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.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
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.
Wonder Man
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.
Source: www.wired.com
