Rewatches on Kitazo: logging them and rating each viewing

Logging a rewatch

A rewatch is a further viewing of something you have already marked as watched. You log it in the same place you logged the first time.

A film. Open the film. Once it is watched, the rating card shows a Log a rewatch button. Tap it and you get Watched again, which adds a viewing dated now. From the second viewing on there is also an option that steps the count back down if you tapped by mistake. Stepping down never marks the film unwatched — it stops at one viewing.

An episode. Tap an episode you have already watched, either in the season list or on the episode's own page. Kitazo asks what you mean: Watched again adds a viewing, the other option removes the most recent one. Removing the last remaining viewing marks the episode as not watched, and that also deletes the rating you gave it.

A whole season. When you have finished a season, its number in the season list turns into a checkmark. Tap the checkmark and confirm: every episode of that season you have already watched goes up by one viewing, all dated now. Episodes you never watched are left untouched.

You can only log a rewatch of something already marked as watched. There is no separate rewatch button on a film or episode you have not seen yet.

What the counter means, and where it shows

The ×N you see on a title is the number of viewings, first watch included. So ×3 means you have seen it three times: the original plus two rewatches.

• Film page: the count sits next to Last watched. If your first and last viewing fall on different days and both dates are known, that line becomes a small timeline, first watch on the left, last watch with the ×N on the right.
• Season list: a rewatched episode replaces its checkmark with a badge reading ×N.
• Episode page: the watched button reads Watched ×N.
• Season row: once every episode of a season has been seen at least twice, the season circle shows ×N and the line underneath reads Watched N times. That number is the lowest of its episodes, so it only rises when the whole season has been round again.
• Your stats: a repeat mark with the rewatch count on both the episodes-watched and the films-watched cards, and the three films and three series you have rewatched most. Here the number counts the extra viewings only, not the first one — a film seen three times contributes two rewatches.

Logging a rewatch also posts an entry to your history and to the feed, worded as "rewatched … for the Nth time". Who sees it is set by the Rewatch activity preference in Settings; it defaults to your followers, and there is no public option for it. Two rewatches of the same film, or two episode rewatches of the same series, posted within an hour of each other merge into a single entry. Two different seasons stay two entries.

Dates: one per viewing

Tap the watch date on a film or an episode and you get the full list of viewings: First watch, Rewatch 1, Rewatch 2, and so on. Each row can hold a real date or be marked Date unknown.

The same list lets you add a viewing you never logged at the time, or delete one. The list defines the count: adding a row adds a viewing, deleting a row removes one, and you can never go below a single viewing on a watched title. Editing the list this way is a silent correction — it does not post anything to the feed. Only the rewatch button does that.

A date in the future, or one earlier than the release date of the title, is refused: the picker tells you why and leaves the rest of your edit alone.

A rating for each viewing

Every row in that list of viewings carries its own stars, half stars included. You can rate your first watch three and a half and the rewatch five, and both survive.

The rating shown for the title — the one on the poster, the one that goes into the community average — is the most recent viewing that carries a rating. Rating with the ordinary star control writes onto your latest viewing, so that one stays in step. Clearing the stars on the viewings themselves is the one case where the title can keep a rating with no rated viewing left behind it.

Removing a rating clears the stars on every viewing, not just the last one. If more than one viewing was rated, Kitazo says how many before you confirm.

Comments stay attached to the viewing they came from

When you comment on a film or on a single episode, Kitazo records two things alongside the text: how many rewatches you had at that moment, and the rating you held at that moment.

On the title page the comment then shows rewatched ×N next to its date, and a small star chip with the score you had given. A comment written on your first watch carries no rewatch mark. A comment on a whole series carries none either, because a series has no single viewing count — those comments are marked with how many seasons existed when you wrote them.

That stamp is fixed at the moment of writing. Rewatching the title later does not rewrite an old comment, and changing your rating later does not change the score printed on it. Editing the text of a comment, which you can do within six hours of posting, leaves the stamp alone too. So a page can read as a chronology: what you thought the first time, what you thought after the third.

The same marks appear on the public page of the title on the web, where reviews are listed with their score, their episode or season, and their rewatch number.

You can only comment on an episode after you have seen it, and on a title after you have finished it.

Watch time counts rewatches; the community score does not

Watch time counts every viewing. A hundred-minute film seen three times contributes three hundred minutes, and the same applies to episodes. When the real runtime of something is unknown, Kitazo counts a film as a hundred minutes and an episode as forty rather than as zero.

The episode counter on your profile works the other way: it counts each episode once, and rewatched viewings are added up separately, so you can see both the distinct episodes and the total number of times you have watched something.

The community score is not affected at all. Ratings count one per person per film, and for series one per person per season, so rewatching something never adds a second vote. If a rewatch changes your mind and you change your rating, your single vote is replaced by the new one.

Rewatches that arrive from an import

What survives an import depends on what the other service exports.

• TV Time gives a rewatch count but no per-viewing dates. The count comes across in full, and the extra viewings read Date unknown until you fill them in.
• Letterboxd has one diary row per viewing, so viewings arrive with their real dates, and the rating on each diary row becomes that viewing's rating. A review is pinned to the exact viewing it was written for, which is the only way to separate two rewatches on the same day, and it keeps the score that shipped with it.
• Framerate does not export rewatches, so the number of times you watched something cannot be brought over from there.

Imported viewings never post to the feed, however many there are.