What’s New on Hulu in December 2021

While its original series don’t always have the marquee value as those on rival services, Hulu has quietly been building one of the strongest catalogs of original content in the Peak Streaming era—the recent delights of Only Murders in the Building being but one case in point (pun slightly intended).

The streamer’s December offerings include a few more stabs at differentiating themselves from the competition with exclusive shows and movies (because certainly the rotating selection of the same 100 old movies isn’t going to do it). The top prospect seems to me to be the second half of the COVID-interrupted second season of PEN15, the most depressingly accurate yet viscerally funny depiction of the American middle school experience I’ve ever seen. Series co-creators/stars Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle, playing lightly fictionalized versions of their seventh grade selves against a cast of real kids, continue to mine the universal pain of being 13 for all it is worth.

We’re also getting another season of Crossing Swords (Dec. 10), a silly stop-motion animated series about a medieval peasant who gets what he thinks is a plum gig at the castle, but quickly figures out that dealing with its resident population of horny monarchs and drunkard knights makes toiling in the fields look comparatively easy. If you like the How to Train Your Dragon franchise, there’s a spinoff series, The Nine Realms (Dec. 23), that takes the action into the present day, with the world’s long-hidden population of dragons suddenly emerging to zoom around cities (seems like a better way to commute than the subway).

And on the movie side, I’m intrigued by Mother/Android (Dec. 17), in which Chloe Grace Moretz plays a woman fleeing with her boyfriend from a war between humans and artificial intelligence; and Dead Asleep (Dec. 16), a true crime documentary exploring the ins and outs of a case in which a man is accused of committing a murder…while asleep.

Here’s everything else coming to the service in December.

Coming to Hulu in December 2021

Arriving Dec. 1

• Candified: Home For The Holidays: Season 1 (Hulu Original)
• All Rise: Seasons 1 and 2
• The A-Team (2010)
• Above The Rim
• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
• Addicted
• Alex Cross
• Alienator
• All is Lost
• Armageddon
• Back To School
• The Bank Job
• Behind Enemy Lines
• The Black Stallion (1979)
• The Black Stallion Returns
• Blow
• Bull Durham
• Chattahoochee
• Cherry 2000
• Con Air
• The Crazies
• Crazy Heart
• Crimson Tide
• Cujo (1983)
• The Curse
• Days Of Heaven
• Dead Man Walking
• The Dungeonmaster
• Earth To Echo
• Erik The Viking
• Flightplan
• Four Weddings And A Funeral (1994)
• Friday The 13th (1980)
• Her Smell
• Hide And Seek
• Hollow Man
• Holy Man
• Horton Hears A Who! (2008)
• Hustlers
• I Love You, Beth Cooper
• Jagged Edge
• King Kong
• Love Field
• Making Mr. Right
• The Manchurian Candidate
• My Best Friend’s Wedding
• Ocean’s Eleven
• Ocean’s Twelve
• Ocean’s Thirteen
• The Princess Bride
• The Raid 2
• Regarding Henry
• Rio
• Serendipity
• Shanghai Noon
• She’s Out Of My League
• Sherlock Holmes (2009)
• Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows
• The Siege Of Firebase Gloria
• Silverado
• Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow
• Soda Cracker
• Some Kind Of Wonderful
• Something’s Gotta Give
• Stephen King’s Graveyard Shift
• Stephen King’s Thinner
• Superbeast
• Troll
• The Warriors
• Young Guns
• Young Guns II

Arriving Dec. 2

• It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season 15 Premiere
• Godfather of Harlem: Season 1
• Kelly Clarkson Presents: When Christmas Come Around: Special
• Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller: Season 2
• Vice Versa: HIV: The Neglected Pandemic: Season 1
• The East

Arriving Dec. 3

• Pen15: Season 2.5 (Hulu Original)
• The New York Times Presents: To Live and Die in Alabama: New Episode
• Annie Live!: Special
• Trolls Holiday in Harmony: Special
• We Need To Do Something
• The World Of Kanako

Arriving Dec. 6

• Real Housewives of Atlanta: Season 13

Arriving Dec. 7

• Michael Buble’s Christmas in the City: Special
• World War Z

Arriving Dec. 8

• People’s Choice Awards: Special

Arriving Dec. 9

• Trolls: TrollsTopia: Complete Season 5 (Hulu Original)
• Bloods: Season 1
• Creamerie: Complete Season 1
• Swan Song

Arriving Dec. 13

• 70th Miss Universe Competition: Special
• Beach

Arriving Dec. 14

Gordon Ramsay’s Road Trip: European Vacation: Special

American Auto: Series Premiere

Arriving Dec. 15

• Gordon Ramsay’s Road Trip: Christmas Vacation
• Grand Crew: Series Premiere
• Rising Wolf

Arriving Dec. 16

• Dead Asleep (Hulu Original Documentary)
• Cryptozoo
• Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman

Arriving Dec. 17

• Mother/Android (Hulu Original Film)
• The Nowhere Inn

Arriving Dec. 23

• Dragons: The Nine Realms: Season 1 (Hulu Original)

Arriving Dec. 26

• Letterkenny: Season 10 (Hulu Original)

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• 10,000 BC (2008)
• 127 Hours
• A Christmas Carol
• A Nanny For Christmas
• The A-Team (2010)
• Above The Rim
• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
• Alienator
• All The Right Moves
• Alpha & Omega: Legend Of The Saw Toothed
• Back To School
• The Black Stallion (1979)
• The Black Stallion Returns
• Bloody Sunday
• Blue City
• Bohemian Rhapsody
• Bull Durham
• Candyman 3: Day Of The Dead
• Cedar Rapids
• Chattahoochee
• Cherry 2000
• Con Air
• Conspiracy Theory
• Crazy Heart
• Crimson Tide
• The Curse
• Dark Shadows (2012)
• Date Night
• Diary Of A Wimpy Kid
• The Dungeonmaster
• Enemy At The Gates
• Erik The Viking
• Escape From Alcatraz
• The Fighter
• The Fly
• Four Weddings And A Funeral (1994)
• Friday The 13th – Part III (1982)
• Friday The 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter (1984)
• From Prada To Nada
• Gattaca
• The Gift
• Girls! Girls! Girls!
• Happy Feet
• Happy Feet Two
• Hell Or High Water
• Hollow Man
• Inception
• Jack And Jill
• Joseph: King Of Dreams
• Killers
• Kiss The Girls
• Light It Up
• Love Field
• Making Mr. Right
• The Manchurian Candidate
• The Matrix
• The Matrix Reloaded
• The Matrix Revolutions
• Meet The Spartans
• Michael Clayton
• My Best Friend’s Wedding
• My Bloody Valentine
• Ocean’s Eleven
• Ocean’s Twelve
• Ocean’s Thirteen
• The Patsy
• Phase IV
• The Recruit
• Resident Evil: Retribution
• Road To Perdition
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Rush Hour
• Rush Hour 2
• Rush Hour 3
• Rustler’s Rhapsody
• The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty
• Serendipity
• Shark Tale
• Sherlock Holmes (2009)
• Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows
• Shrek
• Shrek 2
• The Siege Of Firebase Gloria
• Signs
• Silverado
• The Social Network
• Soda Cracker
• Something’s Gotta Give
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
• Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan
• Star Trek III: The Search For Spock
• Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
• Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
• Star Trek: Insurrection
• Superbeast
• Sweet Home Alabama
• The Tenant
• Timeline
• Tooth Fairy
• Troll
• Twisted
• Underworld
• Underworld Awakening
• Underworld Evolution
• Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans
• Vantage Point
• The Village
• The Vow
• Waitress
• When A Man Loves A Woman
• Wrong Turn 2
• Yes Man
• Young Guns
• Young Guns II