New Year’s Day is on its way, and with it, the usual efforts to recover from revelry-based ordeals of New Year’s Eve. Really, it’s the perfect day to curl up with a laptop, cruise over to Amazon Prime, and let Molly Shannon and Will Ferrell yell at you for a couple of hours.
That’s the promise of the streaming service’s new Funny Or Die special, The 2018 Rose Parade Hosted by Cord & Tish, which, as the name suggests, is offering itself up as an alternative to more traditional January 1 fare. The special will star Shannon and Ferrell as a pair of bickering local news celebs, fake-chippering their way through the day’s marching-based events.
If you want something a little more low-key and trippy, meanwhile, you’ll have to wait a week; that’s when the streamer’s new sci-fi series, Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams, will waft into its catalog. The anthology series promises to dip into a number of the Blade Runner author’s obsessions, including identity and the nature of reality. (No Will Ferrell, though.)
Meanwhile, there’s also the latest season of Doctor Who on offer, and—for those willing to pony up some cash—the spectacle of Gerard Butler’s ludicrously conceived disaster thriller Geostorm. That one you have to pay for, though; Geostorm don’t come for free.
Available January 1:
The 2018 Rose Parade Hosted by Cord & Tish
Doctor Who, Season 10
All Is Lost
American Ninja