After a blockbuster fall, HBO Max will slow down a bit in December — but that’s not to say there’s nothing worth streaming.
“South Side” (Dec. 8), starring Sultan Salahuddin and Kareme Young, returns for its third season. Blessed with an outstanding ensemble cast, this consistently hilarious blue-collar neighborhood comedy is a low-key highlight for HBO Max.
There’s also the third and final season of the fantasy epic “His Dark Materials” (Dec. 5), based on “The Amber Spyglass,” the final novel in Philip Pullman’s award-winning trilogy; Season 2 of the rebooted prep-school drama “Gossip Girl” (Dec. 1), which has teased the return of one of its OG characters: Georgina Sparks (Michelle Trachenberg); and Season 4 of the superhero dramedy “Doom Patrol” (Dec. 8).
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The Warner Bros. Discovery WBD, +2.27% streaming service also has the streaming premiere of Martin McDonagh’s latest acclaimed movie, “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Dec. 13), starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson; the four-part docuseries “Branson” (Dec. 1), chronicling the life of billionaire Richard Branson; Season 2 of “Random Acts of Flyness” (TBA), the Peabody Award-winning stream-of-consciousness series from artist, musician and filmmaker Terence Nance about the experience of being Black in America; and the recent CNN docuseries “The Murdochs: Empire of Influence” (Dec. 1).
Here’s the complete list of what’s coming and going, as of Nov. 22 (release dates are suubject to change):
What’s coming to HBO Max in December 2022
Date TBA:
Random Acts of Flyness, Season 2 Premiere (HBO)
Dec. 1
3:10 to Yuma, 1957
10,000 B.C., 2008
Black Sheep, 1996
Branson, HBO Original Docuseries Premiere (HBO)
Burn After Reading, 2008
Can’t Hardly Wait, 1998
Cheech & Chong’s Nice Dreams, 1981 (HBO)
Cheech & Chong’s The Corsican Brothers, 1984 (HBO)
Cheech & Chong’s Things Are Tough All Over, 1982
The Children Act, 2017 (HBO)
De Palma, 2015 (HBO)
First Reformed, 2017 (HBO)
Friends With Benefits, 2011
Gossip Girl, Max Original Season 2 Premiere
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, 2008 (HBO)
The Murdochs: Empire of Influence
Gone Girl, 2014 (HBO)
Green Room, 2015 (HBO)
Hellraiser III Hell on Earth, 1992 (HBO)
Hellraiser IV: Bloodline, 1996 (HBO)
Hellraiser V: Inferno, 2000 (HBO)
Hellraiser VII: Deader, 2005 (HBO)
Hellraiser: Hellseeker, 2002 (HBO)
Hellraiser: Hellworld, 2005 (HBO)
A Hollywood Christmas, 2022
Hook, 1991
Into the Forest, 2015 (HBO)
Krisha, 2015 (HBO)
The Maze Runner, 2014 (HBO)
My Fellow Americans, 1996 (HBO)
Paradise (Paraíso), Max Original Season 2 Premiere
The Purge: Anarchy, 2014
Redemption, 2013 (HBO)
Reindeer Games, 2000 (Director’s Cut) (HBO)
The Sea of Trees, 2015 (HBO)
Sesame Street’s The Nutcracker, Max Original Special Premiere
Small Town Crime, 2017 (HBO)
Sort Of, Max Original Season 2 Premiere
Step Up All In, 2014 (HBO)
Step Up Revolution, 2012 (HBO)
Stomp the Yard, 2007
Stomp the Yard: Homecoming, 2010
Street Kings, 2008 (HBO)
The Tomorrow Man, 2019 (HBO)
Trumbo, 2015 (HBO)
Two Can Play That Game, 2001
Urban Cowboy, 1980
¡Viva Maestro!, 2022
Win Win, 2011 (HBO)
Dec. 2
Blippi Wonders, Season 2B
Hank Zipzer’s Christmas Catastrophe, 2016
Lellobee City Farm, Season 2
Dec. 4
Under the Stars (aka Sous les étoiles), Max Original Premiere
Dec. 5
His Dark Materials, Season 3 Premiere (HBO)
Dec. 6
Amsterdam, 2022 (HBO)
Batwheels Holiday Special: Holidays on Ice
Bugs Bunny Builders Holiday Special: Looneyburg Lights
Sesame Street Mecha Builders Holiday Special: Yip Yip Tree Tree / The Snowman Scarecrow, Season 1
Unveiled: Surviving La Luz del Mundo, HBO Original Docuseries Premiere (HBO)
Dec. 8
Doom Patrol, Max Original Season 4 Premiere
South Side, Max Original Season 3 Premiere
Dec. 9
Silos Baking Competition: Holiday Edition, Special
Teen Titans Go! To The Movies, 2018 (HBO)
Dec. 10
Atsuko Okatsuka: The Intruder, HBO Original Premiere (HBO)
Dec. 12
Adult Swim Yule Log
Dec. 13
The Banshees of Inisherin, 2022 (HBO)
Meet the Batwheels: The Best Present in the World, Season 1
Dec. 14
Selling the Hamptons
Serving the Hamptons
Queen of Versailles Reigns Again
Trixie Motel
Dec. 15
Jugada Peligrosa (ex El Patrón del Balón, Goles Limpios Dinero Sucio), Max Original Premiere
Dec. 16
Martin: The Reunion Special 2022
Ranch to Table, Season 3
Dec. 22
I Hate Suzie, Max Original Season 2 Premiere
The Head, Max Original Season 2 Premiere
Dec. 23
Family Dinner, Season 3
Dec. 27
The Man From U.N.C.L.E., 2015 (HBO)
Dec. 30
The Established Home, Season 2
This Place Rules, Original (HBO)
What’s leaving HBO Max in December 2022
Dec. 8
Mortal Kombat, 2021 (HBO)
Dec. 13
Spark: A Space Tail, 2016 (HBO)
Dec. 29
Those Who Wish Me Dead, 2021 (HBO)
Dec. 31
12 Rounds, 2009 (Unrated) (HBO)
12 Rounds 2 Reloaded, 2013 (HBO)
2 Guns, 2013 (HBO)
Africa, 1999
A Kind of Murder, 2016 (HBO)
A Perfect Planet
A Simple Plan, 1998 (HBO)
Against the Ropes, 2004 (HBO)
Arbitrage, 2012 (HBO)
Babylon A.D., 2008 (HBO)
Baggage Claim, 2013 (HBO)
Bend It Like Beckham, 2002 (HBO)
Blue Planet II
Blue Planet: Seas of Life
Bringing Out the Dead, 1999 (HBO)
Chaplin, 1992
Collision Course, 1989 (HBO)
Damien Omen II, 1978 (HBO)
Damsel, 2018 (HBO)
Down Periscope, 1996 (HBO)
Down With Love, 2003 (HBO)
Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief, 2008 (HBO)
Dynasties
Extraction, 2015 (HBO)
Frozen Planet
Fast & Furious 6, 2013 (HBO)
Harlem Nights, 1989
Head Office, 1985 (HBO)
Highlander, 1986 (HBO)
Joyful Noise, 2012
Life,1999
Life Story, 1987
Little Monsters, 1989 (HBO)
Losing Isaiah, 1995 (HBO)
Monster’s Ball, 2001 (Unrated)
Nature’s Great Events
Odd Jobs, 1986 (HBO)
Omen IV: The Awakening, 1991 (HBO)
Ouija, 2014
Planet Earth
Planet Earth II
Real Steel, 2011
Ricochet, 1991 (HBO)
Rocket Science, 2007 (HBO)
Romancing the Stone, 1984
Sabotage, 2014 (HBO)
Serengeti
Serengeti II
Seven Worlds, One Planet
Space Chimps, 2010 (HBO)
Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back, 2010 (HBO)
Starter for 10, 2006 (HBO)
Sweet Dreams, 1985 (HBO)
Switch, 1991 (HBO)
That Awkward Moment, 2014 (HBO)
The Chosen, 1981 (HBO)
The Clearing, 2004 (HBO)
The Counselor, 2013 (Extended Version) (HBO)
The Final Conflict, 1981 (HBO)
The Flight of the Phoenix, 1965
The Hitcher, 1986 (HBO)
The Hunt, 2020
The Jewel of the Nile, 1985
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, 2003 HBO
The Mating Game
The Omen, 2006 (HBO)
The Order, 2003 (HBO)
The World’s End, 2013 (HBO)
The X-Files: I Want To Believe, 2008 (Director’s Cut) (HBO)
Thor: Tales of Asgard, 2011 (HBO)
Thoroughbreds, 2017 (HBO)
Voyagers, 2021