Methodology

Release order, with loud fixes

First-watch orders use release order: reveals, post-credits scenes and recasts were all written assuming you had seen what shipped before. Where release order actively misleads (a film whose story belongs years earlier), we move the title and print the reason next to it — never silently.

The four verdicts

• Required — a later title on the same road references this one in a way that changes how the later title plays. Skip it and someone else's reunion lands half as hard.
• Recommended — deepens the experience without being load-bearing. Watch it if you have the evenings.
• Optional — it is worth watching for itself, not for the road. Zero guilt in skipping.
• Skip — the honest answer to "do I need this?" is no, with a one-line reason on the entry.

Stop points

When a release calendar crosses its own streams — a post-credits scene that belongs to a different show — we mark a stop point: watch to here, pause, come back after X. The checklist tracks it as its own sub-step so a half-finished entry is a state, not a memory test.

Facts versus opinions

Runtimes and release dates are facts, cross-checked against public databases (TMDB among them) and marked with a last-verified date. Verdicts are opinions, and they are ours — never presented as official or complete. When a fact changes, we fix it in a separate, fast channel from the opinion pass.

What forces a re-verification

Three triggers: a new release joins a road (it enters with its own verification pass), a studio moves a date or a runtime, or a reader correction survives the loop below. Verification is per entry — the date printed on an entry means its facts were checked on that date, not that the whole page was rebuilt.

Change log

• 2026-11-04 — Spider-Man: Brand New Day joined the MCU road; runtimes and release dates re-checked on all three roadmaps; the MCU countdown confirmed against Doomsday's December 18, 2026 date.

Earlier fixes live where they happened: each entry prints its own last-verified date, and a correction ships with an updated date on the entry it changed.

Disagree with a verdict?

Good — that is how the timeline fixes on our pages were found. Every entry has a feedback mail link; a human reads it, and corrections ship with an updated last-verified date. No form and no account: write to [email protected] — the address is also in the footer of every page.