Netflix: films, series, animes not to be missed in January 2022

Here we are at the gates of 2022! And as always at the end of the month, we have put together a small selection of programs that appear on the SVOD platform. Netflix hasn’t announced all of its plans for the next twelve months, but here are a handful of films and series that should surely please subscribers to the platform, and that bode well for this year which promises to be busy!

The Journalist – Season 1

Netflix: films, series, animes not to be missed in January 2022

Like almost every month, Netflix shows Korean and Japanese productions and beyond Squid game, My name or Hellbound, it’s your turn The journalist to pop the screen on the SVOD platform. Behind this new series work from the Netflix catalog is actually hiding the adaptation of a book by Isoko Mochizuki published in 2017, which already had the right to publish in 2019 in the form of a feature film by Michihito Fujii, which we can find here behind the camera. Already crowned with success during the award of the Japan Academy Prize, the Netflix series wants to follow in the footsteps of the previous adaptation with this volley of ten episodes of around fifty minutes. Inspired by writer Isoko Mochizuki’s own story, the series The journalist immerses us in the daily life of Erika Yoshioka, a young journalist who, after receiving an anonymous letter, is responsible for new facts about the cover-up by the Japanese government. Already marked by her father’s recent suicide, suspected of forging information, Yoshioka faces other strange disappearances during her research, such as that of Mr. Kanzaki, but this one will eventually team up with an official from the Cabinet Intelligence and Research Bureau Takumi Sugihara to shed light on the vast scandal that is threatening to turn the country and their respective careers upside down.

Available January 13th
Watch The Journalist – Season 1 on Netflix

After Life – Season 3

The catalog of the American streaming giant is not only filled with sitcoms, such as The office

, His field and friends to name a few, or light and weird programs. First broadcast on Netflix in 2019, the series After the live is one of the last productions of the versatile artist Ricky Gervais, who is known for his sharp, dark and winking humor, his stand-up shows or his work on the series The office, already quoted. Despite its short format, both in terms of the episodes (6) and the duration (between 25 and 31 minutes), the series shines with its many writing qualities (red thread of the story, themes, characters, etc.) and its theme, simply but terribly well used. We follow Tony, a man who works for a local newspaper, the Tambury Gazette, as he tries to recover from his wife’s sudden disappearance of cancer. Plunged in the middle of a grief from which he is trying hard to recover, Tony will go through all imaginable conditions and sensations and will not stop attacking this so cruel life.. Between a gallery of adorable characters, situations that are as improbable as they are funny, and an adorable dog who allows Tony to keep his head above water, After the live returns for a final season of six episodes that will make us laugh and cry, in addition to the reveal of the events that will follow the cliffhanger of season two.

Available January 14th
Watch After Life – Season 3 onwards Netflix

DOTA: Dragon’s Blood – Book 2

After Riot Games and the masterpiece by Fortiche Productions, Arcane, is another video game company’s turn to land on the streaming platform. As a matter of fact, Valve and its DotA 2 license (Defense of the ancients, a mod originally developed by fans for the game Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos) Returns for the second season of the anime Dragon blood, less than a year after the first series of episodes was released! Despite a rather rich tradition, Dragon blood Don’t ask yourself to have an inexhaustible knowledge of MOBA: in fact, the game is known more for its competitive aspect than for its history. Blessed bread for Studio Mir, to whom we owe the series The legend of Korra or more recently The Witcher: Wolf’s Nightmare, since they had a kind of free hand to think of their own story. The first season, from which you can see an excerpt at the beginning of the article, lingered on the adventures of the dragon knight Davion and the various protagonists who will cross his path. Relatively classic, even too much in the construction of its plot and its universe, the first season set the tone with clearly defined topics, a good dose of humor and particularly rhythmic and successful arguments that captivated us.. We can bet that quality will always be the meeting point ” Free of charge II “And that the topics that remain unanswered at the end of the first eight episodes benefit from new twists!

Available January 18th
See DOTA: Dragon’s Blood – Book II over. on Netflix

The Munich truck

In the category of cinematographic adaptations of literary works we find the next film by Christian Schwochow on behalf of Netflix again this month, namely The Munich truck. The original work published in 2017, Munich, is signed by Robert Harris and takes the form of a thriller set in the Munich Agreement in the late 1930s. In the autumn of 1938, under the impetus of Adolf Hitler, world history was about to change again: He was preparing the declaration of war on Czechoslovakia and was on his way to Munich. At the same time, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and his government are flying to the German city to find a solution and thus avoid the tragedy that is brewing in the shadows. During this critical time, Paul von Hartmann, German diplomat and member of the resistance against National Socialism, and Hugh Legat, Chamberlain’s private secretary, met again. Made friends while studying at Oxford, they haven’t heard from each other since the early 1930s, but that final conference in Munich could have a big impact on their bond.. In the cast we find, among other things, two famous faces like that of George MacKay (1917 by Sam Mendes) and Jeremy Irons (Assassin’s Creed, Justice League, Guardian, …).

Available January 21st
Check out The Munich Vise Netflix

Ozark – Season 4

Since the start of the first season Ozark was quickly compared to the huge series breaking Bad by Vince Gilligan. A very flattering parallel, even if the Netflix series does not come close to the success of the series, which has shown emblematic personalities such as Walter White, Jesse Pinkman, Gustavo Fring, Saul Goodman or Mike Ehrmantraut, to name just a few. Even so, we do find real family resemblance between the two series, for if they are far from being copies they have great similarities. : a very special atmosphere, fueled by very distinctive photography and color metrics, characters that do not necessarily appear very often, stories about money laundering, mafias who take care of their business and in the middle of it a family, everything that is more mundane. At least because the family man Martin Byrde was in the middle of a cartel case that went wrong and he wants to correct his mistake in order to protect his family. Accompanied by his wife and two children, he travels to the Lake of the Ozarks region to organize a financial package that is as discreet as it is fruitful.. Other than that for three seasons, as you guessed it, the Byrdes has had many twists and turns, and this fourth and final season of 14 episodes broken into two parts shouldn’t be an exception to the rule.

Available January 21st
Check out Ozark – Season 4 Netflix

The woman who lived in front of the girl by the window

The name of this new Netflix series is a bit barbaric, we admit that, but should inspire fans of formats with second degrees. When looking at the title, many will have recognized the reference to Alfred Hitchcock’s film. Window to the courtyard, but it’s also a snub to one of the American giant’s final productions, viz The woman at the window by Joe Wright, with Amy Adams in the title role, as it’s in some ways a parody of it. We follow the daily routine of Anna, a depressed and inconsolable young woman, played by Kristen Bell (Veronika Mars, The good place) who spends his time watching life from his window in the company of his favorite glass of wine. However, this monotonous life quickly takes a much stranger turn when she witnesses a gruesome murder while spying on her new neighbor and daughter.. But was she really right? If she quickly alerts the authorities, her explosive cocktail of wine and pills won’t help her be heard. Under its aspects of satirical and dark comedy, The woman who lived in front of the girl by the window, a series by Rachel Ramras, Hugh Davidson and Larry Dorf – all three were used to working together – offers a clever mix of genres to offer eight episodes that effectively combine psychological thriller and second-degree comedy.