New in streaming, February 2024: ITVX, Netflix, Prime Video, Disney Plus, Apple TV Plus, NOW
From Mrs & Mrs Smith with Donald Glover and Maya Erskine to The New Look starring Ben Mendelsohn and Juliette Binoche, here are the best shows streaming in February
Prime Video UK release date: 2 February
Remember the Mr & Mrs Smith movie, starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as assassins who worked for competing agencies? No surprise if you don’t – it was nearly 20 years ago and there were no sequels to speak of. But clearly, Amazon see promise in the concept: given their new series remake with Donald Glover and Maya Erskine. Glover also writes and creates the series with his Atlanta scribe Francesca Sloane.
Although the project is promising, it’s hard to ignore the exit of Phoebe Waller-Bridge. She was initially attached to co-create and star alongside Glover, but left due to creative differences (‘some marriages don’t work out'). Regardless, Glover is a unique televisual talent, so we should have faith. Differently from the 2005 film, the series follows two spies assigned to marry for an undercover operation. But as they complete their missions, they also develop real feelings for each other.
One Day, Netflix
Netflix UK release date: 8 February
It’s never wise to underestimate TV romances and the impact they can engender for the cultural landscape. Normal People achieved that in 2020, adapting Sally Rooney’s much-loved novel into 12 half-hour pieces – showing the couple’s progression and regression over several years. It was a new and seminal structure for the genre and the medium. Now, its influence clearly spills into the new Netflix version of the David Nicholls novel One Day, divided into 14 parts to follow the long evolution of a relationship over two decades.
Emerging
from breakthrough roles in The White Lotus and This Is Going to Hurt,
Leo Woodall and Ambika Mod star as fateful lovers Dexter and Emma. They meet
for the first time on the night of their graduation in 1988, and the series
returns to them on the same day every year – observing how they return together
and come apart. One Day is created by Wild Rose writer Nicole Taylor.
The New Look, AppleTV+
AppleTV+ UK release date: 14 February
Christian Dior changed fashion in 1947 with his ‘New Look’, a collection that celebrated ‘ultra-femininity’ – in direct rebellion against the styles of the 20s and 30s. As a result, he’s one of the most important creative figures of the 20th century.
No surprise, then, that Apple TV+ commissioned a 10-part series about the fashion designer’s life – penned by The Sopranos writer Todd A Kessler. Specifically, The New Look covers his rivalry with Coco Chanel (played by Juliette Binoche) in the years after the Nazi Occupation of Paris. Ben Mendelsohn plays Christian Dior, alongside Maisie Williams as Christian’s sister Catherine, John Malkovich as Lucien Lelong, Emily Mortimer as Elsa Lombardi and Claes Bang as Hans von Dincklage.
Life and Beth season 2, Disney+
Disney+ UK release date: 16 February
Much of prestige TV needs blockbuster thrills to justify its existence. But sometimes, this pushes less adrenaline-fueled shows into obscurity – as appears to be the case with Amy Schumer’s underrated dramedy Life and Beth. Schumer plays Beth, a 37-year-old former wine salesperson stuck in an existential rut. She returns to her hometown in Long Island to figure out a future, meeting and falling in love with the peculiar farmer John (Michael Cera).
Season
two sees the couple in a good place: engaged to be married and kids planned.
But Beth is growing scared, her traumatic history with men causing her to question
everything. On top of that, she and John are having communication issues –
seeking a doctor to work out the problem. Also stars Beanie Feldstein, Jemima
Kirke and Jennifer Coolidge.
Constellations, AppleTV+
AppleTV+ UK release date: 21 February
In fiction, the process of bending realities is best achieved in psychological dramas or sci-fi missions through space; inside a disturbed mind or way, way out towards the lawless reaches of the universe. The latest series by Peter Harness (The War of the Worlds) decides not to choose between the two: opting instead to fuse them together for the mental odyssey of a returning astronaut.
Following
a dangerous incident in space, Jo (Noomi Rapace) drops back to Earth.
But she realises that key parts of her life shift and erase themselves, her
reality fractured and confused. She strives to recover certain
memories and piece herself back together, as well expose the hidden history of
space travel.
The full streaming in February 2024 slate:
1
February
A
Bloody Lucky Day (Paramount+)
Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Paramount+)
2
February
The
Edge of Love (Disney+)
Let’s
Talk About CHU (Netflix)
Orion
in the Dark (Netflix)
Mr
& Mrs Smith (Prime Video)
3
February
Tell
Them You Love Me (NOW)
The
Tiger’s Apprentice (Paramount+)
5
February
G’wed
(ITVX)
Eaten
By Lions (Netflix)
Curb
Your Enthusiasm season 12 (NOW)
6
February
King
Richard (Netflix)
7
February
The
Marvels (Disney+)
Deadwater
Fell (Netflix)
The
Devil Wears Prada (Netflix)
Raël:
The Alien Prophet (Netflix)
The
Real Line of Duty (Prime Video)
8
February
Halo
season 2 (Paramount+)
One
Day (Netflix)
9
February
Love,
Rosie (Disney+)
Suncoast
(Disney+)
A
Killer Paradox (Netflix)
Ashes
(Netflix)
Lover,
Stalker, Killer (Netflix)
Ted
(NOW)
Upgraded
(Prime Video)
10
February
Green
Book (Netflix)
Pete
Doherty: Stranger in My Own Skin (NOW)
12
February
Extraordinary
series 1 (ITVX)
13
February
Taylor
Tomlinson: Have It All (Netflix)
World’s
Most Dangerous Prisoners (Paramount+)
14
February
The
New Look (AppleTV+)
Death
Comes to Pemberley (Netflix)
The
Durrells (Netflix)
Good
Morning, Verônica season 3 (Netflix)
Love
is Blind season 6 (Netflix)
Players
(Netflix)
Puppy
Love (Prime Video)
15
February
Lady
Macbeth (Netflix)
The
Vince Staples Show (Netflix)
16
February
The
Dynasty: New England Patriots (AppleTV+)
Life
and Beth season 2 (Disney+)
Comedy
Chaos (Netflix)
Einstein
and the Bomb (Netflix)
The
Retirement Plan (Paramount+)
This
is Me… Now: A Love Story (Prime Video)
19
February
Decline
and Fall (Netflix)
Rhythm
+ Flow Italy (Netflix)
Giannis:
The Marvelous Journey (Prime Video)
20
February
My
Son (Netflix)
21
February
Constellations
(AppleTV+)
Messi’s
World Cup: The Rise of a Legend (AppleTV+)
Homeland
seasons 1 – 8 (Disney+)
Star
Wars: The Bad Batch season 3 (Disney+)
Can
I Tell You A Secret? (Netflix)
22
February
Avatar:
The Last Airbender (Netflix)
The
Family Stallone season 2 (Paramount+)
23
February
Mea
Culpa (Netflix)
Through
My Window 3: Looking at You (Netflix)
Jenny
Slate: Seasoned Professional (Prime Video)
The
Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy (Prime Video)
26
February
Under
the Banner of Heaven (ITVX)
Formula
1: Drive to Survive season 6 (Netflix)
27
February
Shōgun
(Disney+)
28
February
Iwájú
(Disney+)
Dead
in the Water (Prime Video)
29
February
Quantum
Leap season 2 volume 1 (Paramount+)
Reina
Roja (Prime Video)
