The Best Shows and Movies to Watch in February on Amazon, HBO Max, Netflix, and More

Sometimes you need a deadline to do your best work, which might be why the shortest month of the year has been so packed with good shows and movies. Or maybe the streamers just know February is cold and bleak, so they threw us a bone. In any case, March is around the corner, making this your last chance to take stock of everything you don't want to miss from this month. TV Guide has rounded up our recommendations for the best shows and movies released in February on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, HBO Max, and more. Seize the deadline.

A new season of Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel took the stage this month, while Inventing Anna scammed her way into Netflix's Top 10 charts, and the new season of FX's Snowfall premiered on Hulu. As the month wraps up, the new Vikings series, Vikings: Valhalla, comes to Netflix on Feb. 25, and the Italian drama My Brilliant Friend returns for Season 3 on HBO on Feb. 28. As for movies, HBO Max has the Zoë Kravitz-starring Kimi, and Hulu is getting the tense thriller No Exit.

The Best Shows on Amazon Prime Video in February

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel has finally booked her next gig. More than two years after its third season, the fast-talking, Emmy-winning series returned for Season 4 on Feb. 18 on Prime Video. New episodes will be released two at a time each Friday. If you're impatient, the streamer also served up a quick marathon when the first season of Reacher dropped all at once on Feb. 4. Head here for TV Guide's review of the new series, which finally gets Jack Reacher's muscles right. 

Here's our full list of picks for TV shows on Amazon Prime Video.

The Best Movies on Amazon Prime Video in February

Prime is feeling the love this Valentine's season. The month kicked off on Feb. 4 with Book of Love, a rom-com starring Sam Claflin as a stuffy English writer and Verónica Echegui as a translator who makes his book into a hit in Mexico by turning it into an erotic novel. But the real highlight came when a Charlie Day-Jenny Slate rom-com (!!) dropped on Feb. 11. The movie, I Want You Back, stars Day and Slate as strangers who bond over being recently dumped, then team up to win back their exes by destroying their relationships.

Here's our full list of picks for movies on Amazon Prime Video.

If you want to sort through the list of new releases yourself, here's a list of everything new to Amazon Prime in February.

The Best Shows on Disney+ in February

Time to dust off your shiny old lime green boombox and turn up the volume on one of the best TV theme songs of the early 2000s (by Solange featuring Destiny's Child! You just don't get theme songs like that anymore). The Proud Family is back for a revival, The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder, that bumps the action up to the present day — so Penny is still a teen in this one, but she has a smartphone now. The series premiered Feb. 23. Plus, The Book of Boba Fett wrapped up its first season on Feb. 9.

Here's our full list of picks for TV shows on Disney+.

The Best Movies on Disney+ in February

No, there aren't any new Marvel movies coming to Disney+ in February, though you can check out new specials about the making of Hawkeye (released on Feb. 9) and Eternals (released on Feb. 16). Both documentaries are part of the Marvel Studios: Assembled series. But Disney+ did get some fun new additions to its library this month, like Never Been Kissed on Feb. 4 and Free Guy on Feb. 23.

Here's our full list of picks for movies on Disney+.

If you want to sort through the list of new releases yourself, here's everything new on Disney+ in February. 

The Best Shows on HBO Max in February

TV Guide's Tim Surette has described Raised by Wolves as "artsy bouillabaisse... in which androids dressed in skintight garbage bags raise kids (but kill most of them)," and if that doesn't get you hyped to watch weird stuff, I don't know what does. Aaron Guzikowski and Ridley Scott's sci-fi extravaganza is back on HBO Max for Season 2, which kicked off Feb. 3. On Feb. 10, Gugu Mbatha-Raw got Hitchcockian in The Girl Before, a four-part thriller about a woman who moves into a mysterious, minimalist house with secrets to hide, and celebrities tested their relationships in Steph Curry's game show About Last Night.

Here's our full list of picks for TV shows on HBO Max.

The Best Movies on HBO Max in February

Finally, Zoë Kravitz has her own The Woman in the Window-style thriller. In Kimi, a new Steven Soderbergh film that premiered Feb. 10, Kravitz plays an agoraphobic (but still super chic) tech worker who stumbles on evidence of what she believes is a violent murder while reviewing a data stream. There's also a new Carole King and James Taylor concert documentary, Just Call Out My Name, out Feb. 10. And on Feb. 23, HBO and HBO Max premiered the new documentary Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches, featuring performances of some of Douglass' most pivotal speeches by Nicole Beharie, Colman Domingo, Jonathan Majors, Denzel Whitaker, and Jeffrey Wright.

Here's our full list of picks for movies on HBO Max. 

If you want to sort through the list of new releases yourself, here's everything new on HBO Max in February.

The Best Shows on Hulu in February

Punxsutawney Phil predicted six more weeks of winter on Groundhog Day, but Hulu also released Pam & Tommy on Groundhog Day, so overall I'd say it was kind of a wash. The off-the-wall new series, which looks back on the frantic events surrounding the 1995 leak of Pamela Anderson (Lily James) and Tommy Lee's (Sebastian Stan) sex tape, will definitely distract you during these long, cold winter days. Check out TV Guide's review. Another Hulu original series, Dollface, returned for Season 2 on Feb. 11. Plus, you can look forward to new episodes of Snowfall each week starting Feb. 24, a day after the Season 5 premiere on FX.

Here's our full list of picks for shows on Hulu.

The Best Movies on Hulu in February

Forget rom-coms; the biggest new movie this month on Hulu is super tense. No Exit, a new survival thriller premiering Feb. 25, follows a woman (Havana Rose Liu) who gets trapped with a group of people at a remote rest stop during a blizzard. When she finds an abducted child in a van outside, it becomes apparent she's stuck with a kidnapper. For a different kind of nightmare, Guillermo del Toro's Nightmare Alley, starring Bradley Cooper, is on Hulu as of Feb. 1.

Here's our full list of picks for movies on Hulu.

If you want to sort through the list of new releases yourself, here's everything new to Hulu in February.

The Best Shows on Netflix in February

In 2022, Netflix belongs to Julia Garner. After owning the first half of the final season of Ozark in January, she's back in Inventing Anna, Shonda Rhimes' new series about the fake heiress who scammed New York socialites. As Anna Delvey, Garner gives us the gift of an accent that'll have everyone googling, "Does Anna Delvey really talk like that?" Netflix also dished out the partly improvised comedy Murderville on Feb. 3 and Sweet Magnolias Season 2 on Feb. 4, but before you think they frontloaded all the good stuff, buckle up: The long-awaited Vikings spin-off, Vikings: Valhalla, premieres Feb. 25.

Here's our full list of picks for shows on Netflix.

The Best Movies on Netflix in February  

The Kanye West documentary you've been waiting for comes to Netflix this month. The three-part film jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy, which charts Ye's career and life over two decades, began rolling out weekly on Feb. 16. It's hard to think of a more fascinating documentary subject, and reviews for Part 1, which premiered at Sundance, make this one sound as watchable as you'd expect. For something completely different, watch teens get chainsawed in the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Here's our full list of picks for movies on Netflix, as well as our picks for the best movies and shows leaving Netflix this month.

If you want to sort through the list of new releases yourself, here's a list of everything new to Netflix in February.

The Best Romantic Movies to Stream in February

If Valentine's Day put you in the mood for romance, don't let all those Texas Chainsaw Massacres get you down. TV Guide has rounded up multiple lists of the best and most popular romance movies and where to stream them. Whether you're looking for the best rom-coms to stream right now, the best romantic dramas on streaming, the best romantic movies on Netflix specifically, or an all-around list of the best Valentine's Day movies to watch, it's all right here. All you need is the box of chocolates.                           

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