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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55 The Girl Before

Miniseries debuts February 10 on HBO Max

Admittedly, we were on the fence about listing this here, as early reviews out of the UK (where the BBC series has already debuted) are decidedly mixed. But the cast has us intrigued—and, indeed, was the highlight of the series for those same British critics. A stylish four-episode adaptation (available to binge at once) of JP Delaney's novel directed by Lisa Bruhlmann (Killing Eve), The Girl Before stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Jane, a woman given the opportunity to move into a seemingly perfect modernist house designed by an architect played by David Oyelowo. But there's a catch: To stay in the house, she must abide by the architect's list of exacting rules—a set of requirements that didn't work out very well for the home's previous occupant (Jessica Plummer). Will Jane face the same fate?

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