What’s New on Netflix in February 2022
Reading Time: 4 minutesOnly could Peak Streaming deliver a TV show based on a niche video game like Cuphead.
For all the rise of streaming has done to kill movie theaters and disrupt the entertainment world, I have to admit that I continue to be impressed by the weird stuff Netflix and its ilk spend their billions on. As audiences segment themselves ever further, content grows ever more niche, to the point that one of the world’s biggest streamer’s top offerings for February 2022 is an offbeat animated series based on a bizarre indie video game.
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The Cuphead Show! (Feb. 18) apes the character designs (if not the charming retro animation) of Cuphead, a quirky 2017 run-and-gun shooter developed by Studio MDHR. A huge success by the standards of independently-produced games—having sold more than six million copies—it doesn’t strike me as any Hollywood producer’s first bet for a mainstream hit show, even though it’s remarkably well-suited to be one: Visually ‘inspired by the rubber hose style from the golden age of American animation‘ that began in the 1920s, its wacky character designs (that title describes the heroes quite literally) and frantic action mean it barely needs to be translated between mediums.
Still, some things seem to have been sacrificed in the move. While the game was painstaking hand-animated in the style of those vintage cartoon shorts, the show is produced via modern methods of computer-assisted animation, giving it a very different feel, despite the faithful character designs. Also, considering it’s debuting under the Netflix Family banner, I can only assume some of the sharper edges of the narrative—which involves a literal deal with the devil and a violent battle for the heroes’ lost souls—have been smudged a bit. Nevertheless, I’ll sample it with glee.
Here’s everything else coming to Netflix this month, including new episodes of Space Force (remember that? With Steve Carrell? May 2020 was so long ago) and Matt Groeing’s Disenchantment (Feb. 9), more reality relationship shenanigans on Love Is Blind—both original flavor (Feb. 11) and Love Is Blind Japan (Feb. 8)—a new Tyler Perry film starring Madea (Feb. 25), and, on Feb. 1, a new season of Gabby’s Dollhouse (that one’s for my kids).
What’s coming to Netflix in February 2022
Coming in February (date TBD)
- Business Proposal — Netflix Series
- Juvenile Justice — Netflix Series
- Love, Life & Everything in Between — Netflix Series
- One Piece: Episode of Chopper: Bloom in the Winter, Miracle Sakura
- One Piece: Episode of Alabasta
Arriving Feb. 1
- My Best Friend Anne Frank — Netflix Film
- Gabby’s Dollhouse: Season 4 — Netflix Family
- Raising Dion: Season 2 — Netflix Series
- The Addams Family (1991)
- Anaconda
- Batman Begins
- The Book of Eli
- The Bourne Ultimatum
- Caddyshack
- Caddyshack 2
- Countdown
- The Dark Knight
- Despicable Me
- Despicable Me 2
- The Devil’s Advocate
- Donnie Brasco
- The Exorcist
- The Foreigner
- The Hangover
- Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole
- The Last Samurai
- The Lucky One
- The Negotiator
- The New Guy
- New Year’s Eve
- The One
- The Other Boleyn Girl
- The Other Guys
- Patsy & Loretta
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
- Warrior
- Watchmen
Arriving Feb. 2
- Dark Desire: Season 2 — Netflix Series
- MeatEater: Season 10, Part 2 — Netflix Documentary
- The Tinder Swindler — Netflix Documentary
Arriving Feb. 3
- Finding Ola — Netflix Series
- Kid Cosmic: Season 3 — Netflix Family
- Murderville — Netflix Series
Arriving Feb. 4
- Looop Lapeta — Netflix Film
- Sweet Magnolias: Season 2 — Netflix Series
- Through My Window — Netflix Film
Arriving Feb. 8
- Child of Kamiari Month — Netflix Anime
- Love is Blind Japan — Netflix Series (New episodes weekly)
- Ms. Pat: Y’all Wanna Hear Something Crazy? — Netflix Comedy
Arriving Feb. 9
- Catching Killers: Season 2 — Netflix Documentary
- Disenchantment: Part 4 — Netflix Series
- Ideias à Venda — Netflix Series
- Only Jokes Allowed — Netflix Comedy
- The Privilege — Netflix Film
Arriving Feb. 10
- Into the Wind — Netflix Film
- St. Vincent
- Until Life Do Us Part — Netflix Series
Arriving Feb. 11
- Anne+: The Film — Netflix Film
- Love Tactics — Netflix Film
- Bigbug — Netflix Film
- Inventing Anna — Netflix Series
- Love and Leashes — Netflix Film
- Love Is Blind: Season 2 — Netflix Series (New episodes weekly)
- Tall Girl 2 — Netflix Film
- Toy Boy: Season 2 — Netflix Series
Arriving Feb. 12
- Forecasting Love and Weather — Netflix Series
- Twenty Five Twenty One — Netflix Series
Arriving Feb. 14
- Devotion, a Story of Love and Desire — Netflix Series
- Fishbowl Wives — Netflix Series
Arriving Feb. 15
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
- Ridley Jones: Season 3 — Netflix Family
Arriving Feb. 16
- Blackhat
- jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy — Netflix Documentary (New episodes weekly)
- Secrets of Summer — Netflix Family
- Swap Shop: Season 2 — Netflix Series
Arriving Feb. 17
- Erax — Netflix Short Film
- Fistful of Vengeance — Netflix Film
- Forgive Us Our Trespasses — Netflix Short Film
- Heart Shot — Netflix Short Film
- Mo Gilligan: There’s Mo to Life — Netflix Comedy
- Young Wallander: Killer’s Shadow — Netflix Series
Arriving Feb. 18
- The Cuphead Show! — Netflix Family
- Downfall: The Case Against Boeing — Netflix Documentary
- Rabbids Invasion Special: Mission to Mars — Netflix Film
- Space Force: Season 2 — Netflix Series
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre — Netflix Film
Arriving Feb. 20
- Don’t Kill Me — Netflix Film
Arriving Feb. 21
- Halloween (2007)
Arriving Feb. 22
- Cat Burglar — Netflix Series
- RACE: Bubba Wallace — Netflix Documentary
Arriving Feb. 23
- Worst Roommate Ever — Netflix Documentary
- UFO — Netflix Film
Arriving Feb. 24
- Karma’s World Music Videos — Netflix Family
Arriving Feb. 25
- Back to 15 — Netflix Series
- Merlí. Sapere Aude — Netflix Series
- Restless — Netflix Film
- Tyler Perry’s A Madea Homecoming — Netflix Film
- Vikings: Valhalla — Netflix Series
Arriving Feb. 28
- My Wonderful Life — Netflix Film
- Two Sentence Horror Stories: Season 3
What’s leaving Netflix in February 2022
Leaving Feb. 1
- Await Further Instructions
- Grown Ups
Leaving Feb. 8
- Polaroid
Leaving Feb. 9
- Hitler – A Career
Leaving Feb. 15
- Studio 54
Leaving Feb. 16
- Drunk Parents
Leaving Feb. 19
- Good Time
Leaving Feb. 20
- Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey
Leaving Feb. 25
- No Escape
Leaving Feb. 26
- Edge of Seventeen
Leaving Feb. 28
- Border Security: America’s Front Line: Season 2
- Chocolat
- Dances with Wolves
- The Darkest Hour
- Fool’s Gold
- Here Comes the Boom
- The Interview
- Labyrinth
- Law Abiding Citizen
- Mars Attacks!
- Observe and Report
- Rain Man
- Sabrina
- Sex Drive
- Something Borrowed
- Soul Surfer
- Step Brothers
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Total Recall
- We Were Soldiers