Every month, Netflix adds movies and TV shows to its library. Here are our picks for some of January’s most promising new titles. (Note: Streaming services occasionally change schedules without giving notice. For more recommendations on what to stream, sign up for our Watching newsletter here.)
‘Run Away’
Starts streaming: Jan. 1
The British TV writer-producer Danny Brocklehurst (“Safe,” “Stay Close”) continues his fruitful collaboration with the thriller novelist Harlan Coben in “Run Away,” an eight-episode adaptation of Coben’s 2019 novel. James Nesbitt plays Simon Greene, whose seemingly ideal upper-middle-class life with his wife, Ingrid (Minnie Driver), is upended when their university student daughter, Paige (Ellie de Lange), gets hooked on drugs and then disappears. When Paige’s main drug dealer turns up dead, Simon becomes the prime suspect. While attempting to clear his name, he collaborates with a dogged private investigator (Ruth Jones), who has her own hidden agenda for joining forces with him. As is usually the case with Coben’s work, “Run Away” has a complex and unpredictable plot, driven by the lies people tell — even to themselves — and the lengths to which they will go to conceal some shocking truths.
‘His & Hers’
Starts streaming: Jan. 8
In this twisty mini-series, Tessa Thompson plays Anna, an Atlanta TV news anchor on extended leave after a personal tragedy. She decides to get back into her job by reporting on a murder in her small Georgia hometown, where she has a connection to nearly everyone involved in the case — including the lead investigator, Detective Jack Harper (Jon Bernthal), and the victim. Based on an Alice Feeney novel, “His & Hers” is a crime story ripe with viable suspects, nearly all of whom have known each other since childhood, and nearly all of whom have decades’ worth of old grudges and trust issues. The show’s creative team — including the showrunner Dee Johnson and the writer-director William Oldroyd — expose the characters’ pasts bit by bit, saving their biggest surprises for the final minutes.
‘Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials’
Starts streaming: Jan. 15
Although the mystery author Agatha Christie is best known for creating the master sleuths Jane Marple and Hercule Poirot, she has other colorful crime solvers too, featured in multiple books. One of those is Lady Eileen Brent, known as Bundle, a plucky detective and a stalwart of England’s “bright young things” — the generation of aristocratic young adults who made headlines in the 1920s for their glib attitudes and wild parties. In the mini-series “Seven Dials” (based on a 1929 novel), Mia McKenna-Bruce plays Bundle, who finds one of her good friends dead during a house party in the country and then unravels a mystery while trying to prove the man did not kill himself. Helena Bonham Carter plays Bundle’s reclusive mother, while Martin Freeman plays a local inspector who becomes irritated by the amateur gumshoe’s meddling.
‘The Rip’
Starts streaming: Jan. 16
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon co-produced and co-star in this Miami-set crime drama, written and directed by Joe Carnahan, from a story by Carnahan and Michael McGrale. Affleck and Damon play police detectives, leading a team investigating a cartel’s stash house. When the cops discover millions of dollars in the walls, they are required by law to stay on the premises to count the money. But there are concerns galore: worries that drug-lords will show up at the door, suspicions that the tip itself might be a trap and a generalized distrust within a department where corruption is common. With a supporting cast that includes Teyana Taylor, Sasha Calle, Steven Yeun, Scott Adkins and Kyle Chandler, “The Rip” is both an actors’ showcase and a “Treasure of the Sierra Madre”-style tale of greed and paranoia.
‘Bridgerton’ Season 4, Part 1
Starts streaming: Jan. 29
It will be tough for Season 4 of this Regency-era romance to top the fan-favorite Season 3, which focused on the undercover gossip columnist Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) and her longtime crush Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton). The new season adapts Julia Quinn’s 2001 novel “An Offer From a Gentleman” and shifts the attention to another Bridgerton sibling, in a sexy reimagining of the Cinderella fairy tale. When the artsy, rakish Benedict Bridgerton (Luke Thompson) becomes enchanted with Sophie Baek (Yerin Ha), a woman he meets at a masquerade ball, he is unaware that she secretly works as a servant for her cruel stepmother. As Benedict searches for his mystery lady, the show explores other scandals among the blue bloods, showing how society’s expectations can interfere when noblemen and noblewomen try to follow their hearts. Fans can also expect plenty of scenes with the series regulars — including, of course, that incorrigible snoop Penelope.
Also arriving:
Jan. 1
“Dr. Seuss’s Red Fish, Blue Fish” Season 2 “Falling Skies” Seasons 1-5 “Free Solo” “Green Room” “Monty Python’s the Meaning of Life” “My Korean Boyfriend” Season 1
Jan. 2 “Found” Seasons 1-2 “Land of Sin” Season 1
Jan. 3 “The Following” Seasons 1-3
Jan. 7 “Marcello Hernández: American Boy” “Unlocked: A Jail Experiment” Season 2
Jan. 8 “Love Is Blind: Germany” Season 2
Jan. 9 “Alpha Males” Season 4 “People We Meet on Vacation” “Prodigal Son” Seasons 1-2
Jan. 13 “The Boyfriend” Season 2
Jan. 14 “The Queen of Flow” Season 3 “Veronica Mars” Seasons 1-3
Jan. 15 “Love Through a Prism” Season 1 “To Love, to Lose” Season 1 “The Upshaws” Season 7
Jan. 16 “Can This Love Be Translated?” Season 1 “Southland” Seasons 1-5
Jan. 20 “Just a Dash” Seasons 1-3 “Rizzoli & Isles” Seasons 1-7 “Star Search” Season 1
Jan. 21 “Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart”
Jan. 22 “Cosmic Princess Kaguya!” “Finding Her Edge” Season 1
Jan. 23 “Skyscraper Live”
Jan. 27 “Mike Epps: Delusional”
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