Saga Scores Prototype
Round 2 · the card back, redone from your note (section 4); everything else is picked and stays as round 1 left it. Round 1 · Oct 8, 2026 · every UI addition you picked Build on the MDBList Data Plan, drawn on the app's real chrome. Each section starts with Today, a screenshot from staging, then the proposal.
Pick a direction (A, B, C) where there are options, or Approve / Needs changes where there's one proposal. Notes save as you type. Real data throughout: Oppenheimer, Breaking Bad, The Odyssey and Interstellar, with scores and episode ratings from MDBList's live responses. Two things are placeholders and say so: the example lists in 8 and the themes in 9.
What this touches
Every screen each addition changes. Anything not listed stays exactly as it is, including the front of the swipe card.
| Addition | Movie page | Show page | Season page | Swipe card (back) | Sort sheet | Filters sheet | Lists tab | Spotlight | Explore grid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Icons | score row | score row | — | score cell | row icons | filter row | — | — | — |
| 2 · Title page scores | header: star out, scores in | header: same | — | see 4 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3 · All scores sheet | tap the scores | tap the scores | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 4 · Card back score | — | — | — | Score cell | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5 · Sorts | — | — | — | — | 3 rows (Explore, Library, Swipe) | — | — | — | — |
| 6 · Veggie Score filter | — | — | — | — | — | Add filter + editor (all three screens) | — | — | — |
| 7 · Did you know | new section | new section | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 8 · Dynamic lists | — | — | — | — | — | — | new rows | — | — |
| 9 · Themes | — | — | — | — | — | Theme filter | — | theme rows | notice |
| 10 · Best episodes | — | new section | episode ratings | — | — | — | — | — | — |
The carrot and the popcorn
The carrot is the Veggie Score (critics), the popcorn the audience score. Each has a fresh look at 60% and up and a rotten look below, told apart by shape so it reads even in one color. Fresh is whole and full; rotten is a snapped carrot with its leaf hanging, and an empty bucket with one kernel left. One leaf, never a fork: a two-leaf tuft reads as a forked Y at 16 px.
Scores in the header, as one set
TMDB's star goes. The Veggie Score leads, the audience score sits beside it, and IMDb takes the star, since the star already means "rating" in Saga. Shows get the same header (Breaking Bad at the end of the row). Tapping the scores opens the sheet in section 3.
The scores sheet
One Sheet with every score and how many reviews or votes it rests on. Rotten Tomatoes, Letterboxd and Metacritic link out; IMDb doesn't (no IMDb links, 2026-10-06). The line under the Veggie Score says what it means, once, here instead of in the header.
The score on the back of the card
The front stays the poster alone. On the back, the strip's Score cell (TMDB today) changes.
Round 1, for reference (you asked for another round):
Three new sorts
Veggie Score, Audience score and Letterboxd join Sort by, on Explore, Library and Swipe alike. A score sort leaves out titles with fewer than 20 reviews, so six glowing reviews can't top the list. One question for you below: Top rated is TMDB's today.
Veggie Score at least…
One new filter in Add filter, edited with a segment (three exclusive choices, per the filter rules). Its name is the same everywhere: Veggie Score.
Did you know
Oppenheimer's five facts from MDBList, right after the Overview. Fetched the first time anyone opens the title, kept after that; a title without any shows nothing. While it loads: lines of shimmer in the card's shape.
Lists that keep themselves current
MDBList lists refresh daily into the Lists tab, as the same quiet rows. Only lists our filters can't make: no "Netflix Shows" (Streaming does that). The four below are examples; the real set comes from a short research pass for you to pick from.
Themes in Spotlight and Filters
A hand-picked set of themes (heist, time loop, found family…) from the keywords: a few hundred we choose, not MDBList's 800 a title. A theme is a row in Spotlight like a studio or a place; it opens Explore with that theme on. The set itself is a research step for your sign-off.
Best episodes
Every episode's rating from MDBList (Basic plan, live now), with its votes. On the season page each episode's star switches from TMDB's to this one, and the season's star becomes its average. Real numbers: Breaking Bad.
A · Solid icons, B · Score strip, A on the card, A for Did you know, C for episodes
- Icons, A (solid): they're Font Awesome's weight and one color, so they sit in the facts row and sort rows like every other icon. B's accent stroke and C's token draw attention the rest of the row doesn't.
- Title page, B (score strip): the card back already has a strip; one strip in both places is the "same thing looks the same" rule, and labeled cells explain three numbers without helper text.
- Card back, A (Veggie): it's the score this whole feature is about, and the cell keeps its size.
- Did you know, A (card): it matches Facts right below it, and two facts show without a tap. C is the most fun; worth a try if you want more play.
- Episodes, C (top five + map in a sheet): the list answers "which ones are the best" in a glance; the map is there for people who want all of it, without taking over the page.
- Top rated: switch it to IMDb, so the star means the same number everywhere.
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