The 5 best Paramount+ shows to binge-watch this week, January 5–9, 2026, include a brand-new crime drama, a classic Western, a gripping spy thriller, a laugh-out-loud comedy, and a perfect replacement series for fans of Tulsa King.

Stay up to date with Screen Rant’s weekly binge-watching guides for major streaming platforms like Netflix, Prime Video, and HBO Max. These five classics and new series are worth bingeing this week and sure to keep you hooked on Paramount+ all week long.

Girl Taken

Girl Taken is a brand new Paramount+ original series that will premiere this Thursday, January 8. All 6 episodes of the new crime thriller series will drop at the same time later this week, making it a must-watch series perfect for binge-watching.

Girl Taken is about twin sisters whose lives change forever after one of them is kidnapped by their teacher and finally escapes after years of being held captive. Based on the novel by Hollie Overtone, Girl Taken is the only brand-new series set to premiere on Paramount+ this week and is poised to become one of the biggest streaming hits on the platform during the early days of 2026.

Longmire

Longmire has been considered one of the most watchable and critically acclaimed contemporary Western series of the 21st century. Before Yellowstone came along in 2018, one year after Longmire concluded after six seasons and 63 episodes, you could argue that Longmire was the best neo-Western crime drama series of its kind.

Fans of Yellowstone, or any of Taylor Sheridan’s projects, will find a lot to like about Longmire and should add it to the top of their watchlist if they haven’t seen it already. The story follows Walt Longmire, a Wyoming sheriff, who enforces the law with grit and a grin despite dealing with the emotional weight of losing his wife. Originally a Netflix series, Longmire is now only streaming on Paramount+.

The Bureau

The Bureau is a French spy thriller series that inspired the recent Showtime series The Agency: Central Intelligence starring Michael Fassbender, Jeffrey Wright, and Richard Gere. If you were a fan of that dark espionage thriller series when it was released in 2024, then make sure to give The Bureau a shot on Paramount+, which ran for five seasons and 50 episodes from 2015 to 2020.

While The Agency centers on the CIA, The Bureau chronicles the “bureau des légendes”, a mythical force within the French Secret Service. The series is among the best French TV shows of the 21st century and ranks #163 on IMDB’s Top 250 TV Shows list. If you enjoy political thrillers like The Diplomat, you ought to love The Bureau.

Workaholics

Workaholics was one of the defining millennial Comedy Central shows of the 2010s, along with Broad City and Nathan For You, and still holds up to this day. The series gave rise to comedic stars such as Adam Devine, Anders Holm, Blake Anderson, and Jillian Bell.

Whether you’re diving into the series for the first time or want to relive its most hilarious moments, Workaholics is one of the best stoner comedies ever made, tapping into the same Hollywood zeitgeist that produced Seth Rogen comedies like Pineapple Express and This is the End. For a feel-good comedy that you can binge all week, thanks to its 7 seasons and 86 episodes, Workaholics is a winner.

Brotherhood

Brotherhood is a gone but not forgotten crime thriller series on Paramount+ starring Jason Isaacs and Jason Clarke. Released 20 years ago in 2006, the gangster crime series is set in an Irish neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island, involving two brothers (played by Isaacs and Clarke) on very different sides of the law.

Consisting of 3 seasons and 29 episodes, Brotherhood is a great show to binge for fans of dark crime dramas like Tulsa King and Mayor of Kingstown. Created by Blake Masters (2 Guns, Sneaky Pete), Brotherhood is one of the most criminally underrated series available to binge on Paramount+ right now and should be considered must-see TV for fans of older crime dramas like The Sopranos and The Wire.