Supported by Hollywood Suite
December | Binge the Season
’Tis the season to catch up on shows! This month’s collection rounds up a list of television and digital web series for you to binge on during the holidays. Whether it’s revisiting past favourites or discovering new gems, these series will have you hooked from start to finish.
Content Warning:
Some of the projects included in this collection deal with topics that may be distressing. Viewer discretion is advised – please check ratings and warnings on individual selections before engaging.
Anne with an E
Creator: Moira Walley-Beckett
The adventures of a young orphan girl living in the late 19th century. Follow Anne as she learns to navigate her new life on Prince Edward Island, in this new take on L.M. Montgomery’s classic novels.
*Also available on Netflix
Avocado Toast
Creators: Heidi Lynch & Perrie Voss
Avocado Toast is an intergenerational comedy exploring the challenging relationship between parents and their adult children. When it comes to millennials and baby boomers, these nuts haven’t fallen so far from the family tree.
Bria Mack Gets a Life
Creator: Sasha Leigh Henry
Bria Mack Gets a Life follows a 25-year-old Black woman as she navigates adulthood in a predominantly white world, made all the more difficult, but also more tolerable, by Black Attack, her invisible hype girl.
Cinema A to Z
Directors: Ryan Mains & Scott McInnes
This Hollywood Suite original series will take you on a fast-paced journey as we explore a film topic from A to Z, featuring interviews with Canadian filmmakers, critics, and industry veterans. Each episode touches on 26 alphabetic examples that reveal the depth of cinematic topics from monsters and serial killers to costume design and books on film.
*Selected by Hollywood Suite
The D Cut
Director: D.W. Waterson
Inspired by a true story, The D Cut follows an iconic queer hair salon fighting to stay open amid neighbourhood gentrification. D (Marie Marolle), hairdresser and local icon, believes everyone is just a cut away from living their best life and provides a safe space for queer cuts on a pay-what-you-can basis. When threatened with losing her communal home, she will learn that there is no shortcut to love or acceptance.
Drink Masters
Creators: Matthew Hornburg & Tim Warren
Twelve of the world’s most innovative mixologists infuse, stir and blend their way through a series of high-stakes cocktail challenges to win a life-changing prize and the title of The Ultimate Drink Master.
How to Fail as a Pop Star
Creator: Vivek Shraya
How to Fail as a Popstar follows Vivek, a queer brown boy from Edmonton as he tries (and fails) to achieve pop stardom, from the perspective of the now 40-something trans femme artist that boy became.
SkyMed
Creator: Julie Puckrin
At 20,000 feet in the air, budding nurses and pilots flying air ambulances in remote Northern Canada experience triumphs, heartbreaks and tribulations. They’re all in over their heads, and on their own, with no one to rely on but each other.
Tokens
Creator: Winnifred Jong
Tokens is a tongue-in-cheek comedy about the actors who find themselves randomly sent to productions desperate to hit their diversity quotas.
A Year In Film
Directors: Ryan Mains & Scott McInnes
The Hollywood Suite original series A Year in Film immerses you in film history and pop culture with insights and movie memories from Canadian filmmakers, industry insiders, and critics. Each episode uncovers the technical and artistic achievements in cinema during a single year. This December, enjoy five new episodes looking at 1968, 1972, 1981, 1996, and 2008.
*Selected by Hollywood Suite.
