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{5/5} “Know you are loved.” Bodies, aired in 2023 In 2023 Sergeant Hasan finds a naked dead man with a symbol on his wrist and damage to one eye. In 1941 Sergeant Whiteman finds a dead man in the same spot — but instead of investigating the murder, he’s been paid to move the body. […]
{4.5/5} “Murder trials were quite different when the victim could be brought in to testify in court — or when the shipmind could subpoena the killer’s own memories as evidence. One victim had even been able to name her murderer, since she’s realized she’d been poisoned and managed to make it to the Library and […]
I came across Anna Akana when she was in a video with Julie Nolke. It’s this one, where Julie is playing Zeus and Anna is playing Pandora. It’s a funny video: Pandora’s Box Opened in 2020 (ft. Anna Akana) Anna has a bunch of videos too. She has some funny ones, like this one about […]
{5/5} “‘But I have his name and the sound of his voice, and the order of his words. He is a fool but he is alive, with eyes to see and weep with, hands to carry a baby and kill a man, a heart to love and hate, and a mind to use, after a […]
{4.5/5} “You forget how Earth smells.” Constellation season 1, aired in 2024 Jo is on the International Space Station when something hits it, causing objects to scatter and a fire to break out. They were just starting to run an experiment about a new state of matter, and it was having some success. But with […]
{4.5/5} “The bridge crew’s expressions were tight, focused. They knew there was a high risk in this rescue operation, especially since there might not be anyone left to rescue. They were willing to take the chance. They trusted Kirk. They always had.” Star Trek: The Rings of Tautee by Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn […]
{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 […]