Most of Netflix‘s high-profile TV shows are almost impossible to ignore. When the streamer wants to promote a show, it’s everywhere.
Because Netflix sometimes has tunnel vision about its originals, a lot of the acquired series don’t find an audience on the streamer.
That’s why the Watch With Us team has picked out three underrated Netflix shows you need to watch in February.
Our selections include a romantic drama that veers into fantasy, a spy family story and an updated take on a classic character.
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‘The Way Home’ (2023 – Present)
The setup for The Way Home should sound familiar to romantic drama fans. A newly single mother, Kat Dhawan (Chyler Leigh), has to take her teenage daughter, Ali (Sadie Laflamme-Snow), back to their hometown, Port Haven, so they can rebuild their lives. Kat also has to reconcile with her mother, Del Landry (Andie MacDowell), after being estranged from her for two decades.
Here’s where things veer off into fantasy. Ali discovers a pond that can take her back and forth across time. This allows her to meet her mother as a teenager and explore the family secrets that have kept Del and Kat apart for decades. Eventually, all three generations of the family become aware of the pond and what it can do. Season 3 was added to Netflix this month, and it’s the penultimate chapter ahead of the show’s fourth and final season.
The Way Home is streaming on Netflix.
‘Unfamiliar’ (2026)
Unfamiliar is a German spy thriller about Meret (Susanne Wolff) and Simon Schäfer (Felix Kramer). Nearly two decades ago, this couple worked as undercover agents for the German Foreign Intelligence Service, or BND. Now, to the outside world, they’re just the parents of a teenage girl named Nina (Maja Bons).
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Simon and Meret aren’t entirely removed from the spy business, and that oversight may come back to bite them. While hiding a new client who claims to be an injured BND operative, Meret and Simon realize that they’ve been targeted. They also discover that they’ve been keeping some big secrets from each other that harm their mutual trust at the moment they need it the most. As for Nina, she may find out about the family business long before she’s ready to absorb the truth about her parents.
Unfamiliar is streaming on Netflix.
‘Jekyll and Hyde’ (2015)
If you remember reading Robert Louis Stevenson‘s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, then you’ll recall that the story’s Victorian setting didn’t include cars. The Jekyll and Hyde series can get away with that because this show is jumping two generations ahead to the 1930s and centering on Dr. Robert Jekyll (Tom Bateman), the grandson of the infamous Dr. Henry Jekyll.
After being summoned to London to deal with his grandfather’s estate, Robert is drawn into the dark secrets of his family. He also discovers that he has a Hyde of his own, and this split personality has its own ideas about how to live. As Robert struggles with his alter ego, he uncovers new info about his parentage and enemies who want his family’s genetic powers for themselves. To survive, Robert may have to turn to his darker half and let Hyde run wild.
Jekyll and Hyde is streaming on Netflix.
