This weekend, Netflix is adding a documentary series, season 2 of a comedy-drama TV series, a noir-thriller TV series by a renowned filmmaker, and a mystery thriller movie based on a novel. Last weekend, Netflix welcomed a long list of licensed content most notably Brokeback Mountain, Forrest Gump, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator, Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs, and all movies in the Rocky franchise, along with the thriller drama TV series Treason, Noah Baumbach’s comedy-drama movie White Noise, and the heist anthology TV series Kaleidoscope.
This weekend, Netflix won’t see much licensed content added to its catalog, with the arrival of the action movie 10 Minutes Gone, season 2 of Love Island, and season 11 of The Walking Dead. All eyes, then, will be on the original content joining the fun this weekend, with a documentary series about the largest Ponzi scheme in history, season 2 of a comedy-drama, a TV series created by Nicolas Winding Refn, and a mystery thriller movie starring Christian Bale. Here are the best movies and TV shows coming to Netflix this weekend - January 6.
MADOFF: The Monster of Wall Street
MADOFF: The Monster of Wall Street is a four-part documentary series exploring the truth behind Bernie Madoff’s $64 billion-dollar global Ponzi scheme, which became the largest in history and shattered the lives of countless investors who placed their trust in the revered Wall Street statesman. With the help of never-before-seen videos and interviews with employees, investigators, victims, and more, the series traces Madoff’s rise from his humble beginnings to one of the most influential power brokers on Wall Street, uncovering how the fraud was not just the product of one evil mind, as many people came to believe.
Ginny & Georgia – season 2
Ginny & Georgia is back with its second season. In this new batch of episodes, Ginny (Antonia Gentry) will have to figure out how to live knowing that her mother is a murderer. Burdened with the new understanding that her stepdad, Kenny, didn't die of natural causes, Ginny must deal with the fact that her mother, Georgia (Brianne Howey), not only killed, but she killed to protect Ginny. Georgia, on the other hand, would much prefer that the past be left in the past, mostly as she's got a wedding to plan – but what Georgia is ignoring is that the past never stays buried for long.
Copenhagen Cowboy
Copenhagen Cowboy is a noir-thriller TV series created by Nicolas Winding Refn. It follows Miu (Angela Bundalovic), who after a lifetime of servitude and on the verge of a new beginning, traverses the ominous landscape of Copenhagen’s criminal netherworld. In search of justice and enacting vengeance, Miu 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 Miu and Rakel discover they are definitely not alone.
The Pale Blue Eye
The Pale Blue Eye is a mystery thriller movie based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Louis Bayard. Set in 1830 West Point, in the early hours of a gray winter morning, a cadet is found dead, but after the body arrives at the morgue, it’s discovered that the young man’s heart has been skillfully removed. In fear of irreparable damage to the fledgling military academy, its leaders ask detective Augustus Landor (Christian Bale) for help to solve the murder. Landor enlists the help of one of the cadets, Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling), to pursue the case, but he’s an eccentric cadet with a disdain for the rigors of the military and an obvious penchant for poetry.