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 How I Met Your Mother first
Friends 1994
Series
Six young people from New York City, on their own and struggling to survive in the real world, find the companionship, comfort and support they get from each other to be the perfect antidote to the pressures of life.
The sides of Friends
- Six friends in New York
- A coffee shop and two apartments
- Ross and Rachel
Good for you if
- you like a sitcom you can quote by heart.
- you want to spend your evenings on the orange couch at Central Perk.
- you like friends who become family.
Bad for you if
- ten seasons is more than you want to start.
- 90s jokes feel dated to you.
About: friendship · love · growing up
New Girl 2011
Series
Jessica Day is an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with three single guys. Goofy, positive, vulnerable and honest to a fault, Jess has faith in people, even when she shouldn't. Although she's dorky and awkward, she's comfortable in her own skin. More prone to friendships with women, she's not used to hanging with the boys—especially at home.
The sides of New Girl
- A teacher moving in with three single guys
- A loft in Los Angeles
- Drinking games and a jar for bad behaviour
Good for you if
- you like Schmidt, Nick and Winston at their most ridiculous.
- you like roommates who become family.
- you want short episodes with the same friends in the same loft.
Bad for you if
- seven seasons is too much for you.
- you get tired of years of Nick and Jess circling each other.
About: friendship · love · growing up
Seinfeld 1989
Series
A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing.
The sides of Seinfeld
- A stand-up comedian and his three friends in Manhattan
- A neighbor named Kramer who bursts through the door
- Arguments over parking spots and soup
Good for you if
- you like four friends turning tiny daily annoyances into big fights.
- you like long, sharp conversations about nothing in a diner booth.
- you want a sitcom where nothing serious ever happens.
Bad for you if
- nine seasons is too much for you.
- you can't spend time with people this selfish. Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer look out only for themselves.
About: friendship · everyday life · selfishness
Sex and the City 1998
Series
Based on the bestselling book by Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City tells the story of four best friends, all single and in their late thirties, as they pursue their careers and talk about their sex lives, all while trying to survive the New York social scene.
The sides of Sex and the City
- Four single women in Manhattan
- A columnist writing about sex and dating
- Brunches where they tell each other everything
Good for you if
- you like four friends who stay each other's real love story.
- you like Carrie and Mr. Big, on and off for years.
- you like frank, funny talk about sex over brunch.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather avoid sex scenes and explicit talk.
- you want things to happen, not dates and conversations.
About: friendship · love · independence
Parks and Recreation 2009
Series
In an attempt to beautify her town — and advance her career — Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Indiana, takes on bureaucrats, cranky neighbors, and single-issue fanatics whose weapons are lawsuits, the jumble of city codes, and the democratic process she loves so much.
The sides of Parks and Recreation
- An over-eager official who wants to build a park
- A boss who hates government
- A small Indiana town hall
Good for you if
- you like a mockumentary about town meetings in Pawnee.
- you want a warm sitcom where coworkers become a family.
- you like Leslie, Ron, April and Ben each getting their own jokes.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes at Leslie's endless enthusiasm.
- seven seasons is too much for you.
About: public service · friendship · ambition

The Office 2005
Series
The everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.
The sides of The Office
- A boss who wants to be loved by his staff
- A paper company office in Scranton
- A camera crew filming every awkward moment
Good for you if
- you like laughing at Michael Scott's worst ideas.
- you want a show to put on again and again after work.
- you like the slow romance between Jim and Pam at reception.
Bad for you if
- nine seasons is too much for you.
- you can't laugh when Michael Scott says something offensive and the camera holds on everyone's faces.
About: work · friendship · love · belonging
2 Broke Girls 2011
Series
Comedy about the unlikely friendship that develops between two very different young women who meet waitressing at a diner in trendy Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and form a bond over one day owning their own successful cupcake business. Only one thing stands in their way – they’re broke.
The sides of 2 Broke Girls
- Two waitresses in a Brooklyn diner
- An heiress who lost everything
- A cupcake business on a shoestring
Good for you if
- you like Max's one-liners fired at customers and bosses.
- you like a broke waitress and a fallen heiress becoming a team.
- you want short episodes in the same diner with the same regulars.
Bad for you if
- six seasons is too much for you.
- you want a sitcom to watch with your kids, and most of Max's jokes are about sex.
About: money · friendship · work
The Big Bang Theory 2007
Series
Physicists Leonard and Sheldon find their nerd-centric social circle with pals Howard and Raj expanding when aspiring actress Penny moves in next door.
The sides of The Big Bang Theory
- Four scientists and the girl next door
- Comics, trains and roommate agreements
- Bazinga
Good for you if
- you like nerd jokes and a laugh track.
- you want short episodes you can watch while eating.
- you like a group of friends who grow up over years.
Bad for you if
- twelve seasons is far more than you want to start.
- you can't stand an on-again, off-again romance. Leonard and Penny go back and forth for seasons.
About: friendship · growing up · love
The Proposal 2009
Film
When she learns she's in danger of losing her visa status and being deported, overbearing book editor Margaret Tate forces her put-upon assistant, Andrew Paxton, to marry her.
The sides of The Proposal
- A boss who forces her assistant to marry her
- A weekend with his family in Alaska
- A chant in the woods
Good for you if
- you like a boss and assistant trading barbs.
- you like enemies falling in love.
- you want an easy, feel-good romcom.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes when the jokes stop for heart-to-hearts. Margaret and Andrew open up in his childhood bedroom.
- you need a premise you can believe. A boss blackmails her assistant into marrying her to keep her visa.
About: love · family · pretending
Brooklyn Nine-Nine 2013
Series
A single-camera ensemble comedy following the lives of an eclectic group of detectives in a New York precinct, including one slacker who is forced to shape up when he gets a new boss.
The sides of Brooklyn Nine-Nine
- A goofy detective in a Brooklyn precinct
- A captain who never smiles
- A heist every Halloween
Good for you if
- you like Jake Peralta getting away with being a kid at work.
- you want a cop show as warm as a sitcom.
- you like a squad where every detective gets their own jokes.
Bad for you if
- eight seasons is too much for you.
- you want real danger in a police show.
About: friendship · work · found family
Friends with Benefits 2011
Film
Dylan is done with relationships. Jamie decides to stop buying into the Hollywood clichés of true love. When the two become friends they decide to try something new and take advantage of their mutual attraction - but without any emotional attachment.
The sides of Friends with Benefits
- Two friends who agree to sleep together without feelings
- New York and Los Angeles
- Feelings anyway
Good for you if
- you like quick, sarcastic romcom banter.
- you like friends turning into lovers.
Bad for you if
- sex scenes and crude jokes aren't for you.
- you roll your eyes at heartfelt romcom moments, even in a film that mocks romcoms.
About: love · fear of commitment · friendship

Yo soy Betty, la fea 1999
Series
Beatriz Pinzón Solano is a brilliant economist with a master's degree in finance; she has only one flaw: she's ugly. Everything changes when she starts working at Ecomoda, one of the country's largest companies, where she meets and falls in love with Armando Mendoza. This time, life will give her a second chance to prove she can become the most desired and beloved woman in the world.
The sides of Yo soy Betty, la fea
- A brilliant economist everyone judges by her looks
- A fashion company in Bogotá
- A boss she falls in love with
Good for you if
- you like Betty falling for Armando while he sees only her glasses and braces.
- you like office gossip with Betty's friends from the ugly club.
- you want a long, warm story where the underdog gets her turn.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a Spanish-language series.
- a telenovela with daily-length episodes is too much for you.
About: appearances · self-worth · love · work
The Good Place 2016
Series
Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who, through an extraordinary string of events, enters the afterlife where she comes to realize that she hasn't been a very good person. With the help of her wise afterlife mentor, she's determined to shed her old way of living and discover the awesome (or at least the pretty good) person within.
The sides of The Good Place
- A selfish woman sent to heaven by mistake
- An ethics professor giving her lessons
- An afterlife neighborhood with frozen yogurt everywhere
Good for you if
- you like Chidi's ethics lessons turned into running jokes.
- you like a comedy that keeps changing the rules under your feet, season after season.
- you like four strangers learning to be better people together.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes at heartfelt talks about being a good person.
- you can't get into a surreal afterlife with an all-knowing assistant and frozen yogurt shops on every corner.
About: ethics · the afterlife · redemption · friendship
Community 2009
Series
Follow the lives of a group of students at what is possibly the world’s worst community college in the fictional locale of Greendale, Colorado.
The sides of Community
- A disbarred lawyer at a community college
- A Spanish study group that becomes a family
- Campus paintball games turned into action movies
Good for you if
- you like jokes about TV and film tropes, mostly from Abed.
- you like a study group of misfits who become a family.
- you like background gags you only catch the second time.
Bad for you if
- you want a sitcom that stays a sitcom, not episodes in claymation or as a western.
- you lose track of a study group of seven.
About: friendship · second chances · belonging
The Terminal 2004
Film
An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.
The sides of The Terminal
- A man stuck living in an airport
- A country that ceased to exist
- Friends among the staff
Good for you if
- you want a gentle, kind film.
- you like Tom Hanks charming his way through bureaucracy.
- you like a stranded man befriending the cleaners, cooks and guards of an airport.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather skip the romance. Viktor's crush on a flight attendant runs through the film.
- you roll your eyes at sweetness. Viktor answers every setback with patience and a smile.
About: patience · kindness · home
Modern Family 2009
Series
The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted, embrace of the modern family.
The sides of Modern Family
- Three related households in Los Angeles
- Interviews straight to the camera
- A father who tries too hard to be cool
Good for you if
- you like Phil Dunphy's terrible jokes and Cam's dramatic entrances.
- you like Jay, his children and their families meddling in each other's lives.
- you want short, warm episodes where everyone makes up by the end.
Bad for you if
- you can't commit to eleven seasons.
- you roll your eyes at the lesson-of-the-day voice-over at the end.
About: family · acceptance · parenthood
Futurama 1999
Series
The adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryogenically frozen for one thousand years, finds employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company in the retro-futuristic 31st century.
The sides of Futurama
- A pizza delivery boy frozen for a thousand years
- A robot who drinks and steals
- A delivery company in the 31st century
Good for you if
- you like jokes about the future that are really about today.
- you like delivery runs to strange planets in a beat-up ship.
- you like a cartoon that can suddenly break your heart over the life Fry left behind in 1999.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch animated series.
- you can't take on eleven seasons.
About: friendship · the future · loneliness
Groundhog Day 1993
Film
A cynical TV weatherman, along with his idealistic producer and his sardonic cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.
The sides of Groundhog Day
- A weatherman stuck in the same day
- An alarm clock at 6 a.m.
- Learning to be a better man
Good for you if
- you like Bill Murray's dry, bitter humour.
- you want a classic you'll rewatch every year.
- you like a love story earned the long way.
Bad for you if
- you need the logic to hold up. Nobody ever explains why Phil's day repeats.
- you can't laugh at suicide. Phil's attempts to escape the loop are played for comedy.
About: change · time · kindness
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 2010
Film
As bass guitarist for a garage-rock band, Scott Pilgrim has never had trouble getting a girlfriend; usually, the problem is getting rid of them. But when Ramona Flowers skates into his heart, he finds she has the most troublesome baggage of all: an army of ex-boyfriends who will stop at nothing to eliminate him from her list of suitors.
The sides of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
- A slacker bassist in Toronto
- Seven evil exes to defeat
- Fights like a video game
Good for you if
- you like fast, clever, nerdy jokes.
- you like comic-book sound effects and game graphics on screen.
- you like a film that turns life into an arcade game.
Bad for you if
- very stylised, quirky films aren't for you.
- you need a hero you can root for. Scott dates a high schooler and cheats on her.
About: love · growing up · baggage
(500) Days of Summer 2009
Film
Tom, greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer, suddenly dumps him. He reflects on their 500 days together to try to figure out where their love affair went sour, and in doing so, Tom rediscovers his true passions in life.
The sides of (500) Days of Summer
- A boy who believes in the one
- A girl who doesn't
- Expectations and reality, side by side
Good for you if
- you like a love story that's honest about heartbreak.
- you like a dance number after a first night.
- you like The Smiths and Hall & Oates setting the mood of Tom's days.
Bad for you if
- you need a lead you can side with. Tom turns Summer into the girl he wants, not the one she is.
- you want a breakup film that makes you cry. This one would rather make you smile.
About: love · expectations · growing up