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What’s new on Apple TV+ this month (February 2025)

Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller point guns in The Gorge.
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Although Apple TV+ has made some recent exceptions to its original content-only strategy, the slate of new content remains fairly slim each month. That doesn’t mean the streamer isn’t worth your time, however. Quite the contrary, Apple TV+ has delivered an astonishing hit rate for Oscar- and Emmy-winning movies and shows.

This February, the streamer brings back an under-the-radar drama for season 2 and puts out a PG-13 thriller starring Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy called The Gorge.

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Our top picks for February

The Gorge (2025)

The Gorge
pg-13
127m
Genre
Action, Romance, Horror
Stars
Anya Taylor-Joy, Miles Teller, Sigourney Weaver
Directed by
Scott Derrickson
Watch on Apple TV+

In The Gorge, Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy star in this PG-13 romantic thriller as two highly trained operatives appointed to guard towers on opposite sides of a highly classified gorge.

All they know is they are protecting the world from a mysterious evil that lurks deep within it, and the two bond from a distance over their mutual purpose. But when a cataclysmic event threatens to end humanity, they must work together to keep the secret from emerging from the gorge and unleashing terror.

Surface (2022)

Surface
49%
tv-ma
2 Seasons
Genre
Drama
Stars
Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Millie Brady
Created by
Veronica West
Watch on Apple TV+

One of Apple TV+’s more under-the-radar shows, Surface stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Sophie, a woman suffering from extreme memory loss after a traumatic head injury. While her life appears picture-perfect, with a supportive husband and friends, something just doesn’t feel right.

As Sophie slowly begins to pull on threads and put the pieces of her life back together, she begins to question the supposed suicide attempt that caused her memory loss in the first place. The series comes back for season 2 this February.

Everything new on Apple TV+ in February

February 5

  • Love You to Death

February 14

  • The Gorge

February 21

  • Surface (Season 2)
  • Onside: Major League Soccer

Last month’s top picks

Severance (2022)

Severance
83%
tv-ma
2 Seasons
Genre
Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Stars
Adam Scott, Britt Lower, Zach Cherry
Created by
Dan Erickson
Watch on Apple TV+

Severance is bizarre. The show follows Mark Scout (Adam Scott), one of a few employees at Lumon Corporation to voluntarily undergo a procedure called “severance” that surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives. At work, they perform their menial jobs in a sterile space, barely understanding what it is they’re there to do, yet fully committed to doing it right.

They have absolutely no idea what their “other” lives are like. Mark eventually begins to suspect there are things about severance that weren’t fully disclosed. In season 2, the rabbit hole will go deeper.

Mythic Quest (2020)

Mythic Quest
73%
7.8/10
tv-ma
4 Seasons
Genre
Comedy
Stars
Rob McElhenney, Charlotte Nicdao, Ashly Burch
Created by
Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, Megan Ganz
Watch on Apple TV+

One of Apple TV+’s first comedy series, Mythic Quest was created by It’s Always Sunny … creators Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day. It stars McElhenney as pompous, legendary video game designer Ian (pronounced I-an) Grimm.

As head of the company building and the world’s biggest mass multiplayer game, Ian is an atrocious manager and incorrigible jerk who unsurprisingly creates a toxic workplace culture of fear, insecurity, and desperately competing egos. The strength of Mythic Quest is in its ensemble, headlined by Charlotte Nicdao, Danny Pudi, F. Murray Abraham, David Hornsby, Ashley Burch, Jessie Ennis, and Imani Hakim.

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