Every month, streaming services add movies and TV shows to their libraries. Here are our picks for some of February’s most promising new titles. (Note: Streaming services occasionally change schedules without giving notice. For more recommendations on what to stream, sign up for our Watching newsletter here.)
New to Amazon Prime Video
‘Clean Slate’ Season 1
Starts streaming: Feb. 6
One of the last projects that Norman Lear worked on before he died in 2023 at age 101, this dramedy follows in the Lear tradition of shows that tackle controversial social issues with frank honesty and snappy humor. George Wallace plays Harry, a carwash owner in Alabama owner whose cheery outlook on life is tested when the child he knew as Desmond, who has been estranged for decades, comes back as Desiree. Laverne Cox (also a co-producer and co-writer on the series with Wallace and the co-creator Dan Ewen) plays Desiree, who comes home looking for some closure with the family and friends in her small town.
Also arriving:
Feb. 6
“Invincible” Season 3
Feb. 7
“Newtopia” Season 1
Feb. 13
“My Fault: London”
Feb. 20
“Reacher” Season 3
Feb. 27
“House of David”
New to Apple TV+
‘Berlin ER’
Starts streaming: Feb. 26
If telephiles haven’t gotten enough of a vintage “ER” fix from HBO Max’s excellent recent medical drama “The Pitt,” Apple TV+ may fill the need with its latest foreign import. The simply titled “Berlin ER” stars Haley Louise Jones as Dr. Parker, an accomplished young physician who for personal reasons decides to challenge herself by taking over the emergency department in an understaffed, underfunded hospital in one of the German capital’s roughest neighborhoods. The show offers all of the visceral, fast-paced thrills that genre fans have come expect — with lots of gory injuries and life-threatening diseases, treated in seconds under appalling conditions — while also depicting one woman’s attempt to earn the respect of her cynical staff.
Also arriving:
Feb. 5
“Love You to Death”
Feb. 14
“Goldie” Season 1
“The Gorge”
Feb. 21
“Onside: Major League Soccer”
“Surface” Season 2
New to Disney+
‘Win or Lose’
Starts streaming: Feb. 19
Pixar has produced multiple short film series for the Disney+ service, but “Win or Lose” is the first substantial Pixar TV project, with episodes that run around 20 minutes in length, combining into one larger story. Set in the days leading up to a middle school softball championship game, the show features the voices of Will Forte, Jo Firestone, Lil Rel Howery, Rhea Seehorn, Melissa Villaseñor and others, in eight episodes that present the different characters’ perspectives, offering takes on what is going through the minds of the players, the families, and even the umpire. “Win or Lose” sometimes shifts between animation styles as well.
Also arriving:
Feb. 7
“The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl”
“Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur” Season 2
Feb. 12
“Harlem Ice”
Feb. 17
“Adam Eats the 80s” Season 1
“Magic of Disney Lookout Cay at Lighthouse Point”
Feb. 23
“No Taste Like Home” Season 1
Feb. 24
“Find My Country House” Season 1
“Kim of Queens” Season 1
New to Hulu
‘In the Summers’
Starts streaming: Feb. 5
A winner of two major prizes at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, this subtly ambitious drama follows two sisters and their father across four summers, each set years apart. The Grammy-winning Puerto Rican rapper René Pérez Joglar (better known as Residente) plays the father, Vicente, who lives in a small town in New Mexico in a slowly crumbling house. He struggles with his addictions and tries maybe too hard to connect with his daughters when they visit. There’s very little plot, and yet a lot changes across the movie’s four vignettes, as the sisters (played by different actresses in different eras) grow up and grow more distant from their dad, even as they keep making an honest effort to love him for who he is and the world he inhabits.
‘SLY LIVES! a.k.a. The Burden of Black Genius’
Starts streaming: Feb. 13
To follow-up the Oscar-winning documentary “Summer of Soul,” the musician and filmmaker Ahmir Thompson, a.k.a. Questlove, focuses more closely on one of the artists in that movie. “Sly Lives!” covers the rise and fall of the innovative rock and R&B bandleader Sly Stone, who in the late 1960s and early ’70s produced one chart-topping hit after another with his group the Family Stone. The film covers what happened to Stone after his heyday, when drugs and paranoia ended friendships and rattled showbiz moguls. Combining electrifying vintage audio and video clips with insightful new interviews, Thompson considers how being a cultural leader and an inspiration affects an artist’s daily life.
‘A Thousand Blows’ Season 1
Starts streaming: Feb. 21
This period crime drama created by Steven Knight is a companion show of sorts to Knight’s popular “Peaky Blinders.” It’s also another sprawling, semi-true tale, drawn from the history of Britain’s underworld. Erin Doherty plays Mary Carr, the “queen” of the Forty Elephants, a gang of female pickpockets formed in late-19th-century London. While plotting a splashy heist, Mary gets involved with the rising and falling fortunes of two boxers: the ferocious bruiser Sugar Goodson (Stephen Graham) and the desperate Jamaican immigrant Hezekiah Moscow (Malachi Kirby). As is often the case with Knight’s productions, the genre elements are a hook to pull the audience through a story about proud underdogs, overcoming classism and racism in a cruel and unforgiving city.
Also arriving:
Feb. 3
“New York Undercover” Seasons 1-4
Feb. 4
“Wicked Game: Devil in the Desert”
Feb. 11
“Muslim Matchmaker”
“Omni Loop”
Feb. 12
“Benefits with Friends”
Feb. 18
“The Fox Hollow Murders: Playground of a Serial Killer”
Feb. 21
“Chris Distefano: It’s Just Unfortunate”
“Things Will Be Different”
Feb. 25
“Ghostlight”
Feb. 26
“Shoresy” Season 4
Feb. 27
“Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke”
New to Max
‘The White Lotus’ Season 3
Starts streaming: Feb. 16
Although each season of the writer-director Mike White’s darkly comic mystery series “The White Lotus” features a new story and a (mostly) new cast, it’s not quite accurate to call this show an anthology, because there is some narrative and thematic continuity from year to year. Set at different exotic upscale resorts around the world — each run by the same company — the show simultaneously sympathizes with and knowingly satirizes the kinds of soul-sick rich people and exhausted employees who populate these high-end vacation escapes. Season 3 takes place in Thailand, where the resorts guests will be played by Leslie Bibb, Carrie Coon, Walton Goggins, Jason Isaacs, Michelle Monaghan, Parker Posey and Natasha Rothwell, among others. Once again there will be a crime to solve, and once again the characters will be confronted with the realization that money can’t always buy peace of mind.
Also arriving:
Feb. 3
“Common Side Effects” Season 1
Feb. 6
“The Takedown: American Aryans”
Feb. 7
“We Live in Time”
Feb. 14
“Waitress: The Musical”
Feb. 16
“Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” Season 12
Feb. 17
“Watchmen: Chapter II”
Feb. 18
“We Beat the Dream Team”
Feb. 25
“Eyes on the Prize III: We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest”
New to Paramount+
‘Yellowjackets’ Season 3
Starts streaming: Feb. 14
This Emmy-nominated mystery series follows two main story lines: one set in the aftermath of a 1996 plane crash that stranded a high school girls’ soccer team in the wilderness, and one following the survivors’ lives today. After teasing some dark and shocking secrets in the castaway’s adventures in Season 1 — involving cannibalism and pagan cults — the “Yellowjackets” creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson cranked up the present-day craziness in Season 2, revealing how the characters remain warped by their teenage traumas and betrayals. Expect the story to get even more complex in Season 3, and expect the talented cast — including Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Juliette Lewis and Tawny Cypress as the adult versions of the high schoolers — to keep leaning into the show’s wilder qualities in their entertainingly outsized performances.
‘1923’ Season 2
Starts streaming: Feb. 23
The best show from the writer-producer Taylor Sheridan’s “Yellowstone” universe, the prequel “1923” is set on the same Montana ranch as the main series, but 100 years earlier, at a time when the Dutton family almost lost everything because of rising crime and widespread economic hardship. Harrison Ford plays Jacob Dutton, who alongside his wife, Cara (Helen Mirren), has been raising his brother’s children and protecting the land they will inherit. The second and final season picks up after the Season 1 cliffhanger, which saw the Duttons facing off against a ruthlessness businessman (Timothy Dalton), intent on grabbing as much property as he could while the region endures hard times. Pitched at the intersection of the western and crime genres, “1923” is about how the lawlessness of the American frontier extended well into the 20th century.
Also arriving:
Feb. 1
“Ride”
Feb. 4
“Burden of Guilt”
Feb. 6
“Death Without Mercy”
Feb. 12
“Eric Clapton Unplugged… Over 30 Years Later”
Feb. 17
“On TV: A Black History Month Special”
New to Peacock
‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’
Starts streaming: Feb. 13
Renée Zellweger returns to one of her most popular roles in the fourth Bridget Jones movie, based on Helen Fielding’s 2013 novel “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.” In her latest adventure, the heroine finds herself attracted to a teacher (Chiwetel Ejiofor) from her kids’ school and to a 29-year-old (Leo Woodall) who introduces her to a whole new world of slang and social media. Bridget is now in her 50s and is a widow with two young kids; but she is still recording her thoughts about sensual indulgences, romantic possibilities and how hard it is to come across as confident when her head is so often filled with self-doubt.
Also arriving:
Feb. 7
“Piece by Piece”
Feb. 16
“SNL50: The Anniversary Special”
Feb. 25
“Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy”
Feb. 28
“I’ll Be Right There”