Streaming What's New: January 2020 (VIDEO SCRIPT)

It’s January 2020. Let’s start streaming what’s new.

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Readers, as of right now there are 4 streaming platforms trying to get your attention with mainstream shows and movies, along with original content that are exclusive to them. So here are the ones for each of them I think are worth your time.

Let’s start off with Netflix, with what I’m pretty sure is the most talked exclusive that’s premiering in January; the second half of the final season of Bojack Horseman

/I’ve only seen the first three seasons of the show so far, and while I’m sure my own opinions about Bojack as a character differ from the audience the show targets, I’d be lying if I said that this show didn’t do a good job at shining a light on topics like depression./

If you ARE like me and are kinda turned off by Bojack the character, I’d definitely recommend it for the rest of the cast alone. They help make the show as great as it is, and I hope the finale sends them off in a satisfying way

Part 3 of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina will also be premiering in January, for those of you like me who’ve seen the first two and are absolutely STOKED to watch the third.

But for those of you who haven’t seen it and are going in to it for the first time, let me be the one to warn you that this is in NO WAY similar to the Melissa Joan Hart one you grew up with.

/If you’re uncomfortable with horrific images and Satanism, you’d probably wanna avoid this./

Grace and Frankie season 6 premieres this month, and I absolutely LOVE this show.

The main premise in case you’ve never seen it before, surrounds the antics of two women after their husbands left them for each other.

/If you’re a fan of James L. Brooks style comedy antics like I am and have a Netflix account, I definitely recommend you give it a watch/

And if you’re a fan of Adult Swim’s Children’s Hospital, then first off congratulations; you clearly have a stronger tolerance for Adult Swim’s live-action shit than I do.

And secondly, it has a spin-off in the Netflix Original Series Medical Police.

/Doctors Owen Maestro and Lola Spratt are back, but are no longer working for Children’s Hospital, but instead for the Center of Disease Control and Prevention in order to stop the spread of a deadly virus./

I wanna take a wild guess and say that if you enjoyed Children’s Hospital, you’re probably gonna like this? I don’t know; this one’s kinda up in the air with me

There’ll also be tons of NON-Exclusive movies available on Netflix over the course of January. The ones I recommend being the first two live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies, Lord of the Rings The Two Towers and The Return of the King, Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2, Inception, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and Pan’s Labyrinth

Now on to Hulu, where two original series will be premiering in January

The first season of the family show Endlings will be airing on Hulu.

/It’s about four foster kids who come across an alien whos trying to rescue endangered species all across the galaxy, who looks to be on the run from an intergalactic organization of some sort./

Bits of it definitely reminds me of Animorphs -- both the books and the show -- from watching the trailer but more aimed at children, but it looks like a fun kid-friendly show regardless.

All the episodes are gonna be available on January 17th, so if you know if your kid or your kid-at-heart would dig this, then give it a shot.

The second season of Shrill starts airing January 24.

/It’s about this woman named Annie, who’s trying to get a sense of ownership in her life./

And as someone who’s never seen this show before and only the trailer for season 2, it looks like Insecure, but for big white women? Which if that’s the tone you were going for, then you hit every beat, I assure you.

But it does look like a pretty fun comedy series aimed for adults in their late 20’s and older. Might be worth a watch if you have nothing else to do or if you’ve never seen it before.

There are also NON-Exclusive movies that’ll be making their way to Hulu this month, including the space horror schlock Dracula 3000 and a BUNCH of OG Star Trek Movies.

I’m talking The Motion Picture, Wrath of Khan, Search For Spock, The Final Frontier, The Undiscovered Country, and The Next Generation movie Insurrection.

Others I recommend you catch are Conan the Barbarian, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, the four Lethal Weapon movies, No Country for Old Men, Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs, Jackie Brown, Forrest Gump, Peter Jackson’s King Kong, and A Vampire In Brooklyn

A lot of stand-up specials are exclusively premiering on Amazon Prime this month. Jayde Adams has one, Russell Peters has one, and even Rob Delaney has one. 

/But the one I’m personally looking forward to is Ilana Glazer of Broad City fame and her special, “The Planet is Burning” which is out now./

Troop Zero is a Prime original movie starring Viola Davis and McKenna Grace.

/It tells the story of a girl named Christmas Flint who puts together a Girl Scout troop of other weird and eccentric girls like her in order to participate in a talent show to win a trip to NASA./

I know, I know, but this takes place in 1977; Nickelodeon wasn’t around to send kids to Space Camp, yet.

Honestly, just from watching this trailer, this looks like a pretty heart-felt and endearing coming of age movie. I also like the message that the trailer says that the movie has, so I’ll probably be catching this when it’s released January 17th

Amazon Prime will ALSO have all of the same Star Trek movies available as Hulu for this month, so take that into whatever consideration you have.

They’ll even be streaming Dracula 3000 and Conan the Barbarian, also like Hulu.

But they’ll also be streaming the American movie remake the 1985 BBC series Edge of Darkness starring Mel Gibson, Guy Ritchie’s first Sherlock Holmes movie, as well as The Goonies and Midsommar

Disney Plus is a bit tricky.

There aren’t any premieres for their original content happening in January, but at least 6 of their original series are getting new episodes over the course of the month.

Those include The World According to Jeff Goldblum, Marvel’s Hero Project, One Day at Disney, Encore, Forky asks a Question, and High School Musical: The Musical: The Series

But what’s most important are the Disney properties that will be hitting the service in January. Including Guy Ritchie’s Aladdin, Holes, the complete series of The Proud Family, and the complete series of Austin & Ally, just to name a few.

But Readers, I know that what I just listed over the course of everything coming out on all four of these platforms are exactly that: a FEW

So your homework assignment for the day is to write in the comment section below any exclusives or original series that are premiering in January for Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime or Disney Plus that I may have missed

Or, if you feel like sharing with the rest of the class, which ones out of what I mentioned you’re mostly hype about.

Either way, I’d love to know your thoughts.