It starts to rain and when they finally go to open the door it won't budge. Everything they try fails including smashing a window, it's like the rain won't let them leave.
They settle in and start exchanging messages with their neighbours but nobody has any telephone or Internet service so they've no idea what's going on.
Days turn to weeks and they start to realise there's something in the rain.
CW: embarrassing teen misogynistic language and death by power tools.
Colonel Ward (Sigourney Weaver) gives Mando his next mission and it means dealing with the infamous Hutt twins and their criminal organisation. Reluctantly he goes along with it.
No good will come of this.
It's a busy night: The City is awash with riots and disorder after mains water was discontinued by the Corporation with a monopoly on supply.
Tonight's guests include Arms Dealer Acapulco (Charlie Day), Assassin Nice (Sofia Boutella) and bank robber brothers Waikiki (Sterling K. Brown) and Honolulu (Brian Tyree Henry).
Then news comes a very particular VIP is on their way in.
No good will come of this.
CW: some violence
In a lonely grieving state he pours himself into Spider-Man's crime fighting and becomes a trusted hero to the City, with a hotline to the Police and a list of defeated wronguns.
When an unknown actor tries to break in to the Dept. of Damage Control by seemingly possessing bystanders, Spider-Man manages to save the day, just. No thanks to Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal) who has his own particular way of dealing with things.
He delivers some final words from Caleb he was asked to pass on and when he goes to leave, mother Laura (Sheila Kelley) insists he stay at least one night.
One night turns into several and he begins to have a positive effect on the family's fortunes. Even Paula's initially sceptical daughter Anna (Maika Monroe) begins to warm to this handsome macho stranger.
No good will come of this.
CW: some action movie violence
Frustrated at recycling stock sounds, the director of "Co-ed Frenzy" sends Jack out to try and record some more environmental sounds.
While recording in a park late in the evening he witnesses an incident where a car suffers the titular 'blow out' and goes over a bridge into an ornamental lake.
Jack dives into the lake and rescues a young woman, Sally (Nancy Allen) from the rapidly sinking car but fails to rescue the driver.
Later in hospital he finds out the driver was a prominent Congressman tipped for a run at the Presidency. The Congressman's aide persuades a reluctant Jack to pretend that Sally was never there in order to prevent a scandal. Reviewing the tape he had running when the car went over the bridge, Jack concludes something more sinister happened and tries to get people to listen.
No good will come of this.
Now a young man working in a very progressive HR department, Adam still yearns for the life he knew as a child and searches for the Sword of Power. He makes no secret of this and recounts his stories to anyone he can: obviously this makes him be seen as something of a weirdo.
One day the sword is found and almost as soon as he touches it this brings Eternia back into his life.
It is the first case of its kind.
Kelly-Anne doesn't need to do this, she lives a high end but austere lifestyle funded by modelling and high stakes games of online poker. She has highly automated her life and is slightly paranoid about surveillance. Kelly-Anne is well versed in OSINT and the information economy of the dark web so is seemingly doing this to avoid identification.
The case is a sensational media circus and Chevalier has "fans" who protest his innocence. Kelly-Anne befriends one of these, Clémentine (Laurie Babin) who is also sleeping near the court.
CW: reference to and audio from torture/snuff videos with upsetting themes of sexualised crimes including murder
When he passes away suddenly and his son Bradley (Dylan O'Brien) takes over this is immediately canned and he gives the role to one of his golf bros in the Sales dept. He needs a "people person".
The company is relying Linda's expertise for a complicated business negotiation so she joins the crowd of executives on the company jet to Thailand. Bradley lured her on board with a 'second chance' at promotion but plans to let her go straight after this.
When the plane ditches and only Linda and an injured Bradley make it to a small tropical island her outdoorsy hobbies and obsession with the TV show Survivor puts her very much in charge.
No good will come of this.
CW: bloody violence, mutilation, bush tucker vileness
In another ward, young Romanian immigrant Alexandria (Catinca Untaru) is recovering in a partial body cast, she too has had a fall, but is able to move around. Alexandria starts to explore the hospital and get up to mischief out of boredom and a degree of naivete.
When she wanders into Roy's ward he starts to regale her with an epic tale of a group of heroes who are intent on revenge against evil Governor Odious, who has wronged them all.
Roy parcels out bits of the tale each day. For each piece he asks her to do him a favour: something he can't manage in his newly paraplegic state.
No good will come of this
CW: suicidal ideation
These rules occasionally include human sacrifice and Grace is chucked into a to-the-death game of hide and seek on her wedding night.
Unexpectedly Grace wins, killing the whole Le Domas family, but now this opens up a seat at the table of the global cabal of Satanists. Mr Le Bail's rules say she must contest for this.
CW: bloody violence throughout
He's a bitter man and is trying to come to terms with things through therapy with Dr Kline (Renate Reinsve) but with little success.
The electrics in the store (where he also lives) are weird and when he goes down to check the breakers one night he sees light emanating through an impossibly thin discontinuity in an otherwise plain wall. When he starts looking for the source he literally falls through the wall as if it isn't there.
No good will come of this.
CW: weird as fuck
The young friends moan about work, go to bars and hang out in a standard "rubbish jobs in a boring town" kind of way.
Bear has a crush on the vivacious Nikki but in typical rubbish bloke fashion, can't bring himself to tell her.
One day he buys a novelty gift from a "new age" shop thinking to give it to Nikki. The One Wish Willow claims to give you one true wish if you snap it.
After a fumbled conversation with Nikki that he regrets, Bear snaps the One Wish Willow and asks that it makes her "love him more than anything in the fucking world".
No good will come of this.
CW: bloody violence, gore, mutilation, suicide, generally pitch black
Meanwhile TV weather presenter Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt), who is struggling with being overlooked for serious work, starts to have a very weird day.
It's a baroque old building with a large in-house staff tending to rich tenants and Superintendent Lily (Patricia Arquette) welcomes her, setting Isabella up in her new room.
No good will come of this.
CW: Ultraviolence and goopy gore
During a raid where a large number of people in an immigrant detention centre are freed Perfidia humiliates the CO, Colonel Lockjaw (Sean Penn) and he becomes sexually obsessed with her. Lockjaw begins to co-ordinate the hunt for the French 75 as a pretext to get to her, specifically.
When Perfidia gives birth to a daughter Pat tries to settle down and this is when things between them start to disintegrate. A bank robbery goes wrong and Pat is left literally left holding the baby, on the run under a false identity.
Now, sixteen years later Pat is a washed up, out of shape middle aged guy with a headstrong daughter (Chase Infiniti) who doesn't believe in any of his paranoid ramblings.
Colonel Lockjaw comes for them.
Unable to find what she considers proper work she's signed to produce episodes for a sensationalist "conspiracy" podcast channel but is struggling to come up with material and might lose that job too.
Out of the blue she receives an anonymous email about people who have received strange 'bricks' that have odd effects on their life. Looking into it reveals a decades long pattern she starts to investigate.
No good will come of this.
A new, intriguing neighbour (Mads Mikkelson) moves in opposite and she follows him, witnessing him slay a monster in the form of a group of men piloting a Chinese dragon.
When her parents are finally eaten (the monster is very real), concluding he has been delivered by the wish, she steals money to hire him to slay the monster.
The neighbour is an elite hitman but very much doesn't believe in monsters other than human ones.
At a first glance he looks like a homeless person, dressed in weird stuff including a see-through raincoat with lots of random dirty electronics attached. To keep everybody in line he announces he has a bomb and the "suicide vest" looks pretty convincing to the diners.
He claims this isn't the first time he's been there, the endeavour has failed numerous times, but maybe this time will be "the win".
CW: school shootings
Duke's fame comes from how, when he found out who he was working for, stole $15m from the Chicago Mob gave the bulk of it to charities and went on the run.
Mob Boss Jimmy Serrano (Dennis Farina) is, not unexpectedly, also looking for Duke but so is FBI agent Mosely (Yaphet Kotto) who wants to turn him State's evidence.
Shenanigans ensue.
Things aren't going particularly great, he's split up with Vanessa (Morena Baccarin) and sucks at his job at a car dealership but at least he still has friends.
That is until the Time Variance Authority agent "Paradox" (Matthew Macfadyen) shows up and informs him his whole timeline is collapsing because Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) died in the events of "Logan" and offers him a chance to finally really matter.
No good will come of this.
CW: all the big swears and lots of messy comic gore/deaths
Watching his neighbour, who likes to go around topless, from his balcony he notices a new neighbour (Riley Keough) who has a small white dog. Later he starts up a conversation with her, gets invited into her apartment and the two start to flirt. When her roommates reappear suddenly she ushers him out and says he can see her tomorrow.
The following morning she and most of the contents of the apartment are gone. Sam decides to investigate.
No good will come of this.
CW: nudity and lots of male gaze/objectification of women
The mission is fronted by failed Trumpian politician Kenneth Marshall (Mark Ruffalo) and his repellent culinary snob wife Ylfa (Toni Collette).
The hapless Mickey, not one to look at contracts, signs up to be an 'expendale' who will die over and over only to be resurrected by a 3D printer.
One day Mickey survives unexpectedly and staggers back to the room he shares with his girlfriend Nasha (Naomi Ackie).
No good will come of this.
CW: gross out weirdness
When the job that supports all this disappears and he struggles through a series of embarrassing failed job interviews he becomes quite untethered. Eventually as it looks like the house is going to be repossessed Man-su comes up with a solution: eliminate the competition.
Pre-emptively, and permanently.
CW: some violence, DIY dentistry
One day he rushes to a very confusing booking where he's playing a funeral guest and the "deceased" is very much alive.
It turns out he's been subcontracted by a "Rental family" company that hires out actors to play parts in a range of situations that exist on a kind of continuity through LARP to therapy, social work, fetish and in some cases victimless deception.
The company owner Shinji (Takehiro Hira) offers Phillip more work and after some initial hesitancy he begins to take on longer term roles.
CW: anybody who's ever done any kind of safeguarding training will want to scream at the screen about how unethical and risky this all is under the cover of "Japan being quirky"
It's dark and unsettling so they go downstairs, build a pillow/blanket fort and watch old Merry Melodies cartoons on VHS.
Things are not right. Fundamental things like doors and then the toilet simply disappear. There are whispers in the dark.
CW: children in peril, constant flickering lights
Unknowingly he takes an ancient amulet of power from a dying Prince and is bound to it and the ongoing battle.
Trying to rid himself of this burden he picks up, literally, the goblin wizard Doodad (Laurie Field/Patton Oswalt) and thief Brisbayne (Christina Orjalo) on the way but can't shake his destiny.
CW: so much cheese it could kill the lactose intolerant
Following the hand drawn map she has, Barb struggles to find her way and stops at a remote cabin to ask for directions. The guy there is defensive but points her in the right direction.
Later while Barb fishes she witnesses something terrible happening and recognises the guy from the cabin as the perpetrator. With no mobile phone signal and now properly snowed in Barb decides to do something about it.
CW: violence and dark melancholic themes
As he and the other Ranger candidates face their final training scenario, which is to destroy a downed experimental weapon, they find an immensely impressive prop slightly away from the expected location.
Placing their demolition charges they think they've had an unexpectedly easy ride. The only problem is: this isn't their objective.
CW: injury detail, so much jingoistic macho hoora I think I made myself dumber just by watching it
Now a Police Officer Daniels (Pat Healy) is on the phone saying one of her counter staff, Becky (Dreama Walker), has stolen from a customer. Officer Daniels asks Sandra to take Becky aside and check her pockets and bag.
No good will come of this.
CW: vile humiliating misogyny throughout, some nudity
Grace is not an astronaut and struggles to work out what is going on, but he knows this much: it must be something to do with the phenomenon dimming Earth's sun and threatening all life. Just recently he'd been failing to come up with the words to explain this sympathetically to the children in his class.
Slowly his recollection improves but Grace has another problem: he realises he is not alone.
His wife is lucky to have work as a hostess in a bar but when their daughter gets sick they simply can't afford the medicine she needs.
After he pleads for his old job back and fails he resolves to audition for one of the many exploitative reality game shows that pass for entertainment. Not "The Running Man" though: that would be simply suicidal.
No good will come of this.
Rudolf's work is stressful: he's a workaholic, occasionally meeting with suppliers and colleagues at the house but when he can he rides his horse and takes the children swimming in the nearby river.
Rudolf is the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
CW: the Holocaust done matter of fact, off screen but constantly within earshot
Dek vows to prove himself in the most ostentatious way: to hunt and kill the Kalisk, the apex predator of the death world Genna where everything hunts everything else. The Kalisk has never been taken as a trophy.
The Weyland-Yutani corporation has an expedition on Genna entirely composed of Synths: humans would simply not survive. Nonetheless things have not been going smoothly to say the least.
Dek encounters the heavily damaged, abandoned Synth Thia (Elle Fanning) who claims to have encountered the Kalisk. Much as Yautja hunt alone Dek decides Thia can be used, like a tool, in his hunt.
Shenanigans ensue
This continues to be the case for some time.
CW: full frontal nudity
Gwen (Madeleine McGraw) is less affected but suddenly receives a dream where she speaks to their mother in the past while she was at Camp Alpine Lake, a Christian youth resort in the mountains.
Convinced there are souls trapped there in some way related to The Grabber (Ethan Hawke), perhaps some earlier victims she resolves to sign up as a trainee youth leader there. Reluctantly Finn tags along.
No good will come of this.
CW: violence, suicide, lots of woo
Some while later, three of them are found dead and mutilated in a remote house along with some inconclusive but sinister footage. Main host Riley Brennan (Sarah Durn) and their second camera is never found.
Now twelve years later, Riley's older sister Mia (Camille Sullivan) who has never got over this, is working with a new team of true crime videographers making a documentary in the hope it will keep the search alive.
No good will come of this.
CW: implied sexual assault, suicide and a little violence
Things are about to get worse: radical environmentalist Marcus Blake (Clive Owen) has made plans to gatecrash the company's glitzy gala this evening.
No good will come of this.
Second in command Dane (Matt Damon) pushes to act on a tip for a stash house at the end of the day and assembles the reluctant team.
When they get there it's a _huge_ stash, over 20m, and seemingly unguarded.
No good will come of this.
CW: more of the big swears than usual for a Netflix original
First on the agenda their cousin Sammie (Miles Caton) followed by local blues legend Delta Slim (Delroy Lindo).
They're in a hurry and want to open that same night.
The previous night something else came to town that also loves music. No good will come of this.
CW: lots of violence and era appropriate racial slurs
All their children are there: Environmental Lawyer Cynthia (Zoey Deutch), successful alternative comedian Ellen (Madeline Brewer), early career author Josh (Dylan O'Brien) and budding scientist 'Birdie' (Mckenna Grace).
They're a wealthy comfortable family with a beautiful lakeside home and the scene is set for a beautiful party.
Josh has brought his new girlfriend Liz (Phoebe Dynevor) along and Ellen swears she recognises her from somewhere.
Liz is pleasant and respectful but suddenly Ellen realises where she knows her from.
No good will come of this.
CW: a grim watch in the current US political climate
This time it's a launch for DNA genealogy startup and the bag contains one of their testing kits. On a whim she submits it and hears back in a few days she's related to a wealthy English family. She meets up with the foppish Oliver (Hugh Skinner) who's been put in touch with her and he invites her to a big family wedding. With nothing much else going on in her life she accepts.
No good will come of this.
CW: mild jump scares and some bloodletting
Fifty young men must walk without a break until only one is left standing, who wins a huge cash prize and their 'one wish'. Fail to keep up the pace or break one of the many rules and you get your "ticket" from the barrel of a gun.
Ray (Cooper Hoffman), Pete (David Jonsson), Art (Tut Nyuot) and Hank (Ben Wang) become fast friends at the start of the gruelling ordeal calling themselves "The Musketeers".
No good will come of this.
CW: 80s style homophobic and misogynistic language, bloody executions that the camera lingers on
Having conquered all the other lands, Emperor Dragan's (Robert Sheehan) minions turn to the forest to fell the trees for lumber to build the Empire's growing cities. They are also there to look for Hyrkania's ancient secrets, which the Emperor jealously covets.
Sonja attempts to fight them but is overpowered and sent to fight in the great gladiatorial arena in the capital.
No good will come of this.
CW: bloody violence but it's very comic book
There's a reason for this: Iris is a companion sexbot and everybody knows it. Soon Iris will too.
No good will come of this.
CW: all the expected stuff about non consensual slave like robot companions but not as bad as it usually is
When things with a fence go bad after his latest job it brings him into contact with the Chicago Mob and after a tense confrontation they offer him work.
Having always worked for himself he's reluctant but they dangle such a big job he thinks this could be his ticket out of the game and accepts.
No good will come of this.
CW: all manner of slurs, child trafficking