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The 11 most outstanding series of January

2021-01-01T01:10:34.545Z


Review of some of the most recommended releases of the first month of 2021 For the start of 2021, the networks and platforms have reserved very powerful fiction premieres. This is how it will be from day one, with the return of one of Netflix's great (inherited) phenomena, which is followed by the end of one of the most praised series in recent years, passing through a collection of movies as miniseries or the new - and highly anticipated - Disney episode premiere. Of al


For the start of 2021, the networks and platforms have reserved very powerful fiction premieres.

This is how it will be from day one, with the return of one of Netflix's great (inherited) phenomena, which is followed by the end of one of the most praised series in recent years, passing through a collection of movies as miniseries or the new - and highly anticipated - Disney episode premiere.

Of all the premieres and comebacks in January (which you can check in our calendar), we recommend giving this selection a try.

Cobra Kai

The pluses and minuses between Johnny Lawrence and Daniel LaRusso are the sauce of this story that recovers the

Karate Kid

characters

(and their protagonists) years after the iconic films of the eighties.

Now, LaRusso is a successful businessman who succeeds with his car dealership, while Johnny is struggling after opening his own dojo.

Their confrontation continues years later now also through their respective students, also moved by personal issues.

A simple series that relies very well on nostalgia and that triumphed on Netflix after going largely unnoticed on YouTube, which produced the first two seasons.

When and where to see it?

The third season premieres January 1 on Netflix.

Vikings

One of the great historical productions that arose almost in parallel to

Game of Thrones

is now coming to an end with the second part of its final season.

The fate of the characters in the saga of Ragnar and his sons will be known after closing the plots that have passed dominated by revenge, power struggles and various passions while the Vikings explored our lands in that combination of history, legend and fiction that characterizes to this ambitious and very followed series.

The content of the new chapters is a great secret about which very little is still known.

When and where to see it?

The last 10 episodes will be broadcast on TNT on Saturday 2 (from 3:45 p.m., from episode 11 to 15) and Sunday 3 (from 3:45 p.m., from episode 16 to 20).

The Stand

The struggle between good and evil that presides over several of Stephen King's novels is at the center of the story he tells in

Apocalypse

, the book he published in 1994. Now, after a complicated path to becoming a series, it reaches the small screen in Miniseries form with Alexander Skarsgard and Whoopi Goldberg in its cast.

They put faces to the two sides of that battle, Randall Flagg, the Dark Man, with enormous powers, and Mother Abigail.

The fate of humanity rests on the shoulders of this woman and a group of survivors of the plague that has decimated the world's population.

Although the series arrived surrounded by great expectation, the first impressions invite to lower expectations, with a somewhat confusing narrative and a plot that is difficult to start.

When and where to see it?

Sunday 3 begins on Starzplay, with weekly episodes.

Zoey's extraordinary playlist

Its first season was discovered as much more than the light musical comedy that could be expected by its approach.

The series starring Jane Levy cleverly combines comedy and emotion as it follows the life of a woman who suddenly begins to suffer from hallucinations in the form of musical numbers in which the people around her express their true feelings.

The personal, professional and love life of the protagonist intersect with those musical moments, some of them quite remarkable.

When and where to see it?

The second season premieres on HBO Spain on January 6, Three Kings Day.

Small Ax

The Los Angeles Critics Association has chosen it as the best film of 2020. In reality,

Small Ax

is a series of five films (the first passes two hours, the rest are around the hour), as a television anthology directed by Steve McQueen with stories inspired by real events suffered by the black community of London between the sixties and eighties that serve both to show the racism that was lived at that time and to celebrate the culture of those communities.

Among the stories that are told is the Mangrove March, in which hundreds of people demonstrated against the violence exerted by the police on the black community in Notting Hill or the story of the writer Alex Wheatle, who served time for participating in the Brixton riots.

When and where to see it?

On January 7 at Movistar +.

Dickinson

This interpretation from a modern perspective of the life of writer Emily Dickinson was one of the series that Apple TV + chose for its debut and the first series of which it premiered second season.

Emily's deep personal dissatisfaction, trapped in a world that doesn't understand her and won't let her be herself, is channeled into her poems.

In the new chapters, he has to cope with the popularity and the headaches that come with it.

The exploration of feminism and gender limitations will continue in this period comedy with funny (and very well fitted) anachronistic overtones.

When and where to see it?

Friday the 8th on Apple TV +.

Servant

One of the worst series on the current television scene.

The trauma of having lost their baby has created a fracture in a couple and a shock in them that they try to cope with as best they can.

The arrival of a disturbing babysitter to the house gives a supernatural turn to their life for which they try to find answers in the second installment.

One of the most remarkable things about the series is the haunting and tense atmosphere it creates through the slow pace, darkness, silences and music.

Twisted and battered butt that maintains its essence in the second season.

When and where to see it?

Starting Friday 15, on Apple TV +.

Scarlet Witch and Vision

The advances of this series have aroused great curiosity for what will be the new Disney production with the Marvel brand behind it.

Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany are the protagonists of

WandaVision

(in Spain titled

Scarlet Witch and Vision

for rights issues), in which Wanda Maximoff and Vision are two superheroes who live an idealized daily life in the style of classic television comedies , but they begin to suspect that they are actually called to a different life.

Very good looking.

When and where to see it?

On Friday the 15th, on Disney +, with weekly episodes.

July 22

In July 2011, a far-right Norwegian supremacist killed 77 people in a shooting on the island of Utøya.

A few hours earlier, a car bomb exploded in Oslo.

The attack, the worst terrorist tragedy in its history, shocked calm Norwegian society.

With the perspective of time, Norwegian public television sought a different approach to portraying these events, focusing on the impact it had on the first people who went to the scene of the crimes.

Through these doctors, police and civilians, the social response to an inexplicable barbarism is shown.

A tough series that has received critical acclaim.

When and where to see it?

It opens on Tuesday 19 in Filmin.

The savvy

The writer Albert Espinosa, creator of

Red Bracelets

("the series that moved Spielberg") is responsible for this series that tells the story of a group of young people who escape from a psychiatric center convinced that outside they can find a place in the world that is being denied within the center.

Outside they will have to face their fears and deal, alone and relying on others, with a society that they believe is the one that is truly ill, and not them.

A story of overcoming and tender, with a self-help book tinge, in the vein of Espinosa's previous creations.

When and where to see it?

The first three episodes will premiere on January 29 on Movistar +.

Every Friday two new episodes will be added until the seven of its first season are completed.

Tell me how it happened

We do not usually include in these lists series that do not have an announced release date, but it is more than likely that the new season of

Tell me how it happened

It did not take long to see the light (the premiere of

The Hunt: Tramuntana is also approaching, with

no date but imminent return).

In this case we make an exception for the uniqueness of the new season of this public television classic.

While the adventures of the Alcántara continue to run through 1992, another historic year will have a strong presence in the new chapters and for the first time,

Cuéntame

will come to the present to enter the year of the covid-19 pandemic in parallel.

When and where to see it?

The 21st season doesn't have a release date yet, but it should be any Thursday in January (maybe the 14th?) At La 1.

Other Featured January Premieres and Comebacks

Elite brigade

Premiere.

Day 1 at AXN Now.

Honor

Premiere.

Day 5 at Filmin.

Wynonna Earp

Third season.

Day 7 in Syfy.

The one that looms

Second part of the 12th season.

Day 8 on Amazon Prime Video.

Lupine

Premiere.

Day 8 on Netflix.

Inspector Marleau

Sixth season.

Day 10 at Calle 13.

Nobel

Premiere.

Day 12 at Filmin.

The rookie

Third season.

Day 13 on TNT.

Almost Paradise

Premiere.

Day 15 at Calle 13.

Intelligence

Premiere.

Day 15 in COSMO.

Yellowstone

Premiere.

Day 18 on Paramount Network.

Cormoran Strike: Deadly White

Third season.

Day 21 on HBO Spain.

Destiny: The Winx Saga

Premiere.

Day 22 on Netflix.

Losing Alice

Premiere.

Day 22 on Apple TV +.

Star Trek: Lower Decks

Premiere.

Day 22 on Amazon Prime Video.

3 Paths

Premiere.

Day 22 on Amazon Prime Video.

Coyote

Premiere.

Day 25 in AXN.

The discovery of witches

Second season.

Day 28 in Movistar +.

The rest of the premiere and return dates, in the Fifth Season series calendar

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