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 Medium first
Bosch 2015
Series
Harry Bosch, an LAPD homicide detective, stands trial for the fatal shooting of a serial murder suspect. A cold case involving the remains of a missing boy forces Bosch to confront his past. As daring recruit Julia Brasher catches his eye and departmental politics heat up, Bosch will pursue justice at all costs.
The sides of Bosch
- An LAPD homicide detective in Los Angeles
- Cold cases and departmental politics
- A detective and his teenage daughter
Good for you if
- you like a murder case that takes a whole season to solve.
- you like patient police work over shootouts.
- you like Harry Bosch, a stubborn detective with a jazz record collection.
Bad for you if
- seven seasons is too much for you.
- you want chases and gunfights in a cop show.
About: justice · the past · fatherhood
iZombie 2015
Series
A medical student who becomes a zombie joins a Coroner's Office in order to gain access to the brains she must reluctantly eat so that she can maintain her humanity. But every brain she eats, she also inherits their memories and must now solve their deaths with help from the Medical examiner and a police detective.
The sides of iZombie
- A zombie working at a Seattle morgue
- Brains that hand over their memories
- A murder solved every episode
Good for you if
- you like a murder of the week solved through the victim's memories.
- you like Liv picking up a new personality with every brain she eats.
- you like Liv, Ravi and Clive working cases together.
Bad for you if
- your stomach turns at brain eating, even cooked.
- you want a zombie story that actually scares you.
About: identity · death · second chances
The Undoing 2020
Series
Grace and Jonathan Fraser are living the only lives they ever wanted. Overnight a chasm opens in their lives: a violent death and a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and her family.
The sides of The Undoing
- A Manhattan therapist whose husband vanishes
- A murdered mistress
- A trial that tears a family open
Good for you if
- you like guessing whether the husband did it until the last episode.
- you want Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant face to face.
- you like a marriage where every new fact makes things worse.
Bad for you if
- you need a mystery that moves fast.
- you'd rather skip nudity and sex scenes.
About: marriage · trust · wealth
Gone Girl 2014
Film
On their fifth wedding anniversary, a man's wife disappears, and as the police and the press dig in, he becomes the main suspect.
The sides of Gone Girl
- A marriage seen from both sides
- A trial on television
- A story that changes shape halfway
- Cold, precise, and darkly funny
Good for you if
- you love it when the floor drops out from under you halfway.
- you like a lead performance you can't look away from. Rosamund Pike holds every scene Amy is in.
- you like people who are hard to like.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather skip sex scenes, or you're watching with family.
- one sudden, very violent scene would ruin the evening for you.
About: marriage · lies · the media · image
Prisoners 2013
Film
When his young daughter and her friend disappear on Thanksgiving, a father takes the law into his own hands while a detective works the case.
The sides of Prisoners
- A detective who won't let go
- How far a father will go
- A case built like a maze
- Rain, cold, and grey light
Good for you if
- you like being tense for two and a half hours straight.
- you like collecting clues and trying to get ahead of the detective.
- you like watching an actor go somewhere raw. Hugh Jackman does.
Bad for you if
- a child in danger is too much for you.
- two and a half hours is too long for your evening.
About: faith · revenge · guilt · fatherhood
Presumed Innocent 2024
Series
A horrific murder upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorney's Office when one of its own is suspected of the crime—leaving the accused fighting to keep his family together.
The sides of Presumed Innocent
- A Chicago prosecutor accused of murder
- A colleague he was having an affair with
- A trial that tests his marriage
Good for you if
- you like courtroom scenes where every piece of evidence is fought over.
- you want to work out who killed her before the verdict.
- you like Jake Gyllenhaal as a man you can't fully trust.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather avoid sex scenes.
- you need more action than legal arguments.
About: guilt · marriage · justice

Black 2017
Series
A Grim Reaper, a detective and a woman who foresees death get ensnared in matters of life and death -- and dark mysteries of twenty years past.
The sides of Black
- A grim reaper living in a detective's body
- A woman who sees death coming
- A mystery from twenty years ago
Good for you if
- you like a grim reaper trying to pass as a human cop.
- you like a love story between death and a woman who can see it.
- you like an old case slowly coming back to the surface.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a Korean series.
- you can't commit to episodes that run over an hour.
About: death · fate · redemption
Gone Baby Gone 2007
Film
When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons—they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live.
The sides of Gone Baby Gone
- A four-year-old missing in Boston
- Two private detectives from the neighborhood
- A choice between the law and what is right
Good for you if
- you like a missing-child case that keeps changing shape.
- you like a tense thriller in the bars and streets of Boston.
- you like an ending that leaves you asking what you would have done.
Bad for you if
- a missing child, drugs and abuse are too much for you.
- you need an ending that leaves you some hope.
About: justice · parenthood · corruption
Castle 2009
Series
After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for research purposes.
The sides of Castle
- A crime novelist following a New York homicide detective
- A new murder case in every episode
- A teenage daughter and a mother at home
Good for you if
- you like a murder to solve every episode.
- you like Castle and Beckett taking years to get together.
- you like a writer joking his way through crime scenes.
Bad for you if
- eight seasons is too much for you.
- you need police work that could really happen, not a novelist on every case.
About: love · family · justice

Broadchurch 2013
Series
The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.
The sides of Broadchurch
- The murder of an eleven-year-old boy
- Two detectives who clash
- A seaside town in Dorset under suspicion
Good for you if
- you like a whodunit where every neighbor could be the killer.
- you like Olivia Colman and David Tennant as mismatched detectives.
- you like a story about a family's grief, not only the case.
Bad for you if
- you can't take a child's death and a family's grief.
- you need chases and action, and this investigation takes its time.
About: grief · community · guilt · trust
Safe 2018
Series
After his daughter goes missing, a widower begins uncovering the dark secrets of the people closest to him.
The sides of Safe
- A widowed surgeon searching for his missing daughter
- A gated community in England
- Neighbours hiding secrets
Good for you if
- you like a missing-teen case where everyone nearby is a suspect.
- you like a Harlan Coben story that turns at the end of every episode.
- you like a father who can't stop digging, whatever he finds.
Bad for you if
- you lose track of a big cast of neighbours, each with a secret.
- you'd rather not watch a grieving father fear the worst for his child.
About: grief · secrets · parenthood
Absentia 2017
Series
A missing FBI agent reappears six years after being declared dead.
The sides of Absentia
- An FBI agent found alive six years after vanishing
- A husband who has remarried
- A son who doesn't remember her
Good for you if
- you like a heroine accused of crimes she can't remember.
- you want to know who held Emily captive and why.
- you like Stana Katic fighting her way to the truth.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand torture scenes.
- you need a thriller where every turn feels realistic.
About: identity · motherhood · trauma
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
The Stranger 2020
Series
When a stranger makes a shocking claim about his wife, Adam Price's life upends as he becomes entangled in a web of secrets.
The sides of The Stranger
- A stranger telling a father a secret about his wife
- A wife who vanishes the next day
- A quiet English town full of lies
Good for you if
- you like pulling on one secret until the whole town unravels.
- you want a new reveal at the end of every episode.
- you like the suspense of a father hunting for the wife who vanished after a stranger's visit.
Bad for you if
- you need every coincidence to hold up.
- you lose track when side plots pile up.
About: secrets · marriage · blackmail
Rizzoli & Isles 2010
Series
Perhaps their strikingly different personalities make the relationship between detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles so effective. Jane, the only female cop in Boston's homicide division, is tough, relentless and rarely lets her guard down, while the impeccably dressed Maura displays a sometimes icy temperament — she is, after all, more comfortable among the dead than the living. Together, the best friends have forged a quirky and supportive relationship; they drop the protective shield in each other's company, and combine their expertise to solve Boston's most complex cases.
The sides of Rizzoli & Isles
- A tough Boston homicide detective
- A medical examiner more at ease with the dead
- Two close friends solving murders
Good for you if
- you like the friendship between Jane and Maura more than the cases.
- you like a new murder solved in every episode.
- you like a crime show with family dinners and teasing.
Bad for you if
- seven seasons is too much for you.
- you can't stand autopsy scenes.
About: friendship · family · justice
The Sixth Sense 1999
Film
Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.
The sides of The Sixth Sense
- A boy who sees dead people
- A psychologist trying to help him
- A mother who doesn't understand
Good for you if
- you like an ending that makes you replay the whole film in your head.
- you like quiet, creeping fear.
- you like a ghost story that's really about grief.
Bad for you if
- you scare easily, especially with children in danger.
- you need momentum. It moves quietly, one session with Cole at a time.
About: grief · communication · fear
Anatomy of a Fall 2023
Film
A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.
The sides of Anatomy of a Fall
- A writer accused of killing her husband
- Their blind son as the only witness
- A chalet in the snow near Grenoble
Good for you if
- you like a trial that never quite tells you what happened.
- you like a couple's fight replayed word by word in court.
- you like Sandra Hüller as a woman nobody can read.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles, and the film keeps moving between French and English.
- two and a half hours is too much for you.
About: marriage · truth · doubt
The Haunting of Hill House 2018
Series
Flashing between past and present, a fractured family confronts haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.
The sides of The Haunting of Hill House
- Five siblings and the house they fled
- A night their father never explained
- Ghosts hiding in the background of shots
Good for you if
- you want ghosts you only spot in the corner of the frame.
- you like a horror story that is really about brothers and sisters.
- you like a reveal that makes you rethink the first episode.
Bad for you if
- you can't take grief, addiction and suicide on screen.
- you need horror that moves fast. This one lingers on memories.
About: grief · family · memory
Ghost Whisperer 2005
Series
Newlywed Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing. Most of Melinda's efforts involve resolving conflicts that are preventing the spirits from passing over.
The sides of Ghost Whisperer
- A newlywed who sees the dead
- Ghosts with unfinished business
- An antique shop in a small town
Good for you if
- you like crying when a ghost finally says goodbye to a loved one.
- you like working out each week what keeps a spirit from passing over.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes at tearful messages from beyond.
- five seasons of ghosts of the week is too much for you.
About: grief · letting go · the afterlife
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 2000
Series
A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.
The sides of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
- A Las Vegas night shift leaning over bodies
- Blood spatter and fibres under a microscope
- An entomologist who prefers insects to people
Good for you if
- you want a body, a clue and an answer before the hour is up.
- you like Las Vegas, its casinos and the cases they produce.
- you like a night shift team you get to know over years.
Bad for you if
- you don't want to start something with fifteen seasons.
- you can't look at autopsy tables and open wounds.
About: evidence · death · work