What to Watch This Weekend: Relax With Our Top 9 TV and Movie Picks (December 2–8)

New on TV this week

This week’s What To Watch picks include series premieres (Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, Creature Commandos, The Sticky), documentaries (My Last Nerve, Girls Gone Wild: The Untold Story), a new game show based on a classic (Pop Culture Jeopardy), Danny Trejo unearthing mysteries, Fortune Feimster’s third comedy special, and the MLS Cup Finals. Let’s hit the couch!

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew | Disney+ | Drama, sci-fi

Series premiere, Monday, December 2: This original live-action series is the latest sack of Lucasfilm, Ltd. crack designed for the hopelessly Star Wars–addicted. Upon making a mysterious discovery on their home planet, four kids wind up on a journey to a strange and dangerous galaxy (probably far, far away) and must find their way home. The coming-of-age series stars Jude Law, Kerry Condon, Robert Timothy Smith, Nick Frost, Tunde Adeimpe, Ravi Cabot-Conyers, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, and Kyriana Kratter. The first two episodes drop tonight, with the remaining six coming weekly on Mondays.

Fortune Feimster: Crushing It! | Netflix | Stand-up comedy

Series premiere, Tuesday, December 3: In her third stand-up comedy special, Fortune Feimster explains how her mother’s and her wife Jax’s birthdays are five days apart—awkward. Mom gets mad when Fortune fails to make a mushy birthday Facebook post like she did for Jax. “I don’t see [a message] from you on Facebook, and I know your thumbs work ‘cause you used them five days ago.” When Fortune protests, saying she sent her mother an Edible Arrangement, Mom doesn’t care. “She was pissed,” Feimster says. “So I had to unfriend her.”

New on Peacock this week

Girls Gone Wild: The Untold Story | Peacock | Reality, documentary

Limited series premiere, Tuesday, December 3: What’s that? There’s an actual story behind Girls Gone Wild? We all know GGW isn’t narrative fiction, so don’t expect Girls Gone Wild and the Sorcerer’s [Ahem]. Instead, this is a documentary about the mega-popular, mail-order DVD series where exploitation artists bought peeks (and more) from drunken college-age girls for the low, low price of a T-shirt. Judging from old news reports and lawsuits, there is a ton of hot, sensational goss about the series—and it gets pretty dirty.

Pop Culture Jeopardy! | Prime Video | Game show

Series premiere, Wednesday, December 4: If, when you watch classic Jeopardy, you often think, “If only there were more questions about Star Wars and Metallica and Kardashians—I’d crush this!” then you’ll love Pop Culture Jeopardy. Hosted by Saturday Night Live’s Colin Jost, the new game show has no pesky questions about history, literature, or science—and if you need help, you have teammates. Expect three new episodes weekly on Wednesdays.

New on Max this week

Creature Commandos | Max | Adult animation

Series premiere, Thursday, December 5: Written and executive produced by James Gunn (The Suicide Squad), the adult animated series Creature Commandos assembles incarcerated DC Universe monsters into basically another Suicide Squad “recruited for missions deemed too dangerous for humans.” The Suicide Squad fans will recognize two characters—Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) and Weasel (Sean Gunn). The series also stars Frank Grillo (Avengers: Endgame), David Harbour (Stranger Things), Alan Tudyk (Firefly), and more. Tonight is the first of seven crude, gory, action-packed weekly episodes.

Mysteries Unearthed with Danny Trejo | HISTORY | Reality

Series premiere, Friday, December 6, 10 p.m.: Danny Trejo—aka Machete—also happens to be a real-life badass, which is great ‘cause you never know what’ll go down when you mess with the mysterious. But Trejo doesn’t venture into the field in this reality series (missed opportunity). Instead, the actor reads from a studio teleprompter. Don’t tell him I said this, but the gravelly voiced chingón seems like an odd choice for a reality series host, but he’s surprisingly good at it.

The Sticky | Prime Video | Comedy, drama

Series premiere, Friday, December 6: Not a joke: The Sticky is inspired by the true story “The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist.” Seriously: Maple syrup is big business in Canada, and the heist netted its masterminds around 3,000 tons of the sticky stuff, valued at $17.2 million (U.S. dollars). But The Sticky isn’t the exact story of the heist. The original crew was all-male while, in the show, Margo Martindale (Cocaine Bear) leads the cast as a syrup farmer who “turns to crime when bureaucratic authorities threaten to take away everything she loves.”

MLS Cup Final | FOX, MLS Season Pass, Fox Deportes | Live sports

Live soccer match, Saturday, December 7, 4 p.m. (ET): Thanksgiving is over, and if you’ve had your fill of football, may I suggest trying out the other football? Yeah, I mean soccer. At the time of writing, the Conference Finals have yet to happen (that’s on November 30), so we don’t know the final matchup. However, we know the four teams playing in the Conference Finals on November 30: Orlando City, New York Red Bulls, LA Galaxy, and Seattle Sounders. (Psssst—our sports editor, Taylor Kujawa, thinks it’ll be LA vs. Orlando.)

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