Three Trailers Highlights Some of the Best that TV Has to Offer in January

By Jen Maravegias | TV | January 5, 2024 |

By Jen Maravegias | TV | January 5, 2024 |

Happy New Year, Pajiba! The year is ripe with possibilities and there are new shows and movies to look forward to. Some of them have familiar names and faces that have been missing from the lineup for many seasons.

Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans is the second season of Ryan Murphy’s FX show, Feud. This season is directed by Gus Van Sant, Max Winkler, and Jennifer Lynch and is written by Jon Robin Baitz. It tells the story of famed author Truman Capote’s relationship with the circle of elite New York socialites whom he ultimately betrayed by publishing all of their secrets. Capote did love all of that hot gossip.

The story is based on Laurence Leamer’s book Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era and it stars a banger of a cast: Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Chloë Sevigny, Calista Flockhart, Demi Moore, and Molly Ringwald as The Swans and Tom Hollander (The White Lotus) as Truman Capote. Treat Williams is also featured this season in his final role before passing last year.

Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans premieres on FX and FX on Hulu beginning January 31st.

Also beginning this month on HBO is the fourth season of True Detective, True Detective: Night Country. This season stars Jodi Foster, John Hawkes, Christopher Eccleston, Fiona Shaw, Anna Lambe (Three Pines), and former two-division boxing champion Kali Reis.

True Detective: Night Country begins streaming on MAX on January 14th.

Hulu knows a good thing when it sees it and is going to try its best to fill the hole in our hearts left by Only Murders In The Building by giving us the cozy, locked-door mystery at sea, Death and Other Details. The series stars Violett Beane (Truth Or Dare), Pardis Saremi, Lauren Patten (The Big Sick), Angela Zhou, Hugo Diego Garcia, Linda Emond (Only Murders In The Building), Rahul Kohli, and Mandy Patinkin as Rufus Cotesworth, the world’s greatest detective. Yes, please.

Death and Other Details begins streaming on Hulu on January 16th.

For this week’s lagniappe, I applaud Into Frame Productions for having this piece of nonsense on deck and ready to go as soon as Steamboat Willie’s Mickey Mouse became public domain. It looks like it has slightly higher production values than last year’s Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey and somehow less of everything than Five Nights At Freddy’s. The popularity of the FNAF movie surprised us all. Is Mickey’s Mouse Trap the sleeper horror hit of the new year? We shall see.