--- title: This Year's Best Non-Traditional Christmas TV Episodes description: Watch these non-traditional Christmas TV episodes over the holiday season, from RuPaul's Drag Race to the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. canonical: https://time.com/5470463/christmas-tv-episodes-2018/ author: Judy Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-12-06T12:00:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:57:23.015Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 2018's Best Offbeat and Irreverent Holiday Specials og:description: From RuPaul's Drag Race to the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina og:url: https://time.com/5470463/christmas-tv-episodes-2018/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb616cd87347550b7/69894089656a3f5571bd621f/rupaul2.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: rupaul2 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 2018's Best Offbeat and Irreverent Holiday Specials twitter:description: From RuPaul's Drag Race to the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb616cd87347550b7/69894089656a3f5571bd621f/rupaul2.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch These Irreverent Holiday Specials When You Get Sick of Hallmark Movies > Sponsored content. 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The same twee Claymation specials you’ve been watching since childhood. You don’t have to be Ebenezer Scrooge to find most holiday TV repetitive or cloying. Thankfully, for those who can’t stand to watch _even one more_ uptight city girl embrace the Christmas spirit in the form of a grown-up ’90s teen drama dreamboat in a red-and-green flannel, this season offers plenty of festive yet irreverent counterprogramming. Here are a few highlights. ## **_Nailed It! Holiday_** **(Netflix, Dec. 7)** _Nailed It!_ has been one of the year’s most unexpected delights, pitting cheerfully inept home cooks against one another to recreate the kind of elaborate sweets that pros labor over in other TV baking competitions. It sounds like a gimmick that would get old fast, but the show just keeps getting better—thanks in large part to the flirty chemistry between its host, comedian Nicole Byer, and her fellow judge, A-list pastry chef Jacques Torres. It must have been a no-brainer for Netflix to devote the last of this year’s three _Nailed It!_ mini-seasons to the holidays, with six episodes themed around a range of seasonal celebrations. Highlights of this Advent calendar of cake wrecks include a foxy firefighter contestant who sings a song about cats and a Hanukkah confection that may comprise the show’s most egregious crime against buttercream. ## _RuPaul’s Drag Race Holi-slay Spectacular_ (VH1, Dec. 7) RuPaul released his third holiday album, _Christmas Party_, this fall, and while the remix-heavy record is nothing to write Santa about, it does give everyone’s favorite supermodel of the world an excuse to throw this all-star musical extravaganza. Some of the Emmy-winning show’s most memorable personalities—including the hilarious Latrice Royale, the controversial Eureka O’Hara and _Drag Race_ lifer Shangela—return to vie for the coveted title of Christmas Queen. Along with the typical challenges, the hour-long special features a parade of campy production numbers set to Mama Ru’s dance-pop carols and choreographed by guest judge Todrick Hall. ## _Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: A Midwinter’s Tale_ (Netflix, Dec. 14) Sabrina Spellman (Kiernan Shipka) embraces a _Nightmare Before Christmas_ vibe in this refreshingly dark, pleasantly overstuffed coda to the first season of this addictive _Sabrina the Teenage Witch_ reboot that dropped just before Halloween. Not that Sabrina’s Satan-worshiping aunts actually celebrate Christian holidays; the Church of Night observes the pagan solstice, whose festivities come complete with Yule logs to protect against hostile spirits. (Spoiler: The spirits turn up anyway.) But our half-human can’t help mixing earthly traditions with supernatural ones, and her years-old wish to spend Christmas with her long-dead mortal mother backfires in predictable yet festive fashion. Elsewhere in Greendale, Sabrina’s pixie-like pal Susie (Lachlan Watson) lands an ominous job as a department store Santa’s elf. ## _Schitt’s Creek_ (Pop TV, Dec. 19)  Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara and Rizwan Manji in Schitt's Creek Pop TV This underwatched but critically adored Canadian import casts the hilarious Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara as an uber-rich couple who suddenly lose everything and—along with their grown-up son and daughter—end up living in a broken-down motel in the titular small town they purchased on a lark decades earlier. After four seasons, the most recent of which ended on an unusually sweet note this spring, the fish-out-of-water Rose clan has thoroughly integrated into its quaint new home. The sitcom’s first Christmas special flashes back to the family’s lavish yet lonely holiday soirées past, as Johnny (Levy) attempts to throw together a last-minute party in their humble adjoining rooms. ## _Full Frontal: Christmas on I.C.E._ (TBS, Dec. 19) Samantha Bee skates through the finish line of an unbearably long year with a commercial-free _Full Frontal_ special that TBS is promoting as “a less-godless-than-the-usual-liberal Christmas variety spectacular with all the traditional trimmings: music, laughter, joy, deep rage that the administration is separating migrant families, and gingerbread.” Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon, along with a slew of surprise guests, is slated to join the sure-to-be-cathartic festivities. 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