What to watch next week? New seasons of TV series January 5—11

January 5, Monday — "Golden Kamuy"

Season 5 / Action, adventure, anime / Tokyo MX

Saichi Sugimoto, a veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, searches for the gold that the Ainu people have hidden and encoded in the tattoos of prisoners. He teams up with the Ainu woman Asirpa on his quest, and the hunt for the map turns into a race for survival among soldiers, criminals, and hunters, each with a different goal.

In the fifth season, viewers will see the final part of the story: the hunt for the tattoos comes to a conclusion, and all the key players — Tsurumi's men, Hijikata's group, and Sugimoto's line with Asirpa — are no longer looking for clues, but are converging on direct confrontations for the decipherment itself and the right to get to the gold first.

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January 5, Monday — "My Hero Academia: Vigilantes"

Season 2 / Anime / Tokyo MX

In a world where superpowers are the norm, only those who are licensed become legitimate heroes. Koichi Haimawari is too "normal" to get on the registry, but does little good deeds anyway, until he gets pulled into an underground job with an illegal hero nicknamed Knuckleduster.

In the second season, Koichi delves deeper into the gray area of being a hero: the hunt for Trigger distributors turns into an investigation where a network that knows how to buy and intimidate hides behind street fights. The team acts without the right to make a mistake: if they stumble, they will be not the rescuers, but the criminals.

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January 5, Monday — "Sergius vs. Evil"

Season 4 / Comedy, fantasy, detective / KION

Sergius is a former priest who hunts the undead, while investigator Ekaterina initially treats all things supernatural things as a convenient fairy tale for the impressionable. Their tandem holds on the contrast: he is used to solving questions by force and experience, she uses logic and protocol.

In the fourth season, Sergius and Katya enter the territory of cases where the supernatural is specifically disguised as domestic crime: disappearances, strange deaths, "accidental" fires, and curses hidden under human dirt. Plus the line of church rules and Sergius' old debts is reinforced: his past again becomes not a background, but the reason why some cases can not be "formalized by law" and why they begin to be looked after by those who are not allied to them.

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January 6, Tuesday — "The Rookie"

Season 8 / Comedy, drama, crime / ABC

John Nolan joins the police force late — after a divorce and lifestyle change — and has to prove that age doesn't make him weaker on the streets of Los Angeles. The series hinges on the police routine, the dynamics within the precinct, and how the characters mature in a profession where mistakes cost too much.

Season eight kicks off with a case tied to the Czech trail: in the premiere episode, the team encounters a homicide that pulls an international thread and forces the department to work at the intersection of the LAPD and larger agencies. Cases cling to each other, and the heroes have to simultaneously close localized crimes and clean up the fallout from past decisions at the precinct.

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January 6 — "Will Trent"

Season 4 / Crime, drama / ABC

Special Agent Will Trent grew up in the orphanage system and has learned to see details that others miss — especially where the crime seems "obvious". His work is built on attention to detail and a stubbornness that helps bring the investigation to a conclusion.

In the fourth season, Trent takes on a string of cases where the key isn't a brilliant hunch, but rather that he bumps again and again into evidence that others consider noise and coincidence. Each investigation in one way or another hits his boundaries, his habit of controlling everything, and his relationships with loved ones — and because of this, he's often forced to choose between "right by the handbook" and "right by his conscience".

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January 7, Wednesday — "Wild Cards"

Season 3 / Comedy, crime, drama / CBC

Demoted cop Cole Ellis is forced to work with con artist Max because she can think like a criminal and picks up on things that the "right" investigators miss. Their partnership is a deal where everyone gets a chance: for him — to get his badge back, for her — to stay out of jail.

In season three, Ellis returns to Max, and their bond becomes an official working arrangement again — but now with an emphasis on trust: Max increasingly works with full-blown operational logic rather than con tricks, and Ellis learns not to keep her on a short leash.

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January 8, Thursday — "Chained Soldier"

Season 2 / Anime / AT-X

A gateway to another dimension opens in the world, where monsters dwell and a "peach" grows that gives superpowers — but only to women. To protect them from potential dangers, an elite squad of women is created, and the protagonist finds himself alongside them in a situation where power and authority are arranged quite differently from what he is used to.

In the second season, the story expands the scope of the conflict: it's no longer just about raids on monsters, but about who controls the "peach", how power is organized within the squad, and what happens when people's interests begin to conflict with the task of protecting the world.

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January 8 — "The Pitt"

Season 2 / Drama, medical / Max

The everyday life of medics in Pittsburgh — it's shifts at the limit, difficult patients, and a constant struggle with the system: bureaucracy, lack of resources, pressure from management, and personal burnout. Here, heroism looks not like a feat, but the ability to get back on shift.

Season two will show the events of the Fourth of July: the hospital goes through shifts against the backdrop of the holiday, when the flow of patients changes in structure — more injuries, accidents, and incidents at public events, all layered on top of the chronic lack of resources and staffing decisions made earlier.

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January 8 — "The Hunting Party"

Season 2 / Crime, drama, thriller / NBC

A team of investigators tracks down particularly dangerous serial killers, who escaped from a top-secret prison, the existence of which no one was supposed to know. Each case here is not just a simple capture, but an attempt to understand who and why created this system and then lost control of it.

In the second season, the hunt becomes personalized: new episodes go by name, like a case, where behind each name is a separate scheme and a separate nightmare. The deeper the team delves into the search, the clearer it becomes that the problem is not only the fugitives, but also the people who kept them in the shadows and could have helped them disappear.

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January 9, Friday — "A Thousand Blows"

Season 2 / Drama, historical / Disney+

London's East End of the 1880s is a place where the question of survival is often decided not by judgment, but by power and connections. Hezekiah Moscow and Alec Munroe from Jamaica find themselves in a world of underground fist fights, criminal dealings, and people who know how to turn other people's talent into profit.

In season two, the stakes shift from "getting in the game" to "staying alive in the game": Hezekiah becomes a valuable asset, and thus a target for those accustomed to owning rather than negotiating. An old feud with Treacle Goodson escalates, and Mary Carr's influence pulls the hero into schemes where fists decide less than debts and promises.

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January 11, Sunday — "Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku"

Season 2 / Action, adventure, anime, drama, fantasy / Crunchyroll

Sentenced to death, ninja Gabimaru gets a chance at freedom: to do so he must travel to a mysterious island for the elixir of eternal life. Instead of a treasure, the expedition finds a place where nature itself hunts people, and miracles look like a trap.

In the second season, the survivors stop exploring the island blindly: the story goes deeper into the structure of the local hierarchy and the way power is organized here, which makes expeditions turn into a meat grinder. For Gabimaru, it's a continuation of the line of choice — stay a killing machine or hold on to the goal of returning — and now the choice becomes practical: who to trust, who to save, and what to do when the rules of the island prove more important than power.

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January 11 — "Primal"

Season 3 / Action, adventure, thriller / Adult Swim

In a prehistoric world, a Man loses his family and teams up with a Tyrannosaurus who has experienced a similar tragedy. Their story is about survival without words, where trust is built on gestures, wounds, and a shared rage against a world that is constantly trying to kill them.

In season three, the duo once again face the fact that danger doesn't just come with teeth and claws: there are new territories and new enemies who hunt smarter and more desperate. The journey turns into a chain of trials, where each episode is a separate battle for the right to live another day.

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