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Salvation (season 1)
{5/5} “The way I see it, you’ve got two choices — tell me or kill me.” Salvation season 1, aired in 2017 Liam, a student at MIT, is charting asteroids heading for Earth that other people aren’t looking at. When he finds a big one that’s going to hit in 186 days, he reaches out […]
Star Trek: Lower Decks (season 5)
{5/5} “‘I didn’t know you could juggle.’ ‘Neither did I.’ ‘How do you do it?’ ‘It was simply algorithmic tossing.’” — Mariner & T’Lyn Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5, aired in 2024 When the Cerritos winds up in an alternate universe they have to work together with slightly different versions of themselves. Tendi is […]
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (season 3)
{5/5} “Captain, we’re going to need a bigger landing party.” Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, aired in 2025 Captain Pike tries to rescue crew members who have been beamed aboard a Gorn ship — meanwhile La’an and the others try to escape on their own. When Christine returns to the Enterprise after 3 […]
Person of Interest (season 5)
{5/5} “If we’re just information, just noise in the system, we might as well be a symphony.” — Root Person of Interest season 5, aired in 2016 Finch has attempted to rescue the machine but it’s now precariously in a briefcase and the battery is losing power. Samaritan is still after Finch, Reese, and Root. […]
Wednesday (season 2)
{5/5} “Do not put me on a pedestal because I will burn it down.” Wednesday season 2, aired in 2025 After tracking down a serial killer with Thing, Wednesday returns to Nevermore where she is once again rooming with Enid. Pugsley is going there this year too. Wednesday finds that she’s very popular — new […]
Person of Interest (season 4)
{5/5} “I have only two modes, Jerry. Calm and furious. It’s a rare person that sees the latter and lives to talk about it.” — Finch, pretending to be a tough guy Person of Interest season 4, aired in 2014-15 Shaw doesn’t really like her job as a makeup artist. Finch is a professor teaching […]
Person of Interest (season 3)
{5/5} “The Machine only gives us numbers because I would always rather that a human element remain in determining something so critical as someone’s fate. We have free will, and with that comes great responsibility, and sometimes great loss.” Person of Interest season 3, aired in 2013-14 Carter has been reduced in rank because of […]
Star Trek: Discovery (season 5)
{4.5/5} “I got a second chance once. This is yours.” Star Trek: Discovery season 5, aired in 2024 Captain Burnham and the Discovery have been tasked with retrieving a top-secret item from an 800-year-old Romulan ship that has just been discovered. But scavengers get there first and get away with the item. Burnham breaks up […]
Person of Interest (season 2)
{4.5/5} “Sometimes you need to break a few eggs to save lives.” Person of Interest season 2, aired in 2012-13 Root has kidnapped Finch, so Reese talks directly to the machine to get it to help. While Finch works on the mysterious words the machine gave him, he asks Carter to look into Alicia’s murder. […]
Star Trek: Prodigy (season 2)
{4.5/5} “This guy is one nebula short of a galaxy.” Star Trek: Prodigy season 2, aired in 2024 Dal, Rok-Tahk, Jankom Pog, Zero, and Murf are asked to join Admiral Janeway on the Voyager-A. The mission is to investigate the new wormhole that was created with the destruction of the Protostar, and try to reach […]