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{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 […]
{4.5/5} “We’re calling it a self-ploration.” The Big Door Prize season 2, aired in 2024 Many people in Deerfield want to get to the next stage in the Morpho machine, whatever it means. Hana reveals that she had a Morpho at her previous bar but it was in the middle of nowhere and people didn’t […]
{4.5/5} “This machine, whether it’s magic or not, is reminding people that our lives have more than one possible path.” The Big Door Prize season 1, aired in 2023 Dusty is a teacher whose wife gives him a bunch of presents when he turns 40, including a scooter which he rides to school. At the […]
{4.5/5} “‘Don’t even think about being nice to her.’ ‘Of course not.’ ‘Don’t even say hello to her.’ ‘I’d never do that.’ ‘But don’t completely ignore her so she thinks we had a conversation about it and I’m threatened by her, because I don’t care.’” — Esther & Sasha Nobody Wants This season 2, aired […]
{4.5/5} “I am the embodiment of perfection.” Eden, released in 2024 After World War I, Ritter and Dore move from Germany to an island in the Galapagos, to work on a new philosophy. Ritter writes letters which are published in Germany, and other people come to the island — although Ritter doesn’t particularly want them […]
{5/5} “She had not liked him (was it possible to like a Tal Shiar agent?), but their working relationship during the Dominion War had been mutually beneficial. She hadn’t trusted him (was it possible to trust Tal Shiar?), but she had respected him. He’d understood the gray area in which they operated, and how to […]