Last Updated: Nov 9, 2025
Welcome to ReadThingsRight, a website designed to help you navigate the complex world of interconnected universes. With some of these universes as massive as they are, a good starting point and viewing sequence isn't always simple to find. This website is here to try and determine to perfect order for the best audience experience, prioritizing story and cohesive flow over chronological order or release order. I have broken my orders down into ones based on comic books, ones based on movies, and ones based on television shows, all of which generally shoot for the same goals. So if you're stuck on how to read or watch something, here's how to ReadThingsRight.
Each reading and viewing guide is ranked on 3 scales, each from 0 to 5. Quality is how good I think the story is on average. Cohesion is how much the story makes sense, even when put into it's best possible order; sometimes things are just really disconnected until the crossover. Accessibility is how accessible the story is for newcomers, assuming they have no pop culture knowledge of the characters.
Marvel teamed with Netflix to make a series of interconnected television shows set around their street-level characters like Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist. These shows are only loosely connected to the MCU, but frequently reference each other. They are particularly connected through the recurring character of Claire Temple, who comes to know each hero individually before their big crossover in Defenders. While each show continues after Defenders, they stop being as connected and reach their own endpoints instead of coming together for a grand finale. This watch order goes up to Defenders, as it is the best singular endpoint for the franchise as a whole.
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After entering the Marvel Universe through Guardians of the Galaxy in 2013, Angela would properly find her place
as a character in Thor's world thanks to 2014's Original Sin. After that, Angela sustained her own storyline for
a few years, taking place across multiple series and all written by Marguerite Bennett with support from
Kieron Gillen. This storyline sees Angela find her place in this new world and reckon with the love of her life
and best friend, Sera.
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Starting in 2011, 20th Century Fox rebooted the classic Planet of the Apes franchising, beginning with the origins of intelligent
apes and the decline of the humans. Helmed initially by Rupert Wyatt and then Matt Reeves, Andy Serkis portrays the ape Caesar
as humans and apes battle for dominance. The fourth film, Kingdom, is directed by Wes Ball and takes place hundreds of years
later, with the world wholly belonging to the apes. Despite having an all-new cast, it is thematically consistent with the first
three films and is a great watch.
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The beloved Attack on Titan anime can be watched normally with no issue, but the series also comes with a few extra
episodes called OVAs that take place in between its four seasons and add some extra depth to the characters. This
watch order is going to focus on the location of the OVAs within the show, based on what makes for the best story.