New Year’s Day is on its way, and with it, the usual efforts to recover from revelry-based ordeals of New Year’s Eve. Really, it’s the perfect day to curl up with a laptop, cruise over to Amazon Prime, and let Molly Shannon and Will Ferrell yell at you for a couple of hours.
That’s the promise of the streaming service’s new Funny Or Die special, The 2018 Rose Parade Hosted by Cord & Tish, which, as the name suggests, is offering itself up as an alternative to more traditional January 1 fare. The special will star Shannon and Ferrell as a pair of bickering local news celebs, fake-chippering their way through the day’s marching-based events.
If you want something a little more low-key and trippy, meanwhile, you’ll have to wait a week; that’s when the streamer’s new sci-fi series, Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams, will waft into its catalog. The anthology series promises to dip into a number of the Blade Runner author’s obsessions, including identity and the nature of reality. (No Will Ferrell, though.)
Meanwhile, there’s also the latest season of Doctor Who on offer, and—for those willing to pony up some cash—the spectacle of Gerard Butler’s ludicrously conceived disaster thriller Geostorm. That one you have to pay for, though; Geostorm don’t come for free.
Available January 1:
The 2018 Rose Parade Hosted by Cord & Tish
Doctor Who, Season 10
All Is Lost
American Ninja
Assassination
Avenging Force
Babel
Baby Mama’s Club
Black Rain
Brothers
Burning Blue
But I’m A Cheerleader
Capote
Coming Soon
Cool World
Cross Bronx
Dangerous Curves
Drop Dead Sexy
Evolution
Flawless
Freedom Writers
Hamlet
Highway
Horsemen
Hustle & Flow
Invaders From Mars
Love And Death
Love Story
Murphy’s Law
Platoon Leader
Pretty Bird
Primitive
Requiem For A Dream
Reservoir Dogs
Revenge Of The Ninja
Revolutionary Road
Richard The Lionheart
Show Of Force
Six Degrees Of Separation
Step Into Liquid
Street Smart
The Perfect Weapon
The Presidio
The Wraith
Thelma & Louise
Uncommon Valor
Words And Pictures
Zodiac
Available January 5:
The Devil’s Double
Available January 6:
Grimm, Season 6
Available January 7:
A Ghost Story
Available January 9:
Prime Suspect: Tennison
Available January 12:
Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams, Season One
Available January 16:
My Mother And Other Strangers
Available January 17:
The Midwife
Available January 19:
Just Add Magic, Season Two
Available January 30:
Grantchester, Season Three
Remember Me
Available January 31:
XXX: The Return Of Xander Cage