Why we're building TV Tier List
Every streaming app gives you a watchlist. None of them give you a record.
That bugged us. So we built TV Tier List — a place to remember, rank, and share every show you’ve ever watched, in the only format that actually says something: an S-to-F tier grid.
The watchlist problem
Watchlists are aspirational. They’re a list of things you said you’d watch, six months ago, and never did. They don’t have memory and they don’t have an opinion.
When a friend asks “have you seen Shogun?”, the honest answer is rarely “yes” or “no”. It’s more like:
- “Yeah, but only the first season.”
- “I watched it during a rough week and I think I liked it more than I should have.”
- “S-tier. Genuinely changed how I think about pacing.”
A star rating can’t carry that. A tier list almost can.
Why tier lists work
A tier list does three things a 5-star rating can’t:
- It forces a relative judgment. Is Shogun really better than Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood? You have to pick a side, and the picking is where the fun lives.
- It tells a story at a glance. One look at someone’s grid and you know their taste — what they love, what they pretend to love, and what they’ve watched out of spite.
- It’s social by default. Tier lists were made to be argued about. That’s a feature, not a bug.
What’s in the box
The first version of TV Tier List ships with everything we wanted in a watching app and couldn’t find anywhere else:
- Your personal grid — every show you’ve watched, ranked S to F.
- Watch Groups — rank shows together with friends and see a group consensus.
- Custom tier lists — themed lists for the takes that don’t fit your main grid (best anime openings, greatest finales, worst seasons of good shows).
- Show notes — your raw, unfiltered reactions, hidden behind your privacy settings by default.
- Global rankings — every user’s tiers roll up into a community leaderboard. No paid placements, no algorithmic mush.
- Advanced mode — log how your opinion on a show changes over time. Watch your own taste evolve from pilot to finale.
What’s next
We’re going to keep this blog as the public log of how TV Tier List grows. Expect product updates, deep dives into specific seasons, ranking debates we couldn’t resolve internally, and the occasional defense of a show no one else liked.
If you’ve made it this far, you probably already know whether you’d use this thing.
— The TV Tier List team