In space, no one can hear you grumbling that there’s nothing on telly… but that won’t be an issue with this month’s streaming highlights
Constellation
Here’s another astronaut, forced by disaster to return to Earth, where she discovers that something about her own life appears to have gone missing… and it all smells alittle bit conspiracy-ish. Or has she just come back changed? This eight-part thriller stars Noomi Rapace alongside Jonathan ‘Mike Ehrmantraut’ Banks.
S1 / Apple TV+, 21 Feb
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Prepare to paint ablue arrow on your head: the classic Nickelodeon animation has gone live-action, courtesy of Netflix. Amid astruggle between the once-peaceful elemental nations, young Aang must take up the mantle of Avatar and restore balance to ashattered world. With ablue arrow on his head.
S1 / Netflix, 22 Feb
The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy
This adult animated series from Russian Doll writer Cirocco Dunlap follows the adventures of Doctors Sleech and Klak, two intergalactically well-regarded surgeons battling against all manner of weird and wonderful conditions in aspace hospital. You had us at ‘Sleech and Klak’.
S1 / Prime Video, 23 Feb
Shogun
Based on James Clavell’s novel, this historical epic explores 17th-century Japan through the eyes of sailor John Blackthorne, the first Englishman to set foot in the country. He’s there on the orders of his government, but ends up embroiled in avicious civil war and even more embroiled with a mysterious woman.
S1 / Disney+, 27 Feb
Damsel
Marrying adishy prince and living out your days in atowering castl
