TV and Episodic Premieres This Week
Premiering:
The Glory – Created by Kim Eun-sook and An Gil-ho (Premieres December 30 on Netflix)
Years after surviving horrific abuse in high school, a woman (Song Hye-kyo) puts an elaborate revenge scheme in motion to make the perpetrators pay for their crimes.
Maxine (Premieres December 30 on Britbox)
Examine the investigation into school assistant Maxine Carr (Jemma Carlton) and her fiancé Ian Huntley (Scott Reid), who was imprisoned for the killings of school girls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.
Lady Voyeur (Olhar Indiscreto) — Created by Marcela Citterio; Directed by Luciana Oliveira, Fabrizia Pinto, and Leticia Veiga; Written by Marcela Citterio and Camila Raffanti (Premieres December 31 on Netflix)
A talented, voyeuristic hacker (Débora Nascimento) finds herself thrust into a dangerous investigation after her sex worker neighbor leaves for a weekend trip in this Brazilian-language show.
Sometimes When We Touch (Docuseries) — Directed by Lauren Lazin (Premieres January 3 on Paramount+)
The untold story of soft rock, whose artists dominated pop music worldwide in the ‘70s, only to crash and burn in the ‘80s, eventually experiencing one of the most unlikely comebacks in music history. The series presents all-new interviews with some of soft rock’s biggest legends, like Air Supply, Dan Hill, Kenny Loggins, Ray Parker Jr., Rupert Holmes, and Toni Tennille.
The Lying Life of Adults (Premieres January 4 on Netflix)
In 1990s Naples, brash and bold Aunt Vittoria (Valeria Golino) helps her sheltered niece (Giordana Marengo) experience a different side of the city, upsetting the teen’s strict parents. “The Lying Life of Adults” is based on the latest novel by Elena Ferrante.
Copenhagen Cowboy — Created by Sara Isabella Jønsson Vedde and Nicolas Winding Refn (Premieres January 5 on Netflix)
After a lifetime of servitude, Miu (Angela Bundalovic) traverses the ominous landscape of Copenhagen’s criminal netherworld. Searching for justice and enacting vengeance, she encounters her nemesis, Rakel (Lola Corfixen), as they embark on an odyssey through the natural and the supernatural. The past ultimately transforms and defines their future, as the two women discover they are not alone, they are many.
Woman of the Dead — Created by Barbara Stepansky, Benito Mueller, and Wolfgang Mueller (Premieres January 5 on Netflix)
A story about the lengths a passionate woman (Anna Maria Mühe) will go to for vengeance after her husband’s death, and the tug-of-war between good and evil that exists in all of us.
Returning Series:
Ginny & Georgia — Created by Sarah Lampert (Netflix, January 5)
Note: All descriptions come from press materials, unless otherwise noted.