February is a big month for streaming service Peacock, with monumental NBC-shared events like the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics and my own birthday (coverage of which has been preempted by NCAA basketball). If the servers hold, this is Peacock’s time to shine.
But there’ll be some sports downtime, and you’ll want to get the most out of the Peacock subscription you’ve paid for, a must in the bigly booming economy of the Hottest Country in the World™.
Here are 10 underseen Peacock originals that’ll add some quality bang for your buck.
Ponies (2026): Bea (Emilia Clarke, Game of Thrones) and Twila (Haley Lu Richardson, The White Lotus) are American embassy secretaries in 1977 Moscow with little in common—except for the mysterious deaths of their CIA agent husbands. Since they’re essentially invisible as women in ’70s Russia (or persons of no interest: “PONIes”), Bea and Twila agree to go undercover for the CIA to spy on the KGB. Clarke and Richardson are a hilariously warm duo in this Cold War espionage dramedy, which is among 2026’s early best.
The Copenhagen Test (2025): It’s another spy series, but The Copenhagen Test is waaay more complicated. Alexander (Simu Liu) is a military vet and American intelligence agent whose brain has been hacked with nanobots, allowing an unknown enemy access to everything he sees and hears—oh, there’s more. Upon learning this, Alexander’s agency creates a false world around him as they track the hack, including machinations even he doesn’t suspect. It’s a lot, but in an engaging, make-a-plot-spreadsheet kind of way.
Long Bright River (2025): One of Amanda Seyfried’s best performances is also one of her most overlooked, possibly due to HBO’s Task stealing last year’s gritty-crime-drama spotlight. As Philadelphia patrol cop Mickey, Seyfried is troubled, icy and determined to find her missing drug-addict sister and the killer of three women in the city’s most crime-ridden and depressed neighborhoods. It’s a bleak scenario, but Long Bright River hints at some hope in the darkness.
Laid (2025): Laid is a title that can be read two ways, one being “laid to rest.” Ruby (Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once) is an unlucky-in-love single woman who learns that all of her past boyfriends and one-night stands have died (in order, no less), and the only common thread is her. Laid works as a black comedy, a rom-com and a mystery, with Zosia Mamet nailing the fizzy, manic BFF role even better than she did in The Flight Attendant. Caveat: Laid, sadly, ends on an unresolved cliffhanger.
Hysteria! (2024): The “Satanic Panic” around heavy metal music in the ’80s was real—and real stupid, as portrayed perfectly in Hysteria! Suburban Detroit rock band Dethkrunch (love it; no notes) rebrand themselves as satanic metal to capitalize on local demonic fear/fascination, which works until supernatural phenomena and deaths start occurring. Devilish fun points go to Bruce Campbell as the local sheriff, and to Anna Camp as the consummate hair-helmeted ’80s morality cop.
Teacup (2024): As in the sci-fi novel upon which it’s based, Robert McCammon’s 1988 Stinger, Teacup begins with a malevolent alien presence sealing off a town in rural Georgia, sparking an unrelenting air of confusion and quiet terror. This adaptation was co-created by James Wan (Saw, The Conjuring), so psychological horror also factors into the eight-episode series, carried by leads Yvonne Strahovski (The Handmaid’s Tale) and Scott Speedman (sans his Underworld mullet). Teacup is about the ride, not the resolution.
Based on a True Story (2023): When true-crime-obsessed realtor Ava (Kaley Cuoco) deduces the identity of a serial killer terrorizing Los Angeles, she invites him to do a murder podcast with her and her husband, tennis instructor Nathan (Chris Messina). Hey, there’s no sponsorship money in calling the police. Based on a True Story goes wrong in all the expected (and unexpected) ways, resulting in one of the few podcast-related shows to get that medium right, with just the lightest touch of bloody, black comedy.
Twisted Metal (2023): While it isn’t on the same level as Fallout and The Last of Us on the video-game-to-TV scale, Twisted Metal is a fast, furious and funny blast of cartoonish violence that doesn’t take itself nearly as seriously. It’s also one of Peacock’s most-viewed series, and one of the very few to survive past two seasons on the streamer. (A third is coming in 2026.) John (Anthony Mackie), Quiet (Stephanie Beatriz) and Sweet Tooth (voiced by Will Arnett) are miles-better wasteland company than The Ghoul and Joel.
Angelyne (2022): Before Jeremy Allen White and The Bear, most Gallagher family fans thought Emmy Rossum would be the Shameless star to break out big, and Angelyne should have done it for her. Rossum stars as Angelyne, the blonde bombshell who created her own small corner of fame in the pre-internet ’80s by plastering herself all over Los Angeles billboards. How much of this story is actually true is purposefully hazy, but Angelyne is a wild and frenetic Hollywood fable worthy of America’s lost reality-fame pioneer.
The Resort (2022): You’d think a series created by Palm Springs and Lodge 49 writer Andy Siara would have made more of a splash, but few mystery-comedy nerds checked into The Resort. Lukewarm married couple Emma (Cristin Milioti, The Penguin) and Noah (William Jackson Harper, The Good Place) are barely tolerating a Yucatan vacation when a 15-year-old unsolved mystery drops into their laps. The Resort’s twists will satisfy puzzle-solvers, and the characters are an easier hang than the guests of The White Lotus.