With a new year amount new hopes , raw fear , and raw resolutions . While we all want to lose a little weight or be more combat-ready , my main resolution for 2025 is simple : watch more shows . luckily for all of us , Netflix is more than uncoerced to serve us reach that goal .

January 2025 has a passel of unexampled shows to banquet on , with the most prominent being the second time of year of the reach activity seriesThe Recruitwith Noah Centineo andThe Night Agent . But there are also three underrated shows on Netflix that merit your time and tending .

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Harlan Coben’s Missing You (January 1)

Do n’t underestimate Harlan Coben . The bestselling slaying mystery story novelist has become his own enfranchisement on Netflix , with his last show , put one across Me Once , becoming a monster hit for the pennon . That one was liberate in early January , so Netflix is hoping lightning smasher doubly with the New Year ’s Day release ofMissing You , a newfangled limited series based on the 2014 novel of the same name .

Detective Kat Donovan ’s fiancée Josh went missing 11 yr ago . She ’s over it , at least she thought she was , until one Nox while surfing a dating app , she sees his exposure on a visibility . Is Josh active ? And if so , why did he go missing all those years ago ? Kat ’s ensuing investigations production answers she may not empathize or even require . But she has to know the nature of Josh ’s fade , and why she play a role in it .

Sounds challenging , ripe ? Coben is a master of this sort of affair , and Netflix seems to have found a groove in churning out these adaption . Like the others , the novel ’s American mise en scene has been changed to an English one , so those desire a goodBritish crime mysterywon’t be disappointed withMissing You . If you ’re still craving more of Coben ’s work , retard out the excellent 2006 Gallic - speech communication adaptation ofTell No One .

American Primeval (January 9)

America , 1857 . The vernal nation is still in its embryonal stage , but it ’s already close to crack up . A civil warfare is coming , and on the frontier , blood is being spill daily as settlers battle over demesne , faith , and award . This is the setting forAmerican Primeval , Netflix ’s fresh Western show fromFriday Night Lightscreator Peter Berg .

Glow‘s Betty Gilpin stars as Sara Rowell , a widow who is trying to protect her new son from the danger of the humans around them . They team up up with Isaac ( Taylor Kitsch ) , an emotionally wounded military man with a past he ’d wish to forget , and Two Moons ( Shawnee Pourier ) , a Native American teenager who has fled her settlement and is looking for a new home . Together , they organise a found syndicate as they search the American West and evade all the danger that come with it .

Castlevania season 2 (January 16)

When it premiered in September 2023,Castlevania : Nocturnewas welcomed with open arms by lover of the original Castlevania show . The continuation serial contained all the ranking brio and phonation - over acting that the original had , and advanced the plot line of the Belmont family and its never - cease warfare on vampires . Now , Castlevania : Nocturneis back , and it ’s poised to be the good season yet .

France , 1972 . At the elevation of the French Revolution , the Vampire Messiah is at full index , and Richter Belmont needs all the assist he can get . Fortunately for him , he ’s teamed with Dracula ’s Word , the half - human , half - vampire Alucard , to stop Erzsebet Báthory ’s reign of terror before her bloodlust drown France and its warring citizens in a river of blood .