Series to Watch: February 2025

Series to Watch: February 2025


By DQ
January 30, 2025

Ones to Watch

DQ checks out the upcoming schedules to pick 10 new series to catch this February, from a Jane Austen-inspired period drama and a trip to 1880s Victorian London to an AI thriller and a new stay at The White Lotus.

Miss Austen
From: UK
Original broadcasters: BBC (UK), Masterpiece (US)
Producer: Bonnie Productions
Distributor: Federation Stories
Starring: Keeley Hawes, Rose Leslie, Jessica Hynes, Synnøve Karlsen and Patsy Ferran
Launch date: February 2 (UK), May 4 (US)
Based on a real literary mystery – Cassandra Austen notoriously burning her famous sister Jane’s letters – this four-parter reimagines it as a fascinating, witty and heart-breaking story of sisterly love. The drama begins in 1830, many years after Jane has died. Cassandra (Hawes) rushes to visit Isabella (Leslie), the niece of her long-dead fiancé, who is about to lose her home following her father’s death. Cassandra is ostensibly there to help Isabella, but her real motive is to find a hidden bundle of private letters which, in the wrong hands, she fears could destroy Jane’s reputation. On discovering them, Cassandra is overwhelmed as she is transported back to her youth. In flashbacks, Young Cassy (Karlsen) and Jane (Ferran) navigate the romantic infatuations, family feuds and dashed hopes which shaped their lives, and laid the foundations for Jane’s unforgettable stories.
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Cassandra
From: Germany
Original broadcaster: Netflix
Producer: Rat Pack Filmproduktion
Starring: Lavinia Wilson, Mina Tander, Michael Klammer, Franz Hartwig, Mary Tölle,
Joshua Kantara, Elias Grünthal, Filip Schnack
Launch date: February 6
Since the owners died under mysterious circumstances more than 50 years ago, Germany’s oldest smart home has stood empty. But when Samira (Tander) moves in with her family, virtual assistant Cassandra (Wilson) awakens from her decades-long slumber. The house was developed in the 1970s to take care of a family and has been out of service since the death of the previous occupants, and now Cassandra senses a second chance. However, she fancies herself as much more than a fairy godmother who keeps everything in order. Cassandra soon sees herself as an equal member of the family and does everything she can not to be left alone again – with all the means at her disposal.
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Invisible Boys
From: Australia
Original broadcaster: Stan
Producers: Feisty Dame Productions, Asphodel Films
Distributor: Banijay Rights
Starring: Joseph Zada, Aydan Calafiore, Zach Blampied, Joe Klocek, Pia Miranda and David Lyons
Launch date: February 13
Described as a groundbreaking LGBTQIA+ story based on Holden Sheppard’s novel, the 10-part series is set against the backdrop of Australia’s 2017 same-sex marriage plebiscite, exploring the challenges faced by a group of gay teens in the remote coastal town of Geraldton, Western Australia, after one of them is outed on social media following an encounter with a married man. As they form a tight-knit friendship, the boys find solace and support in one another, exploring their desires and identities in a world that often renders them invisible.
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The White Lotus S3
From: US
Original broadcaster: HBO
Producer: Rip Cord Productions
Starring: Leslie Bibb, Carrie Coon, Walton Goggins, Sarah Catherine Hook, Jason Isaacs, Lalisa Manobal, Michelle Monaghan, Sam Nivola, Lek Patravadi, Parker Posey, Natasha Rothwell, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Tayme Thapthimthong and Aimee Lou Wood
Launch date: February 16
Once again written and directed by Mike White, the social satire returns in a new setting, an exclusive Thai resort, and follows the exploits of various guests and employees over a week.
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A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story
From: UK
Original broadcasters: ITV (UK), BritBox (North America)
Producer: Silverprint Pictures
Distributor: ITV Studios
Starring: Lucy Boynton, Toby Jones, Laurie Davidson and Mark Stanley
Launch date: February 17 (BritBox)
The story of Britain’s last woman to be hanged, the series is told over two timelines to depict Ruth (Boynton)’s entry into a dizzying upper class London world that promises so much but ultimately delivers treachery. It follows her glamorous lifestyle as a young nightclub manageress, her abusive relationship with the man she later gunned down in cold blood, her arrest, trial and the subsequent legal fight to reprieve her before she was executed aged just 28.

Good Cop/Bad Cop
From: Australia
Original broadcaster: Stan (Australia), The CW (US), Roku
Producers: Future Shack Entertainment, Jungle Entertainment
Distributor: ITV Studios
Starring: Leighton Meester, Luke Cook, Clancy Brown, Devon Terrell, Blazey Best, Scott Lee, William McKenna, Shamita Siva, Philippa Northeast and Grace Chow
Launch date: February 19 (US), February 20 (Aus)
Lou (Meester) and Henry (Cook), a sister and brother detective team in a small Pacific North-west police force, contend with colourful residents, a serious lack of resources and their very complicated dynamic with each other and their police chief, Big Hank (Brown) – who happens to be their father.
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Zero Day
From: US
Original broadcaster: Netflix
Producers: Grand Electric, Panoramic Media Co, Prologue Entertainment
Starring: Robert De Niro, Angela Bassett, Lizzy Caplan, Jesse Plemons, Joan Allen, Connie Britton, Matthew Modine, Dan Stevens, Bill Camp, Gaby Hoffmann and Clark Gregg
Launch date: February 20
This limited series stars De Niro as respected former US president George Mullen, who, as head of the Zero Day Commission, is charged with finding the perpetrators of a devastating cyber-attack that has caused chaos around the country and thousands of fatalities. As disinformation runs rampant and the personal ambition of power brokers in technology, Wall Street and government collide, Mullen’s unwavering search for the truth forces him to confront his own dark secrets while risking all he holds dear.
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A Thousand Blows
From: UK
Original broadcasters: Disney+, Hulu (US)
Producers: Matriarch Productions, The Story Collective and Water & Power Productions
Starring: Malachi Kirby, Erin Doherty, Stephen Graham, Frances Lovehall
Launch date: February 21
From writer Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders), this drama is set within the perilous world of illegal boxing in 1880s London as Hezekiah Moscow (Kirby) and Alec Munroe (Lovehall), best friends from Jamaica, find themselves thrust into the criminal underbelly of the city’s thriving bare-knuckle boxing scene. As Hezekiah finds fortune and fame through the art of pugilism, he attracts the attention of the infamous Queen of the Forty Elephants, Mary Carr (Doherty), who sets about exploiting his talents to further her criminal enterprise. Meanwhile, the menacing and self-declared emperor of the East End boxing world, Sugar Goodson (Graham), determines to destroy Hezekiah, whose ambitions to fight in the West End threaten everything he has built.
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Suits LA
From: US
Original broadcasters: NBC, Peacock
Producer: UCP
Distributor: NBCUniversal Global TB Distribution
Starring: Stephen Amell, Lex Scott Davis, Josh McDermitt and Bryan Greenberg
Launch date: February 23
This follow-up to the original Suits, which found new fandom when it landed on Netflix, finds Ted Black (Amell), a former federal prosecutor from New York, reinventing himself representing the most powerful clients in LA. His firm is at a crisis point and in order to survive, he must embrace a role he held in contempt his entire career. Ted is surrounded by a stellar group of characters who test their loyalties to both Ted and each other while they can’t help but mix their personal and professional lives. All of this is going on while we slowly unravel the events that years ago led Ted to leave behind everything and everyone he loved.
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Su Majestad
From: Spain
Original broadcaster: Prime Video
Producers: The Mediapro Studio, Sayaka Producciones
Starring: Anna Castillo, Ernesto Alterio, Pablo Derqui, Ramón Barea, Ana María Vidal, Lucía Díez, Pablo Vázquez, Freddie Dennis
Launch date: February 27
Spain 2024. Pilar is a young princess and future Queen of Spain who is suddenly forced to lead the institution after a scandal involving her father, King Alfonso XIV, takes him out of the public eye for a few months. Pilar must prove to the country she is not the irresponsible, insolent, lazy and useless woman that everyone believes her to be. The thing is, they might be right.
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