So, if Netflix were the window to your soul, what would it tell us about how you’re feeling right now? Are you stressed, in denial about being stuck indoors AGAIN, or content with your new life?

Well, we’ve painstakingly matched the platform’s trending movies with the stages of the so-called coronavirus curve, just to help you figure things out.

Shock: Contagion (and other pandemic-themed horrors)

Contagion – as in, yeah, the 2011 Steven Soderbergh thriller starring Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon and Jude Law about a deadly virus – famously jumped from the 270th most popular film in the Warner Bros video-on-demand catalogue to the 2nd in the initial weeks of the very first coronavirus outbreak.

Even now, one of Netflix’s most-streamed movies, alongside fellow pandemic-themed horror Outbreak. Why? Because films such as these offer us a means of coming to terms with the shock of our situation.

“There’s something about human nature where we get ‘hooked’ by unusual or extreme events,” Dr Elena Touroni, psychologist and co-founder of My Online Therapy, previously told Stylist.

“Anxiety and excitement can easily get confused and interlinked,” she said. “So we might end up finding excitement in something that is very anxiety-provoking.”

Lockdown TV: what your Netflix viewing habits really say about your mood