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Our guide to this month’s new streaming highlights includes the words ‘apocalyptic’, ‘cynical’ and ‘despair’. Let the fun commence!

[ Words Sam Kieldsen ]

The Great Flood

What better way to get all cosy for Christmas than with an apocalyptic disaster movie? When a biblical-scale deluge engulfs Seoul, an AI researcher and her young son find themselves trapped in their apartment building as the rampaging waters rise. Squid Game’s Park Hae-soo co-stars as a mysterious security officer with a mission to save them.

Film / Netflix, 19 Dec

High Potential

Following a mid-season cliffhanger involving art heists and suspicious scars, Kaitlin Olson’s cleaner, single mum and police consultant Morgan Gillory is back. With romantic interest Rhys now firmly in the crosshairs of her investigation, Morgan must choose where her loyalties lie, all while continuing to unravel knotty cases for the LAPD.

S2b / Disney+, 7 Jan

Goodbye June

Kate Winslet’s directorial debut is a drama about four siblings whose Christmas plans implode when their mother’s health takes a turn. But sharp-witted matriarch June (Helen Mirren) isn’t going quietly: she’s orchestrating her final act with biting humour and blunt honesty – y’know, like what you get in Stuff. Toni Collette and Timothy Spall also star.

Film / Netflix, 24 Dec

His & Hers

Tessa Thompson plays a reclusive former news anchor who finds a new lease of life when murder strikes her Georgia hometown. But her investigation puts her on a collision course with a cynical detective (Jon Bernthal) whose own enquiries suggest she knows more than she’s letting on. He also happens to be her estranged husband. Awks!

S1 / Netflix, 8 Jan

The Night Manager

Nine years after the first series, Tom Hiddleston’s Jonathan Pine returns, now quietly living under an alias as a lowly surveillance agent. But he soon finds himself dragged into another dangerous international conspiracy. Olivia Colman reprises her role as intelligence officer Angela Burr… and a third series is already on the way, hopefully not in nine years.

S2 / iPlayer, 1 Jan

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

Yes, it’s time for yet another new Star Trek series, this time following the fresh-faced youngsters training to become Starfleet’s next generation of officers. Holly Hunter and Paul Giamatti provide some Hollywood sparkle, with Stephen Colbert using his newfound free time to provide the voice of the Digital Dean.

S1 / Paramount+, 15 Jan

DON’T MISS THIS

A Thousand Blows

Ding-ding! Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight brings us a second round of his gritty Victorian bare-knuckle boxing drama. Jamaican fighter Hezekiah has fallen into despair, his mentor Sugar’s pickling his sorrows in booze and London’s East End looks ready to implode – but just when all seems lost, crime boss Mary Carr roars back onto the streets hell-bent on reuniting her gang of female thieves and reclaiming her place as queen of the slums. You can count on more bloodshed on the cobbles, and more Machiavellian scheming.

S2 / Disney+, 9 Jan