1923, Emily In Paris Season 3

Welcome to What’s On, our weekly selection of must-see shows. Here’s what you need to see from Sunday 18 December to Thursday 22 December. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekend edition of What’s On drops on Fridays.]

The big ones

1923 (Paramount+, Sunday, 03:01)

Taylor Sheridan can’t stop (won’t stop) expanding his Yellowstone universe. The latest spinoff, 1923, features a star-studded cast led by Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren. They play married couple Jacob and Cara Dutton, who live on the family’s Montana ranch during tough times. 1923 will run for two seasons with eight episodes each. The cast also includes Sebastian Roché, Marley Shelton, James Badge Dale, Jerome Flynn, Brian Geraghty and Timothy Dalton.

Emily in Paris (Netflix, Wednesday, 03:01)

Is it even holiday week if we don’t hate Emily in Paris? Darren Starr’s glossy drama returns for a third season, in which Lily Collins’ Emily will undoubtedly navigate ridiculous shenanigans in the French capital, including a love triangle, a job crisis and brilliant fashion dilemmas. Ashley Park, Lucas Bravo, Camille Razat and Lucien Laviscount also star. Keep an eye out The AV clubhis review this week.

The Best Man: Final Chapters (Peacock, Thursday, 03:01)

The cast in the 1999s The best man reunite after all these years to catch up with their characters as they face mid-life crises in Malcolm D. Lee’s comedy in eight episodes. The returning ensemble boasts Sanaa Lathan, Nia Long, Morris Chestnut, Regina Hall, Taye Diggs, Harold Perrineau, Terrence Howard and Melissa de Sousa. The AV clubHis review will be up later this week.

Hidden gems

Great effort (Hulu, Wednesday, 12:01 p.m.)

Written and directed by The Outlaws‘Kang Yoon-seong, Great effort is a South Korean drama about Cha Moosik (Choi Min-sik) who, after many hard years, becomes a casino mogul in the Philippines – but lands in hot water when he is caught up in a murder case.

Alice in Wonderland (Netflix, Thursday, 03:01)

Japanese sci-fi thriller Alice in Wonderland (based on the manga of the same name) follows players who are forced to compete in dangerous games in order to make it out alive. The show, led by Kento Yamazaki and Tao Tsuchiya, returns for a second season after a two-year hiatus.

I hate Suzie Also (HBO Max, Thursday, 03:01)

Billie Piper and Lucy Prebble’s British series I hate Suzie will return for a three-part second season. Piper plays actress Suzie Pickles, whose life is thrown into turmoil when her phone is hacked and compromising photos of her are leaked. The show follows Suzie’s eight – definitely not five – stages of grief. Daniel Ings and Nathaniel Martello-White co-star.

More good stuff

Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas everyone (CBS, Tuesday, 8 p.m.)

The Queen of Christmas, aka Mariah Carey, is back for a new holiday special airing on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. Catch her concert in New York City, when the singer performs a selection of her greatest hits for two hours, including, yes, “All I Want for Christmas Is You.”

Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan (Prime Video, Wednesday, 12:01)

Jack Ryan John Krasinski stars, who doesn’t shoot camera glances in this series, but does a lot of back-kicking as a CIA analyst in the middle of political warfare. In this third eight-episode season, Krasinski is joined by Nina Hoss, Betty Gabriel, James Cosmo and Wendell Pierce.

Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount+, Thursday, 03:01)

If there’s even the slightest chance that you haven’t seen the movie from the summer of 2022, Top Gun: Maverick begins streaming on Paramount+ on December 22 – just in time for some family vacation viewing. Tom Cruise reprises his role as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, and he is joined by an ensemble that includes Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm and Glen Powell. Here is a bit from The AV clubhis review:

Cruise rules the screen in a performance that uses his multi-million dollar star power to light up the entire film.

Can’t miss recaps

Welcome to Chippendales (Hulu, Tuesday, 12:01)

Willow (Disney+, Wednesday, 03:01)

Mythical quest (Apple TV+, Friday at 12:01)

Slow horses (Apple TV+, Friday at 12:01)

Ends soon

Step Up: High water (Starz, Sunday, 9 p.m., season three finale)

American Dad! (TBS, Monday, 10 p.m., season 17 finale)

In a way (HBO Max, Thursday, 3:01 a.m., season two finale)

Branson (HBO, Thursday, 9 p.m., season 1 finale)