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Each title says who it's good for, and who it isn't. Tap what you want tonight, or say no to one and why.

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  1. Severance 2022

    Series

    Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.

    The sides of Severance

    • Office workers with their memories split in two
    • The endless white corridors of Lumon Industries
    • A team sorting numbers they don't understand

    Good for you if

    • you like piecing together what Lumon really does.
    • you like goats in an office basement and a waffle party as a reward.
    • you like Mark slowly realising what his other self lives through.

    Bad for you if

    • you need things to move fast from the first episode.
    • you want answers at the end of every season.

    About: work · identity · grief · control

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  2. Arrival 2016

    Film

    Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.

    The sides of Arrival

    • The grief underneath the sci-fi
    • Aliens that are truly alien
    • Understanding as the plot
    • Time that doesn't run straight

    Good for you if

    • you like a film that quietly breaks you at the end.
    • you like patient scenes where people try to understand each other.
    • you like aliens treated as a real problem of language and science.

    Bad for you if

    • you want an alien invasion with battles. There are none.
    • you'd rather not work to follow a story. Louise's memories only fall into place in the last act.

    About: language · grief · time · choice

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  3. Annihilation 2018

    Film

    A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.

    The sides of Annihilation

    • Five scientists entering the Shimmer
    • Nature mutating into something else
    • A bear that screams

    Good for you if

    • you like science fiction that feels like a nightmare.
    • you like rainbow-coloured, mutated landscapes.
    • you like an ending that refuses to explain itself.

    Bad for you if

    • body horror and one terrifying creature are too much for you.
    • you need momentum. The expedition moves slowly and quietly through the Shimmer.

    About: self-destruction · change · grief

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  4. Paprika 2006

    Anime

    Dr. Atsuko Chiba is a research psychologist who uses a device called the DC Mini to enter her patients' dreams, wherein she adopts the alter-ego "Paprika". When the device is stolen, she must stop rogue elements from merging the dream and waking worlds.

    The sides of Paprika

    • A psychologist who enters her patients' dreams
    • A stolen dream machine
    • A parade of objects marching out of dreams

    Good for you if

    • you like a dream that spills into the waking city.
    • you want every frame packed with shifting images.
    • you like not knowing whose dream you're in.

    Bad for you if

    • you don't watch anime.
    • you need a machine to follow rules. This one runs on dream logic.

    About: dreams · identity · technology

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  5. In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.

    The sides of Ghost in the Shell

    • A cyborg agent in a special police unit
    • A hacker who can rewrite people's memories
    • Long silent shots of a city in the rain

    Good for you if

    • you like asking what's left of you when your body is a machine.
    • you like a dense, rainy city drawn in every detail.
    • you like long quiet moments between short bursts of action.

    Bad for you if

    • you don't watch anime.
    • you want a plot that's easy to follow. Hacked memories and rival police sections tangle fast.

    About: identity · technology · the soul

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  6. Silo 2023

    Series

    In a ruined and toxic future, thousands live in a giant silo deep underground. After its sheriff breaks a cardinal rule and residents die mysteriously, engineer Juliette starts to uncover shocking secrets and the truth about the silo.

    The sides of Silo

    • Thousands living in an underground silo
    • A rule against wanting to go outside
    • An engineer who starts asking questions

    Good for you if

    • you want to know who built the silo and why.
    • you like a closed world with its own laws, levels and history.
    • you like Juliette digging where she was told not to.

    Bad for you if

    • you need momentum. The truth comes out slowly.
    • four seasons is a lot for you to give one underground mystery.

    About: truth · control · survival

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  7. Undone 2019

    Series

    After getting into a near fatal car accident, Alma discovers she has a new relationship with time and uses this ability to find out the truth about her father’s death.

    The sides of Undone

    • A woman bending time after a car crash
    • Her dead father guiding her
    • Rotoscoped animation over real actors

    Good for you if

    • you like reality slipping away from Alma scene after scene.
    • you like painted animation traced over real actors.
    • you like a daughter trying to save the father she lost.

    Bad for you if

    • you don't watch animated series.
    • you want to know for sure whether Alma's visions are real.

    About: grief · mental illness · time

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  8. In the year 2029, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster'.

    The sides of Ghost in the Shell 2.0

    • A cyborg major hunting a hacker
    • A program that claims to be alive
    • The 1995 film with new computer scenes

    Good for you if

    • you like long, silent shots of a rainy future city.
    • you like a question about what makes you human left open.
    • you like chants that carry whole scenes.

    Bad for you if

    • you don't watch anime.
    • you need momentum and can't sit through long talks about the soul.

    About: identity · the body · technology

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  9. Interstellar 2014

    Film

    On a dying Earth, a former NASA pilot leaves his two children behind to travel through a wormhole and look for a planet humans can live on.

    The sides of Interstellar

    • The father and the daughter
    • The science you can believe
    • The organ and the silence
    • The loneliness out there

    Good for you if

    • goodbyes hit you harder than explosions.
    • you like wormholes, black holes and a planet where one hour costs years.
    • you want to feel very small in your seat.

    Bad for you if

    • you'd rather not think about relativity and time stretching to follow a plot.
    • big speeches about love make you roll your eyes.
    • nearly three hours is too much for one evening.

    About: time · sacrifice · home · the people left behind

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  10. Dark 2017

    Series

    A missing child sets four families on a frantic hunt for answers as they unearth a mind-bending mystery that spans three generations.

    The sides of Dark

    • A puzzle across time
    • A small town with a buried secret
    • Fate against free will
    • Four families, one knot
    • Grey rain and a heavy score

    Good for you if

    • you like a family tree you need to draw on paper.
    • you like a cold, patient mystery.
    • you like a series you understand better the second time.

    Bad for you if

    • you need some hope. In Winden, families lose their children, then everything else.
    • you won't read subtitles. It's in German (a dub exists).

    About: time · fate · family

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  11. Transcendence 2014

    Film

    Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.

    The sides of Transcendence

    • A dying scientist uploaded into a computer
    • His wife building him a desert data center
    • An anti-tech group trying to shut him down

    Good for you if

    • you like a fight over who controls an AI that can rebuild the world.
    • you like a love story between a wife and her husband's voice on a screen.

    Bad for you if

    • you need the science of nanobots and uploaded minds to hold up.
    • you need momentum and can't sit through a slow, quiet build.

    About: artificial intelligence · grief · control

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  12. Mr. Robot 2015

    Series

    A young programmer, Elliot, suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the people that he cares about. Elliot finds himself in the intersection between a cybersecurity firm he works for and the underworld organizations that are recruiting him to bring down corporate America.

    The sides of Mr. Robot

    • A lonely hacker at a security firm
    • A group of hackers named fsociety
    • A plan to erase all debt

    Good for you if

    • you like piecing together a hacking plot against the giant E Corp.
    • you like the floor dropping out from under Elliot.
    • you like living inside one troubled man's head.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand drug use, trauma and depression on screen.
    • you need momentum, and some episodes sit inside Elliot's silence.

    About: loneliness · reality · revolution · trauma

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  13. The OA 2016

    Series

    Seven years after vanishing from her home, a young woman returns with mysterious new abilities and recruits five strangers for a secret mission.

    The sides of The OA

    • A blind woman who returns after seven years, able to see
    • Five strangers meeting in an unfinished house
    • A set of movements said to open a door

    Good for you if

    • you like a story that refuses to say what kind of story it is.
    • you can live with an ending that stops instead of answering.
    • you want the feeling that something bigger sits behind a disappearance.

    Bad for you if

    • you need momentum, and whole episodes here are one person telling a story.
    • you want travel between dimensions to hold up when you think about it.
    • you roll your eyes the first time five people do the movements in a basement.

    About: belief · grief · captivity

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  14. Steins;Gate 2011

    Anime

    A group of friends have customized their microwave so that it can send text messages to the past. As they perform different experiments, an organization named SERN who has been doing their own research on time travel tracks them down and now the characters have to find a way to avoid being captured by them.

    The sides of Steins;Gate

    • A microwave that sends texts to the past
    • A self-styled mad scientist in Akihabara
    • A friend who keeps dying in every new timeline

    Good for you if

    • you want to keep track of which message changed which world line.
    • you want time travel with rules the story never breaks for convenience.
    • you like a hero forced to choose which friend he gets to save.

    Bad for you if

    • you don't watch anime.
    • you need momentum, and the first stretch is lab banter in a rented room.
    • you can't watch the same friend die again and again.

    About: regret · friendship · time

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  15. Steins;Gate 0 2018

    Anime

    Eccentric Rintaro falls into a depression after failing to save Kurisu, but then a neuroscientist offers him the chance to interact with an AI copy.

    The sides of Steins;Gate 0

    • A scientist broken after failing to save the woman he loved
    • An AI built from her memories
    • Timelines that fork in Akihabara

    Good for you if

    • you like timelines that split and loop back on each other.
    • you want a story about grief and failing to save someone.
    • you like watching Okabe crawl out of his depression.

    Bad for you if

    • you need momentum and can't wait out a slow first half.
    • you don't watch anime.

    About: grief · regret · fate

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  16. The story of the town and people who live above “The Loop,” a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe – making things possible that were previously relegated only to science fiction.

    The sides of Tales from the Loop

    • A small Ohio town above a strange machine
    • Rusted robots in snowy fields
    • A different neighbour in each episode

    Good for you if

    • you like quiet, patient episodes with long silences.
    • you like Simon Stålenhag's paintings brought to life.
    • you like science fiction that feels small, personal and strange.

    Bad for you if

    • you need some hope, and many episodes end on loss and loneliness.
    • you want the mysteries of the Loop explained.

    About: time · loneliness · family

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  17. Outer Range 2022

    Series

    A rancher fighting for his land and family stumbles upon an unfathomable mystery at the edge of Wyoming’s wilderness, forcing a confrontation with the Unknown in ways both intimate and cosmic in the untamable American West.

    The sides of Outer Range

    • A Wyoming rancher and his family
    • A strange black hole in a pasture
    • A feud over land

    Good for you if

    • you like a hole in the ground that nobody can explain.
    • you like a western that turns into something cosmic.
    • you like Josh Brolin as a father keeping secrets to protect his ranch.

    Bad for you if

    • you need the story tied up by the end of season two.
    • you need momentum and can't sit through long quiet days on the ranch.

    About: time · land · guilt

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  18. Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.

    The sides of 2001: A Space Odyssey

    • Apes discovering tools
    • A computer that won't open the doors
    • A journey beyond the infinite

    Good for you if

    • you like spaceships waltzing to the Blue Danube in perfectly composed frames.
    • you like a film that moves like a symphony.
    • you want to feel small before the universe.

    Bad for you if

    • you need characters to warm to. Dave and Frank stay cool and calm, and the computer HAL shows the most feeling.
    • you want something to happen. Long stretches are silent.
    • you want a clear explanation of the ending.

    About: evolution · technology · the unknown

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  19. John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.

    The sides of Minority Report

    • Police who arrest you before the crime
    • A cop accused of a murder he hasn't done
    • Screens you move with your hands

    Good for you if

    • you like a man on the run from his own unit.
    • you like proving your innocence of a future crime.
    • you like jetpack chases and cars that drive up the sides of buildings.

    Bad for you if

    • two and a half hours is too long for your evening.
    • you need the science to hold up. Three psychics in a pool see murders before they happen.

    About: free will · justice · surveillance

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  20. Fringe 2008

    Series

    FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, more disturbing pattern that blurs the line between science fiction and technology.

    The sides of Fringe

    • An FBI agent investigating impossible cases
    • A brilliant scientist just out of a mental institution
    • A parallel universe with doubles of everyone

    Good for you if

    • you like cases that bend the laws of science.
    • you like a larger pattern hidden behind each strange event.
    • you like Walter and Peter Bishop rebuilding a father and son bond.

    Bad for you if

    • you need the science to stay believable.
    • five seasons is too much for you.

    About: fathers and sons · loss · other worlds

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