Nathan Fielder’s unhinged new series, probing what would happen if there really was a dress rehearsal for life, leads this month’s streaming highlights

Jeff Bridges faces his spycraft past in this Disney+ espionage thriller

Olivier Assayas revisits his 1996 film in a delicious palindromic limited series, in which a frazzled director remakes his ‘Irma Vep’ film into a TV series

‘Sex Education’ writer Alice Seabright’s new psychological thriller probing social media leads this month’s streaming highlights

Claire Danes is electric in this atmospheric period drama, topping this month’s streaming highlights

Elisabeth Moss is exceptional in time-travelling drama ‘Shining Girls’, while absurd comedy ‘Killing It’ reveals Australian Claudia O’Doherty as a comic force

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, returns to Baltimore for a present-day examination of rapacious police corruption

A nuanced and exacting portrayal of the Theranos scam leads this month’s streaming highlights

A sardonic Gary Oldman heads a misfit branch of MI5 in Apple TV+’s thrilling exploration of personal motivation and political expedience

A distinctive comedy about grief, friendship and the joy of singing leads this month’s streaming highlights

Apple TV+’s darkly comic satire takes the pursuit of a desirable work-life balance literally

Warwick Thornton’s magnificently pulpy Indigenous vampire-hunter drama leads the pack of December streaming highlights

Both delightfully droll and genuinely moving, John Wilson’s idiosyncratic documentary series is this month’s streaming standout

The US drama about teen plane-crash survivors is a heady mix of folk horror and high-school betrayal

Steve Coogan’s hapless TV host remains an absurdist joy, while Bilal Baig’s comedy series ‘Sort Of’ and Margaret Qualley’s performance in ‘Maid’ are among the latest streaming highlights