The 'popular', 'trending new shows'/'up comming movies', and 'most anticipated' lists in NZB360 (android app for managing the whole 'arr stack and more)

User requests via Ombi (it also has lists like above to look through)

Random titles I find on Lemmy.

Word of mouth.

Oh yeah: and IMDB lists added to radarr. Lists for various studios, and a big standup comedy list.

Word of mouth. Friends. Internet.

Speaking of which, have you seen Barbie yet? I heard it's pretty good.

Overseer if you use plex and jellyseer if you use Jellyfin.

Makes the content browsing experience pretty fantastic.

i have enough.. uh... 'archived' content that i don't need to 'discover' anything new for years.

Word of mouth

I setup Radarr/Sonarr/Overseer and shared my Plex server with some friends. They do the heavy lifting, and know when something's probably good when several of them are watching the same thing.

Other, real people talking about it on sites like this. Finding groups with similar tastes as myself and seeing what they're talking about. I also just read descriptions while I'm scrolling on the service or whatever and if it sounds good, I might check it out.

I started using JustWatch as a means to find which streaming service had the thing I wanted to watch. Then I started using it to track what I had watched. And now that I’m completely moved over to stremio+torrentio I use it to find what’s popular and new.

I usually browse the "what are you watching" threads on the trackers I'm on, get suggestions from friends and co-workers, and my wife who still watches network TV to know what to put into my rss feed.

I bought the app nzb360 it has popular, trending new shows and most anticipated sections for TV shows. And something similar for movies.

Either word of mouth or browsing the recently added section on my Plex share

!moviesandtv@lemm.ee

I use the discover feature on Jellyseer. It makes my life so much easier to see what's out there now.

I usually browse Trakt and look for some decent lists, then add what I like to mine. The lists are hooked up to Radarr/Sonarr so I don't have to bother manually downloading my media.

Jellyseer is great.

IMDb gives recommendations based on your ratings for things you've seen.

Curators are a good way too, some blogs or podcasts do a lot of heavy lifting in discovering new shows, some communities with similar tastes are also good to find content, way better than algos and ads.

I usually look at the cast and see what else they've been in, some UI like Plex make this really easy if you have a watchlist hook set up.

https://www.pogdesign.co.uk/cat/

I use this to both keep track of current shows im watching, and also to get notified of new shows i might want to watch.

Back in the day I used to follow this site for entertainment news, but now mostly from YouTube. O like to watch a lot of trailers so there is always a lot on my feed. I also like vídeo lists like "Top sci-fi movies from the 90s" . Cinefix is a really good channel with that type of content.

I get quite a few reccomend actions from the sci-fi/fantasy rss feeds I'm subscribed to. I also get some from suggestions on lemmy.

im not tapped into commercials/the zeitgeist either.. i tend to look at the 'new' sections of the 'rent sites.

if others are going through the effort, it might be worth takin a look.