What To Watch This Weekend
Written by WorldOneFm on February 15, 2026
It’s a snowy February weekend here in the mountains. After unseasonably warm days all winter, it’s finally that perfectly chilly, wintry weather that keeps you comfortably indoors, curled up on the couch with a blanket, a cup of hot coffee, and a good TV show or movie.
We have so much to cover in this weekend’s guide. Crime thrillers, dark comedies, wild original movies on streaming services and in theaters, fantasy epics and cozy British murder mysteries. Animated sports films and in-depth docuseries. There is something for everyone in this weekend’s streaming guide, so let’s just dive right in.
New TV Shows To Watch This Weekend
How To Get To Heaven From Belfast (Netflix)
At the top of the list, the new Irish comedy-mystery series from Derry Girls creator, Lisa McGee, looks like exactly the binge-watch you’re looking for this chilly weekend in February. I loved Derry Girls and this looks like a slightly more grown-up version, with a mysterious death of an old friend thrown into the mix. The series follows three friends, played by Roísín Gallagher, Sinéad Keenan and Caoilfhionn Dunne, as they dig into the mystery and have what looks like a pretty hilarious, and potentially somewhat grizzly, adventure.
Cross – Season 2 (Prime Video)
The second season of the hit Prime Video crime drama, Cross, returns this weekend. Based on the James Patterson novels, the series follows Alex Cross (Aldis Hodge) in another high-octane mystery. Hodge is great in the role, and this time around he’s teamed up with the FBI to investigate a female serial killer. The second season sounds timely and relevant, involving the super-rich and sex-trafficking. Dark stuff, to be sure, but it certainly looks gripping.
Like Water For Chocolate – Season 2 (HBO)
The second and final season of HBO’s Like Water For Chocolate premieres this weekend on HBO Max. The romance series is based on the novel by Laura Esquivel and is perfectly timed for Valentine’s Day. Well, a day late, actually, since it premieres on Sunday.
Girl Taken (Paramount+)
Game of Thrones alum, Alfie Allen, plays a popular teacher named Rick who abducts one of his students, Lily (Tallulah Evans), who he holds captive for years. The show takes place over many years, spanning the time Lily is abducted and after her escape and the fallout of her abduction and its ripple effects across Lily’s family and the community.
Father Brown – Season 13 (BritBox)
For a less grim take on the crime drama, one of the coziest of murder mystery shows returns for its 13th season. Father Brown (Mark Williams) isn’t your ordinary priest. He’s also a brilliant detective. Along with his trusty bike, he solves crimes in the Cotswolds in the 1950s. The show is loosely based on the stories by G.K. Chesterton and is quite charming.
Soul Power (Prime Video)
If you have any interest in the history of professional basketball, Soul Power: The Legend of the American Basketball Association is for you. The docuseries chronicles the beginnings of the league in 1967, and how the ABA briefly challenged the dominance of the NBA, introduced the 3-point shot and much more. Basketball superstars like Julius Erving, Moses Malone and more are featured in the docuseries, which marks the 50th anniversary of the ABA/NBA merger.
Perry Mason – Seasons 1-9 (Prime Video)
The classic legal series, which debuted in 1957, lands on Prime Video this weekend, with all nine seasons available to stream. The series follows Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) as he defends the falsely accused in one of the greatest courtroom dramas ever made.
New Movies To Watch This Weekend
Good Fortune (Starz)
Seth Rogen is everywhere these days. In Good Fortune, he teams up with Keanu Reeves and Aziz Ansari in a comedy that sounds a bit like Trading Places meets It’s A Wonderful Life. Reeves plays an angel named Gabriel who tries to teach Arj (Ansari) a life lesson by body-swapping him with a rich techbro named Jeff (Rogen). The only problem? Arj loves his new life and refuses to swap back. Ansari also writes and directs.
Eternity (Apple TV)
Another Valentine’s Day pick for your weekend entertainment, Eternity is an A24 fantasy romantic comedy about love in the afterlife. More specifically, it’s about a love-triangle in the afterlife, and a woman’s choice about who to spend eternity with when all decisions are permanent. What if this is the bad place? The film stars Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller and Callum Turner.
New Movies In Theaters This Weekend
We have so many films landing in theaters this week, I’ve decided to devote an entire section to these theatrical releases. If you can weather the cold and make it to your local theater, you’re spoiled for choice.
Wuthering Heights
Director Emerald Fennell adapts the classic Emily Brontë novel, which arrives in theaters just in time for Valentine’s Day. If you’re looking for a period piece replete with BDSM, forbidden love and the talents of Margot Robbie (I can’t help but see her as Barbie now) and Frankenstein’s Jacob Elordi, look no further – though this has gotten decidedly mixed reviews from critics. It’s still “Fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes, but only barely with a 66% RT score.
Cold Storage
Stranger Things fans will want to show up to see Joe Keery in his first starring role since the Netflix series drew to a close (rather poorly, in my opinion). The film is based off the book by David Koepp, who also penned the screenplay, and follows the story of two employees at a self-storage company who encounter a mind-controlling parasitic fungus that has escaped from a government lockdown. The film also stars Georgina Capbell and Liam Neeson. This one has an 83% RT score.
Crime 101
Chris Hemsworth, Monica Barbaro, Barry Keoghan, Halle Berry and Mark Ruffalo star in this heist flick about an LA detective pursuing an elusive thief. Directed by Bart Layton, the film is based on the Don Winslow novella and has an 87% RT score.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
Gore Verbinski’s sci-fi action-adventure comedy stars Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz, Juno Temple and more in a film about a man from the future who arrives at a Los Angeles diner and announces that he’s here to save the world. He begins recruiting diner patrons to help find a 9-year-old boy who is about to create an AI that will take over the world. It looks wild, and has an 84% RT score.
TV Shows Currently Streaming Weekly
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (HBO)
Last week’s episode of A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms was one of my favorite episodes of all three Game Of Thrones TV shows, up there with the very best entries from the original series. Just phenomenal in every way. The series, based on the novellas by George R.R. Martin, follows Ser Duncan the Tall (Peter Claffey) and his squire, Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell) as they rub shoulders with smallfolk and great lords at a jousting tourney. Dunk seeks to make a name for himself, but he may have bitten off more than he can chew. It’s not as grand or epic as Thrones, but it’s beautifully shot, acted and produced and the music is sublime. I’m sad we only have two more (very short) episodes!
The Pitt – Season 2 (HBO Max)
I’ve been loving every real-time minute of the second season of The Pitt. Noah Wyle returns as Dr. Robbie, an ER doctor on the verge of total burnout. This time around, the fictional Pittsburgh emergency room is dealing with an influx of patients for the 4th of July holiday. New student doctors are on the scene and old conflicts are bubbling under the surface. I’m torn between wanting to watch each week and wanting to save up a few episodes so I can binge them, because I’m always falling off the edge of my seat whenever an episode suddenly ends and I have to wait another week.
Shrinking – Season 3 (Apple TV)
Shrinking follows the story of widower Jimmy Laird (Jason Segel), a therapist trying to patch up his relationship with is daughter, Alice (Lukita Maxwell) and piece his life back together after his wife’s death. His boss, Paul (Harrison Ford), is a big part of that process, but is also suffering from Parkinson’s Disease.
I’m saving up a few episodes of this to binge because it’s the kind of pleasant, heart-strings-pulling series that I like to settle into for an entire evening.
The Pendragon Cycle: Rise Of The Merlin (The Daily Wire)
The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin is a new fantasy series based on Stephen R. Lawhead’s Pendragon Cycle, which is a great read especially if you’re as obsessed with Arthurian legend as I am. I’ll have a review out soon, but it does feel like we’re in a pretty good place when it comes to fantasy TV shows at the moment between this and A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms. Maybe there’s hope for the genre yet.
Shetland – Season 10 (BritBox)
I’ve been binging older seasons of Shetland recently because it’s such a great little Scottish mystery, even though I’m not sure how the Shetland islands, with a population of just over 20,000 people, can produce so many murders and conspiracies. I finished the final season with Jimmy Perez (Douglas Henshall) and watched the first season with new lead, Ruth Calder (Ashley Jensen) and while it’s still good, it’s pretty hard to make such a drastic recasting work. I think the show probably should have leaned into making Tosh (Alison O’Donnell) the main detective, and given Sandy (Steven Robertson) an expanded role as her plucky DCI. Does a show set in such a rural area really need two DI’s?
Industry – Season 4 (HBO Max)
Season 4 sounds like it really goes in some crazy directions, though the first three seasons never received such rave reviews.
