Netflix adds movies and TV shows to its library every month. Here are some of January’s most exciting new titles. (Note: Streaming services may change their schedules without notice. For more information on what’s streaming, please visit Check out the newsletter here. )
“Bitcon”
Streaming
The collapse of major crypto exchanges like FTX has made a lot of headlines, but they are not the only crypto businesses that have mistakenly led investors to lose their fortunes. The documentary “Bitconned” follows the rise and fall of Centratech, a company that promised, in retrospect, dubious ways, to make crypto assets accessible via debit cards. Directed by Brian Stokel (best known for the quirky documentaries Pet’s Outlaw and Bowling’s Bad Boy), the film tells the story of Centra Tech’s masterminds and how many of them solved the problem. It is anchored by extensive interviews with journalists. I realized early on that something fishy was going on here. The story details easily persuaded celebrity spokespeople, fake apps designed to demonstrate non-existent technology, and a FOMO culture where bold promises of quick cash drown out common sense. It’s both funny and worrying at the same time.
“Please deceive me just once.”
Streaming
Author Harlan Coben’s novels are prime material for film adaptation for two simple reasons. And he writes twisty plots that keep readers guessing. In the British miniseries Fool Me Once, Michelle Keegan plays the archetypal Coven hero Maya Stern, an ex-military special operations agent, when one day she sees footage from her home’s security camera. She is shocked to see her husband Joe. Richard Armitage), thought she had been murdered. As Maya investigates this mystery, she meets a homicide detective who distrusts her. (There are also Joe’s wealthy and powerful mother (Joanna Lumley), and her own family, who believe that Joe’s strange incidents may be related to Maya’s sister’s death.
“Snow Society”
Start streaming: January 4th
In 1972, a plane crash in the Andes mountains left more than 20 passengers stranded on a remote icy mountain with little hope of rescue and little food to share. Famously, or infamously, survivors resorted to cannibalism while waiting for the spring thaw. However, director J.A. Bayona (who adapted the book by journalist Pablo Wierci) does not make human flesh-eating the main focus of The Snowy Society. He was more interested in hardships such as extreme cold or sudden avalanches, and how desperate situations strengthened the bonds of these people (many of whom played together on the same rugby team) are interested in This is a film about young people fighting hard to survive for each other in a landscape that is both picturesque and cruel.
“Brothers Son” Season 1
Start streaming: January 4th
The two brothers in the action drama “Brothers Son” couldn’t be more different. One is Bruce (Sam Sung Lee). He is a cash-strapped Los Angeles college student who dreams of becoming an improv comedian. The other is Charles (Justin Chen), a skilled amateur chef who is also a top-level assassin in the Taiwanese triads. Michelle Yeoh plays Irene, the boys’ mother, who has been sheltering Bruce from a life of crime in America. But when killers from her hometown begin invading her suburban sanctuary, she must regain her mettle as a gangster to keep her family safe. Created by Brad Falchuk (creator of “Glee” and “American Horror Story”) and Byron Wu, the series features dynamic martial arts sequences and dysfunctional suns learning how to trust each other. It combines scenes to be fixed.
“Griselda”
Start streaming: January 25th
Sofia Vergara stars in this infamous miniseries created by Carlo Bernardo (Narcos), Ingrid Escajeda (Cylo), Doug Miro (Narcos), and Eric Newman (Narcos). She plays Griselda Blanco, a Colombian drug lord. Vergara, who is Colombian himself, will also serve as executive producer. Her story of Swing has been told in documentaries and TV movies, most of which treat her as a larger-than-life crime legend. “Griselda” aims to be more down-to-earth, following a cocaine queen from her birth in Medellin to her rise to mastery of the Miami market, but with the kind of mild-mannered immigrant that Blanco once was. A ruthless woman who outsmarts the macho men of the mob, even as she frequently travels back and forth in time to compare her mother to the kind-hearted immigrant mother Blanco once was.
Also arrived:
January 1
“You are what you eat: The twin experiment”
January 5th
“Creatures of Keijo” Season 1 Part 2
January 10th
“The Trust: The Game of Greed” Season 1
January 11th
“Champion” Season 1
“Detective Fost” Season 1
“Sonic Prime” Season 3
January 12th
“lift”
“Love is Blind: Sweden” Season 1
January 19th
“The Bequest” Season 1
“60 minutes”
January 22nd
“Not a Narwhal” Season 2
January 23rd
“Jacqueline Novak: On Your Knees”
“Love Deadline” Season 1
January 24th
“Queer Eye” Season 8
“Six Nations: Full Contact”
January 30th
“Jack Whitehall: Calm down.”
January 31st
“Baby Bandito”
