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Every month, Netflix adds movies and TV shows to its library. Here are our picks for some of January\u2019s most promising new titles. (Note: Streaming services occasionally change schedules without giving notice. For more recommendations on what to stream, sign up for our <\/em>Watching newsletter here<\/em><\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n \u2018Bitconned\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n Now streaming<\/strong><\/p>\n The collapse of big-time cryptocurrency exchanges like FTX grab a lot of headlines, but these are far from the only crypto businesses that have misled investors into losing fortunes. The documentary \u201cBitconned\u201d tracks the rise and fall of Centra Tech, a company that promised \u2014 dubiously, in retrospect \u2014 to make crypto assets accessible via a debit card. Directed by Bryan Storkel (best-known for the quirky docs \u201cThe Pez Outlaw\u201d and \u201cThe Bad Boy of Bowling\u201d), the film is anchored by extensive interviews with the Centra Tech masterminds, as well as with some of the journalists who figured out early<\/a> that something was fishy here. The details of the story are at once amusing and alarming, involving easily persuaded celebrity spokespeople, phony apps engineered to demonstrate a nonexistent technology and a FOMO culture where the bold promise of quick cash drowns out common sense.<\/p>\n \u2018Fool Me Once\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n Now streaming<\/strong><\/p>\n The author Harlan Coben\u2019s novels are prime adaptation fodder for two simple reasons: He creates sympathetic protagonists with relatable anxieties; and he writes twisty plots that keep readers guessing. In the British miniseries \u201cFool Me Once,\u201d Michelle Keegan plays a typical Coben hero, Maya Stern, an ex-military special operations agent who is shocked one day to look at the footage from her home security camera and see her husband, Joe (Richard Armitage), whom she thought had been murdered. Her investigation into this mystery leads to Maya crossing paths with a distrustful homicide investigator (<\/strong>Adeel Akhtar) and Joe\u2019s rich and powerful mother (Joanna Lumley) \u2014 as well as some family members of her own who believe Joe\u2019s strange case may be tied to the death of Maya\u2019s sister.<\/p>\n \u2018Society of the Snow\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n Starts streaming:<\/strong> Jan. 4<\/p>\n In 1972, a plane crash in the Andes left over two dozen passengers stuck on a remote, icy mountain, with little hope of rescue and only a small amount of food to share. Famously \u2014 or infamously \u2014 the survivors resorted to cannibalism while waiting for the spring thaw. But the director J.A. Bayona (adapting a book by the journalist Pablo Vierci) doesn\u2019t make the eating of human flesh the primary point of emphasis in his film \u201cSociety of the Snow.\u201d<\/a> He\u2019s more interested in hardships like extreme cold and sudden avalanches, and in how a desperate situation strengthened the bond between these people, many of whom played together on the same rugby team. This is film about young men fighting hard to stay alive for each other\u2019s sake, in a landscape at once picturesque and cruel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u2018The Brothers Sun\u2019 Season 1<\/strong><\/p>\n Starts streaming:<\/strong> Jan. 4<\/p>\n The two brothers in the action-dramedy \u201cThe Brothers Sun\u201d couldn\u2019t be more different. One is Bruce (Sam Song Li), a cash-strapped Los Angeles college student with aspirations to be an improv comic; the other is Charles (Justin Chien), a skilled amateur chef who also happens to be a top-level assassin in a Taiwan triad. Michelle Yeoh plays the boys\u2019 mother, Eileen, who has been sheltering Bruce from the criminal life in America. But when killers from the old country start invading her suburban sanctuary, she has to get her gangster groove back to keep her family safe. Created by Brad Falchuk (a creator of \u201cGlee\u201d and \u201cAmerican Horror Story\u201d) and Byron Wu, this series combines dynamic martial arts sequences with scenes where the dysfunctional Suns relearn how to trust each other.<\/p>\n \u2018Griselda\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n Starts streaming:<\/strong> Jan. 25<\/p>\n Sofia Vergara plays the notorious drug lord Griselda Blanco in this miniseries, created by the writer-producer Ingrid Escajeda alongside some of the team behind the Netflix favorite \u201cNarcos.\u201d (Vergara, a Colombian herself, is also a producer on the project.) Blanco\u2019s story has been told before in documentaries and TV movies, most of which treat her as a larger-than-life criminal legend. \u201cGriselda\u201d aims to be more grounded, following the cocaine queenpin from her origins in Medell\u00edn to her dominance of the Miami market, while frequently jumping back and forth in time to compare the mild-mannered immigrant mother that Blanco once seemed to be with the ruthless woman who went on to outfox the mob\u2019s macho men.<\/p>\n Also arriving:<\/strong><\/p>\n Jan. 1<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cYou Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment\u201d<\/p>\n Jan. 5<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cGyeongseong Creature\u201d Season 1, Part 2<\/p>\n Jan. 10<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe Trust: A Game of Greed\u201d Season 1<\/p>\n Jan. 11<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cChampion\u201d Season 1<\/p>\n \u201cDetective Forst\u201d Season 1<\/p>\n \u201cSonic Prime\u201d Season 3<\/p>\n Jan. 12<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cLift\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLove Is Blind: Sweden\u201d Season 1<\/p>\n Jan. 19<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe Bequeathed\u201d Season 1<\/p>\n \u201cSixty Minutes\u201d<\/p>\n Jan. 22<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cNot Quite Narwhal\u201d Season 2<\/p>\n Jan. 23<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cJacqueline Novak: Get on Your Knees\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u201cLove Deadline\u201d Season 1<\/p>\n Jan. 24<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cQueer Eye\u201d Season 8<\/p>\n \u201cSix Nations: Full Contact\u201d<\/p>\n Jan. 30<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cJack Whitehall: Settle Down\u201d<\/p>\n Jan. 31<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cBaby Bandito\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n