What's streaming this December

Montserrat Rivera
Staff Writer

​     For those with nothing to do over winter break, there is a solution. This December brings plenty of movies and television series to Netflix, Amazon Prime, iTunes, HBO Now, Acorn TV, and Hulu. So, here are some shows you can binge watch instead of dealing with your annoying (but lovable) family:

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• The second season of Transparent - A man has a secret to tell his self-absorbed children. (Amazon Prime)
• 10 Things I Hate About You - A modern version of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew (HBO Now)
• The Care Bears Movie – An evil wizard attempts to cover the Earth in concrete. (Hulu)
• Ted 2 - Ted goes to court to declare himself a person so he and his wife can become parents. (iTunes)
• Hitman Agent 47 - A woman, with the help of an assassin, searches for her father. (iTunes)
• Interstellar - A man must leave everything behind to lead an expedition to the stars. (Amazon Prime, Hulu)
• Billy Connolly’s Route 66 - Comedian and actor Billy Connolly takes a 2,488-mile journey from Chicago to Santa Monica. (Acorn TV)
• Seasons 1-7 of Nurse Jackie - A nurse relies on pain medication to get through her days in this Emmy-winning series. (Netflix)
• He Named Me Malala - Documentary about Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai. (iTunes)
• Second season of Broadchurch - Two detectives are assigned the case of a boy’s mysterious murder. (Netflix)
• Hoffa - Movie about labor leader Jimmy Hoffa (Amazon Prime)
• Apocalypse Now - Critically acclaimed and controversial film set during the Vietnam War (Hulu)
• Third season of Banshee - An ex-con takes the identity of a town’s dead sheriff to hide from another criminal. (iTunes)
• The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury - Riddick, Jack, and the Imam are abducted. (Netflix)
• Fourth season of Phineas and Ferb - Phineas and Ferb continue to invent great things over the summer. (Netflix, iTunes)
• Blacula - An African ruler is transformed into a vampire. (Hulu)
• Jenny’s Wedding - A family is turned upside down because of a wedding. (Netflix)
• The complete collection of Hannibal - Series about the relationship between FBI investigator Will Graham and Dr. Hannibal Lector (iTunes)
• Cradle 2 the Grave - A criminal creates an alliance with a Taiwanese Intelligence officer to find his kidnapped daughter. (Netflix)
• A Very Murray Christmas - Bill Murray rounds up an all-star cast to perform a holiday variety show. (Netflix)
• Selma - Academy-award winning film about Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and a pivotal moment in the civil rights movements (Amazon Prime, Hulu)
• Fourth season of Hart of Dixie - A city girl inherits medical practice in a small town in Alabama. (Netflix)
• Mozart in the Jungle - An insider’s look into the world of classical music (Amazon Prime)
• Thirteenth season of Top Chef - Two judges help discover some of the most talented chefs. (iTunes)
• Sixth season of Parenthood - Four siblings juggle parenthood and relationships among other things. (Netflix)
• Stir of Echoes - After being hypnotized, a man begins to have visions of crimes. (Netflix)
• The Gambler - A professor and gambler falls into debt (Hulu).
• The Da Vinci Code - A Harvard professor and a cryptographer must untangle a web of deceit. (Netflix)
• Soul Plane - An all-star cast stars in a film about shenanigans happening while on board a plane. (iTunes)
• First season of Man Seeking Woman - An awkward guy attempts to navigate through love and relationships. (Hulu)

      There is always something to look forward to watching during the holiday season; why not add some things from here to that list?