What’s New on HBO Max in December 2022

After a year of turmoil at Warner Bros. Discovery, we can be thankful for at least one streaming blessing this holiday season: David Zaslav hasn’t pushed Doom Patrol to the sidelines… yet. Despite a lot of last summer’s cancellation rumors , the insane series following DC Comics’ weirdest gang of anti-heroes will return for a fourth season on December 8, and the door is still open for more insane adventures. .

If Doom Patrol only exists for you as a show that you constantly mistake for The Umbrella Academy , it really is worth watching. It’s raw, over the top, and surprisingly touching. At the very least, this is one of the best queer-positive found-family stories on television that also features Brendan Fraser as a bronzed cyborg. Watch it now before it’s truly canceled and shoved into the streaming memory hole along with Batgirl.

And speaking of shows that were all but canceled, this month also sees the long-awaited comeback of His Dark Materials (December 5), completing the TV adaptation of Philip Pullman’s favorite series Youth. While it’s a much better take on the books than on the big screen, the show never lived up to the initial hype. But I’m glad HBO and the BBC have been able to scrape together the latest series of episodes, if only to see how they manage to turn one of the weirdest and most rousing children’s books ever written into something that feels like an action adventure. (Spoiler alert: the endgame involves a literal attempt to kill God).

Elsewhere on the streamer, you can watch the returning seasons of several Max Originals that you’ve probably never heard of (because HBO is almost as bad at marketing its niche streaming shows as Netflix is). In December, the second seasons of the reboot of Gossip Girl (December 1), the awkward comedy Kind of (December 1), the Spanish-language thriller Paradise (December 1), and the claustrophobic suspense series The Head will start. (December 22) and Billie Piper’s I Hate Suzie car (December 22).

Here’s everything else coming (and leaving) HBO Max in December, including streaming premieres of recent theatrical releases Amsterdam (December 6) and Banshee of Inishereen (December 13). Titles with (HBO) next to them are available on HBO and HBO Max; everything else is exclusive to HBO Max.

What’s coming to HBO Max in December 2022

Arrival December 1

• 3:10 to Yuma , 1957
• 10,000 BC , 2008
• Black Sheep , 1996
• Branson , HBO Original Documentary Series Premiere (HBO)
• Burn After Reading, 2008
• Can’t wait 1998
• Cheech & Chong’s Good Dreams 1981 (HBO)
• Corsican Brothers Cheech and Chong, 1984 (HBO)
• Things are complicated at Cheech and Chong, 1982
• Children Act 2017 (HBO)
• De Palma , 2015 (HBO)
• First Reformation 2017 (HBO)
• Friends with benefit, 2011
• Gossip Girl Max Original Season 2 Premiere
• Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa , 2008 (HBO)
• Murdoch: 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: Dead Man 2005 (HBO)
• Hellraiser: Hell Seeker 2002 (HBO)
• Hellraiser: Hell World 2005 (HBO)
• Hollywood Christmas 2022
• Hook, 1991
• Into the Woods 2015 (HBO)
• Krisha, 2015 (HBO)
• Maze Runner 2014 (HBO)
• My Fellow Americans 1996 (HBO)
• Paradise (Paraiso), Max Original Season 2 Premiere
• Purge: Anarchy , 2014
• Redemption , 2013 (HBO)
• Reindeer Games , 2000 (Director’s Cut) (HBO)
• Sea of ​​Trees 2015 (HBO)
• Sesame Street “The Nutcracker” Special Premiere Max Original
• Small Town Crime , 2017 (HBO)
• Like 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)
• Man of Tomorrow 2019 (HBO)
• Trumbo, 2015 (HBO)
• Two can play this game, 2001
• Urban cowboy, 1980
• ¡Viva Maestro!, 2022
• Win Win , 2011 (HBO)

Arrival December 2

• Miracles of Blippy , Season 2B
• “Christmas Disaster” by Hank Zipzer , 2016
• Lelloby Town Farm Season 2

Arrival December 4th

• Under the Stars (Sous les étoiles) , Max Original Premiere

Arrival December 5

• His Dark Beginnings Season 3 Premiere (HBO)

Arrival December 6

• Amsterdam , 2022 (HBO)
• Batwheels Holiday Special: Holidays on Ice
• Bugs Bunny Builders Holiday Special: Luniburg Lights
• Sesame Street Holiday Special: “Yip Yip Tree” / Snowman Scarecrow Season 1
• Presented by: Surviving La Luz del Mundo , HBO Original Documentary Series Premiere (HBO)

Arrival December 8

• Doom Patrol, Max Original Season 4 Premiere
• South Side Max Original Season 3 Premiere

Arrival December 9

• Silo Baking Competition: Holiday Edition , Special Offer
• Teen Titans Go! At the movies, 2018 (HBO)

Arrival December 10

• Atsuko Okatsuka: Intruder HBO Original Premiere (HBO)

Arrival December 12

• Swimming magazine for adults

Arrival December 13

• Banshee of Inisherina, 2022 (HBO)
• Meet Batwheels: The World’s Greatest Gift Season 1

Arrival December 14

• Sale of the Hamptons
• Hampton Service
• The Queen of Versailles is back in power
• Trixie Motel

Arrival December 15

• Jugada Peligrosa (El Patrón del Balón, Goles Limpios Dinero Sucio) , Max Original Premiere

Arrival December 16

• Martin: Reunion Special 2022
• Table Ranch , Season 3

Arrival December 22

• I Hate Susie Max Original Season 2 Premiere
• Season 2 premiere of The Head , Max Original

Arrival December 23

• Family Dinner , Season 3

Arrival December 27th.

• The Man from UNCLE , 2015 (HBO)

Arrival December 30

• Created Home , season 2
• Rules of This Place , original (HBO)

What’s leaving HBO Max in December 2022

Departure December 8

• Mortal Kombat , 2021 (HBO)

Departure December 13

• Spark: Cosmic Tail, 2016 (HBO)

Departure December 29

• Those Who Want Me Dead 2021 (HBO)

Departure December 31

• 2009 12 Rounds (Unranked) (HBO)
• 12 Rounds 2: Reloaded , 2013 (HBO)
• 2 pistols, 2013 (HBO)
• Africa , 1999
• A Kind of Murder , 2016 (HBO)
• Perfect Planet 2021
• Simple Plan , 1998 (HBO)
• Against the Ropes , 2004 (HBO)
• Arbitration , 2012 (HBO)
• Babylon AD , 2008 (HBO)
• Baggage Claim , 2013 (HBO)
• Bend It Like Beckham , 2002 (HBO)
• blue planet 2
• Blue Planet: Seas of Life
• Pulling the Dead , 1999 (HBO)
• Chaplin , 1992
• Collision Course , 1989 (HBO)
• Damien Omen 2, 1978 (HBO)
• The Maiden, 2018 (HBO)
• Down the 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
• History of life, 1987
• Little Monsters 1989 (HBO)
• Lose Isaiah , 1995 (HBO)
• Monster’s Ball 2001 (not ranked)
• Great events of nature
• Odd Jobs , 1986 (HBO)
• Sign IV: Awakening, 1991 (HBO)
• Ouija , 2014
• Planet Earth
• Planet Earth 2
• Real steel, 2011
• Ricochet 1991 (HBO)
• Rocket Science , 2007 (HBO)
• A Romance with a 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 on 10, 2006 (HBO)
• Sweet Dreams 1985 (HBO)
• Switch , 1991 (HBO)
• That Awkward Moment, 2014 (HBO)
• The Chosen One, 1981 (HBO)
• Glade, 2004 (HBO)
• The Counselor 2013 (Extended Cut) (HBO)
• Final Conflict 1981 (HBO)
• Flight of the Phoenix, 1965
• Travel companion, 1986 (HBO)
• Hunting, 2020
• Pearl of the Nile , 1985
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, 2003 HBO
• mating game
• Omen , 2006 (HBO)
• Order, 2003 (HBO)
• 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

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