What to Watch
What to Watch
What to Watch gives every movie and show a clear verdict by combining community votes with IMDb scores. No complicated scales — just a straightforward answer to whether something is worth your time.
Every title receives one of three verdicts. Once a title has 5 or more community votes, the verdict is based on the percentage of "Worth Watching" votes. Before that threshold, IMDb scores provide the initial rating.
Registered users vote "Worth Watching" or "Skip It" on any title. It's a simple binary — no ambiguous 1–10 scales. This produces clearer signals and makes it easy to compare across titles and platforms.
The community approval percentage is calculated from all votes on a title. Once a title reaches 5 or more community votes, the community verdict takes precedence over the IMDb-based fallback. Users can also rate individual seasons of a series separately.
Beyond voting, users can write reviews explaining their recommendation. These reviews appear on title pages and help other viewers understand the reasoning behind the numbers.
What to Watch combines data from multiple sources to build a comprehensive picture:
IMDb ratings — Industry-standard audience scores used as the baseline when community data is limited. Scores of 7+ map to Worth Watching, 6–7 to Mixed, and below 6 to Skip It.
Community votes — Binary Watch/Skip votes from real users that become the primary signal once 5+ votes are collected.
Rotten Tomatoes — Critic and audience scores shown as supplementary context where available.
Streaming availability — Updated daily across 12 services so you know exactly where to watch.
Most rating systems ask users to assign a number on a scale, which creates ambiguity — is a 7.2 good? Is 3 out of 5 stars a recommendation? What to Watch simplifies this to the question viewers actually care about: "Should I spend my time on this?"
The binary format produces clearer consensus signals, eliminates score inflation, and makes it immediately obvious whether something is worth watching — no interpretation required.
What to Watch aggregates IMDb ratings with community votes. Each title receives a verdict of Worth Watching, Mixed Reviews, or Skip It based on the percentage of positive community votes. When fewer than 5 community votes exist, the IMDb score is used as a fallback.
Worth Watching means that 61% or more of community voters recommend the title, or if there are fewer than 5 community votes, the IMDb score is 7.0 or higher. It indicates strong approval from real viewers.
Yes. For multi-season series, you can vote on the show as a whole and also rate individual seasons separately. Season-level ratings help other viewers decide whether to continue a series or skip weaker seasons.
Streaming availability and metadata are updated daily. New titles are added as they become available on supported platforms, and removed titles are flagged accordingly.
Instead of a 1–10 scale or separate critic and audience scores, What to Watch provides one clear verdict — Worth Watching, Mixed Reviews, or Skip It — by combining IMDb data with community votes. You get a straightforward answer rather than having to interpret multiple numbers. What to Watch is also built specifically around what's actually streaming right now. While IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes catalog everything ever made, What to Watch focuses on real-time content discovery — surfacing new releases, trending titles, and what's available today across your streaming services.