Which miniseries is right for you?
One season, a real ending. Every miniseries here says who it's good for, and who it isn't.
Not sure yet? Start with these.
WandaVision 2021
Series
Wanda Maximoff and Vision—two super-powered beings living idealized suburban lives—begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems.
The sides of WandaVision
- A couple living in old sitcoms
- A perfect suburb with cracks
- Grief that bends reality
Good for you if
- you like a show that changes decade and style each episode.
- you like slowly working out what's really going on.
- you like a superhero show that's really about grief.
Bad for you if
- you find old black and white sitcoms dated. The first episodes copy them on purpose.
- you need logic that holds up, and this one runs on magic and sitcom rules.
About: grief · denial · love
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier 2021
Series
Following the events of “Avengers: Endgame”, the Falcon, Sam Wilson and the Winter Soldier, Bucky Barnes team up in a global adventure that tests their abilities, and their patience.
The sides of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
- Two partners after Captain America
- A shield nobody can carry
- A new Captain who shouldn't be
Good for you if
- you like grounded fights and chases.
- you like two men learning to trust each other.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather skip politics, and the story turns on refugees, borders and a group called the Flag Smashers.
- you roll your eyes at big speeches, and Sam gives a few about what the shield stands for.
About: legacy · race · trust
Chernobyl 2019
Series
The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
The sides of Chernobyl
- The night a reactor exploded
- Scientists against the lies of a state
- Men sent onto the roof
Good for you if
- you like dread that never lets go.
- you want to understand a real disaster.
- you can take a grim, unflinching story.
Bad for you if
- radiation sickness shown in detail is too hard for you.
- you can't watch animals being shot. Soldiers clear the zone of the pets left behind.
About: truth · sacrifice · lies
The Queen's Gambit 2020
Series
In a 1950s orphanage, a young girl reveals an astonishing talent for chess and begins an unlikely journey to stardom while grappling with addiction.
The sides of The Queen's Gambit
- An orphan who learns chess in a basement
- A young woman against the world's top players
- Pills, alcohol and the 1960s
Good for you if
- you like watching Anya Taylor-Joy say everything with a stare.
- you like chess games played like duels, even if you don't play.
- you like following Beth from a Kentucky orphanage to tournaments against grown men.
Bad for you if
- you need fights and chases, and the only battles here are played in silence across a board.
- you can't stand addiction on screen.
About: genius · addiction · loneliness · ambition
Dragon Ball Super 2015
Anime
With Majin Buu defeated, Goku has taken a completely new role as...a radish farmer?! With Earth at peace, our heroes have settled into normal lives. But they can’t get too comfortable. Far away, the powerful God of Destruction, Beerus, awakens to a prophecy revealing his demise at the hands of an even more formidable being. When his search for the Saiyan God brings him to Earth, can Goku and his friends take on their strongest foe yet?
The sides of Dragon Ball Super
- Goku as a radish farmer
- A god of destruction looking for a worthy rival
- A tournament between universes
Good for you if
- you like fights that keep raising the power level.
- you like a god who can be calmed down with good food.
- you like a universe of gods of destruction, angels and a tournament between twelve universes.
Bad for you if
- over a hundred episodes of the same heroes powering up is too much for you.
- you don't watch anime.
About: strength · rivalry · gods
The Act 2019
Series
Gypsy Blanchard struggles to deal with the toxic relationship with her overprotective mother, but her attempts to free herself lead to murder.
The sides of The Act
- The true story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard
- A mother who kept her daughter ill
- A murder in Missouri
Good for you if
- you want to understand a true crime from inside the house.
- you like Joey King and Patricia Arquette in a mother-daughter story.
- you like dread that builds toward something you know will happen.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand child abuse and medical cruelty on screen.
- you need some hope, and Gypsy's life is a cage that keeps closing in.
About: control · abuse · freedom · motherhood
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
JUJUTSU KAISEN 2020
Anime
Yuji Itadori is a boy with tremendous physical strength, though he lives a completely ordinary high school life. One day, to save a classmate who has been attacked by curses, he eats the finger of Ryomen Sukuna, taking the curse into his own soul. From then on, he shares one body with Ryomen Sukuna. Guided by the most powerful of sorcerers, Satoru Gojo, Itadori is admitted to Tokyo Jujutsu High School, an organization that fights the curses... and thus begins the heroic tale of a boy who became a curse to exorcise a curse, a life from which he could never turn back.
The sides of JUJUTSU KAISEN
- A boy who swallows a cursed finger
- A demon king living in his body
- A school for sorcerers in Tokyo
Good for you if
- you like fast, inventive fights between sorcerers.
- you like a hero who could lose control of the monster inside him.
- you like a hidden world of curses with its own rules.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand gruesome deaths and curses that twist bodies out of shape.
- you don't watch anime.
About: death · fate · friendship
Band of Brothers 2001
Series
Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.
The sides of Band of Brothers
- The paratroopers of Easy Company
- A night jump over Normandy on D-Day
- The Battle of the Bulge in winter
Good for you if
- you want a war story built from the real men's interviews and letters.
- you like soldiers who become brothers, from training in Georgia to the end.
- you want to follow one company from Normandy to Bastogne and the end of the war.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch men wounded and killed in combat.
- you need some lightness, and the cold of Bastogne and the camps are too much for you.
About: brotherhood · courage · war
Hawkeye 2021
Series
Former Avenger Clint Barton has a seemingly simple mission: get back to his family for Christmas. Possible? Maybe with the help of Kate Bishop, a 22-year-old archer with dreams of becoming a superhero. The two are forced to work together when a presence from Barton’s past threatens to derail far more than the festive spirit.
The sides of Hawkeye
- Clint Barton trying to get home for Christmas
- A young archer who wants to be a hero
- A tracksuit mafia in New York
Good for you if
- you like Clint grumbling while Kate Bishop admires his legend.
- you like trick arrows in a car chase through snowy New York.
- you like a tired mentor and an eager student learning to trust each other.
Bad for you if
- you want universe-sized stakes, not Christmas in the city.
- you want your heroes dark, and this is a holiday story.
About: mentorship · family · the past
Moon Knight 2022
Series
When Steven Grant, a mild-mannered gift-shop employee, becomes plagued with blackouts and memories of another life, he discovers he has dissociative identity disorder and shares a body with mercenary Marc Spector. As Steven/Marc’s enemies converge upon them, they must navigate their complex identities while thrust into a deadly mystery among the powerful gods of Egypt.
The sides of Moon Knight
- A London gift-shop worker who keeps losing time
- A mercenary sharing his body
- An Egyptian moon god giving orders
Good for you if
- you like piecing together what Steven misses during his blackouts.
- you like Oscar Isaac playing two men with two accents in one body.
- you like Egyptian gods, tombs and a hippo goddess in the afterlife.
Bad for you if
- you want a classic superhero story, and this one keeps you unsure of what is real.
- you'd rather not watch childhood trauma and grief behind a superhero story.
About: identity · trauma · faith
Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord 2012
Series
Pablo is a man with a natural ability for business. Early in his life, Pablo is introduced to the business of cocaine and the power it yields. A young life of crime lands Pablo in and out of jail as he builds his criminal empire. Pablo expands his power through politics but it is not long before his conflicts as a Congressman and a drug lord collide. Pablo has his enemies executed, but not before the United States activates its own war on the Medellin cartel.
The sides of Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord
- The life of Pablo Escobar from petty crime to cartel boss
- A drug lord elected to Congress
- Colombia under the Medellín cartel's war
Good for you if
- you want the story of Pablo Escobar told from Colombia, about the country that lived through him.
- you like following how a cocaine empire was built, step by step.
- you like watching money buy politics until the state fights back.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a Spanish-language series.
- you can't watch bombings and murders that happened to real people.
- a telenovela with daily-length episodes is too much for you.
About: power · violence · memory

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
Dragon Ball 1986
Anime
Young Goku sets off on a quest with his teenage friend Bulma to find the seven Dragon Balls, which grant whoever possesses them a single wish.
The sides of Dragon Ball
- A boy with a monkey tail
- A search for seven wish-granting balls
- A martial arts tournament
Good for you if
- you like slapstick and a hero who knows nothing about the world.
- you like kung fu fights and tournaments.
- you like a road trip where rivals become friends.
Bad for you if
- you find 1980s animation dated.
- you don't watch anime.
About: adventure · friendship · innocence
It 1990
Series
In 1960, seven outcast kids known as "The Losers' Club" fight against an ancient shape-shifting alien who poses as a child-killing clown, while also dealing with bullies and abusive parents. Thirty years later, they reunite to stop the creature once and for all when it returns to their hometown.
The sides of It
- A shape-shifting clown called Pennywise
- Seven outcast kids in a small town in 1960
- The same friends reunited thirty years later
Good for you if
- you like being scared by a clown in a storm drain.
- you like the Losers' Club sticking together against bullies and worse.
- you like a story that cuts between seven kids and the adults they became.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch children dying or abusive parents.
- a TV miniseries from 1990 feels dated to you.
About: childhood fear · friendship · memory · bullying
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
The Book of Boba Fett 2021
Series
Legendary bounty hunter Boba Fett and mercenary Fennec Shand must navigate the galaxy’s underworld when they return to the sands of Tatooine to stake their claim on the territory once ruled by Jabba the Hutt and his crime syndicate.
The sides of The Book of Boba Fett
- Boba Fett taking over Jabba's palace
- The crime families of Tatooine
- A past with the Tusken Raiders
Good for you if
- you like Tatooine, its Tusken Raiders and its cantinas.
- you like a bounty hunter with a jetpack and a blaster.
- you like a gangster story where Boba Fett tries to rule with respect.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum, and the early episodes move between Tatooine politics and long flashbacks with the Tuskens.
- you watch for sharp dialogue, and Boba Fett is a man of very few words.
About: power · respect · belonging
DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story 2022
Series
This series examines the gruesome and horrific true crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer and the systemic failures that enabled one of America’s most notorious serial killers to continue his murderous spree in plain sight for over a decade.
The sides of DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
- A serial killer in Milwaukee
- Victims' families ignored by the police
- A neighbour who kept calling for help
Good for you if
- you want to understand how police and institutions failed his victims for over a decade.
- you want a performance that stays with you, Evan Peters as Jeffrey Dahmer.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch real murders and the grief of real families.
- you need a little light, and this Milwaukee stays grey and hopeless from start to finish.
About: racism · police failure · grief
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
True Beauty 2020
Series
After being bullied and discriminated because of her ugly looks, a high school girl transforms herself into a gorgeous "goddess" and quickly rises to fame after mastering the art of makeup via online tutorial videos.
The sides of True Beauty
- A bullied student who learns makeup online
- A new school where nobody knows her bare face
- Two boys who both fall for her
Good for you if
- you like a high school love triangle.
- you like a teenager learning to like her own face.
- you like slapstick panic every time her makeup might come off.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a Korean drama.
- you need a high school romance that feels like real life.
About: self-worth · beauty standards · first love