Succession’s enervating third season comes to an end tonight
Plus: More Insecure, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Yellowjackets, and Dexter: New Blood
TV Lists Joe
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, December 5. All times are Eastern.
Top Pick
Succession (HBO, 9:00 p.m., season-three finale): Succession is slowly becoming the next Game Of Thrones. By which we mean: watch the finale, or perish in a fire of total pop culture irrelevance. Ashley Ray-Harris will cover.
Regular coverage
Dexter: New Blood (Showtime, 9:00 p.m.)
Insecure (HBO, 10:00 p.m)
Yellowjackets (Showtime, 10 p.m.)
Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO, 10:30 p.m.)
Season’s streamings
There are many new Christmas movies out today!
A Christmas Proposal (CBS, 8:30 p.m.): An attorney ropes a struggling chef into his plan to take over the family firm, asking her to pose as his girlfriend in hopes it will make him a more suitable candidate for the job.
A Christmas Star (GAC Family, 8 p.m.): An astronomer heads to a small town in upstate New York in hopes of finding evidence of a once-in-a-lifetime celestial event, and winds up growing close with a local park ranger and his daughter.
People Presents: Blending Christmas (Lifetime, 8 p.m.): A man takes his girlfriend to Hacienda de la Sierra for the holiday season, where he plans to propose while surrounded by both of their families, but the bickering group causes the couple to questioning their relationship.
Sister Swap: Christmas In The City (Hallmark, 8 p.m.): The Swift siblings switch places for the holidays, with one sister heading to Salt Lake City, where she helps the other sister’s restaurant in a charity restaurant competition.
Finally, Hanukkah might be over, but we got some legitimate criticism for recommending Eight Crazy Nights. Why not reread this article and watch the Rugrats special “The Miracle of Chanukah” instead?
Wild Card
The Toys That Built America (History Channel, 10 p.m.): This limited series covers the creation of America’s biggest toys, such as the slinky, Monopoly, G.I. Joe, Barbie. But will it answer if the Silly Putty a certain someone got stuck on the carpet in her parents’ house can ever be released? They’re asking questions about why they’re not allowed to move that lamp.
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I noticed last weekend that Showtime puts both Dexter and Yellowjackets on-demand either Saturday night or Sunday morning (not sure exactly, but I watched episode 6 of Dexter at 12:30am est.) Thought I’d throw that out there in case anyone goes to bed early Sunday, or stays up late Saturday night and can’t sleep, or just whatever.
I usually see it in the torrent list Saturday nights/early Sunday.
Yeah, I watched both last night so I’d be free to focus on Succession.
It’s funny how often Adult Swim tends to screw up airing the finales of their shows. Way back when, they played the wrong episode for the end of Big O Season 2, then they did it again when Eureka Seven was brought back for Toonami, they aired Episode 4 again instead of 13 earlier this year when Harley Quinn had its Toonami marathon, and now last night/this morning, they replayed Episode 21 of Yashahime instead of Episode 24. And if we include non-finales, they fucked up airing an episode of Sword Art Online: Alicization and ended up playing the first half of that week’s episode of Megalobox twice instead when SAO glitched out and froze.
I watched that Harley Quinn marathon and was confused as to why they aired episode 4 again. I also remember them screwing up Big O.
Thanks for asking about my pop culture weekend. That was really thoughtful of you.I’m caught up on the Wheel of Time, as you’d expect. I’m at the point where I can view this as a variant rather than the books I love, and I’m still really enjoying it.My wife has been watching the Vampire Diaries, and so I’ve now seen half of the Netflix Christmas rom com starring Nina Dobrev and Jimmy Yang. My wife reports it ended as I expected.
wtf is gac family lol
Succession’s enervating third season comes to an end tonightI’ve heard of shows declining in quality during later seasons, but this is the first one I’ve known to drain the energy from its audience.
“enervating”Huh?
Probably was supposed to be “innervating”.