If you're looking for new TV this week, you'll probably want to head to Disney Plus – not officially, but that's where you'll find many of the big new releases in the run-up to Christmas Eve this week (and, for good reason, plenty of family-friendly content to be at home during the holidays). There you will find well-known tent poles such as those from the MCU What if…? season 2 and the new one Percy Jackson and the Olympians. But you will also find Dragons of Wonderhatch, a new world with a partially animated sketch.
Of course, these aren't the only new TV shows this week, and they're not even all the shows you might be trying to catch up on; There's a lot of good TV this year! But it's a good place to start, at least for this week.
Here are the best TV premieres and finales happening this week:
New shows on Netflix
Gyeongseong creature
Genre: Horror
Date of publication: December 22
Author: Kang Eun Kyung
Form: Park Seo-joon, Han So-hee, Soo Hyun, Kim Hae-sook, Jo Han-chul, Wi Ha-joon and more
It is spring 1945 in Gyeongseong, while Korea is still under Japanese colonization. The richest, most connected person in town will soon team up with a sleuth to confront a strange creature, and do his best to tell the tale. This series will be divided into two parts: part 1 (with seven episodes) will be released on December 22 and part 2 (the remaining three episodes) will be released on January 5, 2024.
New shows on Disney Plus
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Genre: YA fantasy adventure
Date of publication: December 20, with two episodes
Showrunner/creator: Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg
Form: Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries, Aryan Simhadri and more
We're doing Percy Jackson again, but now he's on TV. Based on the book series by Rick Riordan (and in an attempt to be more similar to those books than the film series), Percy Jackson and the Olympians follows Percy (Walker Scobell) after he discovers that he is actually the son of a Greek god, making him a demigod, and that Zeus suspects he stole a lightning bolt.
What if…? season 2
Genre: Hypothetical super adventures
Date of publication: December 22, with one episode per day for nine days
Director: Bryan Andrews
Form: Jeffrey Wright, Hayley Atwell, Josh Keaton, Lake Bell and more
What if… ? season 2 is here to rediscover – well, exactly what the title says. The Watcher (Jeffrey Wright) takes us through nine new alternate MCU realities. While What if…? plots are not exactly known, this season will bring back some favorites such as Nebula, Hela and Happy Hogan, in addition to revisiting the world of 1602 funny.
Dragons of Wonderhatch
Genre: Fantasy
Date of publication: December 20, with two episodes
Showrunner/creator: Kentaro Hagiwara
Form: Sena Nakajima, Daiken Okudaira, Mackenyu and more
Nagi is a girl in the real world who dreams of flying – and one day she finds an outsider in Thaim. The difference is that he comes from the animated world of Upananta and feels isolated because he is bullied because he cannot hear the voices of the dragons.
Together, these two embark on an adventure to rescue Upananta, which will take them through Nagi's real, live-action world and the animated world of dragons from which Thaim comes.