Big trouble on small screens Winnipeg Free Press [Video]

Oh, hello, Hot Frosty, the Netflix rom-com wherein a snowman comes to shirtless life to mend a widow’s heart. And we see you, Family Guy: Gift of the White Guy, coming Monday, Nov. 25 to Disney+ to tell the tale of a lost brooch.

Yes, the holiday confections are already piling up, but TV diet requires more than spun sugar. Here are five more substantial offerings for your consideration:

● Say Nothing (full first season streaming now on Disney+)

Righteous fury and despair feel on point lately, but the politics of this story are set in West Belfast, Ireland, covering 30 years of the Troubles, starting in 1971. The question for the Price sisters, portrayed young and old, is not what they are willing to do for the IRA, but what that passionate commitment costs them in the end.

Based on the bestselling book by Patrick Radden Keefe, the story is loaded …