Hulu ushers in the shortest month of the year with a couple of bold, daring TV series featuring promising talent. First up is Zoe Kravitz who follows her turn on Big Little Lies with a dramedy about a record store owner with a troubled romantic life living in New York City. And Hulu fills the YA dystopia void with Utopia Falls, a groundbreaking series that covers sci-fi themes through song and dance.
Here’s everything coming to (and leaving) Hulu this February.
Zoe Kravitz produces and stars in this departure from Nick Hornby’s beloved 1995 novel, playing a young record store owner who fights against the gentrification of her Brooklyn neighborhood while replaying a string of failed relationships to the tune of indie hits. The store feels like a more mellow version of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag, and the soundtrack is fire.
Hulu’s pushing boundaries with this Afrofuturistic series that marks the first-ever performance-based sci-fi show on TV. Set in the not too distant future, the show follows a group of teens chosen to compete in a prestigious performing arts program in an idyllic colony called New Babyl. The competition causes the students to uncover old relics from Earth’s war-torn past, putting them on a journey that covers everything from activism to eco-awareness through music and dance.
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