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What's New on Hulu in January 2022

The only show with a finale more hated than the last episode of Game of Thrones is also getting a spinoff.
What's New on Hulu in January 2022
Credit: How I Met Your Father/Hulu - Fair Use

Few shows have blown a lead quite like How I Met Your Mother. For a few years there in the mid-aughts, it looked the the most natural successor to Friends: An NYC-set, relationship-focused group hang filled with memes and moments that entered the pop culture lexicon.

Then came that last season, and the disastrous finale. If you watched it, you know what I’m talking about. If you didn’t, boy, you’re lucky. Seven years later, I’m still mad. Not even the endings of Game of Thrones or Lost soured what came before so effectively.

And yet. Like HBO striving to birth a spinoff phoenix from the ashes of the divisive final season of Thrones, TV execs are convinced there is still life after the death of joy in the last How I Met Your Mother. Two times now producers have attempted to assembled a reboot with a foregone premise: How I met your father.

The first try, in 2014, produced only a pilot, How I Met Your Dad, which starred future Oscar nominee (for writing and directing) Greta Gerwig. (Imagine a timeline in which, instead of Lady Bird and Little Women, we got a few years of a probably bad sitcom.) The results were apparently...not good.

The second premieres on Hulu on Jan. 18. This one stars Hillary Duff, who knows from starring in sit-coms. The trailer really seems to be striving to recreate the magic of the original.

We’ll see how that goes. I’d wager this one will have a better ending, at the very least.

Here’s everything else also coming to Hulu in January—including I’m Your Man (Jan. 11) and Bergman Island (Jan. 14), two of the best movies of 2021.

What’s coming to Hulu in January 2022

Arriving Dec. 31/Jan. 1

  • Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve Anniversary Special

  • Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest

  • Fox’s New Year’s Eve Live 2022, Part 1

  • Fox’s New Year’s Eve Live 2022, Part 2

  • Black Ink Crew: Complete Season 4

  • The Challenge: Complete Season 33

  • Dark Side of the 90s: Complete Season 1

  • RuPaul’s Drag Race: Complete Season 8

  • Vice Versa: Chyna: Complete Season 1

  • Vice Versa: College $ports Inc.: Complete Season 1

  • 10, 000 BC (2008)

  • (500) Days Of Summer (2009)

  • A Night at the Roxbury (1998)

  • A Soldier’s Story (1984)

  • Alfie (2004)

  • All the Right Moves (1983)

  • Amistad (1997)

  • An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)

  • Astro Boy (2009)

  • Beautiful Creatures (2013)

  • Beerfest (2006)

  • Big Top Pee-Wee (1988)

  • Black Rain (1989)

  • Black Sunday (1977)

  • Case 39 (2010)

  • Charlie’s Angels (2000)

  • The Collection (2012)

  • Commando (1985)

  • Coneheads (1993)

  • Courage Under Fire (1996)

  • Coyote Ugly (2000)

  • Crime Story (2021)

  • Date Night (2010)

  • Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)

  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010)

  • Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (2003)

  • Dolphin Tale 2 (2014)

  • The Duchess (2008)

  • Dunston Checks In (1996)

  • Escape from Alcatraz (1979)

  • Falling for Figaro (2021)

  • Fire in the Sky (1993)

  • The Foot Fist Way (2006)

  • Forces of Nature (1999)

  • Fred Claus (2007)

  • Furry Vengeance (2010)

  • G.I. Jane (1997)

  • Georgia Rule (2007)

  • Gimme Shelter (2014)

  • The Haunting (1999)

  • Head of State (2003)

  • Heartburn (1986)

  • Hidalgo (2004)

  • Hitman: Agent 47 (2015)

  • Home for the Holidays (1995)

  • Hondo (1953)

  • Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)

  • Hotel for Dogs (2009)

  • Hugo (2011)

  • The Impossible (2012)

  • The Indian in the Cupboard (1995)

  • Jacob’s Ladder (1990)

  • The King of Comedy (1983)

  • Labios Rojos (2011)

  • Last of the Mohicans (1992)

  • Lifeguard (1976)

  • Look Who’s Talking Too (1990)

  • Look Who’s Talking Now (1993)

  • The Lovely Bones (2009)

  • The Machinist (2004)

  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2004)

  • Midnight In Paris (2011)

  • Moulin Rouge (2001)

  • Mr. Holland’s Opus (1996)

  • New Year’s Eve (2011)

  • Nick of Time (1995)

  • Norm of the North (2016)

  • Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)

  • Open Range (2003)

  • Ordinary People (1980)

  • Panic Room (2002)

  • Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

  • Paycheck (2003)

  • The Perfect Storm (2000)

  • Phenomenon (1996)

  • Prophecy (1979)

  • Real Genius (1985)

  • Red Eye (2005)

  • Red Riding Hood (2011)

  • Resident Evil (2002)

  • Revolutionary Road (2008)

  • The Sandlot (1993)

  • Semi-Pro (2008)

  • Sense and Sensibility (1995)

  • Seven (1995)

  • Sex And The City (2008)

  • Sex And The City 2 (2010)

  • Sinister (2012)

  • The Soloist (2009)

  • Space Jam (1996)

  • The Squid And The Whale (2005)

  • Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

  • Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

  • Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)

  • Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

  • Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

  • Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)

  • The Stepford Wives (2004)

  • Sydney White (2007)

  • Three Days of the Condor (1975)

  • The Three Stooges (2012)

  • The Two Faces Of January (2014)

  • What a Girl Wants (2003)

  • What About Bob? (1991)

  • What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)

  • When In Rome (2010)

  • Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004)

  • Without a Paddle: Nature’s Calling (2009)

  • Wuthering Heights (2003)

Arriving Jan. 2

  • Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married (2007)

Arriving Jan. 3

  • Next Level Chef: Series Premiere

  • The Year of the Everlasting Storm (2021)

Arriving Jan. 4

  • 9-1-1: Lone Star: Season 3 Premiere

  • The Bachelor: Season 26 Premiere

  • The Cleaning Lady: Series Premiere

  • Kenan: Season 2 Premiere

Arriving Jan. 5

  • Abbot Elementary: Season 1 Returns

  • Judge Steve Harvey: Series Premiere

  • This Is Us: Season 6 Premiere

Arriving Jan. 6

  • Black-ish: Season 8 Premiere

  • I Can See Your Voice: Season 2 Premiere

Arriving Jan. 7

  • The Amazing Race: Complete Season 30

  • The Amazing Race: Complete Season 31

  • Survivor: Complete Season 37

  • Joe Millionaire: For Richer or Poorer: Series Premiere

  • Women of the Movement: Series Premiere

  • Pharma Bro (2021)

Arriving Jan. 9

  • Real Housewives of New Jersey: Complete Season 11

Arriving Jan. 10

  • The Golden Palace: Complete Series

  • Call Me Kat: Season 2 Premiere

  • Pivoting: Series Premiere

  • Ailey (2021)

  • Black Bear (2020)

Arriving Jan. 11

  • I’m Your Man (2021)

Arriving Jan. 13

  • Madagascar: A Little Wild: Complete Season 6

  • Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest: Season 2 Premiere (Sub)

  • My Best Friend’s Girl (2008)

Arriving Jan. 14

  • Sex Appeal (2022)

  • Bergman Island (2021)

Arriving Jan. 15

  • Dark Side of the Ring: Complete Season 3B

  • Bad Rap (2016)

  • Main Street (2010)

  • Marjorie Prime (2017)

  • Rewind (2019)

  • Serious Moonlight (2009)

  • Sprinter (2018)

  • Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004)

  • Zero Days (2016)

Arriving Jan. 17

  • Georgetown (2021)

Arriving Jan. 18

  • How I Met Your Father: Two-Episode Series Premiere

Arriving Jan. 19

  • Darwin’s Game: Complete Season 1 (Dub)

  • The Irregular at Magic High School: Complete Season 1 (Dub)

  • Sword Art Online Extra Edition: Complete Season 1 (Dub)

  • Your Lie in April: Complete Season 1 (Dub)

Arriving Jan. 20

  • The Estate (2020)

Arriving Jan. 21

  • Single Drunk Female: Series Premiere

Arriving Jan. 22

  • American Night (2021)

Arriving Jan. 25

  • Promised Land: Series Premiere

Arriving Jan. 26

  • Dirty Grandpa (2016)

  • Dirty Grandpa (Unrated) (2016)

Arriving Jan. 27

  • Mayday (2021)

Arriving Jan. 28

  • Grown-ish: Season 4B Premiere

Arriving Jan. 29

  • Stop and Go (2021)

Arriving Jan. 30

  • Burden of Truth: Complete Season 4

  • Small Engine Repair (2021)

Arriving Jan. 31

  • Monarch: Series Premiere

What’s leaving Hulu in January 2022

Leaving Jan. 1

  • The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011)

Leaving Jan. 3

  • Maggie’s Plan (2015)

Leaving Jan. 4

  • Barton Fink (1991)

  • The Detective (1968)

  • Don’t Bother To Knock (1952)

  • Jane Eyre (1943)

  • Laura (1944)

  • Niagara (1953)

Leaving Jan. 8

  • In a World... (2013)

Leaving Jan. 10

  • I’m Your Man (2021)

Leaving Jan. 12

  • I Wake Up Screaming (1941)

  • Night and the City (1950)

  • Panic in the Streets (1950)

  • Violent Saturday (1953)

Leaving Jan. 14

  • Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love (2019)

Leaving Jan. 21

  • The Tax Collector (2020)

Leaving Jan. 25

  • What to Expect When You’re Expecting (2012)

Leaving Jan. 31

  • A Christmas Wedding Tail (2011)

  • A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

  • Alex Cross (2012)

  • All the Right Moves (1983)

  • Alpha & Omega (2010)

  • Amistad (1997)

  • Armageddon (1998)

  • The Bank Job (2008)

  • The Beach (2000)

  • Beautiful Creatures (2013)

  • Beauty & The Briefcase (2010)

  • Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son (2011)

  • Black Swan (2009)

  • Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan (2006)

  • Boys Don’t Cry (1999)

  • Boyz N’ The Hood (1991)

  • Charlie’s Angels (2000)

  • Christmas Cupid (2010)

  • The Comedian (2017)

  • Commando (1985)

  • Coneheads (1993)

  • Days of Heaven (1978)

  • Desperately Seeking Santa (2011)

  • Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)

  • Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019)

  • Elektra (2005)

  • Elena Undone (2010)

  • Free Fall (2013)

  • French Postcards (1979)

  • Gayby (2012)

  • Ghosting: The Spirit Of Christmas (2019)

  • Gulliver’s Travels (2009)

  • Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) 

  • Holiday In Handcuffs (2007)

  • Holidaze (2013)

  • Hugo (2011)

  • Hurricane Bianca (2016)

  • Jingle All The Way (1996)

  • Just Charlie (2017)

  • King Arthur (2004)

  • Kingpin (1996)

  • Last of the Mohicans (1992)

  • Love Potion No. 9 (1992)

  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2004)

  • The Mistle-Tones (2012)

  • Mr. Holland’s Opus (1996)

  • Never Been Kissed (1999)

  • New Year’s Eve (2011)

  • No Sleep ‘til Christmas (2018)

  • Panic Room (2002)

  • Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)

  • The Perfect Storm (2000)

  • Pit Stop (2013)

  • Plaza Suite (1971)

  • Real Genius (1985)

  • Resident Evil (2002)

  • Same Time, Next Christmas (2019)

  • Santa Baby 2: Christmas Maybe (2009)

  • Santa’s Little Helper (2015)

  • Sense and Sensibility (1995)

  • Sex And The City (2008)

  • Sex And The City 2 (2010)

  • Shane (1953)

  • Six Days, Seven Nights (1998)

  • Snow (2004)

  • Snow 2: Brain Freeze (2008)

  • Sordid Lives (2000)

  • Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

  • Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

  • Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)

  • Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

  • Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

  • Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

  • Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

  • Star Trek: Generations (1994)

  • Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)

  • Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)

  • Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married? (2007)

  • Were The World Mine (2008)

  • What About Bob? (1991)