{"id":486469,"date":"2026-02-20T00:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/486469\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T00:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:29:09","slug":"the-10-best-shows-to-stream-right-now-february-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/486469\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10 Best Shows to Stream Right Now (February 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"

No matter how well your favorite streaming service\u2019s<\/a> algorithm knows you, come February, sometimes even the smartest technology can be swayed by the power of Valentine\u2019s Day. Hence all those romance-heavy promos at the top of your screen, from Ryan Murphy\u2019s Love Story<\/a> to Netflix\u2019s ever-proliferating Love Is Blind<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But love\u2014romantic or otherwise\u2014can 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.<\/p>\n

Whether you\u2019re in the mood for a reliable sci-fi gem or an enlightening new docuseries courtesy of Marty Supreme director Josh Safdie, February\u2019s streaming lineup offers plenty of options to swoon over. Here are the 10 shows we\u2019re falling for right now.<\/p>\n

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy<\/p>\n

Picking up from roughly where Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman\u2019s Star Trek: Discovery<\/a> left off when it ended in 2024, Starfleet Academy might be best described as Star Trek for the TikTok age \u2026 or simply the franchise\u2019s 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 \u00e0 la Hulu<\/a>\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

While franchise diehards may find it all a bit too lightweight for their tastes, it\u2019s impossible to not appreciate the show\u2019s obvious nostalgia for the iconic series that started it all and Gene Roddenberry\u2019s fierce commitment to diversity<\/a>, which has unfortunately become an ugly word to the country\u2019s powers that be\u2014and an aspect of the original show that appears to have gone over self-described Trekkie Stephen Miller\u2019s head completely<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wonder Man<\/p>\n

What do you do if you\u2019re 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\u2019t require any real knowledge of the MCU on the audience\u2019s part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No matter how well your favorite streaming service\u2019s algorithm knows you, come February, sometimes even the smartest technology…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,171376,3494,75,5862,4700,1316,5131,1788,348],"class_list":["post-486469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-culture-guides","tag-disney","tag-entertainment","tag-hbo","tag-hulu","tag-netflix","tag-streaming","tag-television","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}