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{5/5} “Things will go wrong whether you’re doing what you want to or not.” Abbott Elementary season 3, aired in 2024 Janine has taken a job at the district — her first big initiative is Career Day. Gregory prefers to have some alone time at lunch, but then kids start hanging out in his classroom. […]
{5/5} “‘The club that I go to is Bible Club.’ ‘Do they have good music there? My favourite club just got shut down cause they let a horse in.’” — Barbara & Ava Abbott Elementary season 2, aired in 2022-23 Janine is having trouble with her bills since she and Tariq broke up. She’s excited […]
{4.5/5} “‘New experiences can be tough.’ ‘Which I get. I remember the first time I had clam chowder. Cause it was yesterday, and it was awful.’” — Janine & Gregory Abbott Elementary season 1, aired in 2021-22 Janine is a 2nd grade teacher at an elementary school in Philadelphia that doesn’t have a lot of […]
{5/5} “The easiest way to win a game is to make your opponent think they’re playing a different game entirely.” Only Murders in the Building season 5, aired in 2025 Lester the doorman is dead, apparently an accident. On the day he died Sofia Caccimelio approached Charles and Mabel to ask them to find her […]
{4.5/5} “What I’m saying is you don’t want to find yourself locked into a particular course of action because of rules. Sometimes, you have to follow your instinct. You work the situation that’s unfolding before you, not look for an example in the book.” Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — Asylum by Una McCormack, published […]
{5/5} “The natural world is not just one vast medicine chest. It’s far more than that. It is our life support system, the fabric that holds our world together.” Planet Earth III, aired in 2023 Filming over 5 years in in 43 countries, the team found these amazing things: ostriches in the Namib desert abandon […]
{5/5} “Sometimes you will burn the lasagna.” Lessons in Chemistry, aired in 2023 In 1951 Elizabeth works in a chemistry lab, and does her own experiments after all the men have left for the day. When the boss finds out about it, he’s not happy. When she’s required to enter the “Little Miss Hastings” pageant […]
{4.5/5} “You make a better carpenter than a detective.” Moonhaven season 1, aired in 2022 People were sent up to the Moon with an AI to solve humanity’s problems. And they have — they have created a utopia. After 100 years people from the Moon are about to return to Earth to heal the planet. […]
{4.5/5} “‘Help us get the intel we need, and we’ll get your citizenship restored, as well as pull strings with the Starfleet brass to get you the commission yo deserve. With any luck, you’ll be a serving line officer on a capital ship by the end of the year.’ It was a more tempting offer […]
{4.5/5} “You have no power to change anything because you… you have no imagination.” Dickinson season 3, aired in 2021 The civil war has started. Austin has been drinking a lot, and didn’t even make it to his Aunt Lavinia’s funeral. Sue is pregnant. She tells Emily that she wishes the two of them could […]