What do you want to watch tonight?
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.
Closest to Good Girls first
Weeds 2005
Series
After the unexpected death of her husband, a suburban mom resorts to selling weed to support her family.
The sides of Weeds
- A widowed suburban mom selling weed
- A gated Californian suburb
- A family dragged deeper into the drug trade
Good for you if
- you like laughing at a mother making terrible choices.
- you like following Nancy Botwin as she lies her way further in.
- you like a messy family where sons and brothers-in-law join the business.
Bad for you if
- eight seasons is too much for you.
- you'd rather not have sex scenes on screen.
About: grief · money · motherhood

Senora Acero 2014
Series
The adventures of Vicenta Acero, the feared coyote who now leads the dynasty of illicit dealings once under the control of her father.
The sides of Senora Acero
- A woman taking over her father's smuggling business
- Crossings at the border between Mexico and the US
- A feared woman boss in a world of men
Good for you if
- you like a woman rising in Mexico's criminal underworld.
- you like a telenovela full of betrayals and narrow escapes.
- you like love affairs tangled with the smuggling trade.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a Mexican series.
- five seasons is too much for you.
- you can't stand shootouts and cartel killings.
About: power · loyalty · revenge

La Reina del Sur 2011
Series
After years of blood, sweat and tears, a woman of humble origin ends up becoming a drug trafficking legend, with all that that means...
The sides of La Reina del Sur
- A young Mexican woman on the run
- A drug empire built across Spain
- A narco boyfriend's murder
Good for you if
- you like the world of cartels, smugglers and dirty money.
- you like rooting for Teresa Mendoza as she becomes a drug queen.
- you like a woman climbing a world run by men.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit through cartel killings.
- you won't read subtitles for a Spanish-language series.
About: survival · ambition · exile

Griselda Blanco: The Black Widow 2014
Series
La Viuda Negra is a 2014 Spanish-language telenovela produced by RTI Producciones and Televisa for United States-based television network Univisión and for Colombia-based television network Caracol Television. It is an adaptation of the book La patrona de Pablo Escobar de José Guarnizo based on history from Griselda Blanco.
The sides of Griselda Blanco: The Black Widow
- The rise of Colombian drug trafficker Griselda Blanco
- Cocaine routes between Medellín and Miami
- A telenovela based on a true story
Good for you if
- you like a cartel story told across years of a trafficker's life.
- you can follow a woman who rules through fear.
- you want a drama based on the real life of Griselda Blanco.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a Spanish-language telenovela.
- you can't stand shootings and killings on screen.
About: ambition · drug trafficking · motherhood
Sons of Anarchy 2008
Series
The Sons of Anarchy (SOA) are an outlaw motorcycle club with many charters in the United States and overseas. The show focused on the original and founding charter, Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original, often referred to by the acronym SAMCRO, Sam Crow, or simply Redwood Charter. The charter operates both legal and illegal businesses in the small town of Charming, California. They combine gun-running and a garage, and involvement in porn film industry. Clay, the charter president, likes it old school and violent; while Jax, his stepson and the club's VP, has thoughts about changing the way things are done. Their conflict has effects on both the club and their personal relationship, especially when Jax goes on a personal quest to cleanse the SAMCRO name and image.
The sides of Sons of Anarchy
- An outlaw motorcycle club in a California town
- A young vice president questioning his stepfather
- Guns, a garage and a family business
Good for you if
- you like Jax Teller trying to clean up the club while doing worse to protect it.
- you like Gemma holding the club together like a mother and a queen.
- you like a club where loyalty can turn into betrayal at any moment.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand brutal beatings and executions.
- seven seasons is too much for you.
About: loyalty · fathers and sons · brotherhood
Locked Up 2015
Series
Set up to take the blame for corporate fraud, young Macarena Ferreiro is locked up in a high-security women's prison surrounded by tough, ruthless criminals in this tense, provocative Spanish thriller.
The sides of Locked Up
- A young woman jailed for her boss's fraud
- A women's prison run by its inmates
- A cold, fearless inmate named Zulema
Good for you if
- you like a newcomer learning the rules of a prison where one mistake costs her.
- you like a story where everyone, guards included, is breaking the law.
- you can't look away from Zulema, the inmate you shouldn't root for.
Bad for you if
- you can't take brutal fights and killings between inmates.
- you won't watch a Spanish series with subtitles.
About: survival · corruption · power behind bars
Griselda 2024
Series
Inspired by real events, this fictional dramatization shows Griselda Blanco's journey from Medellín to becoming "the Godmother" of Miami's drug empire.
The sides of Griselda
- Griselda Blanco's rise in Miami's cocaine trade
- Sofía Vergara as a drug lord and a mother
- Miami in the 1970s and 1980s
Good for you if
- you want to see Sofía Vergara in a role far from comedy.
- you like the rise of a cartel boss told from the inside.
- you're drawn to dramas drawn from real criminal history.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand cartel killings shown on screen.
- you'd rather not watch drug addiction and loss up close.
About: ambition · motherhood · power
Animal Kingdom 2016
Series
17-year-old Joshua "J" Cody moves in with his freewheeling relatives in their Southern California beach town after his mother dies of a heroin overdose. Headed by boot-tough matriarch Janine "Smurf" Cody and her right-hand Baz, who runs the business and calls the shots, the clan also consists of Pope, the oldest and most dangerous of the Cody boys; Craig, the tough and fearless middle son; and Deran, the troubled, suspicious "baby" of the family.
The sides of Animal Kingdom
- A teen moving in with his criminal family
- Smurf, the mother running the heists
- Brothers surfing between robberies
Good for you if
- you like a family of thieves planning jobs on the California coast.
- you like rooting for Smurf even when you shouldn't.
- you like a family that could turn on itself at any moment.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand brutal violence.
- you can't take addiction, abuse and a mother's overdose on screen.
About: family loyalty · control · crime
Mayans M.C. 2018
Series
Set in the aftermath of Jax Teller’s death, Ezekiel "EZ" Reyes is fresh out of prison and a prospect in the Mayans M.C. charter on the Cali/Mexi border. Now, EZ must carve out his new identity in a town where he was once the golden boy with the American Dream in his grasp.
The sides of Mayans M.C.
- A former golden boy fresh out of prison
- A motorcycle club on the Mexican border
- Cartels, brothers and old debts
Good for you if
- you like club politics and cartel deals on the border.
- you like EZ and his brother Angel torn between blood and the club.
- you like a hero who keeps choosing the wrong side.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand brutal killings.
- five seasons is too much for you.
About: brotherhood · loyalty · revenge
Queen of the South 2016
Series
Teresa flees Mexico after her drug-runner boyfriend is murdered. Settling in Dallas, she looks to become the country's reigning drug smuggler and to avenge her lover's murder.
The sides of Queen of the South
- A woman fleeing Mexico after her boyfriend's murder
- A rise through the drug trade
- Cartels from Mexico to Dallas
Good for you if
- you like a cartel story told from the inside.
- you like a woman always one mistake away from death.
- you like rooting for Teresa as she becomes a drug queen.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand cartel killings on screen.
- five seasons is too much for you.
About: ambition · revenge · survival
Power Book II: Ghost 2020
Series
Picking up just days after the “Power” finale, this sequel series follows Tariq navigating his new life, in which his desire to shed his father’s legacy comes up against the mounting pressure to save his family.
The sides of Power Book II: Ghost
- Tariq St. Patrick dealing drugs at college
- A mother on trial for murder
- A New York crime family pulling him in
Good for you if
- you like the New York drug trade seen from a college campus.
- you like following a young man who lies to everyone to survive.
- you like every episode tightening the trap around Tariq.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand shootings and killings every episode.
- you'd rather avoid frequent sex scenes.
About: a father's legacy · loyalty · ambition · family
Gomorrah 2014
Series
Based on Robert Saviano's bestselling book, this gritty Italian crime drama paints a portrait of the brutal Neapolitan crime organisation the Camorra, as seen through the eyes of Ciro Di Marzo, the obedient and self- confident right-hand man of the clan's godfather, Pietro Savastano.
The sides of Gomorrah
- The Camorra clans of Naples
- Ciro, the boss's loyal right hand
- Genny, the heir who wants his father's throne
Good for you if
- you want the drug trade of Naples seen from the inside.
- you like alliances where any meeting can end in a shooting.
- you like following Ciro and Genny though you shouldn't root for them.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand cold, frequent killings.
- you won't read subtitles for a series in Neapolitan.
- five seasons of this darkness is too much for you.
About: loyalty · betrayal · power · fathers and sons
Breaking Bad 2008
Series
A high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with lung cancer starts making meth with a former student to pay for his family's future.
The sides of Breaking Bad
- An ordinary man's slow corruption
- Crime as a business
- One bad choice that spirals
- Desert, tension, long silences
Good for you if
- you like rooting for someone you know you shouldn't.
- you like tension that builds for a whole episode before it breaks.
- you watch for how people change more than for what happens.
Bad for you if
- graphic violence ruins a show for you. Some scenes are hard to unsee.
- TV is how you unwind. This one keeps you tense.
- five seasons is more than you want to start.
About: pride · family · power · consequences
Better Call Saul 2015
Series
Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".
The sides of Better Call Saul
- A small-time lawyer becoming Saul Goodman
- A brother who never believed in him
- A fixer named Mike Ehrmantraut
Good for you if
- you like a story that takes its time over one man's choices.
- you like watching Jimmy and Kim from up close, scene after scene.
- you like following a likable man you know will go bad.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather avoid cartel killings and Tuco's beatings.
- six seasons of slow change is too much for you.
About: ambition · brotherhood · morality · love
MobLand 2025
Series
Two mob families clash in a war that threatens to topple empires and lives.
The sides of MobLand
- A fixer for a London crime family
- Two mob clans at war
- Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren as the parents
Good for you if
- you like a gang war where every betrayal raises the stakes.
- you like Tom Hardy as a quiet fixer cleaning up the mess.
- you like following a family of criminals you shouldn't root for.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand brutal killings and torture.
- you lose track with two crime families and many plots crossing at once.
About: loyalty · family · betrayal
Snowfall 2017
Series
Los Angeles. 1983. A storm is coming and its name is crack. Set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it, the story follows numerous characters on a violent collision course.
The sides of Snowfall
- A young dealer in 1983 Los Angeles
- The start of the crack epidemic
- A CIA operation behind the drugs
Good for you if
- you like watching Franklin Saint build a drug empire.
- you like 1980s Los Angeles at the start of the crack epidemic.
- you like a smart kid you watch turn into something worse.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand violent drug-war killings.
- six seasons is too much for you.
About: ambition · family · the American dream
Ozark 2017
Series
A financial adviser drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder $500 million in five years to appease a drug boss.
The sides of Ozark
- A financial adviser laundering cartel money
- A family moved from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks
- Marty and Wendy Byrde
Good for you if
- you like Marty Byrde talking his way out of a cartel bullet.
- you like the nuts and bolts of laundering money through lakeside businesses.
- you like a marriage and a family pulled deeper into crime together.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand cartel killings.
- you need some hope, and the Byrdes rarely get any.
About: money · marriage · survival · complicity
Orange Is the New Black 2013
Series
A crime she committed in her youthful past sends Piper Chapman to a women's prison, where she trades her comfortable New York life for one of unexpected camaraderie and conflict in an eccentric group of fellow inmates.
The sides of Orange Is the New Black
- A New Yorker sent to a women's prison
- Inmates with a backstory each
- Prison friendships, gangs and guards
Good for you if
- you like a show where every inmate at Litchfield gets her own story.
- you like laughing at prison life while it hurts.
- you want women who become each other's family behind bars.
Bad for you if
- seven seasons is too much for you.
- you'd rather not watch frequent sex scenes, or you watch with others.
- you can't take deaths, addiction and abuse inside a prison.
About: prison · sisterhood · second chances
Peaky Blinders 2013
Series
A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
The sides of Peaky Blinders
- A gang family in 1920s Birmingham
- Razor blades in caps
- A war hero who wants power
Good for you if
- you like a cold, brilliant gang leader.
- you like smoke, coats and slow walks.
- you like modern rock over period scenes.
Bad for you if
- brutal gang violence ruins a show for you.
- six seasons is more than you want to start.
About: ambition · family · trauma
Mayor of Kingstown 2021
Series
In a small Michigan town where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry, the McClusky family are the power brokers between the police, criminals, inmates, prison guards and politicians in a city completely dependent on prisons and the prisoners they contain.
The sides of Mayor of Kingstown
- A Michigan town built on prisons
- Brothers brokering peace between cops and inmates
- Gang wars inside and outside the walls
Good for you if
- you like a town where prisons are the only business left.
- you like a fixer making deals between cops, gangs and guards.
- you like Jeremy Renner as a brother holding the town together.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand brutal prison violence.
- you need some hope in a story.
- five seasons is too much for you.
About: corruption · family · justice