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What to watch next
“What should I watch next?” is rarely a question about what exists. It is a question about the moment: how much time you have, who is in the room, how much energy you have left, and whether you want something new or something you already trust.
Next Up starts from a few things you already love, turns them into taste signals you can see and edit, and then scores what to watch against your taste and your moment. The pages below each take one common version of the question and show the fastest route through Next Up for it.
Start from the moment you’re in
Tonight
What to watch tonight when you can’t decide
Can't decide what to watch tonight? Give Next Up five things you love plus your mood and who's watching, and get one pick you can start now. Free — one Quick Pick a day.
Short on time
What to watch when you have under an hour
Only have 30 or 60 minutes? Next Up's Under 30 and Under 1 Hour lanes rank what you'd like against the time you actually have, so you finish something instead of starting something.
Kid nearby
What to watch with a kid nearby
Need something to watch while a child is around? Next Up's Kid Nearby lane ranks your own taste toward titles that are safe-ish with a kid in the room — you still make the final call.
Comfort
What to rewatch when nothing new lands
Nothing new appeals? Next Up's Rewatch Again and Continue / Resume lanes surface the things you keep coming back to and the ones you left half-finished, ranked from your own taste.
Low energy
What to watch when you’re too tired to choose
Too wiped to pick? Next Up's Mental Break lane ranks your taste toward cozy, low-stakes, low-friction titles, and Quick Pick hands you one choice so you don't have to make it.
The hole it left
What to watch after finishing a show you loved
Just finished a series and nothing compares? Tell Next Up what you loved about it in plain text; it turns that into taste signals and ranks what to watch next across shows, films, books and podcasts.
The canon
Classic films to watch next
Want to finally see the classics? Next Up tracks AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies and the 2022 Sight & Sound top 10 as checklists, marks what you've seen from your History, and picks your next one from what's left.
Or work through a canon
Two canonical film lists, tracked as checklists against your History.
Questions people ask
- How does Next Up decide what to suggest?
- You give it a few shows, books, podcasts, people, moods or “never again” items in plain text. Next Up parses that into taste signals you can accept, dismiss or add to, then scores the catalog against your taste and the moment you pick — a comfort pick, a stretch, short on time, background friendly, a kid nearby, or a full mix.
- Is it only for movies?
- No. Movies, shows, books, audiobooks, podcasts, anime and cartoons share the same ranker, with a “start with” hint when a title exists in more than one format.
- What if the first suggestion is wrong?
- Like and Skip are the controls. Every Like nudges the matching taste weights up; every Skip nudges them down and hides that title from future sessions.
- What happens to what I type in?
- Your note is turned into structured taste signals in the browser. No raw notes leave your browser for analytics, nothing is sold, and you can export or delete your profile from the Trust page.