What To Watch This Week: Dec 1-7, 2025
Breakups, breakdowns, backstabbing, and Benicio del Toro — if you’re craving drama in every possible register, this week delivers it in spades.
This week's must-stream shows...
Honour & Unity (Mediacorp TikTok, YouTube Shorts, mewatch)
Mediacorp’s latest micro-drama ropes in Elvin Ng, Charlie Goh and Ya Hui as members of an inter-agency Home Team task force — a mash-up of the Singapore Police Force, Central Narcotics Bureau, Singapore Civil Defence Force, Singapore Prison Force, and Immigration & Checkpoint Authority — looking into a sprawling criminal network (which may or may not involve alumnae of a prestigious school…kidding lah). When they aren’t tackling scum, they also have to keep their personal lives from unravelling. Also streaming on the Ministry of Home Affairs’ digital platforms.
The Roses (Disney+, Dec 3)
Travesty! Jay Roach’s anti-rom-com, a remake of 1989’s The War of the Roses, starring Benedict Cumberbach and Olivia Colman as a married couple on a train bound for Splitsville. It barely made a ripple in cinemas when it premiered in September (it did?). Perhaps it’ll find new life on streaming.
Photos: 20th Century Studios
The Believers (Netflix, Dec 4)
In Season 2 of this Thai crime thriller, the trio (James-Teeradon Supapunpinyo, Peach-Pachara Chirathivat, Ally-Achiraya Nitibhon) behind a shady-but-totally-legit charity scam find themselves in bed with a politician and a who wants a cut of the action.
Photos: Siviroon Srisuwan/Netflix
Jay Kelly (Netflix, Dec 5)
The latest from The Marriage Story auteur Noah Baumbach is a buzzy midlife-crisis dramedy starring George Clooney as a Hollywood A-lister reflecting on his legacy during a European press tour with his devoted manager (Adam Sandler).
Photos: Peter Mountain/Netflix
The Family McCullen (HBO Max, Dec 5)
Okay, we didn’t see this coming. Edward Burns writes, directs and stars in this sequel to his 1995 indie darling The Brothers McCullen. Per synopsis, the follow-up “tracks the romantic entanglements of a now-50something Barry (Burns) and his 20something kids, as well as his brother Patrick (Michael McGlone) and widowed sister-in-law (Connie Britton), who are also facing unexpected romantic hurdles.”
Photo: HBO Max
The Phoenician Scheme (HBO Max, Dec 5)
Benicio del Toro is the latest man-child patriarch in the Wes Anderson universe, as a shady mogul who teams up with his estranged daughter (Mia Threapleton) to save his crumbling empire. Expect another goofy good time.
Photos: Focus Features/UIP
Surely Tomorrow (Prime Video, Dec 6)
The 12-part K-drama stars Park Seo-jun as Lee, a reporter covering a scandal that just so happens to involve his ex-girlfriend (Won Jian) and her husband. Will the former lovebirds’ history get in the way of Lee doing his job? Most definitely!
Photos: Prime Video
