2Its clock, and the show’s

First talked about in episode 18, 43 days after its release.

Release Film Gamed Maher Mosly An episode that discusses it (press to play)

3What critics and audiences made of it

These are other people’s scores, not Mahmoud’s or Maher’s. Theirs is in the episode.

7.5/10

IMDb users650.4k votes

7.5: higher than 71% of the 406 titles Harvesting discussed. It ranks 98th.

FilmSeriesThis titleEvery dot is a title from the archive. Press one to go to it.

4What it cost, what it made

It made 5.1× its budget. By return, number 30 of the 207 films in the archive.

Budget $460M #1

Box office $2.33B #2

TMDB figures in US dollars, worldwide, not adjusted for inflation. # = its place among the archive’s films. Each notch on the bar is one whole budget.

208 films from Harvesting: budget against box office

5Who’s in it

Director · Writer · Editor James Cameron also Avatar: Fire and Ash
Writer Amanda Silver also Avatar: Fire and Ash
Writer Rick Jaffa also Avatar: Fire and Ash
Music Simon Franglen also Avatar: Fire and Ash
Cinematography Russell Carpenter also Avatar: Fire and Ash
Editor Stephen E. Rivkin also Avatar: Fire and Ash
Editor John Refoua also Avatar: Fire and Ash

+2 Sam Worthington Jake Sully
+4 Zoe Saldaña Neytiri
+3 Sigourney Weaver Kiri
+2 Stephen Lang Colonel Miles Quaritch
+2 Kate Winslet Ronal
+2 Cliff Curtis Tonowari
+1 Joel David Moore Norm Spellman
+3 CCH Pounder Mo'at

Threads to other titles on the show

6Where to watch it

Rent

Apple TV Store

Buy

Apple TV Store

All options and prices on TMDB ↗

Watch data by JustWatch, via TMDB, as of 21 October 2026.

7The index card

Avatar: The Way of Water· 2022

Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, learn the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure.

dying and deathloss of loved onealien life-formresurrectiondysfunctional familysequelalien planetdistant futuretranshumanismadopted childrebirthmotion capturefamily dynamicsadopted son

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Released: 14 December 2022
Runtime: 3h 12m
Status: Released
Certificate: US PG-13
Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Language: English
Country: United States
Studios: 20th Century Studios, Lightstorm Entertainment, TSG Entertainment
Awards (from Wikidata, may be incomplete): 2023 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects