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Dead Like Me (season 2)
{4.5/5} Dead Like Me season 2, aired in 2004 George and her friends all struggle with their existence after death as reapers. George tries being a bad girl at work for a day, Roxy becomes a police officer, Mason drinks all the time, and Daisy is trying out religion. Even Rube takes a couple of […]
Dead Like Me (season 1)
{4.5/5} “One desperate attempt after another to find something in common with someone else and then cling. ‘Hey, you have ten fingers, I have ten fingers, let’s be friends. We’ll make rules and slogans. Then if we find someone with nine fingers, we can beat the crap out of them.’” Dead Like Me season 1, […]
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (season 1)
{4.5/5} “It’s so funny what people who have never been kidnapped think is scary. Talking crows? I would have loved to meet a talking crow!” Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt season 1, aired in 2015 Kimmy is one of four women who were rescued from a cult whose leader told them that the world had ended 15 […]
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (season 1)
{4.5/5} “Stars die and reborn… They get so hot that the nuclei of the atoms fuse together deep within them to make the oxygen we breathe, the carbon in our muscles, the calcium in our bones, the iron in our blood. All was cooked in the fiery hearts of long vanished stars… The cosmos is also […]
Parks and Recreation (season 7)
{5/5} “We will get along just fine, though hopefully not too fine, because I am not looking for any new friends. End speech.” — Ron Parks and Recreation season 7, aired in 2015 Three years in the future the Pawnee parks staff have moved on. Leslie is Midwest Regional Parks Director, Ron has his own […]
Agent Carter (season 1)
{4.5/5} “I conducted my own investigation because no one listens to me. I got away with it because no one looks at me. Because unless I have your reports, your coffee, or your lunch, I am invisible.” Agent Carter season 1, aired in 2015 It’s 1946 and Captain America is gone. Peggy Carter returns to […]
Sherlock (season 3)
{5/5} “I’m not a hero, I’m a high-functioning sociopath.” Sherlock season 3, aired in 2014 Most of the world, including John Watson, thinks Sherlock Holmes is dead. But he’s not — he faked his own death and set about ridding the world of Moriarty’s network of evildoers. Now Sherlock is back in London and ready […]
Sherlock (season 2)
{5/5} “‘Do you just carry on talking when I’m away?’ ‘I don’t know, how often are you away?’” Sherlock season 2, aired in 2012 After surviving their first encounter with Moriarty, Holmes and Watson are back solving crimes. They’ve become a bit more famous, because of the blog Watson writes about their cases. They have […]
Sherlock (season 1)
{5/5} “I know you’re an Army doctor, and you’ve been invalided home from Afghanistan. You’ve got a brother worried about you, but you won’t go to him for help, because you don’t approve of him, possibly because he’s an alcoholic, more likely because he recently walked out on his wife, and I know your therapist […]
Freaks and Geeks (season 1)
{4.5/5} “You know, there was a girl in our school… and she had premarital sex. Know what she did on her graduation day? Died! Of a heroin overdose!” — Lindsay and Sam’s dad Freaks and Geeks season 1, aired in 1999-2000 This show only lasted 1 season. It takes place in the 1980s. Lindsay is […]