Power-hungry cheerleaders being bad makes for good TV

Throw this Netflix comedy special on and watch your aunties blush, get more of the Safdie brothers’ trademark intensity, and the ball will drop tonight… are you going to watch? Happy New Year's Eve! If you’re a parent to a young one and you needed another reason to keep your Netflix subscription going, you’ll get it tonight. The streamer is continuing its New Year’s Eve tradition of offering fake family-friendly New Year’s Eve countdowns, purposefully designed to deceive your child into going to bed early while still thinking they are part of the festivities. Ha, suckers! Is this plot pure evil or pure genius? Why not both? Search “countdowns” and get the year off to a good start by lying to your children. Here are tonight’s TV picks. –Tim [Your Watch This Now! newsletter is created by Senior Recommendations and Reviews Editor Tim Surette and more show-obsessed editors at TV Guide!]( WATCH THIS NOW! [Dare Me]( [Dare you to watch Dare Me]( Series premiere now on USA on-demand, New episodes Sunday at 10/9c on USA "There’s something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls,” USA’s new suspense thriller says in the first seconds of its premiere. Yep! Throw in some competitive cheerleading and murder, and you’ve got yourself a dark high-school mystery that’s somewhere between a Lifetime movie, HBO’s Euphoria, and NBC's Friday Night Lights. Based on co-showrunner Megan Abbott’s 2013 novel of the same name, Dare Me follows a team of cheerleaders and the battles within the squad, taking a serious look at the cutthroat power struggles between these teenage girls who drink, curse, and hook up with zero regard for anyone. It’s too bad this is coming out weekly, because it’s got teeth and is the type of show that you’d rather gulp up in one sitting. LIVE, LAUGH, LEWD [The Degenerates]( [The Degenerates adds filth to funny]( Season 2 Now on Netflix Netflix’s push into stand-up comedy has been a godsend for those of us who enjoy the art of [humorously questioning airplane food](. Did you see Anthony Jeselnik’s Fire in the Maternity Ward? How about Michelle Wolf’s Joke Show? Ronny Chieng’s Asian Comedian Destroys America? They’re all great. But even though they venture to dark places, they may be a little puritanical for your deviant mind. The Degenerates is a series of 30-minute stand-up specials focusing on comedians who are known for their ruthlessly raunchy humor, and this season brings in bigger names than Season 1, including Nikki Glaser and Jim Norton. Throw it on and watch your monocle pop out of your eye and into your cup of chamomile. 100 MINUTES OF BUTT-CLENCHING GOODNESS [Good Time]( [If you liked Uncut Gems, then have a Good Time]( Now on Amazon Prime If you happened to catch the Safdie brothers’ Uncut Gems and want to relive the experience of barely being able to breathe during an entire movie, check out their previous film Good Time. Its life force pumps through the same vein of relentless intensity, following a bank robber who needs to — what else? — get as much cash as he can in as little time as possible in order to bail his developmentally disabled brother out of jail. The well-acclaimed indie film stars Robert Pattinson — yes, Twilight’s sparkly vampire — but don’t worry! This ain’t no tween dream and he’s great in it. HARVEY NEW YEAR! [Steve Harvey]( [If you have to watch the ball drop, try Fox’s New Year’s Eve with Steve Harvey, I guess]( Tuesday at 8/7c on Fox New Year’s Eve used to be fun. It used to be the day we fondly remembered the year coming to a close and looked forward to the year about to begin, but then the world started sucking eggs and while we were happy to see the old year go away, we weren’t exactly jazzed about what was coming up. Now, New Year’s Eve is bedtime by 10:30 and watching football in PJs in the morning. But if you still have the energy to celebrate the calendar change and want to ring in 2020, you may as well watch the broadcast ball drop with the most potential for controversy, and that’s the one with Steve Harvey. Will he say something racist? Will he insult someone’s religion? Will he [fire half his crew after his kingly demands are not met]( Your other options are Carson Daly and Ryan Seacrest, so pick your poison. [Unsubscribe]( | [View online]( ©2019 CBS Interactive | All Rights Reserved. CBS Interactive - [235 2nd St., San Francisco, CA 94105](#) [Privacy Policy]( | [Terms and Conditions](