Get Lost In Space with John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Tuesday, December 24. All times are Eastern.

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A good December 24 to one and all. In case you were curious, Netflix is fully aware that lots and lots of you have the day off. Of its several drops today, here are the two big highlights.

Lost In Space (Netflix, 3:01 a.m., complete second season): What do you think: Is Will Robinson still in danger?

Here’s our own Danette Chavez on the slight pleasures of this second season:

[Season two of Lost In Space] feels like a do-over of the first season, with less bulk and roughly the same number of utterances of “Faraday cage.” The new batch of perfectly adequate episodes finds the Robinsons once more MacGyvering their way through a series of obstacles and otherwise trying to contact the Resolute, the mothership that holds the rest of the 24th colonist group. Smith (Parker Posey, who’s loving every dishonest minute) has lost the “Doctor” and the Robinsons’ confidence, but none of her cunning. Early on, the wily stowaway is down, but not out—she has no robot protecting her (nor does Will, for that matter, after the events of the season-one finale), but as long as there are people to manipulate, she’s far from helpless. Smith (or June, if that’s her real name) continues to be the chaotic neutral highlight of the series, thanks to Posey’s balancing act: the actor combines real vulnerability with an inclination for mayhem. As the season goes on, Smith/June’s schemes and her past are revealed like the pieces of a nesting doll, each new layer exposing the same unrelenting sense of self-preservation.

John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch (Netflix, 3:01 a.m., premiere): God bless John Mulaney for what he chooses to do with his clout. Here’s what the comedian had to say about this special, in a statement provided by Netflix: