New Delhi: Streaming giant Amazon Prime Video had made its priorities quite explicit with its heavily dosed run-down including courtroom drama ‘Jai Bhim’ starring south superstar Suriya and The ‘Electrical Life of Louis Wain’ starring Benedict Cumberbatch, for the festive month of November.
Meanwhile, in the last month of the year when we’re approaching towards celebrating one of the biggest annual festivals in the world, a bunch of much awaited new arrivals including the third season of the Inside Edge starring Vivek Oberoi and Richa Chadha will be joining the platform for you to binge watch throughout the chilly weather.
Movies, shows releasing from December 22 – 31:
1. Yearly Departed (Amazon Original Special)
Release Date: December 23
In this hilarious, absurd, life-affirming comedy special, seven outspoken female comedians lay to rest the year that never seemed to end. Hosted by Phoebe Robinson (2 Dope Queens), a lineup of some of the world’s funniest women bid farewell to 2020’s biggest conceptual casualties, from TV Cops to Casual Sex, giving the year a cathartic sendoff.
2. Lady Of Manor
Release Date: December 31
Past and present collide when slacker Hannah gets hired to portray Lady Wadsworth — a Southern belle from the 1800s — for tours at Wadsworth Manor. Hannah figures she can fake it well enough, until the ghost of Lady Wadsworth appears and tells her it’s time to change her wild ways — or she’ll haunt her forever.
3. Time is up
An accident will force ‘Vivien’ and Royan to come to a stop and reclaim their lives, one minute at a time, and finally start living in a present that perhaps will prove to be more exciting than anything predefined.
New arrivals from December 11 – 21:
1. A Christmas Star
Release Date: December 12
Astronomer Madeline Baggett convinces her seniors to let her travel to a certain hamlet in upstate New York after she believed that she has found the life beyond earth. Though, unusual event takes place as a Madeline arrives when she meets widowed national park ranger Ryan Sparks and his young daughter.
2. Boxing Day
Release Date: December 17
A homey festive comedy written and directed by Aml Ameen is a fresh romantic drama with a traditional Jamaican Christmas. In the movie, Aml plays Melvin, who brings his secretly pregnant fiancée to meet his family and also happen to come across his ex who is now a global star.
3. With Love (Season 1)
Release Date: December 17
The first season follows the Diaz siblings, Lily and Jorge, who are on a mission to find love and purpose. The Diaz siblings cross paths with seemingly unrelated residents during some of the most heightened days of the year -the holidays.
4. Who You Think I Am
Release Date: December 20
Ghosted by her hunky twenty something lover, Claire, a middle-aged professor and divorced single mom, creates a fake Facebook profile to do a little undetected online snooping. But when her 24-year-old avatar “Clara” is friended by her ex’s equally attractive roommate, superficial correspondence quickly escalates towards intense intimacy and uncontrolled obsession.
5. Being The Ricardos
Release Date: December 21
During one production week of “I Love Lucy” — from Monday table read through Friday audience taping — Lucille Ball (Nicole Kidman) and Desi Arnaz (Javier Bardem) face a series of personal and professional crises that threaten their show, their careers and their marriage, in writer-director Aaron Sorkin’s behind-the-scenes drama.
Movies, shows releasing from December 1 – 10:
1. Inside Edge
Release Date: December 3
After the success of the first two seasons, season 3 will unleash the dark underbelly of cricket as the ultimate game of power and greed is unleashed. The stakes are higher in Season 3, as ‘the game behind the game’ becomes more intriguing and a personal vendetta takes the centre stage. The show stars Vivek Oberoi, Richa Chadha, Tanuj Virwani, Aamir Bashir, Sayani Gupta, Sapna Pabbi, Akshay Oberoi, Sidhant Gupta and Amit Sial.
2. FC Bayern – Behind the Legend
Release Date: December 8
Bayern will be joining the row of Arsenal and Manchester City with having their own Amazon docuseries releasing in the starting of this month. The docuseries will follow the Bayern squad throughout the Champions League and DFL Supercup, 2020-21 season.
3. Encounter
Release Date: December 10
Michael Pearce directorial revolves around the story of a decorated Marine goes on a rescue mission to save his two young sons from an unhuman threat. As their journey takes them in increasingly dangerous directions, the boys will need to leave their childhoods behind.
4. LOL: Last One Laughing Mexico (Season 3)
Release Date: December 10
Ten comics are put in a room for a no-holds-barred battle of wits, jokes and improvisational and physical comedy; the goal is to be the last person laughing in the room, and the person who keeps a straight face the longest wins the grand prize. LOL will have 6 episode, out of which the first two episodes will be available from December 10.
5. The Expanse (Season 6)
Release Date: December 10
The Sci-fi series features Dominique Tipper, Keon Alexander, Frankie. Adams Holden and the crew of the Rocinante fight alongside the Combined Fleet of Earth and Mars to protect the Inner Planets from Marco Inaros and his Free Navy’s campaign of death and destruction. Meanwhile, on a distant planet beyond the Rings, a new power rises.
