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Dear viewers, Netflix does not care if you still have party confetti in your hair. New year or not, it’s already turned on the maximum potential, chucking in shows like there’s no tomorrow. And you might think that we are exaggerating, but it really is a lot.

But you have to agree, the instant satisfaction you get after seeing your homepage stuffed with new titles you didn’t know you needed is unmatched. Hence, it’s time to brace yourself for 2026 because, starting in the first month, Netflix is bringing you some amazing new series.

Let’s start with what is loud. Falling Skies is back in all its alien apocalypse glory. Not one or two but five whole seasons, so if your schedule was cute and empty, not anymore. Right next to it sits Transformers: EarthSpark, ready to barge in with confidence oozing out from just the title itself. And somewhere in the same bundle? My Korean Boyfriend. No explanation, just the title. That alone deserves your attention.

But of course, Netflix doesn’t stop there. It just keeps layering. You get Your Turn to Kill, which sounds like the start of something absolutely stressful, and then Found follows with not one but two seasons because apparently one mystery wasn’t enough. And while you are recovering from those, The Following slides in. It’s hard to resist Netflix from giving us at least one stalker series every month.

Then it shifts again. Defying Destiny waltzes in, sounding like a dramatic family saga your mom would get addicted to. Good Cop / Bad Cop drops right after, probably with at least three plot twists by the time you hit episode two. You try to breathe, and Netflix is like, ‘Here is another one.’ It is as if the algorithm knows you are too polite to say no.

It keeps building. Veronica Mars enters the room with all the nostalgia, and then we have the most looked forward to, Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials. And when Love Through a Prism arrives with that dangerously poetic title, it’s obvious Netflix came to disrupt your plans. One scroll down and suddenly it’s Can This Love Be Translated?, Southland, WWE: Unreal, The Upshaws, all of them being utterly loud.

Then comes the unpredictable bit. Shows like Bridgerton pop up just when you think the month has peaked. Some new names also start making the rounds, like Time Flies, Free Bert, and Undercover Miss Hong. The kind you don’t expect, but once they land, they take up all the space in your watchlist.

So if you thought January was for recovery or silence, Netflix would like a word. It’s not easing you into anything. You either dive in or get buried in recommendations. No mercy.

Every series coming to Netflix this January

January 1

• Detective Conan (Collection 3)
• Dr Seuss’s Red Fish, Blue Fish (Season 2)
• Falling Skies (Seasons 1–5)
• Love from 9 to 5 (Season 1)
• My Korean Boyfriend (Season 1)
• Physical: Welcome to Mongolia (Season 1 – Weekly)
• Transformers: Earthspark (Season 3)

January 2

• Found (Seasons 1–2)
• Grizzly & The Lemmings (Season 4)
• Land of Sin (Season 1)
• Your Turn to Kill (Season 1)

January 3

• The Following (Seasons 1–3)

January 5

• Defying Destiny (Season 1)

January 6

• Good Cop / Bad Cop (Season 1)

January 7

• 11.22.63 (Limited Series)
• Unlocked: A Jail Experiment (Season 2)

January 8

• HIS & HERS (Limited Series)
• Love Is Blind: Germany (Season 2)

January 9

• Alpha Males (Season 4)
• Prodigal Son (Seasons 1–2)

January 13

• The Boyfriend (Season 2)

January 14

• Taskaree: The Smuggler’s Web (Season 1)
• The Queen of Flow (Season 3)
• Veronica Mars (Seasons 1–3)

January 15

• Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials (Limited Series)
• Love Through a Prism (Season 1)
• The Upshaws (Part 7)
• To Love, To Lose (Season 1)

January 16

• Can This Love Be Translated? (Season 1)
• No Tail to Tell (Season 1)
• Southland (Seasons 1–5)

January 19

• Sandokan (Season 1)

January 20

• Just a Dash (Seasons 1–3)
• Rizzoli & Isles (Seasons 1–7)
• Star Search (Season 1)
• WWE: Unreal (Season 2)

January 22

• Finding Her Edge (Season 1)

January 29

• Bridgerton (Season 4 – Volume 1)

January 2026 (Date TBD)

• Free Bert (Season 1)
• Single’s Inferno (Season 5)
• Take That (2026)
• Undercover Miss Hong (Season 1)
• Run Away (Limited Series)
• Time Flies (Limited Series)