What to Watch on Wednesday: Be a goodfella and check out Martin Scorsese's The Irishman on Netflix

EW Staff

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The Irishman

HOW/WHEN & WHERE TO WATCH: Streaming on Netflix

Escape from all those Thanksgiving holiday weekend duties with a riveting three-and-a-half-hour mob epic as Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman departs theaters and arrives on Netflix. One of the best-reviewed films of the year, The Irishman follows decades in the life of fixer Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro) as he befriends doomed Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino) and commits dirty deeds for dead-eyed mafia kingpin Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci). Is this the true story of what really happened to Hoffa? Almost certainly not. But the film is less of a docudrama and more of a character study, examining how crime always has a price — even when you get away with it. “It’s not about the facts,” Scorsese told EW in our deep-dive Irishman interview. “It’s the world [the characters are] in, the way they behave. It’s about [a character] stuck in a certain situation.” One thing’s for sure: This movie is cinema (even if it’s on your TV). —James Hibberd

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HOW/WHEN & WHERE TO WATCH: 10 p.m. on Food Network

Season Premiere
Food Network is playing Santa this year, gifting viewers with an extra four-episode season of this popular series. Tyler Florence is back as host, and this time he’s dishing out challenges to five aspiring food truck teams, starting in New Hampshire, and eventually taking them to Vermont and Rhode Island. Along the way, he’ll gift them with some naughty and nice ingredients to use in the competition, where one of them will win $50,000. Merry Christmas, indeed. —Gerrad Hall

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What ELSE to Watch

8 p.m.
The Christmas Club — Hallmark
Ellen’s Game of Games — NBC
The Real Housewives of New Jersey — Bravo
Survivor — CBS
A Very Vintage Christmas — Lifetime

9 p.m.
Guy’s Grocery Games: Guy’s Holiday Dessert Games — Food Network
SEAL Team — CBS
Almost Family — Fox

10 p.m.
S.W.A.T. — CBS

Streaming
Broken (docuseries debut) — Netflix
Castle Rock — Hulu

*times are ET and subject to change