Shows in Jan not to miss out on
View(s):New year, same Netflix. The first month of 2023 brings the streaming service’s usual mix of accessible original comedy and drama series and movies, documentaries, kid stuff, culinary competitions, and international fare, with a handful of up-and-coming titles in the mix.
Here are some of the most anticipated Netflix movies and shows in January.
Kaleidoscope
The show is a limited series starring the great Giancarlo Esposito looks like a run-of-the-mill heist thriller, but it has a gimmick that either makes it more intriguing or less appealing, depending on your tolerance for potentially ill-advised narrative experimentation. Seven of the eight episodes can be watched in any order (the finale has to be watched last, of course). It looks slick and has a good cast that includes Rufus Sewell and Tati Gabrielle.
Copenhagen Cowboy
Idiosyncratic director Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, The Neon Demon) returns to his native Denmark after a decade in America with this noir series. It follows a young woman named Miu (Angela Bundalovic) as she goes on a revenge mission through Copenhagen’s neon-lit underworld. Refn is a rare contemporary filmmaker willing to take genuine artistic risks that sometimes don’t pay off but are always distinctive. Even when he fails, he fails with style.
The Pale Blue Eye
Scott Cooper writes and directs this mystery film based on Louis Bayard’s 2003 novel of the same name. Christian Bale stars as Det Augustus Landor, who’s investigating a grisly murder at West Point in 1830 with the help of a curious cadet played by Harry Melling. The cadet’s name? Edgar Allan Poe. The incredibly stacked cast includes Gillian Anderson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Robert Duvall.
Break Point
The team behind Formula 1: Drive to Survive does for tennis what they did for F1 in this intense all-access sports docu-series. It follows up-and-coming tennis players through the ups and downs of a year of Grand Slams and the ATP and WTA tours. If you like tennis, you’ll love this.
That ‘90s Show
The ‘90s are as far away from us as the ‘70s were when That ‘70s Show started, so the time has come for That ‘90s Show, a Netflix sequel series to the semi-classic sitcom in the vein of Fuller House. It’s 1995, and Leia Forman (Callie Haverda), the teenage daughter of Eric (Topher Grace) and Donna (Laura Prepon), goes to Wisconsin to spend a coming-of-age summer with her grandparents Red (Kurtwood Smith) and Kitty Forman (Debra Jo Rupp) and hang out with other neighbourhood kids in that famous basement. Most of the original gang will cameo.
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