Who doesn’t enjoy watching a good movie or an exciting series? MeinMMO author Linda Baumgartl has discovered an app that makes the experience even better.
Do you know the feeling: you start a new series, get totally hooked after a few episodes, and can’t wait to talk about it with everyone? At least that often happens to me. Unfortunately, there isn’t always someone around to annoy with my new obsession. And it’s really only fun when the other person knows what it’s about – meaning they’ve watched the series too. Since my friends don’t always share my absolutely amazing, and definitely not occasionally questionable taste in shows, this becomes quite tricky in practice.
So, I quickly started looking for like-minded people online. For movies, I love reading reviews after I’ve seen the film myself. With a good movie, I’m happy when it receives praise from others as well. For a bad movie, it’s fine if it gets dissected down to the smallest detail.
However, I often had a problem with series. If you type the title into social media to dive a bit into the fandom, you will almost definitely get spoiled at some point. Especially if the series has been out for a while. The solution for me was an app called TV Time, which has since become an essential part of my series nights and offers several other practical features.
All Movies and Series at a Glance
What is this app? TV Time is a platform that allows you to keep track of what you’re watching or want to watch. You can do this either through the website or the corresponding app. An account is free and doesn’t require a subscription or anything.
When you open the app, you first land on your profile. Here you find some statistics, such as the total time of all tracked movies and series. Additionally, there’s an overview of your recent activities and favorites. This allows for quick access, especially to the series you’re currently watching.
Another nice option is the explore tab. Here you can click through movie and series suggestions, filter by genres, and see what’s currently popular. You can easily save interesting titles and view them later on your watchlist. Of course, you can also actively search for something to remember it on your list.
It becomes even more interesting with series. Here you can not only add series titles to your watchlist. For each series, you additionally have a practical overview where you can precisely note which seasons and episodes you have already watched.
For current series, you can also opt to be notified when new episodes are available.
Like Social Media, but for Series
The best part of TV Time for me is definitely the community. For each episode of a series, and of course for movies, there is a dedicated comment section. This is where you can perfectly exchange with others. People post pictures of their favorite moments, funny memes, discuss the content, and share interesting facts. This is social media the way I envision it.
Especially for series, this system is simply fantastic. If I want the reactions of others to a specific scene, I don’t have to painstakingly scour the internet. I just go to the respective episode, and I’m likely to find some insightful comments. Plus, I no longer have to worry about spoilers. Even if a spoiler makes its way into a comment section, the community usually tags it reliably and thus hides it.
I find myself increasingly excited to browse the comments on TV Time right after watching an episode. Especially when something particularly shocking, funny, or stupid happens. I can almost see the memes and outraged posts already.
Overall, this makes the series experience so much better for me. I feel like I get to have fun twice: once while watching, and then while reading the comments. And it feels like I watched the series with a bunch of friends – simply wonderful.
Here are a few quick impressions, mostly without spoilers:
As you can see from the pictures, the comments are almost exclusively in English. While you can filter by language in general, my experience has been that it doesn’t work that well, probably because there just aren’t enough German comments.
Different Apps, Depending on Use
Of course, TV Time is not the only platform for movies and series on the market. Its special strength compared to competitors lies primarily in the community. Since that is the most important thing for me, I have always stuck with it. However, there are many alternatives for those who value different features. For example:
- Letterboxd: The most popular platform for movies. For each movie, you can leave a short review and thus create your own film diary.
- Serializd: Specialized in series.
- Queue: For movies and series. You can easily copy and paste lists, for example from your notes app, to add them automatically in the app.
- Trakt: Can be connected with streaming services to synchronize watched movies and series automatically.
Practical apps are not limited to the movie and series area. Language learning apps are also particularly popular. If you want to practice for your next vacation, we’ve put together a list of the best options for you here on MeinMMO: The best apps for learning languages for your next vacation
