Separate remakes, unrelated shows and reality spin-offs before choosing a season.
Same title, different television
Two shows can share a name and still have entirely different casts, settings and episode guides. Dark Matter is a particularly clear example: the 2015 spaceship series is not the 2024 parallel-world story. Choose by the first year and premise, not just the largest poster.
Remakes and adaptations
The Office, Ghosts, The Bridge, The Killing and Utopia each have distinct national productions in this catalog. An adaptation may preserve an idea while changing the people, pace and season structure. A recommendation for an episode in one version cannot always be transferred to the other.
A reality competition is not another drama season
Squid Game and Squid Game: The Challenge are separately listed productions. Use the comparison below to enter the intended show, then follow its own seasons. The same habit is useful whenever a familiar franchise name appears on a film, documentary or spin-off.
Squid Game or The Challenge
One is a scripted Korean survival drama; the other is a reality competition. Choose the production before comparing seasons.
Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children's games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits — with deadly high stakes.
The six-person crew of a derelict spaceship awakens from stasis in the farthest reaches of space. Their memories wiped clean, they have no recollection of who they are or how they got on board. The only clue to their identities is a cargo bay full of weaponry and a destination: a remote mining colony that is about to become a war zone. With no idea whose side they are on, they face a deadly decision. Will these amnesiacs turn their backs on history, or will their pasts catch up with them?
Jason Dessen is abducted into an alternate version of his life. To get back to his real family, he embarks on a harrowing journey to save them from the most terrifying foe imaginable: himself.
Samantha and Jay throw caution to the wind when they convert their recently inherited country estate into a bed-and-breakfast. Call it mislaid plans. Not only is the place falling apart, but it’s also inhabited by spirits of previous residents -- whom only Samantha can see and hear.
The Utopia Experiments is a legendary graphic novel shrouded in mystery. When a group of strangers find themselves in possession of an original manuscript, their lives suddenly and brutally implode.
A group of young adults who met online are mercilessly hunted by a shadowy deep state organization after they come into possession of a near-mythical cult underground graphic novel.
When a body is found on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden, right on the border, Danish inspector Martin Rohde and Swedish Saga Norén have to share jurisdiction and work together to find the killer.
The Killing is a Danish police procedural set in the Copenhagen main police department and revolves around Detective Inspector Sarah Lund and her team, with each season series following a different murder case day-by-day and a one-hour episode covering twenty-four hours of the investigation. The series is noted for its plot twists, season-long storylines, dark tone and for giving equal emphasis to the story of the murdered victim's family alongside the police investigation. It has also been singled out for the photography of its Danish setting, and for the acting ability of its cast.
The Killing is an American crime drama television series based upon the Danish television series Forbrydelsen. Set in Seattle, Washington, the series follows the various murder investigations by homicide detectives Sarah Linden and Stephen Holder.
