Technology has chilling consequences in two new titles today. Stephen Soderbergh’s new feature “Kimi” (HBO Max, streaming) is named after a fictional Siri-like device that, like the real device, is always listening. Zoe Kravitz portrays a blue-haired techie who works at home fixing its bugs, only to have stumbled on a recording of what she thinks is a violent crime,. The film is in part about the pandemic — she works at home and only ventures out when she has to. Rita Wilson and Erika Christensen also star.
On the same service, the series “The Girl Before” (HBO Max, streaming) stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw as a woman chosen to live in an architecturally advanced home that is not only smart, but diabolical. David Oyelowo is the architect who is her landlord.
A third new series “About Last Night” (HBO Max, streaming) is essentially “The Newlywed Game” for celebs couples too young to remember the original, but with cocktails. Steph Curry and his wife Ayesha are ostensible hosts; he’s the bartender, she reads the questions. Celebs like Adam Pally and Malin Ackerman play on episode one.
“Star Trek: Discovery” (Paramount+, streaming) begins its fourth season.
Your nightly Super Bowl prelude is the 11th annual NFL Honors (ABC, NFL, 9 p.m.), where the league’s top players will be recognized in an event from Los Angeles. Appropriately eclipsed by the event will be the 44th Eclipse Awards (TVG, 8 p.m.) for horse racing.
Primetime Winter Olympics (NBC, 8 p.m.) includes freestyle and Alpine skiing and halfpipe snowboarding.