As November dwindles to a close, the tension heightens. We’re all hyperaware that it’s upon us — the final stretch of 2025. This week leads up to Thanksgiving, which officially kicks off the holiday season, which closes out every year with a bang of Champagne and confetti and food — so much food. The anticipation is at a high right now, so as you spend this weekend finalizing your plans for Thursday’s big feast, so why not relax a little, too? Go ahead and treat yourself to something off the menu of Thanksgiving streams below.

You can get in the grateful spirit with a documentary about the ultimate hostess, a limited series about a legendary football team, or a juicy show known for turning the drama all the way up every fourth Thursday in November. If you devour one and are still hungry for more, help yourself to seconds!

But first, what’s new on Netflix?

A piece of America. In Clint Bentley’s critically acclaimed, quietly poetic new film Train Dreams, based on the beloved novella by Denis Johnson, Joel Edgerton plays a logger working on the railroad in the early 20th century and Felicity Jones plays his wife. Not the stream of your dreams? Take to the streets with a superstar. In ONE SHOT with Ed Sheeran, director Philip Barantini applied his daring cinematographic approach from the Emmy-winning Adolescence to a pop experiment: He filmed musician Ed Sheeran moving through New York City, meeting strangers and giving impromptu performances, all in a single take over the course of one afternoon. Not a shot you want to take? Take a bite out of The Great British Baking Show: Holidays. Season 8 of the treat-making competition’s merry spin-off is now here and ready to satisfy your sweet tooth, right as the festive season kicks off. 

If you have just a night … 

Take your cues from the hostess with the mostest. R.J. Cutler’s 2024 documentary Martha tells the story of the life and career of the much-imitated, never replicated original lifestyle maven Martha Stewart, in her own words. Cue it up for inspiration for your own feast, from the menu to the decor. With the high highs and low lows of Stewart’s stranger-than-fiction history, the doc is also great entertainment — in immaculate taste — for a cold November night.  

If you have a whole day … 

Brush up on some football history. The NFL has become an essential piece of the American tradition of Thanksgiving, and the Dallas Cowboys’ run in the 1990s has proven an essential piece of the league’s story. In Chapman and Maclain Way’s eight-part docuseries America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys, that history is told by the people who were there from Jerry Jones’s 1989 purchase of the franchise through its evolution into a sports dynasty.

If you have the entire weekend … 

Have a little gossip sesh. (You know you love it.) Over six seasons, the characters of Gossip Girl repeatedly celebrated Thanksgiving, often to scandalous ends, and you can join them at their well-dressed tables for Turkey Day à la Upper East Side NYC. Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage’s opulently trendy teen drama, based on the YA novel series by Cecily von Ziegesar, originally aired from 2007–2012 and is now celebrated as a classic of the era. Its young cast includes Blake Lively (It Ends with Us) and Leighton Meester as prep-school frenemies Serena van der Woodsen and Blair Waldorf and Penn Badgley (You) as artsy scholarship student Dan Humphrey; to this day, no one throws an iconic Thanksgiving quite like they did. 

Don’t forget, you have one last chance … 

For some family lore. In Carter Bays and Craig Thomas’s How I Met Your Mother, middle-aged Ted Mosby (voiced by Bob Saget) tells his children the story of the sitcom’s title: In his twenties, Ted (played by Josh Radnor) searched for love and navigated life in New York City alongside his friends, played by Jason Segel, Neil Patrick Harris, Cobie Smulders, and Alyson Hannigan. (More than once, too, the gang celebrates Thanksgiving!) You’d better start it soon, because at the beginning of next month, this story will be over.