What To Watch This Week: Dec 15-21, 2025
Northern Lights, body swaps, wasteland quests, human experiments, rogue AI, world-killing waves — merry crisis, everyone.
This week's must-stream shows....
Decalcomania (mewatch)
This eight-part supernatural thriller — a Singapore-Thailand co-production — follows two women, one a privileged socialite in Singapore and the other a hardened nightclub owner in Bangkok, who swap bodies after a car accident. But wait, there’s more: they’re long-lost twins! Mookda Narinrak takes on the dual roles, with a cast that includes Chai Chatayodom Hiranyatithi (Master of the House), Thaneth Warakulnukroh (Mad Unicorn), Pierre Png, Cynthia Koh, Hong Huifang, and newcomer Gladys Ng.
Rail Life Story (mewatch, Channel 8, 8pm, Dec 18)
Get into a Christmas mood as Taiwanese entertainer Lulu Huang makes a snowy stopover in Finland. She visits Santa Claus Village tries forest healing, ice fishing, and reindeer sledding, and best of all, scores a front-row seat to the Aurora Borealis.
Fallout, Season 2 (Prime Video, Dec 17)
It’s a pity Jonathan Nolan never got to finish his Westworld saga (thanks hor, David Zaslav), but at least he’s thriving over at Amazon with his smash adaptation of the post-apocalyptic video game Fallout — a future we seem to be hurtling toward, fingers crossed! Season 2 sends Lucy (Ella Purnell), The Ghoul (Walton Goggins) and Maximus (Aaron Moten) to New Vegas where they’re hunting down the ever-scheming Overseer Hank (Kyle MacLachlan). Along the way, they run into new characters played by Macaulay Culkin and Kumail Nanjiani.
Photo: Prime Video
Human Specimens (Prime Video, Dec 18)
Still on Prime Video, here’s a five-part Japanese mini-series adapted from a novel by Kanae Minato. Hidetoshi Nishijima (Drive My Car) plays a butterfly researcher who confesses to turning six young boys, including his own son (Kabuki theatre prodigy Somegorô Ichikawa), into “human specimens”. We’re getting The Human Centipede vibes…
Photo: Prime Video
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (HBO Max, Dec 19)
Is this really the swan song for Tom Cruise’s superspy Ethan Hunt— or the beginning of another round of death-defying adventures. Either way, he isn’t going out with a whimper. The nearly three-hour installment sees Hunt and Co. racing against time to stop the rogue AI dubbed The Entity from triggering Armageddon (AI-gedddon?). The first two hours simmer as a slow-burn (which could’ve been a standalone chapter) before the home stretch turns into a full-blown rollercoaster drop, capped by an insane bi-plane stunt that seems to go and on.
Photos: Paramount Pictures
The Great Flood (Netflix, Dec 19)
A few years ago, Netflix released #Alive, about a guy trapped in his apartment block during a zombie apocalypse. Now, swap the undead with extinction-level tsunamis — the kind Noah built his Ark for — and bingo: you get The Great Flood, with Kim Da-mi (Itaewon Class) and Park Hae-soo (Squid Game) desperately outrunning the rising water levels. SCDF, take note.
Photos: Jeong Kyung-hwa/ Netflix
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