after the game’s events, isn’t this basically the long-awaited New Vegas sequel we’ve been wishing for (whether on screen or in a controller)?

What’s in the Box? | Netflix | Game show

Series premiere, Wednesday, Dec. 17: Anyone who’s seen David Fincher’s Se7en (1995) probably imagined the same thing I did when I heard this game show’s title. And that would be Neil Patrick Harris posing the titular query to an excited contestant who’ll say, “Gwyneth Paltrow’s head!” While I really hope someone pops off with this answer, it’s probably counterintuitive if they actually wanna win the game, where eight pairs of contestants spend the whole season trying to guess what fabulous prizes are hidden in 13 boxes. (Wouldn’t it be funny if one of the boxes contained a year’s supply of Paltrow’s weird Goop products?)

Adult Swim’s The Elephant | HBO, HBO Max | Adult animation

Special, Friday, Dec. 19, 11:00 p.m. ET: Adult Swim recruited four animators—Patrick McHale (Over the Garden Wall), Ian Jones-Quartey (OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes), Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe) and Pendleton Ward (Adventure Time)—for this three-act special, giving them zero details about what the others were doing. “Every year around this time, we try to give the Adult Swim audience a gift they didn’t know they needed, and this year, it’s [this special],” said Michael Ouweleen, president of Adult Swim. “We can’t wait for you to see the results of this crazy experiment.” Neither can I. The special will air uninterrupted, followed by a making-of documentary.

Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts | Hulu | Stand-up comedy

Special, Friday, Dec. 19: “Do you guys get night thoughts?” comedian/actor Kumail Nanjiani (Silicon Valley) asks the crowd in this, his first new standup special in a decade. “When you’re laying in bed in the middle of the night and you can’t sleep and your brain is like, ‘Here’s something new for you to worry about. Oh, you hadn’t thought about that? That’s because you’re a little bit stupid. Night thoughts are like day thoughts, except they hate you.’” I think we all feel that.

Mo’ Waffles | Tubi | Comedy

Series premiere, Friday, Dec. 19: This half-hour comedy series follows the oddball crew of a new Atlanta-based waffle joint whose rapper owner is abducted before the grand opening. Now they must find him—and somehow still run the place. The show is a Stubios project, meaning it’s “a Tubi initiative that brings fan-fueled projects to the free-streaming platform.” In this case, the fans/creators are the TikTok comedy duo A Twink and a Redhead (Grant Gibbs and Ashley Gill), along with actress/content creator Robin Jordan.