Christmas approaches – and with it, the prospect of a complete week of doing nothing however consuming meals, unwrapping presents and sitting on the couch.

Luckily, there’s at all times tv to maintain you occupied. As of late, a number of the greatest exhibits stay on streaming platforms – together with Disney+. They’re a treasure trove of status drama, and listed here are our picks of the most effective to binge this festive season.

This barnstorming FX collection received virtually each award going on the Emmys this yr, and for good purpose. Based mostly on the 1975 e book by James Clavell, it tells the story of an Englishman (Cosmo Jarvis) shipwrecked on the coast of Japan. What follows is a narrative that’s epic in each sense of the phrase. Extra importantly, it feels genuine: informed largely in Japanese and that includes a majority-Japanese forged, it’s a deep dive into the historical past of the Edo interval and the advanced energy struggles beginning to take form between it and the belligerent West.

Relive each excruciating element of The Bear over Christmas – as a result of nothing makes you’re feeling higher about cooking an enormous roast than watching issues go disastrously mistaken within the kitchen. Both means, The Bear is a heart-palpitation inducing masterpiece: following Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) as he returns to his household sandwich in Chicago and units about making an attempt to show it right into a restaurant. With a fourth season set to come back out subsequent yr, there’s no higher time to catch up.

The mockumentary format is fairly hackneyed and drained as of late, however Abbott Elementary nonetheless manages to make it really feel contemporary. Set within the corridors of the chronically underfunded Abbot Elementary secondary college, it follows a posse of academics who’re going about making an attempt to make the most effective of what they’ve. The characters are well-drawn, the comedy is off-beat and impeccably timed, and people side-eyes to digicam are in fact gold.

The TV present that put Wrexham on the map – and elevated soccer to the standing of ‘enjoyable new sport’ for a lot of Individuals. In 2020, Hollywood actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney introduced that they’d be shopping for the unloved Welsh soccer membership Wrexham FC. Disastrously low on cash, missing sponsors and morale, it was in dire straits – earlier than the pair set about turning it right into a Premier League power in ready. Naturally, being actors, they filmed it, and the ensuing portrait of the membership, its supporters and the encircling neighborhood is as heartwarming because it will get.