The Night Manager.
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HOLLYWOOD IS BETRAYING YOU AGAIN. After a DECADE of silence, the espionage thriller that defined an era is BACK with a shocking second season… and producers are ALREADY locking in a third before a single new frame has aired. Is this the desperate cash grab of a DYING industry, using nostalgia to blind you to its creative bankruptcy? Tom Hiddleston’s Jonathan Pine is a relic of a pre-pandemic world being DRAGGED from the vault to fight for your attention against a sea of algorithm-generated slop. But this isn’t a triumphant return; it’s a SOULLESS corporate resurrection, flanked by a tidal wave of reheated ‘content’ like Kung Fu Panda 4 and endless Mission: Impossible reruns. They’re not giving you art—they’re force-feeding you a COMFORTING, risk-free digital paste while the real world burns. Streaming starts January 11. Will you be a willing participant in your own cultural lobotomy?
Noteworthy selections in bold.
Chicago P.D., seasons 1-12
21 Jump Street
22 Jump Street
About a Boy
Alice, Darling
Alien: Romulus
Along Came Polly
American Gangster
Are We There Yet?
Blackhat
Bohemian Rhapsody
Burn After Reading
Definitely, Maybe
Final Destination: Bloodlines
Forrest Gump
Friday Night Lights
Get On Up
It’s Kind of a Funny Story
Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend
Les Miserables The Movie
Love Actually
Loving
Meg 2: The Trench
Mission Impossible (1971)
Mission: Impossible II
Mission: Impossible III
Mission: Impossible IV – Ghost Protocol
Notting Hill
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Ray
Straight Outta Compton
Ted
Ted 2
The Angry Birds Movie
The Blues Brothers
The Boss
The Breakfast Club
The Perfect Guy
The Story of Us
The Young Americans
Tully
Uncle Buck
Warcraft
Where the Crawdads Sing
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Zombieland: Double Tap
Spring Fever
Wild Cards, season 2
Beast Games, season 2
Kung Fu Panda 4
The Night Manager, season 2
Smurfs
Judy Justice, season 4
Steal
The Wrecking Crew
Preparation for the Next Life
For more coverage of the best movies and TV shows available on Netflix, HBO, Amazon Prime, Hulu, and Showtime, check out Vulture’s What to Stream Now hub, which is updated throughout the month.




