Each month, new films and TV shows are added to BINGE’s library. Eliza Janssen presents her picks for titles worth watching. For the full list of everything arriving on the platform, scroll down.
Top Picks: TV
Nolly: Season 1 (February 10)
Helena Bonham-Carter is much too prestigious to appear in one of those tacky, neverending UK soaps. Still, we get the chance to see her play a grand dame of the medium here, in a loving limited series about the life of Noele Gordon.
A mainstay on the long-running drama Crossroads, the actress could be haughty and prideful, but she was also at times the only thing keeping her program together. I’ll be watching, despite having absolutely no warm familiarity with the retro show at all.
Starstruck: Seasons 1-2 (February 17)
Believe it or not, Rose Matafeo was at one point a contributor for this very website!! Now, of course, she’s an international darling for the first two seasons of her Notting Hill-esque rom-com series, about a very ordinary (albeit extraordinarily charming) woman who falls for a blockbuster movie star. Where the first season gave us all the giddy escapism of an unlikely love affair, the honeymoon period has well and truly set in by season two: how long can a regular ol’ normie and an up-and-coming screen celeb lead a romantic life of compromise?
Absolutely Fabulous: Boxset Release (February 24)
Best known by its punchy two-syllable nickname, “Ab Fab” remains a raucous and perfectly performed ode to the yucky side of female friendship. As Edina and Patsy, Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley know that the key to a lifelong relationship is finding a hateful cow who thinks the same—and drinks the same—as you do, both saddled with far too much money and too little self-awareness. How the hell did these two successfully hold such high-flying jobs in London fashion and PR?? We don’t care, as long as it funds such a pair of addictively chaotic characters.
Top Picks: Movies
Harley Quinn: A Very Problematic Valentine’s Day Special (February 9)
I wouldn’t expect this one-off special featuring the characters of crass superhero animation Harley Quinn to actually live up to its title: so far, the show hasn’t put a foot wrong in making the Joker’s GF her own rowdy, loveable star. Now seemingly in romantic bliss with fellow supervillain Poison Ivy (voiced by Lake Bell), Harley (Kaley Cuoco) has to give this whole being-in-love biz another try. We’ll get to see how the rest of their motley crew of useless baddies celebrates the saccharine season too.
The Black Phone (February 12)
I’m going to give this Stephen King-lite horror flick another go once it’s streaming. Despite an impressively freaky Ethan Hawke as its kidnapping boogeyman, Scott Derrickson’s retro feature failed to give me the creeps in cinemas. What sticks with me, though, is the neat casting and direction of some believably rough-around-the-edges neighbourhood kids. You really mourn their sassy little ghosts, even as they startle us with jumpscares aplenty.
Emily The Criminal (February 26)
Aubrey Plaza’s having a big moment right now, which perhaps surprises those who’ve mostly known her deadpan sitcom persona. Turns out she’s got quite the range, and gets to show it off in this American indie feature. Widely praised by our team who saw it at New Zealand film festivals, it sees Plaza’s credit-card-nicking desperado take her grifting to a whole new level, unveiling noirish layers and themes of guilt as the con unfolds.
All titles arriving on BINGE in February
February 1
Mary Berry’s Cook & Share: Season 1
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy: Season 1
The Repair Shop: Season 4
Bangers & Cash: Season 4
WWE Game Night: Season 1
WWE Breaking Ground: Season 1
WCW Inner Circle: Season 1
The Ledge (2022)
The Losers
Accepted
February 2
Grand Designs New Zealand: Season 7
Guessable: Seasons 1-3
WWE Bad Blood: Season 1
ICW Fear And Loathing: Season 1
WWE Survivor Series: Season 1
Admission
Where The Buffalo Roam
Love & Basketball
February 3
Escape To The Country: Season 29
Earth’s Great Rivers: Season 1
Wrestlemania Rewind: Season 1
WWE Cyber Sunday: Season 1
WWE Hidden Gem: Season 1
Boy
Le Week-End
February 4
Transformers: The Last Knight
Unleashed
Paris Can Wait
Kill The Messenger
February 5
The Danish Girl
Far From Heaven
February 7
Time Team: Seasons 12-17
Wild Kratts: Season 3
WWE Insurrextion: Season 1
WWE Tribute To The Troops 2022
February 8
The Real Housewives of New Jersey: Season 13
Icons Unearthed: Star Wars: Season 2
Good Bones: Season 5
All That Breathes
February 9
Harley Quinn: A Very Problematic Valentines Day Special
Serving the Hamptons: Season 1
Vanderpump Rules: Season 10
The Fall: Seasons 1-2
Celebrity Masterchef: Season 17
WWE Summerslam: Season 1
WWE Judgement Day: Season 1
WWE Battleground: Season 1
WWE Hell In A Cell: Season 1
February 10
Nolly: Season 1
Hoarders: Season 7
February 12
Hotel Portofino: Season 2
Marc Maron: From Bleak To Dark
The Black Phone
Nighthawks
February 13
Jeepers Creepers: Reborn
February 14
Romantic Getaway: Season 1
ICW Shug’s House Party: Season 1
Killer In My Village: Season 2
Narrow Escapes Of World War II: Season 1
WWE Payback: Season 1
WCW The Great American Bash: Season 1
February 15
Downton Abbey: Seasons 1-6
Love At First Lie: Who’s a Couple and Who’s a Con?: Season 1
This Is Greece: Season 1
Food Unwrapped: Season 10
Ancient Black Ops: Season 1
February 16
Ex On The Beach (US): Season 6
Grand Designs: The Street: Season 2
In Your House: Seasons 1-3
Ancient Aliens: Season 14
Taking The Stand: Season 1
Cruise Ship Killers: Season 1
The Black Files: Declassified: Season 2
WWE Money In The Bank: Season 1
February 17
The Curse Of Oak Island: Season 10
Difficult People: Seasons 1-3
Starstruck: Seasons 1-2
The UnXplained: Season 5
The Great Killer Smog: Season 1
Secret War: Season 1
February 18
Dragnet
February 19
WWE Elimination Chamber 2023: Live Event
February 20
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Season 10
Magnum P.I.: Season 5
Jersey Shore: Family Vacation: Season 6
Foyle’s War: Seasons 1-9
Billy The Exterminator: Season 1
WWE Icons: Season 1
WWE Icons Revisited: Season 1
February 22
Location, Location, Location: Season 25
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Seasons 6-7
Theodore Roosevelt: Season 1
Who Killed Billie-Jo?: Season 1
February 23
Best Of 24 Hours in Emergency: Season 1
Inside The Ambulance: Season 11
Walking Britain’s Lost Railways: Season 1
World War II In HD Colour: Season 1
WWE Rebellion: Season 1
WWE Where Are They Now?: Season 1
February 24
Snowfall: Season 6
Rockwiz: Season 1
Absolutely Fabulous: Seasons 1-5
Rock Case Studies: Elton John
Cops: Season 34
Family Game Fight: Season 1
Hunting Atlantis: Season 1
Home Town: Season 2
Superstar Picks: Season 1
February 25
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
February 26
Emily The Criminal
February 27
Kings Of The Wood: Season 1
Arena Shows (AWA): Season 1
Arena Shows (MSW): Season 1
February 28
Red Dwarf: Seasons 1-12
Red Dwarf: Back To Earth: Season 9
Island Of Bryan: Season 4
Storage Wars: Season 14
The Decades That Defined Us: Season 1
Celebrity Wheel Of Fortune: Season 3
Bull: Season 5
Arena Shows (WCW): Season 1
All Star Wresting (AWA): Season 1
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