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{4.5/5} “I’ve lived most of my life haunted by the knowledge that I killed that beautiful horse… for nothing. Which I might have lived with, if I hadn’t made the same… mistake at Marbas, sixteen years ago Just like with Sable, I pushed too fast and too hard, all to impress some authority figure and […]
{4.5/5} “‘Are you willing to pay that price?’ La’An looked Rix in the eye. ‘All it takes is one tiny alteration right now, and we might never be born.’ She took in Pike and the others with a gesture. ‘A war that was averted might not be stopped. Lives that we preserved because of missions […]
{5/5} “That’s trash.” Abbott Elementary season 4, aired in 2024-25 Janine and Gregory are now a couple. When a golf course is being built near the school, it creates noise and other problems. When each class gets a pet, Melissa isn’t enthused because she’s never had a pet. When a student’s dad says he’s going […]
{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 […]