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When the list of new releases on Netflix comes out every month, it sometimes feels like the leading streamer has opened up a firehose of content of all types: scripted, unscripted, international, and more. With everyone’s limited time, it’s hard to figure out which shows you want to sit down and binge.
The crew at Decider know how tough it is to figure what to watch… and we do this for a living. So let us be your guide. Below are quick previews of what we think the ten hottest, most intriguing series to debut on the service in February 2021 will be. They aren’t all Netflix Originals (though most are because of that firehose); just shows we know people will want to watch. Which shows will make it into the Netflix Top 10? Only time will tell!
'Firefly Lane'
PREMIERE DATE: February 3
CAST: Sarah Chalke, Katherine Heigl
RATING: TV-MA
DESCRIPTION: Based on the bestselling novel by Kristin Hannah, it’s the story of an unbreakable friendship, between polar opposites Tully (Heigl) and Kate (Chalke), starting from when they meet as teens in 1974 through the next four decades. Expect a lot of tears, but also a lot of warmth and scenes of supportive hugs.
'Invisible City'
PREMIERE DATE: February 5
CAST: Marco Pigossi, Alessandra Negrini, Jéssica Córes, Fábio Lago
RATING: TV-MA
DESCRIPTION: Carlos Saldanha, known for directing animated features like Rio and the Ice Age series, is the showrunner of Invisible City, his first live-action project. In the Brazilian series, a cop finds a group of mythical beings walking amongst the population of Rio; he is determined to find the connection between these beings and the death of his wife. It should be fun, but we’re disappointed there won’t be a wooly mammoth with Ray Romano’s voice in this one.
'The Sinner: Jamie'
PREMIERE DATE: February 6
CAST: Bill Pullman, Matt Bomer, Chris Messina, Jessica Hecht, Eddie Martinez
RATING: TV-MA
DESCRIPTION: Pullman returns as Harry Ambrose in Season 3 of The Sinner, which originally aired on USA Network. Here, he investigates a fatal car accident in upstate New York, where the passenger who reported it, Jamie Burns (Bomer) might be more involved than he lets on. There’s a pregnant wife, old college friends, and very likely a scene or two where Messina seethes.
'iCarly' Seasons 1 and 2
PREMIERE DATE: February 9
CAST: Miranda Cosgrove, Jennette McCurdy, Nathan Kress, Jerry Trainor, Noah Munck
RATING: TV-G
DESCRIPTION: The first two seasons of Nickelodeon’s hit kids’ sitcom (which ran from 2007-12) lands on Netflix, so if you Zoomers want to show the kids what an “influencer” used to look like, you’re in luck. Cosgrove plays Carly, who creates a web show (called “iCarly”, natch) with her buddies Sam (McCurdy) and Freddie (Kress) that goes viral. How can they be internet famous and be normal teenagers at the same time?
'Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel'
PREMIERE DATE: February 10
CAST: Joe Berlinger (director)
RATING: TV-MA
DESCRIPTION: The first season of a new true crime anthology from Berlinger, who directed Conversations With A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, detailing the stories around certain notorious locations. The first season is about the Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, focusing on the most recent of a series of odd occurrences and crimes there: The 2013 disappearance of college student Elisa Lam.
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'Buried By The Bernards'
PREMIERE DATE: February 12
CAST: Ryan Bernard, Debbie Bernard
RATING: TV-14
DESCRIPTION: Ryan Bernard’s family-run funeral home, R Bernard Funeral Services, giving the people in his Memphis community full-services funeral packages for reasonable rates. In the process of helping families cope with the loss of their loved ones, his family provides some behind-the-scenes bickering and laughs, some of which might actually help their clients grieve.
'The Crew'
PREMIERE DATE: February 15
CAST: Kevin James, Sarah Stiles, Jillian Mueller, Freddie Stroma, Gary Anthony Williams, Dan Ahdoot
RATING: TV-14
DESCRIPTION: Kevin James is back with a new sitcom; this time he plays a NASCAR crew chief who protects his team when the owner retires and passes it to his daughter, who is trying to modernize things. Expect a lot of car jokes, but James can be very charming, especially in the multicamera format, so this one may end up being… decent?
'Behind Her Eyes'
PREMIERE DATE: February 17
CAST: Simona Brown, Eve Hewson, Tom Bateman, Robert Aramayo
RATING: TV-MA
DESCRIPTION: A psychological thriller based on the novel by Sarah Pinborough, where a single mother named Louise (Brown) falls for her psychologist boss (Bateman). But after she befriends his wife Adele (Hewson), Louise gets embroiled in a world where (dun-dun-dun) nothing is as it seems.
'Tribes Of Europa'
PREMIERE DATE: February 19
CAST: Henriette Confurius, Oliver Masucci, David Ali Rashed, Emilio Sakraya, Melika Foroutan, Alain Blazevic
RATING: TV-MA
DESCRIPTION: In this German post-apocalyptic sci-fi series, the European content has broken into different tribes after a massive catastrophe. In the year 2074, three siblings get separated but they seek to change the dystopian fate on the continent after they come in possession of a powerful cube.
'Ginny & Georgia'
PREMIERE DATE: February 24
CAST: Brianne Howey, Antonia Gentry, Diesel La Torraca
RATING: TV-MA
DESCRIPTION: Said to be Gilmore Girls with a dark vibe, Ginny & Georgia is about 15-year-old Ginny Miller (Gentry), who feels she’s more mature than her 30 year-old, free-spirited mother Georgia (Howey). Georgia moves to a quaint New England town with her daughter Ginny and son Austin (La Torraca) in hopes that they can have a stable, “normal” life. But Georgia’s past is never far away. Let’s just hope they carry their coffee cups better than they did in Stars Hollow.
