Leading the line of upcoming streaming picks this month, it’s good news for fans of brown leather jackets and bad news for the Nazis

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Griselda

Sofia Vergara explodes out of her comedy comfort zone in this series about the life of Griselda Blanco, the terrifying Colombian ‘Godmother’ who ruled 1980s Miami’s drug trade with an iron fist. Made by the team behind Narcos, this six-part series promises glamour, guts, gore and gak. Mountains of it.

S1 / Netflix, 25 Jan

Hazbin Hotel

Hell is dangerously overpopulated. So ruling demon Charlie decides to free up space by rehabilitating some of her fellow denizens to the degree that they can finally ascend to Heaven. This distinctly ‘adults only’ animated series –complete with expletive-laden musical numbers –follows her struggles to turn bad souls good.

S1 / Prime Video, 19 Jan

Sexy Beast

“You’re doin’ it!” Did the world really need aprequel series to the wonderful Ray Winstone and Ben Kingsley gangster flick of 2000, exploring how the relationship between wide boys Gal Dove, Teddy Bass and Don Logan got so messy? No. Is that going to stop us from watching it? Also no.

S1 / Paramount+, 25 Jan

Mr &Mrs Smith

That forgettable (but perhaps not forgivable) 2005 Brangelina action comedy about married assassins assigned to kill each other? It’s been rebooted into aTV series. Yes, we were groaning too, but this looks genuinely good, with Donald Glover and Maya Erskine leading astar-packed cast and Glover himself in the creative hotseat.

S1 / Prime Video, 2 Feb

Orion and the Dark

Being John Malkovich screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is known for pushing the weirdness envelope, but don’t expect brain-mangling plot twists or post-modern metacommentaries in his latest film, aDreamWorks animation about aboy overcoming his fear of the Dark –which appears as an actual (and quite amiable) character.

Film / Netflix, 2 Feb

Halo

The first season of this video-game adaptation may have been abit of aslow-burn mixed bag, but early impressions of the second suggest things are ramping up somewhat in the war between humanity and the Covenant –and if that means more sci-fi spectacle and less jaw-flapping, we’re prepared to give it achance.

S2 / Paramount+, 8 Feb