What a view | From K-drama The Uncanny Counter to Love Actually – what to watch over the festive season

If, with a few days still to go, you’re already Yuletid’ed out and would rather your spirits were not of the cosy, Christmassy variety, there’s a noodle shop with your name on it. And not just any old noodle shop, either.

Down in fictional Jungjin town in The Uncanny Counter (series one, Netflix, new episodes weekly) is Eonni’s Noodles, front for the headquarters of an unlikely team of Korean rooftop-jumping, evil-spirit vanquishers good at martial arts. Their rawest vigilante recruit is So Mun (Cho Byeong-kyu), drafted into the force after being zapped by a dazzling white light that wafted him away into a seeming dreamland.

With season tickets to and from the afterlife, these grim reapers of poisoned souls must also face the wrath of queuing customers left disappointed when another secret mission suddenly calls and the world’s greatest noodles go uncooked.

But nobody ever said banishing demons while running a cha chaan teng would be easy … or without its tongue-in-cheek moments.

If, on the other hand, you really feel that Christmas is all around and you should come on and let it snow, why not recycle Bill Nighy’s finest hour and stream the ultimate feel-good movie, Love Actually (HBO Go)? And having established that festive fatigue isn’t an affliction, you might then move on to A New York Christmas Wedding (Netflix), an LGBTQ holiday-romance film featuring typically awkward family dinners, typically obstructionist church politics and a Robert Mapplethorpe-lookalike spirit (Cooper Koch) who announces, “You shouldn’t underestimate the power of love around Christmas – it’s magical,” before threatening to sabotage it.

Modern-day ghosts revealing multiple-choice Christmases and alternate realities? If that sounds like the spirit of Charles Dickens revisited, it is.