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Published Oct 11, 2026, 1:30 PM EDT

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The world of streaming and television is changing rapidly. The industry is contracting after the TV boom peaked, with some streaming services and networks exiting the scripted programming space. The fallout has led to shutdowns, rebranding, acquisitions, and mergers as companies try to stay afloat in a saturated world. While some have opted to make their own shows instead of licensing them, others have decided to do something different and team up with competitors to give their shows a better chance.

Earlier this year, Paramount and Netflix announced a deal to bring Paramount's and CBS Studio's original shows to Netflix for U.S. and international subscribers. Under the previous model, competing streaming services locked their shows behind exclusivity to drive subscriber growth, but a new model is emerging in which they use exposure to grow subscribers. As the world's largest streaming platform, Netflix has become a great place for companies like Disney and Paramount to promote their shows.

Among some of the CBS Studios shows to be added to Netflix was CBS' hit legal drama Matlock, which has aired two seasons thus far. The first season arrived on the streamer for international subscribers earlier this month, and it is replicating the success it saw on CBS and Paramount+ last year. FlixPatrol's rankings for the last week list Matlock among Netflix's most popular shows, ranking seventh at the time of writing. This is no small feat for a non-Netflix original that isn't available on Netflix in the U.S. However, the nineteen episodes available for streaming have undoubtedly given it an edge over regular eight-episode streaming shows.

Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which Superhero Team Should You Join? Avengers · X-Men · Teen Titans · The Boys

Every team is a personality test with a uniform. One saves the world and argues about it the whole way home. One has been fighting for the right to exist since the day it formed. One is still working out who it is while the fighting happens. And one has no powers at all, plus no intention of playing fair. Eight questions decide where you actually belong.

🛡️Avengers(Marvel Studios)

🧬X-Men(Marvel)

🐦Teen Titans(DC)

💊The Boys(Prime Video)

FIND YOUR TEAM →

01

What kind of power would you actually want? The power matters less than what you would be willing to do with it.

ASomething enormous and obvious. I would not hide it. BSomething I was born with, whether I wanted it or not. CSomething still growing that I cannot quite control. DNone at all. I would rather nobody sees me coming.

NEXT QUESTION →

02

Why join a team at all? Nobody puts on the suit for the reason they say out loud.

ABecause some threats are too big for anyone alone. BBecause people like me are safer together than apart. CBecause I did not want to do any of this alone. DBecause somebody has to hold these people accountable.

NEXT QUESTION →

03

How do you feel about the people in charge? Every team has a chain of command. Very few of them survive contact.

AI will follow a good leader and argue with a bad one. BThey have never protected people like me. I expect nothing. CI am still learning who to trust, and getting it wrong. DThey are the problem. That is the entire point.

NEXT QUESTION →

04

What is your role inside a group? Every roster needs the same handful of people to function.

AThe big personality. I take up room and I earn it. BThe one who protects whoever arrived most recently. CThe heart. I keep everybody talking to each other. DThe one who says the uncomfortable thing out loud.

NEXT QUESTION →

05

How do you win a fight you should lose? This is the scene the entire film gets built around.

AOverwhelming force, and a very good landing. BWorking together in a way nobody saw coming. CRefusing to give up long after I should have. DPreparation, leverage, and one extremely dirty trick.

NEXT QUESTION →

06

What is this work costing you? Nobody does this for free. The bill just arrives differently for everyone.

AMy private life. Everybody knows my face now. BMy safety. The world is frightened of me. CMy childhood. I grew up faster than I should have. DMy peace. I cannot stop now that I know.

NEXT QUESTION →

07

How should the world see your team? Half of this job is public relations, and everybody knows it.

AAs icons. The team everyone is relieved to see arrive. BAs people. Just people, which is all we ever asked. CAs proof the next generation is going to be fine. DThey should not see us at all until it is done.

NEXT QUESTION →

08

The offer arrives. What makes you say yes? Eight questions in, this is the one that decides your team.

AThe scale. If the world is ending, I want to be there. BThe promise that I would not have to hide anymore. CThe people. I would be joining friends, not an employer. DThe chance to take down somebody who deserves it.

REVEAL MY TEAM →

Recruitment Is Complete Your Team Is…

Four teams, four completely different reasons to put yourself in danger for strangers. This is the roster you actually belong on, what they would want from you, and what it would cost you to stay.

The Avengers

You belong where the stakes are largest and the personalities are loudest. This is a team of people who are all used to being the most important person in the room, which is exactly why it works and exactly why it keeps nearly falling apart.

  • The Avengers are not friends who became a team. They are a team that slowly and reluctantly became friends, and you would recognise every stage of that process.
  • You can hold your own among big egos without needing to win every exchange, which is the real entry requirement here.
  • The arguing is part of the method. This group does its best thinking mid-disagreement, usually at volume, usually in a very expensive building.
  • When the sky opens, they are who shows up. You would want to be standing in that line.

The X-Men

You have never had the luxury of being thanked for this. The X-Men protect a world that has never once been comfortable with them existing, and something in you understands exactly why they keep doing it anyway.

  • This is the only team on the list whose central conflict is not a villain. It is being wanted gone by the same people they keep saving.
  • You know what it is to be the outsider in a room and to decide, anyway, that you will not make yourself smaller so everyone else is comfortable.
  • The X-Men are the most genuine found family in comics. People arrive with nowhere else to go and are never once asked to explain themselves.
  • You would not be joining for the glory. There has never been any.

The Teen Titans

You do not want colleagues, you want your people. The Titans are the team where the friendship came first and the world-saving turned up afterwards as an inconvenient side effect.

  • Every Titan is somebody's sidekick who decided to stop being one. That decision, not the villain of the week, is what the team is actually about.
  • You would be joining people who are all working themselves out at the same time as you, which is far less lonely than being the only one.
  • The Titans lose regularly. Then they eat together and come back better, which is a more honest model of growing up than any other team here manages.
  • The tower would be loud, chaotic, and the first place that ever felt like yours.

The Boys

You are not asking who to trust. You worked out the answer a while ago and it was nobody in a cape. This is where you go once you have decided the people in charge need watching, and that nobody else is going to do it.

  • The Boys have no powers, no mandate and no funding. What they have is leverage, patience, and a very high tolerance for consequences.
  • You are the person in the room who notices the thing everybody else has quietly agreed not to mention.
  • This is not a heroic team and it has never pretended otherwise. It is a group of damaged people doing necessary work in ways nobody would call clean.
  • You would not sleep well. You would keep going anyway.

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What Is 'Matlock' About?

Starring Kathy Bates as Madeline "Matty" Matlock, the series is loosely inspired by the 1986 legal drama of the same name that aired for nine seasons. The new iteration, created by Kat Coiro, follows Matty, a brilliant septuagenarian who rejoins the workforce after a tragedy. Using her disarming charm, sharp thinking, and astute observations, Matty joins a prestigious law firm. However, no one knows that the story she had been feeding everyone is made up, and she's here to investigate the firm for wrongdoing that contributed to the deaths of many people, including her own daughter. The series also stars Skye P. Marshall (Olympia), Jason Ritter (Julian), and Leah Lewis (Sarah). Original cast member David Del Rio (Billy) was fired last year. Matlock will also return for a shortened third season.

Stream Matlock on Netflix internationally and on Paramount+ in the U.S. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.

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Release Date September 22, 2024

Directors Kat Coiro, Brad Silberling, Gina Lamar, Hanelle M. Culpepper, Jennifer Lynch, Jude Weng, Tessa Blake, Yangzom Brauen, Marie Jamora, Daniel Willis

Writers Nicki Renna, Jeffrey Lieber, Sara Rose Feinberg

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    Kathy Bates

    Madeline 'Matty' Matlock

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    Skye P. Marshall

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