Also back for a second season is &#34;Monarch: Legacy of Monsters&#34; (Feb. 27), a spinoff series about a secret organization tracking giant monsters that ties together recent Godzilla and King Kong movies. Kurt Russell and Wyatt Russell (playing the same character in different time periods) return, along with Emmy winner Anna Sawai (&#34;Shogun&#34;), Ren Watabe and Anders Holm. While the individual Monsterverse movies have been mostly forgettable, Season 1 of &#34;Monarch&#34; was surprisingly good.
There's also the streaming premiere of the A24 movie &#34;Eternity&#34; (Feb. 13), the afterlife rom-com starring Elizabeth Olson, Miles Teller and Callum Turner, just in time for Valentine's Day.
But Apple's biggest draw will be new weekly episodes of the affable hangout comedy &#34;Shrinking&#34;; the Idris Elba action thriller &#34;Hijack,&#34; which is still dumb but mostly fun in its second season; the wine drama &#34;Drops of God&#34;; and the twisty Israeli spy thriller &#34;Tehran&#34; (season finale Feb. 27).
Play, pause or stop? Pause and think it over. &#34;Shrinking&#34; is great, but if you're not already onboard with all of these returning series, there's no compelling argument to start now.
Netflix ($7.99 a month for standard with ads, $17.99 standard with no ads, $24.99 premium with no ads)
It's another relatively slow month for Netflix (NFLX) - which still would be a blockbuster month for any other streamer.
The second half of the new season of &#34;Bridgerton&#34; (technically Season 4 Part 2) drops Feb. 26, continuing Netflix's annoying habit of breaking up its most popular shows into bite-sized portions. (Part 1 dropped at the end of January.)
The popular racing docuseries &#34;F1: Drive to Survive&#34; (Feb. 27) is back for its eighth season, along with Season 4 of the legal drama &#34;The Lincoln Lawyer&#34; (Feb. 5) and Season 3 of the conspiracy thriller &#34;The Night Agent&#34; (Feb. 19).
There's also the docuseries &#34;Glitter &amp; Gold: Ice Dancing&#34; (Feb. 1), as Netflix looks to capitalize on the Winter Olympics; &#34;Queen of Chess&#34; (Feb. 6), a documentary about a 12-year-old Hungarian girl who was a chess prodigy in the 1980s; &#34;Matter of Time&#34; (Feb. 9), a documentary of Eddie Vedder's 2023 benefit concerts to help find a cure for the childhood genetic disease Epidermolysis Bullosa; Season 10 of the dating reality show &#34;Love Is Blind&#34; (Feb. 11); &#34;How to Get to Heaven From Belfast&#34; (Feb. 12), a fun-looking comedy-thriller series from &#34;Derry Girls&#34; creator Lisa McGee; new episodes of the underwhelming &#34;Star Search&#34; reboot (season finale Feb. 17); the docuseries &#34;Being Gordon Ramsay&#34; (Feb. 18), about the gruff celebrity chef; &#34;Strip Law&#34; (Feb. 20), an adult animated series about a lawyer taking on the stupidest cases in Las Vegas, with the voices of Adam Scott, Janelle James and Stephen Root; and the standup comedy special &#34;Taylor Tomlinson: Prodigal Daughter&#34; (Feb. 24).
Netflix is also adding third-party shows such as NBC's &#34;Night Court&#34; reboot (Feb. 3); TBS's millennial comedy/thriller &#34;Search Party&#34; (Feb. 5); ABC's brilliant-but-cancelled family sitcom &#34;Suburgatory&#34; (Feb. 13); the long-running sci-fi series &#34;Stargate: SG-1&#34; (Feb. 15); and Seasons 7-8 of the cop comedy &#34;Brooklyn Nine-Nine&#34; (Feb. 26). Heads up, as those seasons are added, Seasons 3-4 of &#34;Brooklyn Nine-Nine&#34; are going away. (Don't ask why, licensing deals are weird.)
On the move: Netflix will also soon be adding a slew of Paramount series, including Taylor Sheridan's &#34;Mayor of Kingstown,&#34; which was just renewed for its fifth and final season. There will be about 20 additions in all, including CBS's &#34;SEAL Team&#34; and &#34;Watson.&#34; There are no release dates yet, but keep your eyes peeled.
Play, pause or stop? Stop, unless you're a die-hard &#34;Bridgerton&#34; fan. Everything else is... fine? But there's nothing particularly compelling.
Amazon's Prime Video ($14.99 a month with ads, $8.99 without Prime membership, both +$2.99 to avoid ads)
Amazon's (AMZN) most promising newcomer is &#34;The Gray House&#34; (Feb. 26), an historical drama miniseries starring Mary-Louise Parker and Daisy Head in the true story of a group of women operating an underground spy network in the South during the Civil War. It's produced by Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman, but is getting curiously little buzz so far.
There's also Season 2 of &#34;Cross&#34; (Feb. 11), the crime drama starring Aldis Hodge as a brilliant D.C. homicide detective/forensic psychologist; the rom-com movie &#34;Relationship Goals&#34; (Feb. 4), starring Kelly Rowland and Clifford &#34;Method Man&#34; Smith; the sports docuseries &#34;Soul Power: The Legend of the American Basketball Association&#34; (Feb. 12), aka the league that starred Julius Erving, Moses Malone, George Gervin and other future NBA superstars; the psychological thriller series &#34;56 Days&#34; (Feb. 18); the docuseries &#34;The CEO Club&#34; (Feb. 23), about the personal and professional lives of a group of high-powered female executives, which includes series producer Serena Williams; and the Paul McCartney documentary &#34;Man on the Run&#34; (Feb. 27).
Don't forget there's a full slate of NBA games, and the sports-talk show &#34;Good Sports with Kevin Hart and Keenan Thompson&#34; every Tuesday.
A hit and a miss: Also on tap are the season finales of &#34;The Night Manager&#34; (Feb. 1) and &#34;Fallout&#34; (Feb. 3). Season 2 of &#34;The Night Manager&#34; has been a bit of a disappointment - it's a decent enough spy thriller, but it's lost the deft John le Carré touch of Season 1, with less subtlety, fewer moral gray areas and a lot more of Tom Hiddleston playing an inexplicable superspy rather than a more relatable regular person in over his head. &#34;Fallout,&#34; meanwhile, has continued to impress as it's delved into the tragic back story of Walton Goggins' noseless Ghoul, aka Cooper Howard, and more deeply explored the moral morass of survival in a nuclear wasteland, along with humanity's inevitably self-destructive desire for war. As far as videogame adaptations go, its second season has been a lot more interesting - and fun to watch - than HBO's &#34;The Last of Us&#34; was.
Play, pause or stop? Stop. Once &#34;Fallout&#34; and &#34;The Night Manager&#34; are done, there's not much that jumps out - aside from potentially &#34;The Gray House.&#34;
Paramount+ ($8.99 a month with ads, $13.99 a month Premium with no ads)
Paramount (PSKY) has the Grammy Awards (Feb. 1), which is always watchable for the musical performances, and a trio of international series: &#34;Can You Keep a Secret?&#34; (Feb. 12), a British comedy about a retired couple who fake a death to cash in on the life insurance; &#34;Wild Boys: Strangers in Town&#34; (Feb. 18), a docuseries about a pair of half-starved young men who emerged from the Canadian wilderness in 2003, with an unbelievable story to tell; and Season 2 of the British comedy &#34;Dreaming Whilst Black&#34; (Feb. 20), about the ups and downs of a young, Black aspiring filmmaker.
There's also the milestone Season 50 of &#34;Survivor&#34; (Feb. 25), featuring a ton of returning favorites, along with new episodes every week of CBS shows including &#34;CIA&#34; (Feb. 23), &#34;DMV&#34; (Feb. 23), &#34;Ghosts,&#34; &#34;Matlock&#34; and &#34;Elsbeth&#34; (all Feb. 26), and ongoing P+ series &#34;Star Trek: Starfleet Academy&#34; and &#34;School Spirits.&#34;
The sports lineup includes plenty of college basketball, England's Carabao Cup matches, UEFA Champions League, EFL Championship matches (that's Wrexham), Serie A, golf and UFC.
Play, pause or stop? Stop. With &#34;Landman&#34; over, Paramount's lineup looks very skippable.
Disney+ ($11.99 a month with ads, $18.99 with no ads)
Disney (DIS) is rebooting the nostalgic musical/comedy variety series &#34;The Muppet Show&#34; (Feb. 4), with a special featuring Sabrina Carpenter, Maya Rudolph and Seth Rogen (who's also an executive producer) alongside Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie and the rest of the gang to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the original show. Deadline has reported that the special is a backdoor pilot, meaning that if it's a hit, a full series of new episodes could follow. But does anyone other than Gen X still care about the Muppets? We'll soon find out.
That's about it, though, aside from a handful of kids shows and NatGeo series such as &#34;Engineering Europe&#34; (Feb. 7), &#34;Incas: The Rise and Fall&#34; (Feb. 13) and &#34;Danger Decoded&#34; (Feb. 28), along with a smattering of Hulu and ESPN offerings.
Play, pause or stop? Stop. I know, I know, kids love to watch Pixar movies over and over and over. But for viewers looking for something new, Disney+ is sorely lacking. Though to be fair, Marvel's &#34;Wonder Man,&#34; which dropped at the end of January, is getting pretty decent reviews.
Need more? Catch up on previous months' picks at What's Worth Streaming.
-Mike Murphy
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<p>February 2026 brings a mix of streaming content across platforms. Apple TV+ features the return of "Monarch: Legacy of Monsters" on Feb. 27, alongside new episodes of "Shrinking" and the action thriller "Hijack." Netflix offers the second half of "Bridgerton" on Feb. 26, and new seasons of popular series like "F1: Drive to Survive" and "The Lincoln Lawyer." Amazon Prime Video debuts "The Gray House" on Feb. 26, a historical drama, along with other new titles. Overall, viewers may want to pause and consider their options this month.</p>

- Streaming platforms are releasing a variety of new and returning shows in February, with highlights including "Monarch: Legacy of Monsters" on Apple and Season 4 Part 2 of "Bridgerton" on Netflix.  
- While Amazon's "The Gray House" promises an engaging historical narrative, Paramount+ and Disney+ seem to lack compelling new content.  
- Overall, recommendations suggest pausing on Netflix, Paramount+, and Disney+, while streaming platforms like Apple and Amazon are noted for their more appealing offerings this month.

Here's what's worth streaming in February 2026 -2-