What to Watch in January: 19 Notable TV Shows & Streaming Movies
The month ahead will bring new TV shows from noted film directors Rian Johnson, Nicolas Winding Refn, and Hirokazu Kore-eda, plus the first TV adaptation of hit video game The Last of Us, a new comedy from the creators of Ted Lasso, and more. In the gallery on this page, our editors have selected the most interesting TV and movie titles debuting at home in the next month, listed in order by premiere date.
Drama series debuts January 5 on Netflix
Redundantly described as "neon-drenched noir" in press materials—since when did director Nicolas Winding Refn make anything but that?—this Danish-language Netflix series is the second TV project from Refn, following his stylish but flabby 2019 Amazon drama Too Old to Die Young. It's also his first project set in his native country since his Pusher trilogy concluded in 2005, though the location is more a product of necessity (thanks, pandemic lockdown) than anything else. The six-episode series centers on a mysterious woman (Angela Bundalovic) who navigates Copenhagen's criminal underworld, and reviewers at the show's Venice premiere in September were again underwhelmed by a director who appears to have peaked with Drive over a decade ago—though, to be fair, only a few critics have reviewed Cowboy so far, and even the naysayers find aspects to admire (especially the show's visuals). Die-hard fans of the director likely won't be disappointed.
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