Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour docuseries and concert film double release due to dominate December

Taylor Swift The Eras Tour The End Of An Era and The Final Show

Debuts on Disney+ on Dec 12

Swifties can look forward to double the fun in December.

The six-episode behind-the-scenes docuseries The End Of An Era serves as a belated coda to the globe-trotting marathon American pop star Taylor Swift undertook for her The Eras Tour in 2023 and 2024.

It traces the tour from the planning stage through to the 149th and final performance in Vancouver, Canada. The latter is the also subject of new concert film The Final Show, which will see Swift’s Tortured Poets Department set released in its entirety for the first time.

Drawing on footage from rehearsal rooms and off-stage areas, the series lifts the curtain on what eventually became the highest-grossing concert tour of all time, surpassing US$2 billion (S$2.6 billion) in ticket sales.

Swift pauses to share her personal thoughts, and tour collaborators Sabrina Carpenter, Ed Sheeran, Gracie Abrams and Florence Welch show up for surprise performances.

The trailer also teases glimpses of Swift’s early relationship with American football player Travis Kelce, who is now her fiance.

Why watch it: For Swifties, this promises a fly-on-the-wall peek at Swift at the peak of her powers. And for students of pop-culture history and live spectacle, it is a look at how the sausage is made.

The Abandons

Debuts on Netflix on Dec 4

A frontier drama set in America’s Pacific Northwest in the 1850s, this follows two widowed matriarchs as they clash over land and power.

Constance Van Ness (Gillian Anderson) fiercely safeguards the mining interests of her wealthy family, while Fiona Nolan (Lena Headey) shepherds a clan of outcasts – “five abandoned souls” she now considers family. Their paths collide in a tale of violence, survival and treachery.

Why watch it: Following the success of Yellowstone (2018 to 2024), a ranching family saga that was a huge hit in the United States, Hollywood is suddenly very interested in western and neo-western tales.

This is the third such title on Netflix in 2025, following Ransom Canyon and American Primeval, which both did well.

And helmed by creator Kurt Sutter – the writer-director behind the Shakespeare-inspired American crime drama Sons Of Anarchy (2008 to 2014) – The Abandons promises heroes’ journeys and plenty of grit.

Fallout 2

Debuts on Prime Video on Dec 17

The post-apocalyptic hit Fallout is back for a second season – a year after a debut that became the second-most-watched original show on Prime Video, after fantasy series The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power (2022 to present).

English actress Ella Purnell returns as Lucy, who has spent most of her young life in a subterranean bunker, a nuclear war having destroyed the surface centuries ago.

In Season 1, she left the bunker after raiders kidnapped her father (Kyle MacLachlan).

Now, she continues to search for him in the terrifying wasteland above ground, venturing across the desert to New Vegas, a gamblers’ paradise that has become a factional battleground.

And she continues her uneasy partnership with The Ghoul (Walton Goggins), a bounty hunter who mutated following the nuclear blast.

Why watch it: Fans of the video game this is based on will know the New Vegas location well, and be pleased to see the same gang of radioactive, zombie-like Elvis impersonators roaming the city.

Macaulay Culkin and Justin Theroux join the cast, the latter playing New Vegas ruler Robert House, a major figure in the game, and the show looks set to continue its satirical, world-building take on that role-playing adventure.

Human Specimens

Debuts on Prime Video on Dec 18

Acclaimed Japanese actor Hidetoshi Nishijima, who starred in the Best International Feature Film Oscar winner Drive My Car (2021), headlines this chilling psychological drama.

Shiro Sakaki (Nishijima), a professor who is Japan’s leading expert on butterflies, confesses to turning six young boys into preserved “human specimens”. And the victims include his son Itaru, played by Japanese kabuki theatre prodigy Ichikawa Somegoro in his first contemporary television role.

A five-part mystery, Human Specimens is based on a book by Japanese author Kanae Minato, whose debut novel Confessions (2009) was turned into the acclaimed 2010 Japanese psychological thriller film of the same name.

A story told from multiple viewpoints, the series slowly peels back the layers of truth behind this bizarre crime, exploring humanity’s obsession with beauty and the complexities of the father-son relationship.

Why watch it: Nishijima’s star power and the prestige drama-worthy source material are artfully directed by Japanese film-maker Ryuichi Hiroki, known for sharply observed interpersonal dramas such as the 1994 film 800 Two Lap Runners.