Separate The Diplomat, Dark Matter, The Office and other productions that share a name.
If a recommendation feels wrong from the first scene, you may have opened a different production with the same name. MoviesJoys keeps those choices separate. Compare the cast, setting and first release rather than relying on a poster alone.
The Diplomat needs more than a year
Both series below began in 2023. The Keri Russell drama and the Sophie Rundle Barcelona-set series are different shows. The cast labels help you choose even when a year-qualified search returns both.
Adaptations keep their own episodes
The British and American versions of The Office and Ghosts have separate season lists. Saving an episode checkpoint on one does not mean you reached that episode in the other. Dark Matter also refers to two distinct series, not two seasons of the same production.
Original, remake or live-action adaptation?
The cards below also compare films. How to Train Your Dragon has separate animated and live-action productions, while The Guilty has Danish and American versions. Open both details pages if you want to compare them, then save the exact edition you intend to watch.
The Diplomat: two shows from 2023
Keri Russell in a political drama, or Sophie Rundle at the British consulate in Barcelona. Compare the cast, not only the year.
The six-part series follows Laura Simmonds and her Barcelona Consul colleague and friend Alba Ortiz as they fight to protect British nationals who find themselves in trouble in the Catalan city.
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.
As the son of a Viking leader on the cusp of manhood, shy Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III faces a rite of passage: he must kill a dragon to prove his warrior mettle. But after downing a feared dragon, he realizes that he no longer wants to destroy it, and instead befriends the beast – which he names Toothless – much to the chagrin of his warrior father.
On the rugged isle of Berk, where Vikings and dragons have been bitter enemies for generations, Hiccup stands apart, defying centuries of tradition when he befriends Toothless, a feared Night Fury dragon. Their unlikely bond reveals the true nature of dragons, challenging the very foundations of Viking society.
Police officer Asger Holm, demoted to desk work as an alarm dispatcher, answers a call from a panicked woman who claims to have been kidnapped. Confined to the police station and with the phone as his only tool, Asger races against time to get help and find her.
