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{4.5/5} “Try not to die.” The Watchers, released in 2024 Mina’s mother died 15 years ago and she ran away to Ireland. She works in a pet store. The boss asks her to take a bird to a zoo, so she heads out on the road. When her car breaks down in the middle of […]
{5/5} “This makes it worth it. This. Right now. Being with you. Being here at the moment you step into the circle… You made this decision long ago. The Empire cannot win.” Andor season 2, aired in 2025 Cassian steals one of the Empire’s ships, with a little help from an inside woman — it’s […]
{4.5/5} “There is nothing to be done about it. It just is. And we have to deal with it, or not. In this respect we are no different than the dinosaurs who looked up in the sky sixty-five million years ago and saw the meteor bearing down on them. What we might think or believe […]
{4.5/5} “And how are all your favourite sports teams doing?” — Lisa, to George Suburgatory season 3, aired in 2014 Tessa is spending time with her mom, but then her mom leaves again. She’s actually happy to see her dad, who gives her surprising news — he thinks they should move back to New York. […]
{5/5} “Since Mylasia, Adria thought, she was also someone who had killed a man. Uberto had been vicious, she kept telling herself. Had deserved his death. She was aware, however, that Folco might have wanted the count of Mylasia killed even had he been pious and benign.” A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay, […]
{5/5} “‘Do you think I have a big ego?’… ‘Well, let’s see. One time, you were so obsessed with work that you didn’t raise me for 18 years.’” Shrinking season 2, aired in 2024 Jimmy’s client Grace is in jail for trying to kill her husband. Jimmy finds a lawyer for her but she’s not […]
{4.5/5} “I can’t hear you over the nuclear accelerator!” Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, released in 2024 Gary, Callie, Trevor, and Phoebe are working as Ghostbusters, keeping New York clean of ghosts. Still, the mayor isn’t happy about the damage they cause. Also, the mayor demands that Phoebe stop being a Ghostbuster since she’s a minor. Ray […]
{5/5} “You wouldn’t like it. The words are way too cute. You might die of cuteness.” Where’d You Go, Bernadette, released in 2019 Bernadette used to be an architect and now lives in a big old house that’s kind of falling apart with her husband, daughter, and dog. Her husband Elgie works for Microsoft. Her […]
{4.5/5} “‘I’ve waited all lifetime for George Altman to ask me on a date and I guess I’m just a little nervous.’ ‘Why? You’ve dated plenty of men who are better looking and sexier and beefier and brawnier and more cut and darker skinned and longer hair and taller and richer and more successful and […]
{4.5/5} “She could not in fact cook, which was no surprise in a votary of the Order of the Pure Moon. They were not one of the useful orders that reared goats and taught children mathematics. Every tokong of the Pure Moon that Tet Sang had ever known had been supported by a numerous establishment […]