The Best Things Coming to Prime Video in January

There’s plenty to keep you warm and cozy on Amazon's Prime Video in January, starting with a second season of the over-the-top competition show Beast Games, where contestants battle for a jackpot worth an eye-popping $5 million (or possibly $10 million, depending on how things go). Meanwhile, Tom Hiddleston and Olivia Colman, 51, are back after nearly a decade for a second season of the gripping espionage thriller series The Night Manager, based on the work of the late spymaster John le Carré. Plus new series and terrific movies for winter nights on the sofa.

Coming Jan. 1

Loving (2016, PG-13)

Ruth Negga delivers a mesmerizing, Oscar-nominated performance as Mildred Loving in this fact-based drama about a Black woman in rural Virginia whose 1958 marriage to a white construction worker named Richard Loving (Joel Edgerton, 51) led to their arrest and a legal case that was finally resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark decision. Seldom has history been brought to life in such an understatedly moving, matter-of-fact way.

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (2018, PG-13)

Watching Morgan Neville’s documentary about the late Fred Rogers, which was named AARP’s Movies for Grownups best documentary in 2019, is like sitting down for a spell with a childhood friend. So take off your outdoor clothes, slip on some sneakers and a cardigan and settle in for a nostalgic look at the life of the pioneering host of PBS’s long-running children’s show that modeled how kids (and their parents, too) could meet some of the most challenging moments with soft-spoken calm.

Coming Jan. 5

Spring Fever , Season 1

Korean director Park Won-gook, who created the popular 2024 series Marry My Husband, has crafted a new rom-com series about the improbable love connection forged between a cool-as-ice high school teacher (Lee Joo-been) and a hot-headed local man (Ahn Bo-hyun) who’s constantly stirring up trouble in the community. It seems that opposites really do attract.

Coming Jan. 7

Beast Games , Season 2

After giving away a $10 million top prize in a record-smashing first season, YouTube phenomenon MrBeast (a.k.a. Jimmy Donaldson) is back with a second edition of his reality competition series. This time, he’ll pit 100 athletically inclined competitors against 100 brainiacs for a $5 million jackpot that will doubtless grow before the finale drops on February 25. (The first three episodes of this “Strong vs. Smart” contest will debut January 7, with weekly installments after that.)