What’s New on Streaming This Week? Watch ‘Squid Game,’ ‘Doctor Who’ and More

Taking place three years after the events of season one — and airing three years after the show’s wildly popular streaming debut — Squid Game’s highly anticipated second season once again focuses on Lee Jung-jae’s Gi-hun, aka Player 456. Returning to the competition, Gi-hun’s goal isn’t to win but to find a way to bring the show to an end. To do so, he’ll have to find a way to outwit the ever-mysterious Front Man (Lee Byung-hun, also returning from season one). Wi Ha-jun is among the familiar faces returning for the second season, which will also showcase a new crop of contestants. How long any of them last is anyone’s guess. Streams on Netflix starting Dec. 26.

If football is part of your Christmas Day tradition be warned, you won’t find the day’s big NFL games on network TV. The NFL’s two Christmas Day games will instead be airing exclusively on Netflix. The early game at 1 p.m. ET will feature the Super Bowl LVIII-winning Kansas City Chiefs vs. the Pittsburgh Steelers, and the late game, airing at 4:30 p.m. ET, will be between the Baltimore Ravens and the Houston Texans. Since the later game will be held at NRG Stadium in Houston (a.k.a. Beyoncé’s hometown), the singer will be performing at the halftime show, making the day a gift to football fans and Cowboy Carter fans alike.

After a brief switch to New Year’s-themed shows, Doctor Who’s rich tradition of Christmas specials returned last year with The Church on Ruby Road. Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor marks his second festive season with Joy to the World, in which a woman (Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan) checks in to a hotel in London and opens a secret doorway to the Time Hotel. We’re promised dinosaurs and a dastardly, globe-spanning evil plan, but we’re guessing the Doctor and his companion will be up to the task. The special will be available on Disney Plus on Christmas Day.

The Apple TV Plus series Shrinking began as a dramedy about a therapist Jimmy Laird, played by Jason Segel, struggling to pick up the pieces of his life and be present for his teenage daughter in the wake of his wife’s death. The show’s second season draws to a close this week and, while it’s main themes of grief and parenting are still very much at the forefront, especially after the most recent episode which saw Jimmy head into a downward grief spiral, it’s also about the friends who become family and how they support one another. The show has one of the best ensembles on TV, rounded out by incredible performances from Harrison Ford as Paul, Jimmy’s professional mentor, Jessica Williams as his colleague Gaby, plus Michael Urie, Christa Miller, Luke Tennie and Ted McGinley. The season 2 finale airs on Christmas.

Tarek and Heather Rae El Moussa continue to be some of HGTV’s most enduring personalities, and this week, the real estate couple return with the second season of their series The Flipping El Moussas, which airs on HGTV on Dec. 26, and will stream the next day on Max. With a limited inventory of California real estate and high interest rates, housing is in short supply which means that the couple have been forced to buy some pretty nasty properties to flip this year. With their toddler Tristan in tow, and a property that gets vandalized while under construction, the couple have to juggle come of the biggest renovation obstacles of their careers this season.