Netflix UAE is rolling into December with a wide selection of new series, films, documentaries and family titles, mixing holiday comfort with returning favourites and a few darker, more reflective releases. The month’s lineup leans on familiar seasonal formulas—festive comedies, family adventures, and light romance—while also making space for Stranger Things 5: Batch 2 and the sombre short documentary All the Empty Rooms. It’s a varied slate designed to keep a month of streaming feeling full without any one genre dominating.
New series range from holiday sitcom energy to fantasy-thriller escalation. Man Vs Baby returns on 11 December, bringing Rowan Atkinson back to his trademark blend of slapstick chaos as Trevor navigates Christmas mishaps. Emily in Paris shifts its backdrop to Rome for its fifth season on 18 December, trading Parisian glamour for Italian complications as Emily tries yet again to rewire her personal and professional life.
Sicily Express arrives on 22 December with a more eccentric premise: two friends discover that a dumpster can teleport them home for the holidays, a setup that promises more charm than logic. And then there’s Stranger Things 5: Batch 2 on 25 December, continuing the series’ final arc with Hawkins under lockdown, Eleven in hiding, and the group sharpening its focus on confronting Vecna.
December’s film additions skew toward easy-watching seasonal stories with occasional detours into genre experimentation. My Secret Santa lands on 3 December with a mistaken-identity premise set in a snow-dusted resort. The Night My Dad Saved Christmas 2 continues its blend of family adventure and holiday absurdity on 5 December.
The Fakenapping follows on 11 December with a more grounded, comedic story about financial desperation and a wildly misguided scheme to fake a kidnapping. On 12 December, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery brings Benoit Blanc back into another carefully constructed whodunit, this time set in a small-town church with buried secrets.
Documentaries this month range from emotionally heavy to music-industry polished. All the Empty Rooms (1 December) follows a journalist and photographer documenting the bedrooms of children lost to school shootings, offering a quiet, reflective piece that focuses on absence rather than commentary. Simon Cowell: The Next Act (10 December) takes a more conventional form as a docu-series about Cowell’s search for a new boy band, tracking the ambitions and insecurities of young performers navigating high-stakes auditions.
For younger audiences, Netflix adds The Creature Cases: Chapter 6 on 15 December, continuing the educational-animal-mystery formula that has defined the series. It keeps Sam and Kit moving through global creature missions, aiming at the mix of light learning and adventure that tends to land well for families.
Overall, December’s UAE slate tries to accommodate multiple viewing moods: holiday escapism, ongoing drama, light comedy, darker nonfiction, and kid-friendly exploration. Anyone building a December watchlist should find enough variety to move from cosy evenings to more serious viewing without switching platforms.
