What to Watch in February: 20 Notable TV Shows & Streaming Movies

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – January 28, 2022

The month ahead will bring a Kanye West documentary, the final seasons of Killing Eve and Better Things, the return of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, a miniseries about Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, a dramatic reimagining of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, a new Jack Reacher series, and more. In the gallery on this page, our editors have selected the most intriguing TV and movie titles debuting at home in the next month, listed in order by premiere date.

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Law & Order

Season 21 debuts February 24 on NBC

[insert your own "dun-dun" sound] When is the 21st season of a network TV drama an event? Well, when season 20 aired over a decade ago. Dick Wolf's flagship crime drama returns for its first new episodes since 2010 with a mix of new and returning faces. Hugh Dancy, Camryn Manheim, and Jeffrey Donovan fall into the former category, while Anthony Anderson returns as Detective Kevin Bernard and Sam Waterston once again plays D.A. Jack McCoy. Law & Order's original 20-season run fell just short of breaking Gunsmoke's record for longest-running primetime live-action series—a record that was eventually broken by L&O spinoff Special Victims Unit, which remains on the air today.

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