what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{4.5/5} “You know, I’m beginning to think that I was in the middle of some sort of plot to make her boyfriend jealous.” Winter Spring Summer or Fall, released in 2024 Remi is top in her class and going to New York to check out Columbia. She would like to go to Harvard for law […]
{5/5} “I knew something like this was going to happen.” Wildflower, released in 2022 Bea’s parents are intellectually disabled and her grandparents didn’t think they would be able to raise her own their own. But they did, and things turned out OK. She looks after a lot of things herself — like letting her mother […]
{4.5/5} “I haven’t seen you since I made a really pointed effort to never run into you again.” Agatha All Along, aired in 2024 Agnes is a police detective investigating a murder. The victim had dirt from Eastern Europe under her fingernails. That attracts the attention of the FBI, and Agent Vidal joins Agnes on […]
Here are all the books in Martha Wells’s Murderbot Diaries series. If she writes more, I will read them. All Systems Red 2017 -> 5/5 Artificial Condition 2018 -> 5/5 Rogue Protocol 2018 -> 5/5 Exit Strategy 2018 -> 5/5 Network Effect 2020 -> 4.5/5 Fugitive Telemetry 2021 -> 4.5/5 System Collapse 2023 -> 4.5/5 […]
{4.5/5} “(For however many corporate standard years, all I got from humans was ‘Run in there no matter how likely you are to get blown to tiny pieces when a quiet tactical approach has a higher percentage of success’ and now it’s ‘Oh no we’re fine, we can hang out in this objectively terrifying immediately […]
{4/5} “Generations are echoing, reaching out to us, at a time when we need them the most.” Echo, aired in 2023-24 Maya Lopez has shot Wilson Fisk because he killed her father. She was shot too. Now she’s gone home for the first time in 20 years. Her cousin Biscuits finds her at her grandmother’s […]
{4.5/5} “Your home has been purposely hidden from the rest of the galaxy.” Skeleton Crew season 1, aired in 2024-25 Wim misses the bus and tries to take a shortcut to school using the hoverbike but he falls into a ravine — and misses his Assessment test. While he’s trying to climb out he stumbles […]
{4.5/5} “It’s usually easy to make friends with low-level bot pilots, but this one had been coded to be adversarial, directed to operated in stealth mode, and was wary of incursion attempts. It tried to alert its onboard SecSystem, but a the old saying (which I just made up) goes, if you can ping the […]
{3.5/5} “A scandal like this would inspire fear and mistrust. We should handle this ourselves.” The Acolyte season 1, aired in 2024 Osha works as a meknek on a Trade Federation ship — she goes outside on the hull to fix problems. She previously trained as a Jedi. Someone matching her description has taken her […]
{5/5} “Do you want to live mundane lives like everyone else, or do you want to be part of something special and unique?” Foe, released in 2023 Hen and Junior live on a farm that’s been in Junior’s family for generations, but they don’t do any farming. One night a man named Terrance comes by […]