Amazon Prime: Best New TV Shows & Movies This Week (December 5)
Amazon Prime Video’s schedule means there’s always something new coming out. This week brings two docuseries, a comedy show, and two sci-fi thrillers.
This week’s movies and TV shows arriving on Amazon Prime Video and IMDb TV include two docuseries, a sci-fi series’ final season, a sci-fi thriller, and a comedy show. While many studios have been pushing their releases back to theaters around the COVID-19 pandemic, many viewers still prefer to wait for content to come to streaming, and those waits are still shorter than they used to be. This week, Amazon Prime Video is adding several shows and movies perfect to stream directly from the comfort of a couch.
Last week, Amazon added Burning to Prime Video, an Amazon Original documentary about the disastrous bushfires in Australia from 2019 through 2020. They also added Spiral, the ninth installment in the Saw horror franchise, Wrath of Man, a heist thriller starring Jason Statham, and the first season of Harlem, and Amazon Original series about four ambitious women in Harlem, NYC. As it was the start of the month, they also added a huge trove of older movies and TV shows to explore on both Prime Video and IMDb TV.
Prime Video functions on a monthly cycle, which means that while some platforms add their weekly content on a single day, Amazon releases new content throughout the week. This content usually includes Amazon Originals, movies and TV series that are making their first appearance on streaming, and older content that is making its debut on Amazon’s streaming service. Here is everything that Amazon is adding to Prime Video during the week of December 5.
Amazon’s first addition to Prime Video of the week will be the Amazon Original docuseries FC Bayern: Behind the Legend. Releasing on December 8, the six-part documentary sees experts delve into the history of the Munich-based soccer club. In particular, it focuses on the intense period following on from the 2019/20 season that was the club’s most successful in history.
The Ferragnez is an eight-part docuseries that takes an intimate look at the lives of two influencers. The digital entrepreneur and fashion icon, Chiara Ferragni pairs up with the versatile artist Fedez to form the Ferragnez. Filmed through 2020 and 2021, The Ferragnez seeks to explore both the extraordinary and traditional aspects of the pair’s lives. The docuseries promises to provide fans of the duo with a sensitive examination of the passions, joys, tears, and ambitions of the young couple as they allow a special insight into their family life like never before.
The first episode of The Expanse season 6 will release on Prime Video on December 10 with the remaining five episodes of the series being released each Friday afterwards and concluding the series on January 14, 2022. Based on the novels by James S. A. Corey (the pen name of collaborators Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), the series is set in a distant future where humanity has spread throughout the solar system. Picking up after season 5, The Expanse season 6 sees the solar system at war and the fallout that that causes as a new power begins to emerge.
On December 10, Encounter comes to Amazon’s Prime Video. The Amazon Original sci-fi thriller debuted at the Telluride Film Festival in September. Encounter takes a new look at the idea of first contact as a Marine Corps veteran takes his two young children on the run from the military in an attempt to protect them from a mysterious, out-of-this-world threat. The movie stars Riz Ahmed, Octavia Spencer, and Rory Cochrane.
Amazon’s other new series release is LOL: Last One Laughing Mexico season 3. The international comedy format returns for a third season in Mexico as ten comedians compete to remain inside a living space for several hours. If a contestant laughs one time then they get issued a warning, laugh a second time and they are out of the game. The remaining group continues trying to make each other laugh until only one comedian remains.
As part of the Great American Christmas line of seasonal programing, Prime Video will be hosting the holiday romance movie A Christmas Star. The movie follows Madeline Baggett (The Vampire Diaries' Sara Canning), an astronomer, as she seeks to discover extraterrestrial life. She travels to a small town in Upstate New York in the hopes of being able to find proof of her theory. As she works to gather evidence, she meets a widowed National Park Ranger, Ryan Sparks (Daniel Lissing) along with his daughter Celeste and slowly a romance begins to form.
While Amazon provides content on Prime Video for Prime members, viewers with or without a prime membership can see additional content on IMDb TV, which is also owned by Amazon. IMDb TV is an ad-supported streaming service, so all of its content can be viewed on-demand immediately and has no additional costs to pay. IMDb TV will be adding a holiday-themed special of Play-Doh Squished on December 10. Play-Doh Squished sees teams of adults and children working together in a competition filled with strange side games to build the best creations they can out of Play-Doh. In the holiday special, the teams are competing to win a $5,000 cash prize, while the losers will have their creations squished by a pneumatic press.
IMDb TV will also be getting two older thrillers released on Amazon’s ad-supported model. The 2016 action thriller Triple 9 will arrive on December 8. Triple 9 stars Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anthony Mackie, Aaron Paul, Norman Reedus, Gal Gadot, Woody Harrelson, and Kate Winslet. An Atlanta-based crew of criminals set out to pull off a heist that involves creating a fake officer down call. On December 10, IMDb TV will receive the 2019 reboot of Child’s Play, starring Aubrey Plaza, Gabriel Bateman, Brian Tyree Henry, and Mark Hamill, a perfect movie to catch up on after the Chucky TV series. All this means that there's plenty of entertainment available on both Amazon Prime Video and IMDb TV.