To start 2025 on the right foot, there is nothing better than a look at what new developments platforms present to us. streaming. Movies, series and even live sporting events that are going to shake us so that all the Christmas nutrient binges become audiovisual bingeing. Here are our recommendations for January 2023.
Wallace & Gromit: Revenge is served with feathers
Some true animation classics return thanks to one of the most promising agreements of recent times, between Netflix and Aardman (especially because they guarantee that the infallible Aardman will continue making films): Nick Park himself, director of the studio, signs this Return of Wallace and Gromit in which the former develops a worrying dependence on his inventions, culminating in the creation of a dangerous garden gnome. Perhaps not everything is as it seems, perhaps a dark figure from the past is behind this nonsense.
- From January 3 on Netflix
RAW, NXT y Smackdown
Starting January 7, wrestling devotees will have a corner on Netflix for live events, thanks to the deal reached a year ago by the WWE federation, the most important in the world, and Netflix. The most anticipated event is Monday Night RAW from Los Angeles, with fighters like John Cena, Roman Reigns, Cody Rhodes, CM Punk, Bianca Belair, Rhea Ripley and Rey Mysterio. We already had a preview with the Crown Jewel in November, but now the heavyweights of the federation arrive, also with events from NXT and Smackdown in the first week of January.
- From January 7, 8 and 11 on Netflix
The Night Agent T2
One of Netflix’s most genuine surprise hits in recent times was the first season of this thriller created by Shawn Ryan, responsible for ‘The Shield’, which with an estimated 98.2 million views became one of the most viewed series in the history of the platform. We will see how our protagonist has become a full-fledged night agent in the secret Night Action organization. Although his return to hiding is almost guaranteed.
- From January 23 on Netflix
T2 Separation
It is one of the best series on Apple TV+ and now, years after the premiere of its first season and having left us with its story completely in suspense, the second part arrives. Adam Scott plays an employee of Lumon Industries, a company whose employees have undergone a surgical procedure that separates their memories between work and personal life: when he is at work, he does not remember what his normal life is like and when he is at home, He doesn’t remember what he works on. But he soon begins to discover details about his own life and the nature of his employment that make him think there is more to this phenomenon than just an experiment.
- From January 17 on Apple TV+
Mythic Quest T4
This fabulous series about the internal issues in a video game development studio comes to an end in this fourth season. The entire main cast returns, who we will see build new relationships and face relentless challenges that portray with irony and humor the always conflictive and unpredictable world of development.
- From January 29 on Apple TV+
The Pirate Bay
This miniseries that comes in its entirety to Movistar Plus+ portrays times that now seem remote but that were the origin of the internet as we know it today: three young computer geniuses meet on an internet forum and create a file-sharing platform, Pirate Bay. , in reaction to the attempt to control the network by large companies. It is the beginning of a revolution that will lead to the free exchange of millions of files and that will be opposed by the Swedish Anti-Piracy Agency. Alone, the three will take on the media and big Hollywood corporations.
- From January 7 on Movistar Plus+
Canine
It drew attention a few weeks ago when its extravagant trailer was seen online and now it arrives exclusively on the Disney platform after skipping theaters: Amy Adams is the absolute protagonist of this film in which a woman pauses her professional career to She works as a mother and housewife, but her life takes a turn when she thinks she could be turning into a dog. Increasingly stronger physical changes and memories of her childhood that remained silent will make her fear the worst in this unique story that mixes a werewolf movie plot and reflection on the complexities of female maturity.
- From January 24 on Disney+
Your friend and neighbor Spider-Man
The more traditional Spider-Man, that is, the one that shows us the young Peter Parker, a student and troubled by responsibilities, focuses the attention of this new series that promises large doses of action and comedy to tell us the origins of the spider hero. From his primitive original suits to his encounters with villains that we remember from the comics, such as a Norman Osborn who will provide him with a sophisticated new suit here.
- From January 29 on Disney+
Saturn
A kind of dark, dramatic and intimate version of ‘How to Hunt a Monster’, in which filmmaker Daniel Tornero portrays his family, destroyed because his grandfather is a pedophile convicted of attempted kidnapping. The film, awarded at the Malaga Festival, interviews the director’s entire family and the grandfather himself, trying to unravel the roots of the clash between generations and what remains of the criminal within the family nucleus.
- From January 10 on Filmin
Elevator Game
If you want to start the year with a good dose of chills. Prime Video offers you this youth horror film based on urban legends and Tik Tok memes: a group of internet researchers follow the rules to make a ghost appear in an elevator. You just have to visit different floors in a very specific order, but something goes wrong and the rampaging ghost starts attacking them one by one.
- From January 3 on Prime
Sweet Pie
Ella Purnell has become one of the most unique actresses in current series, thanks to her participation in productions such as ‘Fallout’ or ‘Yellowjackets’. Now she returns to our screens in this peculiar mix of comedy and thriller in which a young woman begins to plan the murder of all those who have made her life impossible. And when she decides to take the final step, her life is transformed, revealing a woman very different from what she thought she was.
- Starting January 2 on SkyShowtime
The Pitt
A new and fast-paced medical series by Max that narrates in real time and fifteen episodes and as many hours of a medical shift in the emergency room of a hospital. Interventions to the limit, deaths, races, joys and camaraderie in this medical drama to the limit that comes with the seal of the producer of ER and The West Wing of the White House.
- From January 10 on Max
An update on our family
An immersion in the world of family videobloggers that reveals a reality much darker than one might expect. It is a subgenre of internet content in which parents publish non-stop on social networks, disintegrating all types of identity for their family. The three-episode documentary addresses the controversy surrounding Myka and James Stauffer, and how their case impacted other family vloggers, when this couple decided to “rehome” a Chinese child with special needs after adopting him.
- From January 16 on Max
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