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 The Boat first
The Walking Dead 2010
Series
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
The sides of The Walking Dead
- Waking up in a world of the dead
- Survivors who become a family
- The living as dangerous as the dead
Good for you if
- you like asking what you'd do to stay alive.
- you like never feeling safe, even at camp.
- you like watching ordinary people harden over years.
Bad for you if
- gore and zombie bites ruin a show for you.
- eleven seasons is far more than you want to start.
About: survival · morality · community
Lost 2004
Series
Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.
The sides of Lost
- Plane crash survivors on an island
- A hatch in the ground
- Flashbacks to each survivor's past
Good for you if
- you like an island where every answer opens two questions.
- you like dozens of survivors, each with their own past.
- you like theories to build between episodes.
Bad for you if
- you need every mystery explained by the end.
- six seasons is too much for you.
About: fate · redemption · faith · community
Attack on Titan 2013
Anime
100 years ago, the last remnants of humanity were forced to retreat behind the towering walls of a fortified city to escape the massive, man-eating Titans that roamed the land outside their fortress. Only the members of the Scouting Legion dared to stray beyond the safety of the walls – but even those brave warriors seldom returned alive. Those within the city clung to the illusion of a peaceful existence until the day that dream was shattered, and their slim chance at survival was reduced to one horrifying choice: kill – or be devoured!
The sides of Attack on Titan
- Survival against impossible odds
- Twists that flip who the enemy is
- War, freedom and what it costs
Good for you if
- you like humanity trapped behind walls with giants outside.
- you like a story that turns everything upside down halfway.
- you can take a dark, brutal war story.
Bad for you if
- giants eating people ruin it for you.
- you don't watch anime.
About: freedom · war · revenge
All of Us Are Dead 2022
Series
A high school becomes ground zero for a zombie virus outbreak. Trapped students must fight their way out — or turn into one of the rabid infected.
The sides of All of Us Are Dead
- A Korean high school overrun by zombies
- Students barricaded in classrooms
- A science teacher behind the virus
Good for you if
- you like students cornered in a classroom with the infected at the door.
- you like teenagers working out how to stay alive with what a school has.
- you want zombies fast enough to scare you.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a Korean series.
- you can't watch bites and blood in a school full of kids.
About: survival · friendship · bullying

Pasión de Gavilanes 2003
Series
The Reyes-Elizondo's idyllic lives are shattered by a murder charge against Eric and León.
The sides of Pasión de Gavilanes
- Three brothers out to avenge their sister
- A rich family's three daughters
- Revenge that turns into love
Good for you if
- you like three brothers falling for the daughters of the family they came to punish.
- you like brothers who would do anything for each other.
- you like a murder charge hanging over a family's happy life.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a Spanish-language series.
- a telenovela with so many episodes is too much for you.
About: revenge · forbidden love · brotherhood
Stranger Things 2016
Series
When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.
The sides of Stranger Things
- The eighties
- A gang of friends
- Monsters and real fear
- A family you choose
Good for you if
- you love the 1980s: bikes, walkie-talkies, arcade games.
- you like a monster hunt in a small town.
- you like a gang of kids who never leave a friend behind.
Bad for you if
- creatures and gore are too scary for you or the kids.
- five long seasons is more than you want to start.
About: friendship · growing up · the unknown
Cast Away 2000
Film
Chuck Noland, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia crashes at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and finds himself marooned on a desolate island. With no way to escape, Chuck must find ways to survive in his new home.
The sides of Cast Away
- A man alone on an island for years
- A volleyball named Wilson
- Making fire for the first time
Good for you if
- you like watching someone learn to survive from nothing.
- you like one actor holding a film almost alone.
- you like being moved by a man whose only friend is a volleyball.
Bad for you if
- you need people talking. He's alone for most of it.
- over two hours alone on an island is too long for you.
About: loneliness · survival · time
The 100 2014
Series
100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity, the last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the repressive regime picks 100 expendable juvenile delinquents to send down to Earth to see if the planet is still habitable.
The sides of The 100
- A hundred young prisoners sent to Earth
- A planet that's not empty
- Leaders making impossible choices
Good for you if
- you like teenagers surviving a wild Earth.
- you like hard choices that cost lives.
- you like leaders who become morally grey.
Bad for you if
- seven seasons is more than you want to start.
- war and brutal deaths ruin a show for you.
About: survival · leadership · morality
Fear the Walking Dead 2015
Series
What did the world look like as it was transforming into the horrifying apocalypse depicted in "The Walking Dead"? This spin-off set in Los Angeles, following new characters as they face the beginning of the end of the world, will answer that question.
The sides of Fear the Walking Dead
- A family in Los Angeles as the outbreak starts
- The first days of the zombie apocalypse
- Strangers who become a group
Good for you if
- you like seeing how a normal city falls apart.
- you like a blended family trying to stay together when the dead walk.
- you want a horror story that starts before the world is gone.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand zombie bites and bodies torn apart.
- eight seasons is too much for you.
- you need some hope, and people keep dying.
About: survival · family · loss · community
Sin senos sí hay paraíso 2016
Series
A young woman born in a mafia-controlled town seeks revenge on those who wrongfully harmed and imprisoned her family.
The sides of Sin senos sí hay paraíso
- A young woman from a cartel-run town
- A family wronged and sent to prison
- Revenge against the people who did it
Good for you if
- you like a revenge story set among drug lords and their families.
- you want love and betrayal mixed into the danger.
- you like a daughter fighting back for a family that was wrongly locked up.
Bad for you if
- three long telenovela seasons is too much for you.
- you won't read subtitles for a Spanish-language series.
- you can't watch shootings and cartel killings.
About: revenge · betrayal · family
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
Battlestar Galactica 2004
Series
When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet - the last of humanity - as they journey toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth.
The sides of Battlestar Galactica
- The last humans fleeing in an old warship
- Machines that look like people
- A search for a planet called Earth
Good for you if
- you can take a story where humanity almost loses everything.
- you like never knowing who on board is a Cylon.
- you like a president and an admiral fighting over how to save the last humans.
Bad for you if
- you want a finale that explains everything plainly.
- you can't take suicide bombings, occupation and grief on screen.
About: survival · faith · what makes us human
Alice in Borderland 2020
Series
With his two friends, a video-game-obsessed young man finds himself in a strange version of Tokyo where they must compete in dangerous games to win.
The sides of Alice in Borderland
- An empty Tokyo with no way out
- Deadly games ranked by playing cards
- A gamer and a climber trying to stay alive
Good for you if
- you like games where losing means dying.
- you want friends forced to fight for their lives in a deserted city.
- you like working out each game's rules before the players do.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch people killed on screen in every game.
- you won't read subtitles for a Japanese series.
About: survival · the meaning of life · trust
Sword Art Online 2012
Anime
In the near future, a Virtual Reality Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (VRMMORPG) called Sword Art Online has been released where players control their avatars with their bodies using a piece of technology called Nerve Gear. One day, players discover they cannot log out, as the game creator is holding them captive unless they reach the 100th floor of the game's tower and defeat the final boss. However, if they die in the game, they die in real life. Their struggle for survival starts now...
The sides of Sword Art Online
- Players trapped inside a virtual reality game
- A death in the game that kills in real life
- A hundred floors to clear
Good for you if
- you like the idea of a video game you can't log out of.
- you like game worlds with levels, bosses and guilds.
- you like a love story that starts between two players.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- four seasons of new games after the first one is too much for you.
About: virtual worlds · survival · love
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
Squid Game 2021
Series
Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children's games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits — with deadly high stakes.
The sides of Squid Game
- Children's games where losing means death
- People drowning in debt
- A prize that grows with every death
Good for you if
- you like games where any move could be the last.
- you like getting attached to players you might lose.
- you can take a dark story about money and despair.
Bad for you if
- mass killings on screen ruin it for you.
- you won't read subtitles. It's in Korean (a dub exists).
About: debt · inequality · survival
Maze Runner: The Death Cure 2018
Film
Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who makes it out alive will get answers to the questions the Gladers have been asking since they first arrived in the maze.
The sides of Maze Runner: The Death Cure
- A rescue from a walled city
- A cure that costs lives
- A train heist
Good for you if
- you like a train heist to start.
- you like a group that never leaves anyone behind.
Bad for you if
- two hours and twenty minutes is a lot for your evening.
- you lose track easily. Thomas, Newt, Minho, Teresa, Gally and Brenda each have their own path.
About: friendship · sacrifice · trust

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
The Martian 2015
Film
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.
The sides of The Martian
- An astronaut left behind on Mars
- Growing potatoes with science
- A whole planet trying to bring him home
Good for you if
- you like problems solved with real science, one step at a time.
- you like a hero who survives on jokes and disco music.
- you want a hopeful film where smart people work together.
Bad for you if
- you want action. This is mostly problem-solving.
- nearly two and a half hours on Mars is too long for you.
About: survival · ingenuity · cooperation
Money Heist 2017
Series
To carry out the biggest heist in history, a mysterious man called The Professor recruits a band of eight robbers who have a single characteristic: none of them has anything to lose. Five months of seclusion - memorizing every step, every detail, every probability - culminate in eleven days locked up in the National Coinage and Stamp Factory of Spain, surrounded by police forces and with dozens of hostages in their power, to find out whether their suicide wager will lead to everything or nothing.
The sides of Money Heist
- A heist planned for months
- A professor who has thought of everything
- Robbers with city names
Good for you if
- you like a hostage siege where every hour brings a problem.
- you like a plan that keeps surprising even the police.
- you like a gang where every robber has a story.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles. It's in Spanish (a dub exists).
- several long seasons is more than you want to start.
About: resistance · loyalty · money