17 Netflix Original Shows Coming in January That Have Us All Kinds of Excited

You may be looking forward to the New Year's ball dropping, but once you see Netflix's new original show offerings for January, we have a feeling you'll be more excited about these series dropping instead. Besides Netflix original fan favorites like Grace and Frankie, Friends From College, and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt returning for new seasons, there's also plenty of brand new series to get excited about (including a four-part Ted Bundy docuseries that might become your next true crime obsession). Check out the gallery ahead for all the sitcoms, dramas, and reality shows you're not going to want to miss this January.

01
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 3
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A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 3

In this series' third and final season, the three Baudelaire orphans attempt to finally figure out their family's long-held secrets — all while fleeing the evil Count Olaf (who's played by Neil Patrick Harris).

When it's available: Jan. 1

02
Comedians of the World, Season 1
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Comedians of the World, Season 1

In the first series of its kind, Comedians of the World will feature 47 up-and-coming comedians from 13 different regions and with eight different native languages as they deliver their own unique perspectives on humorous situations around the world.

When it's available: Jan. 1

03
Tidying Up With Marie Kondo, Season 1
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Tidying Up With Marie Kondo, Season 1

Marie Kondo, author of Spark Joy and The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, hosts this series as she pays visits to disorganized participants and helps them take the clutter out of their lives, one home makeover at a time.

When it's available: Jan. 1

04
Call My Agent!, Season 3
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Call My Agent!, Season 3

In the latest season of this French comedy, rising tension at the Paris talent firm, A.S.K., prompts two of the talent agents to band together to save their jobs — and their sanity.

When it's available: Jan. 4

05
When Heroes Fly, Season 1
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When Heroes Fly, Season 1

This new Hebrew-language drama follows four friends — veterans of an Israeli Special Forces unit — as they reunite 11 years after falling out and travel together to Colombia for a final (and very personal) rescue mission.

When it's available: Jan. 10

06
Friends From College, Season 2
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Friends From College, Season 2

In its second season, these former Harvard classmates (which include How I Met Your Mother's Cobie Smulders and Key & Peele's Keegan-Michael Key) struggle to put the bad blood behind them as Max's wedding day approaches.

When it's available: Jan. 11

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Sex Education, Season 1
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Sex Education, Season 1

In a hilariously awkward new series starring Gillian Anderson and Asa Butterfield, an inexperienced high school student, who ironically has plenty of sexual knowledge thanks to his sex therapist mother, decides to team up with a bad girl and open an underground sex therapy clinic at school.

When it's available: Jan. 11

08
Grace and Frankie, Season 5
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Grace and Frankie, Season 5

In the latest season of this Emmy Award-winning comedy, Grace (played by Jane Fonda) and Frankie (played by Lily Tomlin) fight to get their old lives back after the end of the last season, when their scheming children sold the duo's beloved beach house and got them to agree to life in an assisted living home.

When it's available: Jan. 18

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The World's Most Extraordinary Homes, Season 2, Part B
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The World's Most Extraordinary Homes, Season 2, Part B

In the next installment of this British docuseries, award-winning architect Piers Taylor and actress Caroline Quentin explore extraordinary architectural feats throughout Spain, India, Norway, and Israel.

When it's available: Jan. 18

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Trigger Warning With Killer Mike, Season 1
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Trigger Warning With Killer Mike, Season 1

This new six-part comedy docuseries, rapper and activist Killer Mike — who is one half of the rap duo Run the Jewels — will team up funny correspondents in order to examine cultural taboos and challenge social expectation.

When it's available: Jan. 18

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Justice, Season 1
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Justice, Season 1

This new legal drama tells the story of Farah, a woman who returns home to Abu Dhabi to become a defense attorney, much to the disappointment of her family, who expected Farah to join her father at his law firm.

When it's available: Jan. 21

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Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, Season 1
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Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, Season 1

Thirty years after Ted Bundy's execution in Florida, this four-part docuseries will feature never-before-heard audio interviews with the infamous serial killer (who committed more than 30 violent sex crimes against women before being caught in 1978) during his time on death row.

When it's available: Jan. 24

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Black Earth Rising, Season 1
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Black Earth Rising, Season 1

Starring Chewing Gum's Michaela Coel, this thriller follows the journey of a woman who — after being rescued from the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide as a girl and raised in London — decides she wants to know the truth about her dark past.

When it's available: Jan. 25

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Club of Crows, Season 4
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Club of Crows, Season 4

In the fourth installment of this Mexican comedy-drama — which was the first Spanish-language original series on Netflix — half-siblings Chava and Isabel try to find peace as they contend with the future of the Ravens New Toledo, the treasured football squad left in their care after the death of their father.

When it's available: Jan. 25


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Kingdom, Season 1
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Kingdom, Season 1

Set in Korea's medieval Joseon period, this South Korean drama follows a crown prince who is forced out to investigate a mysterious plague that's spreading across his country, making the infected immune to death and hungry for the taste of flesh.

When it's available: Jan. 25

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Medici: Masters of Florence, Season 2
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Medici: Masters of Florence, Season 2

Starring Dustin Hoffman and Richard Madden, the second season of this historical drama will continue the story of the House of Medici, which was an Italian banking family and political dynasty in 15th-century Florence that began to gather prominence under banking heir Cosimo Medici.

When it's available: Jan. 24

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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Season 4, Part 2
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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Season 4, Part 2

In this zany show's final installment, former mole woman Kimmy (played by Ellie Kemper) must choose between helping her friends — an outrageous out-of-work actor, an eccentric landlord, and a delusional divorcée — or putting her own needs first for once.

When it's available: Jan. 25