No matter how well your favorite streaming service's algorithm knows you, come February, sometimes even the smartest technology can be swayed by the power of Valentine's Day. But love--romantic or otherwise--can be found in the oddest of places, including the radioactive wasteland of postapocalyptic Los Angeles, Westeros in the rare midst of relative peace, or behind the scenes of the latest MCU blockbuster. Whether you're in the mood for a reliable sci-fi gem or an enlightening new docuseries courtesy of director Josh Safdie, February's streaming lineup offers plenty of options to swoon over. Here are the 10 shows we're falling for right now. Picking up from roughly where Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman's left off when it ended in 2024, might be best described as for the TikTok age or simply the franchise's horniest iteration.

"I didn't expect this book to be analyzed like," hockey smut author Rachel Reid tells WIRED. Rachel Reid didn't intend for anyone to write a dissertation about her horny little gay hockey series. Then again, the Nova Scotia author behind the series could never have anticipated the level of fanfare that's accompanied the television adaptation of her books: . The show, commissioned by Canada's Crave and distributed by HBO Max in the US, debuted in late November and quickly became a massive hit. It's the number one Crave original series of all time, and it also climbed to number 1 on HBO Max.

The director of created a "Sam Bot" when he couldn't get an interview with the OpenAI CEO. Watch an exclusive trailer for the documentary, which comes out in January. Director Adam Bhala Lough didn't set out to make a documentary about a digital simulacrum of Sam Altman . But after about 100 days of texting and emailing the OpenAI CEO for an interview--with no response, he claims, and with financiers hounding him to make good on his original pitch--Lough was at his wit's end. He'd exhausted just about every angle.

Sam Altman's appearance on is part of a larger charm offensive currently being waged by the tech establishment. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was at the center of Silicon Valley's most visible publicity push in recent memory Monday night when he appeared on . In a predictably softball interview with host Jimmy Fallon, Altman explained how ChatGPT has helped him alleviate the anxiety that comes with being a new parent. It was a distinctly clever, if somewhat surprising, choice from Altman who has mostly kept his personal life out of the media spotlight. But Altman is a salesman, and a good salesman understands the optics of good television.

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince claims the internet infrastructure company's efforts to block AI crawlers are already seeing big results. As the large language models powering generative AI tools slurp up ever more data across the web, Cloudflare cofounder and CEO Matthew Prince said at WIRED's Big Interview event in San Francisco on Thursday that the internet infrastructure company has blocked more than 400 billion AI bot requests for its customers since July 1. The action comes after the company announced a Content Independence Day in July--an initiative with prominent publishers and AI firms to block AI crawlers by default on content creators' work unless the AI companies pay for access. Since July 2024, Cloudflare has offered customers tools to block AI bots from scraping their content. Cloudflare told WIRED that the number of AI bots blocked since July 1, 2025 is 416 billion.

Hulu, HBO Max, and Disney are all offering terrific Black Friday streaming deals in 2025. Time to make a burner email? HBO knows you're bored and cold. It wants you to Max and chill with Noah Wyle in scrubs . The company offers some of the best Black Friday streaming deals with a ridiculously low-priced $3/month offer for basic HBO Max (it's the version with ads and 2K streaming, but still, super-cheap).

April promises to be an exciting month for streaming TV. Popular shows are returning this month for second seasons, including Apple TV's Schmigadoon! Then there's HBO's Somebody Somewhere, which is back for season 2 on April 23. But there are exciting new shows premiering this month as well that are worth checking out. Amazon Prime Video, for example, has an interesting gender-reversed version of David Cronenberg's 1988 movie Dead Ringers, starring Rachel Weisz in the role previously portrayed by Jeremy Irons.

Company OverviewWarnerMedia is a leading media and entertainment company that creates and distributes premium and popular content from a diverse array of talented storytellers and journalists to global audiences through its consumer brands including: HBO, HBO Max, Warner Bros., TNT, TBS, truTV, CNN, DC Entertainment, New Line, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Turner Classic Movies and others. Business Unit OverviewHBO Max is where storytelling takes center stage and where creatives find a home with the support and resources to do their best work, no matter the genre or format. Whatever the viewer wants to watch is front and center and more of what they crave is easily discovered. It is where our exclusive HBO Max Originals and iconic entertainment brands thrive, with HBO, Warner Bros., DC, Turner Classic Movies, Cartoon Network and more delivering the greatest array of series, movies and specials for audiences of all ages. HBO Max launched in the US in May 2020 and is scheduled to be in an additional 60 markets this year, launching in Latin America in June and followed by upgrades of HBO-branded streaming services in Europe.

A gutting new documentary about Anthony Bourdain has arrived. Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain, from filmmaker Morgan Neville, hits theaters today, Friday, July 16. While most who've seen it seem to agree that the piece, much like the subject matter, is enthralling, questions regarding the ethics of the production have also been raised. Most of this attention is centered on one decision: featuring voiceover quotes from the acclaimed chef and author that, it turns out, he never actually said. As Neville revealed to the New Yorker, he and his team employed artificial intelligence technology to recreate Bourdain's voice to add in a few missing pieces that the director thought filled in holes in the story.

HBO Max has been mocked and consoled after sending out an unusual email to its customers. The message – apparently sent to a significant numbers of the service's subscribers – was not advertising a new show or feature, but rather included only a cryptic message that appeared to have been sent out by mistake. "This template is used by integration tests only." As recipients opened the email, and quickly realised that it had been sent by mistake, the reaction ranged from mockery to sympathy for the person who had clearly sent what was an internal test email out to potentially millions of subscribers. Live facial recognition technology creates'supercharged CCTV' that could be used recklessly, Information Commission warns Bitcoin price news – live: Crypto struggles to bounce back as slump continues Nasa attempting to restart Hubble Space Telescope after it was forced into'safe mode' by computer error Live facial recognition technology creates'supercharged CCTV' that could be used recklessly, Information Commission warns Nasa attempting to restart Hubble Space Telescope after it was forced into'safe mode' by computer error Many joked that the integration test email sounded like a show that could be on the service.