The 7 Best New Shows on Netflix in February

February, typically, is a time of transition. Chilly winter temperatures begin to rise in anticipation of spring, although it’s not out of the ordinary for the coldest day of a given year to land in its second month. America’s yearlong obsession with professional football reaches its climax via Super Bowl XX-whatever, but there’s still another month until the nation’s rightful pastime resumes with MLB’s Opening Day. And in television, well, anything can happen.

While networks and streamers typically drop their most Emmy-friendly programming in January, April, or May, every once in a while, you’ll see an elite program start a fresh run in February (including “Better Call Saul,” “Homeland,” and, this year, “Yellowjackets”). Ratings juggernauts often follow a similar release pattern — premiering at the beginning of the year, sometime in the summer, or during the fall — but February can still buoy big hits. (The Super Bowl, the Grammys, and whatever lucky show gets picked to follow the Super Bowl all debut this month.)

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So, what does that mean for February’s Netflix release schedule? It means you’re getting a little bit of everything, my friends. Kicking off with eight full seasons of “Home Improvement” (which established fans may need to rewatch to remind themselves why they liked Tim Allen before his most recent sitcom debacle) and concluding with a live stream of the 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards (where you almost certainly won’t see Tim Allen, seeing as he’s not nominated and not exactly a draw at such prestigious events), Netflix also has a slew of original scripted series that cater to telephiles, reality addicts, and renaissance women (so to speak).

For the prestige crowd, “Zero Day” offers one of the best ensembles you’ll see this year, led by Robert De Niro and featuring heavy hitters like Angela Bassett and Connie Britton, as well as supporting favorites like Bill Camp and Jesse Plemons. Less glitzy but still sporting an intriguing central performance is “Apple Cider Vinegar,” where Kaitlyn Dever (Tim Allen’s former co-star!) plays an influencer faking a cancer diagnosis in this “true-ish” story. Rounding out the star vehicles is “Running Point,” in which Kate Hudson plays the owner of a men’s basketball team in a new comedy executive produced by Mindy Kaling.

Toss in a few seasons of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” (Seasons 5-6 drop the day after Seasons 1-2 leave the service, so don’t wait too long to start your rewatch) and the final season of “Cobra Kai” (well, technically the final part of the final season, which has been released in three sections over the last eight months), and subscribers won’t be lacking for variety this month. (There’s even another season of “Love Is Blind,” which feels like something I say every month?) Who knows? Maybe there will even be enough hours of entertainment to get you through the last sub-zero days. Are we ready for the sun? Or just more TV?

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