‘Blue Bloods’ Finale, ‘Dexter’ Prequel, Elton John’s Journey, ‘Conclave’ and ‘Joker’ Start Streaming

Blue Bloods

“We’ve had an incredible trip,” Tom Selleck declared in a current prime-time particular celebrating Blue Bloods’ long term, dominating Friday nights for 14 seasons. That’s an understatement. With one final Sunday household dinner, and a citywide disaster for the varied Reagans to handle, the collection indicators off to the dismay of its legion of followers. Edward James Olmos guest-stars because the inmate father of a gang member who rallies New York Metropolis’s many warring gangs to trigger mayhem as they demand amnesty for his or her members behind bars. Nevertheless all of it performs out, Fridays gained’t really feel fairly the identical once more with this household police drama now not breaking (and buttering) bread collectively.

Dexter: Unique Sin

How did Dexter Morgan get began on his blood-drenched campaign to wreak justice on villains who slipped by the cracks? “To start with, there was blood,” we’re informed, as Michael C. Corridor gives the inside voice for an origin story. Irish actor Patrick Gibson stars because the younger Dex, welcomed into the Miami P.D. as a forensics intern below the watchful eye of his father, Harry (Christian Slater), who introduces an ethical code to regulate his son’s darkest urges. Patrick Dempsey and Sarah Michelle Gellar co-star as precinct mentors, with Molly Brown as his high-school age sister, Deb. Episodes air Sundays at 9/8c on Showtime.

Elton John: By no means Too Late

Named Time Journal’s 2024 Icon of the 12 months, Elton John displays on his outstanding profession and his private highs and lows in a stirring documentary that strikes full circle from his legendary 1975 Dodger Stadium live performance to his farewell present there in 2022. Within the Nineteen Seventies, with chart-topping hits on seven #1 albums, the flamboyant singer-songwriter appeared to have all of it. However because the movie from R.J. Cutler and John’s husband, David Furnish, reveals, it was a hole success marred by struggles with medicine and sexuality till he acquired clear and located deeper objective with household. At 77, he’s nonetheless standing. “By no means Too Late” can also be the title of a brand new music featured within the documentary, written by John and Brandy Carlile.

Conclave

Touted as an Oscar contender within the Finest Image and a few performing races, nominated for seven Golden Globes and named one of many 12 months’s prime 10 movies by the AFI and the Nationwide Board of Evaluate, director Edward Berger’s absorbing suspense drama concerning the election of a brand new pope makes its streaming debut lower than two months after its premiere in theaters. Ralph Fiennes stars as a cardinal accountable for the tense conclave when the Faculty of Cardinals gathers to elect a successor after the present pontiff dies of a coronary heart assault. Stanley Tucci and John Lithgow co-star as cardinals vying for the sacred honor, however as scandals and gossip disrupt the Vatican’s corridors of energy, it’s anybody’s guess who’ll rise to the highest.

Additionally making its streaming debut, having met a lot much less enthusiastic important response, is the Batman sequel Joker: Folie à Deux on Max, pairing Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix with Woman Gaga. The film premieres on HBO Saturday evening at 8/7c.

Carry-On

As if touring through the holidays wasn’t cringe-inducing sufficient. Taron Egerton (who as soon as performed the aforementioned Elton John in Rocketman) stars in a breakneck thriller as a meek TSA agent who’s caught between a bomb and a tough place when a psychopath (Ozark’s Jason Bateman) blackmails him into letting a deadly package deal make it by screening and onto a Christmas Eve flight. Can this LAX baggage scanner save the day and hold his girlfriend (Sofia Carson) from a sniper’s crosshairs?

INSIDE FRIDAY TV:

• Outlander (8/7c, Starz): A lot to unpack from final week’s cliffhanger. Jamie (Sam Heughan) is alive! His spouse Claire (Caitríona Balfe) married Lord John (David Berry), considering the recent Scot was lifeless! William (Charles Vandervaart) now is aware of Jamie is his organic father, and he’s upset with everybody! How do you prime that, Outlander?
• Hannukah on the Rocks (8/7c, Hallmark Channel): An unemployed Chicago company lawyer (Stacey Farber) finds new objective throughout Hanukkah season at an Outdated City bar the place she learns to stay it up as a bartender, bonding with a physician (Daren Kagasoff) from Florida and his granddad (Double Dare’s Marc Summers).
• The New York Sack Trade (8/7c, ESPN): A 30 for 30 particular relives the glory days of the New York Jets’ much-feared defensive position of the Eighties, that includes Mark Gastineau, Joe Klecko, Abdul Sallam and Marty Lyons.
• Glad’s Place (8/7c, NBC): Bobbie (Reba McEntire) provides Isabella (Belissa Escobedo) romantic recommendation relating to her long-distance relationship, as a result of that by no means backfires. Adopted by Lopez vs. Lopez (8:30/7:30), the place George (George Lopez) channels Dateline whereas investigating the short loss of life of a brand new equipment.
• S.W.A.T. (8/7c, CBS): When radioactive materials goes lacking from an L.A. lab, the workforce springs into motion to cease a nuclear assault. Adopted by Fireplace Nation (9/8c), the place the firefighters tackle deadly underground zombie fires, with Phil Morris guest-starring as Eve’s (Jules Latimer) estranged rancher dad.
• True Crime Watch: ABC’s 20/20 (9/8c) revisits the ever-present chilly case of 6-year-old JonBenét Ramsey’s 1996 Christmas Day homicide, with Byron Pitts’ interview together with her father John Ramsey, now 81, and newly launched footage of Barbara Walters’ interview with the mother and father. Dateline NBC (9/8c) studies the most recent on intercourse offender Nicholas Rossi, a fugitive who faked his personal loss of life and fled the nation in 2020.
• Kids Damage All the pieces (9/8c, The CW): What can the children destroy subsequent? How concerning the treasured free time at evening when mother and father James (Aaron Abrams) and Astrid (Meaghan Rath) would relatively simply play on an previous recreation console.
• Violent Femmes: fortieth Anniversary with the Milwaukee Symphony (10/9c, PBS): Rock and classical music collide when the people punk group Violent Femmes collaborates with the Milwaukee Symphony to rejoice the fortieth anniversary of their debut album.

ON THE STREAM:

• Die Hart (streaming on The Roku Channel): The third installment of the self-referential comedy as soon as once more stars Kevin Hart as himself, kind of, who rebounds from a flop biopic of George Washington Carver to beg a famed director (J.Ok. Simmons) for an additional likelihood, solely to be accused of homicide and occurring the lam with getaway driver Jordan King (Nathalie Emmanuel).
• Silo (streaming on Apple TV+): Framed for a homicide, the rabble-rousers from Mechanical go into hiding from a livid mob. Over within the much less crowded Silo 17, Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson) continues her determined seek for gear that may enable her to return exterior, maybe again residence, with out dying.
• The Company (streaming on Paramount+): Whereas CIA’s London station offers with an offended delegation from Belarus, younger agent Danny (Saura Lightfoot-Leon) is thrown into the deep finish as she begins her mission at a geophysics institute.
• The Jetty (streaming on BritBox): Jenna Coleman (Victoria) stars in a four-part British thriller as detective Ember Manning, whose investigation into a fireplace in her lake district hometown reveals all types of sordid secrets and techniques.
• Marvel Pets: Within the Metropolis (streaming on Apple TV+): A musical deal with for preschool audiences options guinea pig Izzy, snake Tate and bunny Zuri, classroom pets in a New York Metropolis kindergarten whose tuneful adventures take them far exterior the classroom.