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{4.5/5} “I’m telling you there have been 9 Soviet/Russian heads of state and 13 US presidents since the coalitions were formed. And not one of them has known about the Gorge.” The Gorge, released in 2025 Levi is a sniper who’s recruited and taken by plane to an unknown location — he parachutes out, walks […]
{5/5} “Ever since I read The Naked Sun. I’ll admit, I came for the ‘naked’ but I stayed for the interplanetary conspiracies.” — Dr. Grant Linkletter, regarding Asimov’s novel Young Sheldon season 5, aired in 2021-22 While having drinks with Brenda, George has a heart attack and is taken to the hospital. Georgie decides to […]
{5/5} “He doesn’t know why it would want her, of all people: a freckled scarecrow of a girl with crooked teeth and holes in the knees of her jeans, entirely unremarkable except for the steel in her eyes. And perhaps for the way she stood her ground against him. He is a ghost, a rumor, […]
{4.5/5} “Yeah, it’s fake. Never happened. I just randomly picked it from a drop-down list of meet cutes.” Companion, released in 2025 Josh and Iris are visiting friends at a secluded house. They have a fun evening, but in the morning a disaster happens. When Sergei, the owner of the house, tries to force himself […]
{4.5/5} “Ever since I sold out and got famous, we have gotten closer.” Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, released in 2024 Lydia Deetz hosts a ghost-hunter show, and one day she sees Beetlejuice in her audience for a second. Her stepmother Delia informs her that her dad was eaten by a shark after surviving a plane crash. Lydia’s […]
{5/5} “First, we must determine the maximum velocity achievable without breaking a sweat. Sweating is for jocks and for those who are worried the jig is up.” Young Sheldon season 4, aired in 2020-21 Sheldon graduates high school after being there for 2 years — since he has the top grade, he gets to be […]
{4.5/5} “I’ve seen The Exorcist about 167 times and it keeps getting funnier every time I see it!” Beetlejuice, released in 1988 Adam and Lydia are looking forward to a vacation at home when they die in a car accident. When they realize they’re dead, at first they think it’s not so bad. But then […]
{5/5} “There were actors and actresses, models and singers who ostensibly went for the naturalists’ approach, who were genetically beautiful from birth and didn’t need to worry about what they ate — if you believed the magazines. Harmony didn’t, but even if it was true, she knew that the natural look could never send such […]
{5/5} “I try to look at it philosophically. Seventy-six years is a fine run. And now I’m sort of the spokesperson for an entirely new class of objects: The dwarf planets. I understand it’s meant to be something of a consolation prize, but you know what, there are more of us dwarf planets out here […]
{5/5} “Actually, I was the winner. We spent the whole day doing everything I love — drafting contracts, arguing about rules, and, most importantly, never leaving the house.” Young Sheldon season 3, aired in 2019-20 Mary tells Sheldon that Dr. Sturgis has mono so he wouldn’t want to visit, but John’s actually at the psychiatric […]