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{5/5} “We will get along just fine, though hopefully not too fine, because I am not looking for any new friends. End speech.” — Ron Parks and Recreation season 7, aired in 2015 Three years in the future the Pawnee parks staff have moved on. Leslie is Midwest Regional Parks Director, Ron has his own […]
{4.5/5} “During mediation my client agreed to give back two of her handguns to her husband, and now she’s decided they were anniversary gifts to her.” Laggies, released in 2014 Meg isn’t sure what she wants to do with her life. She’s working for her dad holding a giant sign on the sidewalk. Her long-term […]
{4.5/5} “I conducted my own investigation because no one listens to me. I got away with it because no one looks at me. Because unless I have your reports, your coffee, or your lunch, I am invisible.” Agent Carter season 1, aired in 2015 It’s 1946 and Captain America is gone. Peggy Carter returns to […]
{4.5/5} “Everything you do, everything you sense and say is experiment. No deduction final. Nothing stops until dead and perhaps not even then, because each life creates endless ripples. Induction bounces within and you sensitize yourself to it. Deduction conveys illusions of absolutes. Kick the truth and shatter it!” Chapterhouse: Dune by Frank Herbert, published […]
{4.5/5} “You’re no actor, you’re a celebrity. Let’s be clear on that. I’m gonna kill your play.” Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), released in 2014 Riggan played a superhero named Birdman in the old days. Now he’s trying to direct and star in a Broadway production of a play he wrote. When he […]
This isn’t about TV main themes — that’s a post for another day. This is about music throughout TV episodes. Most TV shows have incidental music that’s not very distinctive — below are the ones that are. Best of the best 1) Michael Giacchino — Lost Now scoring movies such as Star Trek, Up, and […]
{5/5} “What if I could put him in front of you? The man that ruined your life. If I could guarantee that you’d get away with it, would you kill him?” Predestination, released in 2014 A temporal agent poses as a bartender. After hearing an amazing story from a woman who became a man, he […]
{5/5} “You don’t realize how quickly everything can fall apart until it does — it makes you never want to give up anything good ever again.” What If aka The F Word, released in 2013 Wallace and Chantry meet at a party and connect with each other. When Chantry reveals she has a boyfriend Wallace decides […]
{4.5/5} “Never forget where you came from.” Colombiana, released in 2011 Cataleya is only nine years old when her parents are killed. She moves from Colombia to the US to stay with her uncle and she immediately tells him she wants to be a killer. Fifteen years later, she’s got a plan to kill the […]
{4.5/5} “I’ve done some bad things in my life, Nicolai… Things I’m not proud of. I promised someone I love very much that I would never go back to being that person… But for you, I’ll make an exception.” The Equalizer, released in 2014 Robert works at a big box store but he used to […]