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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.

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  1. 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

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  2. A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.

    The sides of American Psycho

    • A banker obsessed with business cards
    • Morning routines and murder
    • 1980s Wall Street

    Good for you if

    • you like satire so dark you're not sure you should laugh.
    • you like an empty, perfect man who's terrifying.
    • you like not knowing what's real by the end.

    Bad for you if

    • graphic murders ruin it for you.
    • explicit sex scenes aren't for you.

    About: vanity · emptiness · violence

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  3. Dexter 2006

    Series

    Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who have slipped through the cracks of justice.

    The sides of Dexter

    • A police blood expert in Miami
    • A serial killer who only kills killers
    • A code taught by his adoptive father

    Good for you if

    • you like rooting for a killer with rules.
    • you like Dexter's deadpan voice-over about pretending to be human.
    • you like a killer hiding inside the police station that hunts him.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand murder rooms and bodies cut up.
    • eight seasons is too much for you.

    About: double life · justice · family · identity

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  4. Hannibal 2013

    Series

    Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him with a highly respected psychiatrist – a man with a taste for the criminal minded – Dr. Hannibal Lecter.

    The sides of Hannibal

    • An FBI profiler who thinks like killers
    • A psychiatrist who cooks his victims
    • Murder scenes staged like works of art

    Good for you if

    • you like crime scenes composed like paintings and dinners shot like still lifes.
    • you can't take your eyes off Mads Mikkelsen as Hannibal Lecter.
    • you like watching Will Graham get closer to the man sitting across from him.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand corpses turned into displays.
    • you want a crime show that plays like real police work.

    About: manipulation · obsession · friendship · madness

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  5. Perfect Blue 1998

    Anime

    Rising pop star Mima Kirigoe quits singing to pursue a career as an actress. After she takes up a role on a popular detective show, her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered. Harboring feelings of guilt and haunted by visions of her former self, Mima's reality and fantasy meld into a frenzied paranoia.

    The sides of Perfect Blue

    • A pop singer who becomes an actress
    • A fan website that knows her daily life
    • Murders around her film set

    Good for you if

    • you like a stalker thriller where you can't trust what you see.
    • you like a story where dream, filming and reality blur.
    • you like being scared by your own reflection.

    Bad for you if

    • you'd rather not see a staged rape scene and a nude photo shoot.
    • you can't stand stabbings shown up close.
    • you don't watch anime.

    About: fame · identity · obsession

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  6. 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

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  7. Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.

    The sides of Nocturnal Animals

    • A gallery owner reading her ex-husband's novel
    • A story inside the story
    • A night on a Texas highway

    Good for you if

    • you like cold, elegant images.
    • you like a roadside scene that's hard to breathe through.
    • you like a story within a story, where the novel Susan reads keeps echoing her own past.

    Bad for you if

    • brutal scenes in the novel Susan reads are too much for you.
    • cruelty told without comfort is too heavy for you.

    About: revenge · regret · art

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  8. Nightcrawler 2014

    Film

    A jobless man in Los Angeles starts filming car crashes and crimes at night and selling the footage to a local TV news station.

    The sides of Nightcrawler

    • A man you can't stop watching
    • The TV news business
    • Los Angeles after dark

    Good for you if

    • you like following someone who gets more frightening as he gets more successful.
    • you like a lead performance that makes your skin crawl.
    • you can laugh at how far he'll go, and feel bad about it.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand being on edge for two hours. Lou's night shoots get more dangerous every time.
    • you need some hope in a story. Lou's Los Angeles is all crime scenes and night shifts.

    About: ambition · the media · ethics · loneliness

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  9. Taxi Driver 1976

    Film

    Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.

    The sides of Taxi Driver

    • A lonely veteran driving nights in New York
    • You talkin' to me?
    • A girl he wants to save

    Good for you if

    • you like a performance that gets under your skin.
    • you like a dark, dirty city and a darker mind.
    • you like a character study of a man coming apart.

    Bad for you if

    • a sudden, bloody climax ruins it for you.
    • you can't watch a child forced into prostitution. Jodie Foster plays Iris, twelve years old and on the street.

    About: loneliness · violence · the city

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  10. A young FBI trainee asks Hannibal Lecter, an imprisoned psychiatrist and cannibal, to help her catch another serial killer who is still out there.

    The sides of The Silence of the Lambs

    • Conversations through the glass
    • A young woman proving herself among men
    • A race to save the next victim

    Good for you if

    • you like a performance you can't look away from, even when you want to.
    • you like tension made of two people talking through a sheet of glass.
    • you like a final stretch that has you holding your breath.

    Bad for you if

    • graphic gore ruins it for you. A few images are hard to forget.
    • you can't take a story of women kidnapped and starved by a killer. One is held at the bottom of a pit in his basement.

    About: fear · power · identity · ambition

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  11. 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

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  12. Death Note 2006

    Anime

    Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But will Light succeed in his noble goal, or will the Death Note turn him into the very thing he fights against?

    The sides of Death Note

    • A notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in it
    • A top student who decides to judge the world
    • A genius detective on his trail

    Good for you if

    • you like a cat-and-mouse game where one mistake gives you away.
    • you like following a killer who thinks he's a god.
    • you like plans within plans that you have to keep up with.

    Bad for you if

    • you don't watch anime.
    • you want fights, and this is mostly two minds talking.

    About: justice · power · morality

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  13. Joker 2019

    Film

    During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

    The sides of Joker

    • A man the world keeps ignoring
    • A city about to explode
    • A dance down the stairs

    Good for you if

    • you like one performance that carries the whole film.
    • you can take a story that only goes down.
    • you like watching, step by step, how someone breaks.

    Bad for you if

    • sudden, brutal violence ruins a film for you.
    • mental illness and cruelty hit too close tonight.

    About: loneliness · madness · society

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  14. MINDHUNTER 2017

    Series

    In the late 1970s, two FBI agents start interviewing imprisoned serial killers to understand how they think, and use what they learn on open cases.

    The sides of MINDHUNTER

    • Interviews with real killers
    • The birth of criminal profiling
    • What the work does to the people doing it

    Good for you if

    • you like tension that comes from people talking across a table.
    • you like stories built on real cases and real killers.
    • you like a slow, quiet build more than action.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand a story left unfinished, and the series stopped after two seasons with the BTK thread still open.
    • you don't want to hear crimes against women and children described in detail.

    About: evil · method · the 1970s · obsession

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  15. Fight Club 1999

    Film

    A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.

    The sides of Fight Club

    • The twist
    • A satire of the life you're sold
    • The rush of breaking free

    Good for you if

    • you love a story that makes you rethink everything you just watched.
    • you can laugh at a man selling soap made of something awful.
    • you like a film you want to restart to look for the clues.

    Bad for you if

    • bare-knuckle fights and bloody faces ruin it for you.
    • you want to feel good after. This one leaves you uneasy.

    About: masculinity · consumerism · identity

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  16. In 1954, a U.S. Marshal and his new partner go to a psychiatric hospital on an island to find a patient who escaped from a locked room.

    The sides of Shutter Island

    • A mystery that turns on you
    • Gothic dread on an island
    • A man haunted by loss

    Good for you if

    • you love a story that makes you question everything you just saw.
    • you like a film you want to restart as soon as it ends.
    • you like a mood that gets under your skin: storms, cells, a lighthouse.

    Bad for you if

    • grief and mental illness hit too close for you.
    • you want to be sure what happened when the credits roll.

    About: grief · guilt · madness · the truth

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  17. Oldboy 2003

    Film

    With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.

    The sides of Oldboy

    • A man locked up for fifteen years with no reason
    • A corridor fight with a hammer
    • A live octopus

    Good for you if

    • you like an ending that floors you.
    • you like a one-take hallway fight.
    • you like revenge with no clean way out.

    Bad for you if

    • brutal violence ruins it for you.
    • you won't read subtitles. It's in Korean (a dub exists).
    • you can't take despair on screen. A man locked up for fifteen years comes out close to breaking.

    About: revenge · guilt · imprisonment

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  18. Bates Motel 2013

    Series

    A "contemporary prequel" to the 1960 film Psycho, depicting the life of Norman Bates and his mother Norma prior to the events portrayed in Hitchcock's film, albeit in a different fictional town and in a modern setting. The series begins after the death of Norma's husband, when she purchases a motel located in a coastal Oregon town so she and Norman can start a new life.

    The sides of Bates Motel

    • A young Norman Bates and his mother
    • A motel bought for a fresh start
    • A small Oregon town full of secrets

    Good for you if

    • you like Vera Farmiga and Freddie Highmore as a mother and son too close.
    • you like knowing where Norman ends up and dreading every step.
    • you like a quiet Oregon town that lives off a hidden drug trade.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take abuse and mental illness on screen.
    • you can't watch murders on screen.

    About: mothers and sons · madness · secrets

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  19. 10 years after Dexter went missing in the eye of Hurricane Laura, we find him living under an assumed name in the small town of Iron Lake, New York. Dexter may be embracing his new life, but in the wake of unexpected events in this close-knit community, his Dark Passenger beckons.

    The sides of Dexter: New Blood

    • Dexter hiding under a new name
    • A snowy town in upstate New York
    • A son who finds his father again

    Good for you if

    • you like rooting for a killer who only kills killers.
    • you like a small-town police chief getting closer to the truth.
    • you like Dexter trying to be a father to the teenage son he left behind.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand watching kills on screen.
    • you need some hope at the end of a dark story.

    About: fathers and sons · guilt · identity

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  20. 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

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