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Russian Doll 2019
Series
Nadia keeps dying and reliving her 36th birthday party. She's trapped in a surreal time loop -- and staring down the barrel of her own mortality.
The sides of Russian Doll
- A woman dying again and again at her own birthday party
- A stranger stuck in the same loop
- A New York subway train into the past
Good for you if
- you like laughing as Nadia dies once more on her 36th birthday.
- you can't look away from Natasha Lyonne as Nadia, raspy, wry and self-destructive.
- you like a New York that bends in strange ways.
Bad for you if
- you can't face a story about a mentally ill mother and an old childhood wound.
- you want every rule of the loop explained.
About: death · mothers and daughters · self-destruction
Dead to Me 2019
Series
A hotheaded widow searching for the hit-and-run driver who mowed down her husband befriends an eccentric optimist who isn't quite what she seems.
The sides of Dead to Me
- A widow hunting a hit-and-run driver
- An optimist hiding a secret
- Two women becoming close friends
Good for you if
- you like grief and murder played for laughs.
- you like Jen and Judy's friendship through every lie.
- you like a season that ends on a new shock.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch grief and miscarriage up close.
- you need every turn of the plot to feel believable.
About: grief · guilt · female friendship
Angel Beats! 2010
Anime
Angel Beats takes place in the afterlife and focuses on Otonashi, a boy who lost his memories of his life after dying. He is enrolled into the afterlife school and meets a girl named Yuri who invites him to join the Afterlife Battlefront — an organization she leads which fights against God. The Battlefront fight against the student council president Angel, a girl with supernatural powers.
The sides of Angel Beats!
- A boy who wakes up dead without his memories
- A school in the afterlife
- A rebel group fighting God
Good for you if
- you like learning each student's tragic past.
- you like silly gags between gunfights.
- you like a student army battling a girl called Angel.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you won't read subtitles.
About: death · regret · letting go
Fleabag 2016
Series
A portrait into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, porn-watching, grief-riddled woman, trying to make sense of the world. As she hurls herself headlong at modern living, Fleabag is thrown roughly up against the walls of contemporary London, with all its frenetic energy, late nights, and bright lights.
The sides of Fleabag
- A woman who talks to the camera
- A failing guinea pig café in London
- A priest she falls for
Good for you if
- you like laughing at a woman's worst moments as she tells you about them.
- you like Phoebe Waller-Bridge winking at you through the camera.
- you want two short seasons you can watch in a weekend.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather avoid frank sex talk and sex scenes.
- you can't take grief and guilt hidden under the jokes.
About: grief · guilt · loneliness · sisters
I Am Not Okay with This 2020
Series
Angsty Syd navigates high school awkwardness, family drama and an unrequited crush on her best friend while trying to rein in her budding superpowers.
The sides of I Am Not Okay with This
- A teenage girl with powers she can't control
- A crush on her closest friend
- A diary she isn't supposed to keep
Good for you if
- you like Syd's awkward high school life told through her diary.
- you like a teen comedy where anger makes things explode.
- you want a single short season you can finish in an evening or two.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand a story that stops on a cliffhanger with no next season.
- you can't watch grief up close. Syd is still reeling from her father's suicide.
About: grief · adolescence · anger · sexuality
BoJack Horseman 2014
Series
Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the '90s , 20 years later. He's a curmudgeon with a heart of...not quite gold...but something like gold. Copper?
The sides of BoJack Horseman
- A washed-up 90s sitcom horse
- Hollywoo, where humans and animals live side by side
- Friends he keeps letting down
Good for you if
- you like animal puns next to jokes about addiction and death.
- you want a show that looks hard at why BoJack keeps hurting the people who love him.
- you can take a comedy that doesn't promise anyone gets better.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch addiction, depression and an overdose on screen.
- you don't watch animated series.
About: fame · addiction · depression · regret
After Life 2019
Series
Tony had a perfect life. But after his wife Lisa suddenly dies, Tony changes. After contemplating taking his own life, he decides instead to live long enough to punish the world by saying and doing whatever he likes from now on.
The sides of After Life
- A widower who lost his wife Lisa
- Her old videos he watches every night
- A small local newspaper and its odd colleagues
Good for you if
- you like a grieving man saying the cruelest thing in the room.
- you want a comedy that suddenly breaks your heart.
- you like Tony's slow way back to kindness, one villager at a time.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch grief and thoughts of suicide up close.
- you roll your eyes at sincere lessons about being nice.
About: grief · kindness · depression
Hi Bye, Mama! 2020
Series
Cha Yu-ri died in an accident five years ago, leaving her husband Cho Gang-hwa to raise their daughter by himself. She becomes a ghost and watches over them until one fateful day she is brought back to life by the deities and told she can become human again if she returns to her place in 49 days. Though her husband has remarried, so she must decide between her or his happiness as she slowly re-integrates back into her old lifestyle.
The sides of Hi Bye, Mama!
- A mother who died five years ago
- A ghost given 49 days to live again
- A husband who has remarried
Good for you if
- you like crying over a mother who watched her daughter grow without her.
- you like a mother and a little girl meeting again.
- you like ghosts and shamans played for laughs between the tears.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a series in Korean.
- you can't watch grief and loss this close up.
About: grief · motherhood · letting go
Shameless 2011
Series
Chicagoan Frank Gallagher is the proud single dad of six smart, industrious, independent kids, who without him would be... perhaps better off. When Frank's not at the bar spending what little money they have, he's passed out on the floor. But the kids have found ways to grow up in spite of him. They may not be like any family you know, but they make no apologies for being exactly who they are.
The sides of Shameless
- An alcoholic father of six on Chicago's South Side
- An older sister raising her siblings
- Scams to pay the bills
Good for you if
- you like six Gallagher kids looking after each other because their father won't.
- you laugh at Frank Gallagher's schemes even when they hurt his children.
- you like watching Fiona, Lip and Ian grow up and make their own mistakes.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather skip frequent sex scenes, or you watch with others.
- you can't watch addiction, neglect and mental illness up close.
- you can't commit to eleven seasons.
About: poverty · family · addiction · survival
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
Jojo Rabbit 2019
Película
Jojo Rabbit es un niño viviendo en plena 2ª Guerra Mundial. Su única vía de escape es su amigo imaginario, una versión de Hitler étnicamente incorrecta que incita los ciegos ideales patrióticos del niño. Todo esto cambia cuando descubre que su madre Rosie está escondiendo a una joven judía en su ático.
Las caras de Jojo Rabbit
- Un niño en las Juventudes Hitlerianas
- Un amigo imaginario que es Hitler
- Una chica escondida en las paredes
Buena para ti si
- te gusta una sátira que se atreve a reírse de los nazis.
- te gusta una comedia que de repente te rompe el corazón.
- te gusta un niño de diez años que empieza a cuestionar todo lo que le enseñaron.
Mala para ti si
- una chica judía escondida en las paredes para escapar de la Gestapo es demasiado para ti.
- prefieres no ver la guerra de cerca. A los niños les dan armas en la batalla final.
Temas: la inocencia · el odio · el amor
Bitelchús 1988
Película
¿Qué debería hacer una pareja de fantasmas si su estrafalario hogar de Nueva Inglaterra se llenara de elegantes visitantes neoyorquinos? Pedir ayuda a un exorcista para aterrorizar a los intrusos con el fin de que abandonen la casa. Bitelchús es una criatura de ultratumba repugnante y terrorífica, un fenómeno asustando y bromeando que se gira y se transforma en grotescas formas, traga insectos y no puede dejar a las mujeres (vivas o muertas) en paz.
Las caras de Bitelchús
- Una pareja de fantasmas incapaz de asustar a nadie
- Una adolescente gótica
- Un bioexorcista al que no debes llamar
Buena para ti si
- te gusta la comedia extraña y tenebrosa.
- te gusta un fantasma maníaco y caótico.
- te gustan los efectos artesanales y un pueblo en miniatura.
Mala para ti si
- no puedes reírte de la muerte. La sala de espera del más allá está llena de muertos que aún muestran cómo murieron.
- las películas de 1988 te parecen anticuadas.
Temas: la muerte · el hogar · la pertenencia
Tres anuncios en las afueras 2017
Película
Mildred Hayes, una mujer de 50 años cuya hija adolescente ha sido violada y asesinada, decide iniciar por su cuenta una guerra contra la policía de su pueblo, Ebbing, al considerar que no hacen lo suficiente para resolver el caso y que se haga justicia. Su primer paso será contratar unas vallas publicitarias denunciando la situación y señalando al jefe de policía, William Willoughby, como responsable principal de la pasividad policial.
Las caras de Tres anuncios en las afueras
- Una madre y tres vallas publicitarias
- Un jefe de policía de un pueblo pequeño
- Un policía que cambia
Buena para ti si
- te gusta una actuación protagónica furiosa y divertida.
- te gusta el duelo contado con chistes negros y afilados.
- te gustan las personas peores y mejores de lo que parecen.
Mala para ti si
- los estallidos de violencia repentinos te lo arruinan.
- quieres una película suave. Esta es rabiosa.
Temas: el duelo · la ira · la justicia
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
Mom 2013
Series
Aan irreverent and outrageous take on true family love‐and dysfunction. Newly sober single mom Christy struggles to raise two children in a world full of temptations and pitfalls. Testing her sobriety is her formerly estranged mother, now back in Christy's life and eager to share passive-aggressive insights into her daughter's many mistakes.
The sides of Mom
- A newly sober single mother
- Her mother, also in recovery
- Support group meetings in Napa
Good for you if
- you like a sitcom with sharp one-liners between mother and daughter.
- you like a mother and daughter who keep trying to repair things.
- you like laughing at relapses, debts and bad decisions.
Bad for you if
- eight seasons is too much for you.
- you can't watch addiction and loss played next to the jokes.
About: recovery · mothers and daughters · second chances
The Leftovers 2014
Series
When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. This is the story of the people who didn't make the cut.
The sides of The Leftovers
- Two percent of the world vanishing at once
- A police chief holding his family together
- A silent cult dressed in white
Good for you if
- you like grief so raw it moves you to tears.
- you can live with never learning where the vanished went.
- you like Kevin and Nora, two broken people trying to go on.
Bad for you if
- you can't take grief, suicide and despair on screen.
- you need a story that moves fast, not three seasons of mourning.
About: grief · faith · loss
Guardian: The Lonely and Great God 2016
Series
In his quest for a bride to break his immortal curse, a 939-year-old guardian of souls meets a grim reaper and a sprightly student with a tragic past.
The sides of Guardian: The Lonely and Great God
- A 939-year-old immortal looking for his bride
- A grim reaper for a housemate
- A high school student who can see ghosts
Good for you if
- you like a love story that spans centuries and lifetimes.
- you like a K-drama that makes you cry over fate and goodbyes.
- you like the goblin and the grim reaper bickering under the same roof.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a Korean series.
- you can't watch child abuse or suicide on screen.
About: fate · immortality · grief · love
Shrinking 2023
Series
Jimmy is struggling to grieve the loss of his wife while being a dad, friend, and therapist. He decides to try a new approach with everyone in his path: unfiltered, brutal honesty. Will it make things better—or unleash uproarious chaos?
The sides of Shrinking
- A therapist grieving his wife
- Blunt honesty with his patients
- A father trying to reach his teenage daughter
Good for you if
- you like Jimmy saying exactly what he thinks to his patients.
- you want a comedy that can also make you cry about grief.
- you like a circle of friends, neighbors and coworkers who keep showing up.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch grief up close right now.
- you roll your eyes at heartfelt talks and hugs.
About: grief · healing · friendship
Escondidos en Brujas 2008
Película
Narra la historia de dos asesinos a sueldo en Londres que, debido a una operación que termina mal, reciben la orden de exiliarse por un tiempo en la ciudad de Brujas, en Bélgica.
Las caras de Escondidos en Brujas
- Dos sicarios esperando en Brujas
- Un encargo que salió terriblemente mal
- Un jefe con principios estrictos
Buena para ti si
- te gusta reírte de lo que no deberías, entre iglesias medievales.
- te gusta ver a Colin Farrell y Brendan Gleeson discutiendo sobre turismo.
- te gusta Ray, un sicario que odia Brujas y se odia a sí mismo.
Mala para ti si
- no soportas un tiroteo final sangriento.
- no puedes ver a un hombre aplastado por la culpa tras un encargo que salió mal.
Temas: la culpa · la redención · la muerte
Swiss Army Man 2016
Film
Alone on a tiny deserted island, Hank has given up all hope of ever making it home again. But one day everything changes when a dead body washes ashore, and he soon realizes it may be his last opportunity to escape certain death. Armed with his new “friend” and an unusual bag of tricks, the duo go on an epic adventure to bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams.
The sides of Swiss Army Man
- A man stranded on a tiny island
- A corpse that washes ashore and becomes his tool
- A trek through the woods back to the girl he likes
Good for you if
- you like a man riding a farting corpse like a jet ski.
- you laugh at a dead body slowly learning to talk again.
- you like a lonely man and Daniel Radcliffe's corpse becoming real friends.
Bad for you if
- you need a story that stays inside the rules of the real world.
- you can't laugh at jokes about a dead body.
About: loneliness · shame · friendship