What To Watch This Week: Dec 22-28, 2025
Trains, takedowns, tearjerkers, techno-chaos and a stressed out Simu Liu playing spy games — consider your post-Christmas binge taken care of.
This week's must-stream shows...
Rail Life Story (mewatch, Channel 8, 8pm, Dec 25)
It’s Mark Lee’s turn to host, this time in Chiba, Japan. There, he boards a steam train run by the Oigawa Railway and meets the dedicated engineers keeping the country’s first heritage railway alive.
Made in Korea (Disney+, Dec 24)
Hyun Bin and Jung Woo-sung clash in the 1970s-set K-drama — the former as a corrupt intelligence chief, the latter the prosecutor hell-bent on taking him down. Expect a gritty, explosive showdown.
Photos: Disney+
Goodbye June (Netflix, Dec 24)
Kate Winslet makes her feature directorial debut — written by her son Joe Anders — about a dying mother (Helen Mirren) who gathers her estranged children (Winslet, Andrea Riseborough, Toni Collette and Johnny Flynn) for one final Christmas together.
Photos: Kimberley French/Netflix
M3GAN 2.0 (HBO Max, Dec 26)
The sequel to the 2022 thriller — about a super-doll named Megan (or M3GAN) who goes rogue on humans — recasts the ChatGPT generation’s answer to Chucky as a hero, now trying to save the world from a robopocalypse. Not very scary, but high on action and laughs.
Photos: Universal Pictures
The Copenhagen Test (HBO Max, Dec 27)
While we eagerly wait for Simu Liu to kick ass again as Shang-Chi (he shows up in Avengers: Doomsday, but that’s still a year away), we get him doing plenty of that in this James Wan-executive-produced series — playing a spy whose mind has been hacked and who’s been framed for crimes he didn’t commit. Melissa Barrera (Scream) co-stars.
Photos: Peacock
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