Gay And Lesbian Dramas You Will Watch With Your Socially Conscious Girlfriend Only Out Of A Sense of Political Obligation
Thrillers Based On Novels Sold in Airports That You Have Also Seen At Your Grandmother’s House
Period Dramas, Non-Regency England, Non-Roaring Twenties
Mind-Benders You Watched Alone On Your Laptop While Extremely High And Can’t Bear To Be Reminded Of Now
The Last Movie The Two of You Watched Together When You Were Still Happy, Before Everything Changed
Prestige TV Dramas You’ve Lied About Having Seen Since 2005
Miniseries About A Non-Tudor, Non-Windsor English Royal Family
TV Shows That Have Been Given Remarkably Similar Names To Already-Popular Existing TV Shows In The Hopes You’ll Confuse The Two Somehow
Non-Morgan Spurlock, Non-Werner Herzog Documentaries
Movies With An Attractive Drowned Woman On The Cover
Movies You Know Your Ex Has Been Watching In His New Time Zone Since He Still Has Your Shared Password And You Can’t Bring Yourself To Change It Yet Because It’s The Only Way You Can Still Prove To Yourself He Exists
Because You Watched ‘Requiem For A Dream’ With Your Parents Like Six Years Ago
Anything Where An Character Who Is Obviously Supposed To Be A Lesbian But, You Know, Isn’t, Commits Murder
Movies That Don’t Seem Like They’re Going To Have A Bleak Ending Until They Suddenly End And You’re Left Feeling Tricked And Hollow And It’s Only Eleven, Too Early To Go To Bed But Too Late To Go Out And Salvage The Night
Critically Acclaimed Suspenseful Thriller With Widely Known Twist Ending You’ve Never Seen But Had Carefully Described To You Multiple Times
Narrative Adaptations Of Non-Fiction Advice Books
Disappointing Follow-Ups To Promising Indie Debuts
Mallory is an Editor of The Toast.