The 10 Best Shows to Stream Right Now (February 2026)

No matter how well your favorite streaming service’s algorithm knows you, come February, sometimes even the smartest technology can be swayed by the power of Valentine’s Day. Hence all those romance-heavy promos at the top of your screen, from Ryan Murphy’s Love Story to Netflix’s ever-proliferating Love Is Blind.

But love—romantic or otherwise—can be found in the oddest of places, including the radioactive wasteland of postapocalyptic Los Angeles, Westeros in the rare midst of relative peace, or behind the scenes of the latest MCU blockbuster.

Whether you’re in the mood for a reliable sci-fi gem or an enlightening new docuseries courtesy of Marty Supreme director Josh Safdie, February’s streaming lineup offers plenty of options to swoon over. Here are the 10 shows we’re falling for right now.

Picking up from roughly where Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman’s Star Trek: Discovery left off when it ended in 2024, Starfleet Academy might be best described as Star Trek for the TikTok age … or simply the franchise’s horniest iteration. Set in the 32nd century, it follows the first group of cadets to train at the Academy in more than a century, giving it license to play out more like a college soap opera à la Hulu’s Tell Me Lies. Fortunately, Hollywood heavyweights Holly Hunter and Paul Giamatti are there to refocus these wannabe Starfleet officers on boldly going where no one has gone before.

While franchise diehards may find it all a bit too lightweight for their tastes, it’s impossible to not appreciate the show’s obvious nostalgia for the iconic series that started it all and Gene Roddenberry’s fierce commitment to diversity, which has unfortunately become an ugly word to the country’s powers that be—and an aspect of the original show that appears to have gone over self-described Trekkie Stephen Miller’s head completely.

What do you do if you’re Disney and realize the Marvel movies that once regularly crossed the $1 billion box office threshold while barely lifting a Nano Gauntlet are now facing a seriously dwindling ROI problem? You poke fun at the problem with a playfully self-aware buddy comedy that smartly doesn’t require any real knowledge of the MCU on the audience’s part.

Simon Williams (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) is a struggling actor who is desperate to audition for the title role in Wonder Man, a new superhero movie based on the very real comic book character created more than 60 years ago by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Don Heck. Unfortunately for Simon, Hollywood has instituted a rule, the Doorman’s Clause, which prohibits anyone with real superpowers from working in the industry. So he hatches a plan to pursue the part while desperately attempting to hide his superhuman abilities. He is aided in his endeavors by Ben Kingsley’s Trevor Slattery, a failed actor who we first met in Iron Man 3 and whose backstory we come to understand even better here.

Winter will undoubtedly be coming to Westeros, but you can save that for another series. Same goes for the high-flying dragons and jaw-droppingly explicit sex scenes that sparked so many headlines for both Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon.

Much like Marvel’s aforementioned Wonder Man, George R.R. Martin’s A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms follows a wildly different path than its predecessors. It’s more of an Arthurian buddy comedy that recollects Tyrion Lannister’s (Peter Dinklage) many bromances from Game of Thrones, which provided that iconic series with some of its funniest and most personal moments. (See: pretty much any scene between Tyrion and Bronn.) In the case of HBO’s latest title in the Martinverse, the buddies in question are Ser Duncan “Dunk” the Tall (Peter Claffey), a legendary knight noted for both his bravery and his towering stature (hence the entirely noncreative name), and his squire, Aegon “Egg” Targaryen (Dexter Sol Ansell), whose famous last name and place in the royal line of succession are a well-guarded secret—until they aren’t, which helps drive the first season’s narrative. Just know that this pair plans on sticking around; months before the series’ January 18 premiere, it was already renewed for a second season.

For almost as long as there have been video games, there have been producers hungry to adapt those video games into movies and television series—largely with utterly disastrous results. (See: 1993’s Super Mario Bros., which the late, great Bob Hoskins called “the worst thing” he ever did.) But all that changed in the past few years, first with the premiere of HBO’s fungi-rrific The Last of Us followed one year later by Fallout.

Set in the aftermath of the Great War of 2077—a global nuclear exchange that destroyed human civilization as we know it—Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell) emerges from the cushy depths of Vault 33, the underground bunker where she has spent her entire life, in order to rescue her kidnapped father (Kyle MacLachlan), with the decapitated head of cold fusion scientist Dr. Siggi Wilzig (Michael Emerson) in tow as a bargaining chip. But the postapocalyptic wasteland that awaits her above proves to be a much more dangerous place than she ever imagined. Eventually she crosses paths with The Ghoul (Walton Goggins), a Hollywood star turned bounty hunter who thinks Lucy can help him find what he’s searching for: the location of his wife and children. What begins as a rocky but seemingly mutually beneficial relationship slowly morphs into a bizarre kind of mentorship. It’s a multilayered story, but one that benefits from the show’s IP origins, allowing its hyper-violent underpinnings to play out via gorgeous visuals and delightfully campy performances from its stellar cast.

From Lupin to Squid Game, Netflix’s interest in international programming is well known, and France’s Samuel is just the latest example. Creator Émilie Tronche initially began creating episodes of the micro-series in 2020, which she then posted to Instagram and TikTok. Viral fame soon came calling, and she turned what started as a deeply personal passion project into a full series of 21 episodes. The show, set in the early 2000s, is a coming-of-age tale told through the diary of the eponymous 10-year-old as he faces the challenges of middle-school friendships, first loves, and other tween rites of passage. The intimate nature of the stories is only enhanced by its low-fi style; black-and-white, 2D animated episodes that run around five minutes apiece allow Tronche to focus on a singular feeling without the need for filler. Note to subtitlephobes: The series is dubbed into English.

When the pandemic hit in 2020, many people turned to bread-making to pass the time. Filmmakers Harrison Fishman and Dylan Redford—yes, one of those Redfords; he’s Robert’s grandson—instead chose to watch viral videos of neighbors arguing with each other. This fascination eventually led to a formal series pitch, which four-time Oscar nominee and Marty Supreme director Josh Safdie was game to hop onboard.

Unlike the viral videos that inspired it, the series itself was no low-effort affair. Production on the series, which features just six episodes, took two years so that these very real—and often very ugly—neighbor disputes could fully play out. “Casting” for the dueling residents happened via detailed searches of local newspapers, small claims court filings, and various Facebook groups.

In November, Amazon answered the prayers of many old-school sci-fi fans when it announced that a new version of Stargate was in the works. Though no dates of when to expect the new series have been shared, the timing of its predecessor’s February 15 arrival on Netflix—nearly 30 years after making its original debut on Showtime—could not have been more welcome.

All 10 seasons of the military sci-fi adventure are coming, in which an elite and clandestine Air Force team uses alien technology (the Stargate) to bounce around the galaxy and protect Earth from extraterrestrial dangers before they happen. Like any long-running sci-fi series (see: Doctor Who), not every season or creative decision was perfect. Some of the writing in the earlier episodes is laughable, plot holes abound, and clichés were sometimes as abundant as new alien species. But, really, when you’re facing off against a self-replicating species known as … Replicators, isn’t that just part of the charm?

Adam Scott is having a major streaming moment. While he and his castmates are logging all sorts of accolades for Apple TV’s Severance, the Step Brothers star is also about to become the voice of Lincoln Gumb, the most boring lawyer in Las Vegas. In Strip Law, a brand-new animated, adult comedy that arrives on February 20, Gumb realizes that if he wants to stand out amid the razzle-dazzle of the Vegas Strip, he’s got to get a better act. So he partners with Sheila Flambé (Janelle James), a local magician who helps turn every courtroom appearance into an outright spectacle—which isn’t always a good thing.

With This Is Us, Dan Fogelman became television’s answer to M. Night Shyamalan (and a headache for Crock-Pot) thanks to his love of a good twist. He did it again in 2025 with Hulu’s Paradise—and this time managed to leave your beloved slow cooker out of it. For this postapocalyptic political thriller, which debuts its second season on February 23, Fogelman once again teams up with three-time Emmy winner (and onetime Oscar nominee) Sterling K. Brown, who plays Secret Service agent Xavier Collins.

Like This Is Us, the series is built on playing with time and carefully seeded details to pull the rug out from under its audience. Here, Collins is tasked with protecting the life of President Cal Bradford (James Marsden), until he becomes the prime suspect in the commander in chief’s murder. To say much more would ruin the surprises (plural). Expect even more whodunnitery when the second season arrives, with Shailene Woodley and Thomas Doherty joining the fold.

With its 2014 Godzilla reboot, Legendary proved there was still plenty of atomic life left in the King of the Monsters. More than a decade later, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters zooms in on the very human fallout of Godzilla’s radioactive wake. Set after San Francisco’s catastrophic encounter with the giant lizard, the series follows two siblings who uncover their family’s long-hidden ties to Monarch, the shadowy scientific organization that has been tracking these MUTOs (Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organisms) for decades. What begins as a personal mystery quickly spirals into a global conspiracy, while the series jumps back and forth between the 1950s and today.

Bridging those timelines are Kurt Russell and his son Wyatt Russell, playing older and younger versions of Monarch operative Lee Shaw. While the MonsterVerse spectacle may be the initial draw, it’s the generations-spanning storyline—about how seismic events echo long after the dust settles—that ultimately makes even the towering Titans seem small. The show’s second season arrives on February 27.