Here is RMD’s top 5 shows to watch this January.

Emerald City  
NBC
I’ve always had a thing for anything Oz related, so when I heard of this series I was beyond excited. Let’s just hope it doesn’t fall into the “corny” category and but rather the truly bizarre and fantastical.

Premieres: Friday, Jan. 6 at 9:00 PM
This gritty take on L. Frank Baum’s Oz books finds a 20-year-old Dorothy (Adria Arjona) and a K9 police dog swept off to a fantastical world unlike anything she’s seen before. Vincent D’Onofrio stars as the manipulative Wizard, who has banned magic and rules with an iron fist. Joely Richardson stars as Glinda the Good Witch and Florence Kasumba stars as the Wicked Witch of the East.

The Path
Hulu
I started watching this last year because of Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) and stayed for the phenomenal performance by Hugh Dancy (Hannibal). This show is the very reason why Hulu, Netflix, Amazon etc. should and does exist today. This odd but refreshing premise would have never made into the pitch stage at a regular network.

Season 2 Premieres: Wednesday, Jan 25
The Path is an American television drama series starring Aaron Paul, Michelle Monaghan, and Hugh Dancy. The show portrays members of a fictional religion known as Meyerism.

Frontier
Netflix
Jason Momoa as a part-Irish, part-Native trader/warrior–Need I really say more?

Premieres: Friday, Jan. 20
This drama set in 1700s Canada stars Jason Momoa as Declan Harp, a part-Irish, part-Native trader/warrior determined to stop the Hudson Bay Company’s monopoly on the fur trade. It’s a story about the ruthless control for wealth and power – and, lest you worry that the story, co-produced by Discovery Channel, is a historical snooze, it’s also packed with action and violence. Like, a lot. There’s all manner of plundering, throat-slitting and sexual terror as the English, Scottish, Irish and French battle for control of territory and resources (that didn’t belong to them in the first place), which makes it statement on colonialism, whitewashing and imperialism. Momoa nails his role as the heroic, god-like lead but also great? Landon Liboiron, who plays an Irish boy Michael Smyth whose crime of sneaking onto a ship is forgiven when he becomes tasked with gaining Harp’s trust and taking him down.

A Series of Unfortunate Events
Netflix
Neil Patrick Harris returns to television as the scheming Count Olaf. I think I’m one of three that actually enjoyed the film adaption with Jim Carrey, but the fans that weren’t so pleased can rest easy knowing that the producers have promised a more true adaptation.

Premieres: Friday, Jan. 13
The whimsical novel makes its very whimsical television debut in this beautifully bleak adaptation about a trio of orphans who are placed in the care of their scheming relative Count Olaf (a heavily made-up Neil Patrick Harris), who plans to steal their inheritance. Netflix will air 26 episodes in total, with each of the 13 books in the series adapted into two episodes. The first season will consist of eight episodes and cover the first four books. Patrick Warburton, Aasif Mandvi, Joan Cusack and Catherine O’Hare also star.

Taboo
FX
The producers behind Peaky Blinders team-up with the Tom Hardy–I think that says it all. Watch it.

Premieres: Tuesday, Jan. 10 at 10:00 PM
FX’s latest ambitious drama was created by Peaky Blinders‘ Steven Knight with Tom Hardy and his father, Chips Hardy. Set in 1814, the event series stars Hardy and occasionally his shirtless torso as a man believed to be dead who returns home to lay claim to his father’s shipping empire. However, upon his return he finds a twisted mystery that promises conspiracy and murder – and maybe his own death if he’s not careful. The series also stars a lot of people who will probably look familiar to you: Jonathan Pryce, Oona Chaplin, Stephen Graham, Michael Kelly, Jessie Buckley, David Hayman and Tom Hollander, among others.