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{5/5} “I feel like I’m not the main character in my life story.” Black Mirror season 6 episode 1, aired in 2023 Joan discovers a show called “Joan is Awful” on the streaming service she watches, Streamberry. She is shocked to find that it contains things from her own life — private things that she […]
{5/5} “There are secrets in every corner of this village.” The Village, released in 2004 A small community that lives simply always has someone in the watchtower. There are dangerous creatures in the woods — they call them Those We Don’t Speak Of. If anything red is found growing in the ground they quickly bury […]
{5/5} “When I think about butter, I think about family. Why? Like the thread of a grandmother’s quilt, butter is the centrepiece of a family dinner. And family, in turn, is the thread that holds our great country together.” Butter, released in 2011 Bob Pickler has been carving things out of butter for years, winning […]
{4.5/5} “I played Tetris for five minutes. I still see falling blocks in my dreams.” Tetris, released in 2023 In 1988 Henk is trying to sell the video game Go at the Consumer Electronic Show but no one is interested. Then he plays Tetris, invented by a Russian — he’s very impressed. He buys the […]
{4.5/5} “‘To be honest, I think I preferred you with ice skates on.’ ‘Yeah, well I preferred you when you had glass eyes and a brain powered by Intel.’” Robots, released in 2023 Having a robot that looks exactly like you is illegal, but some people are doing it anyway. Charles has his robot double […]
{4.5/5} “Some of our information about outer space may no longer be completely accurate.” Asteroid City, released in 2023 In 1955 in a place called Asteroid City in the desert an alien appears briefly. The government makes all the people who witness it stay there while they come in and conduct interviews. They’re trying to […]
{5/5} “Just like Bruce Wayne uses all that crazy technology to turn himself into Batman on TV… I can use my own crazy technology — the phonic ear — to turn myself into a superhero, too! My power? Super hearing!” El Deafo by Cece Bell, published in 2014 Cece becomes deaf as a young child […]
{5/5} “The thing about starting a coup, is you need to make the people doing the couping feel like it was their idea.” The Lazarus Project season 1, aired in 2022 George is an app developer who gets recruited by a top secret organization when he realizes that he is reliving days that have already […]
{2/5} “The magic is in the mystery and once the mystery is gone, so is the magic.” Hatching Pete, released in 2009 Cleatus wears a chicken suit as the Brewster High mascot but he’s allergic to it and doesn’t really want to do it. He convinces his best friend Pete to wear the suit and […]
{3.5/5} “We don’t have any cats.” Suzume, released in 2022 Suzume stumbles across a man, Souta, who asks her if there are any abandoned areas with doors around. She tells him where one is, and then follows him to see what’s going on. It turns out his job is to close magical doors when something […]