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{5/5} “Every time you play the recorder it calls the devil.” The Housing Market is the Worst, released in 2019 Mary Mack mentions how difficult it is to get a mortgage. She describes how difficult it was to teach music to youngsters. She has a funny way of thinking positively. She talks about an 81-year-old […]
{4.5/5} “When it comes down to a choice between forcing everyone to do their work according to Starfleet’s textbook definition of perfection, or having everyone do their own work in their own way, with respect for other people’s traditions and work habits, I have found it’s better for people to find their own way than […]
{5/5} “That’s the ski that he took in the face, sir. I’m afraid it was downhill from there.” See How They Run, released in 2022 Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap is doing well as a play and they decide to make it into a movie. The director, Leo, is killed and Inspector Stoppard and Constable Stalker […]
{3.5/5} “It isn’t human. It won’t feel a thing.” Vesper, released in 2022 Vesper trudges through muck to look for things that are edible to keep her and her father alive. Her father is sick, and can’t get out of bed. She sometimes trades her blood for what she needs. But when someone sabotages her […]
{5/5} “There are 500 or 1000 who could play our characters effectively. There’s only one person who could play Mr. Spock.” — Walter Koenig For the Love of Spock, released in 2016 Leonard Nimoy worked for many years doing odd jobs while he did intermittent acting work. His first acting job that lasted more than […]
{5/5} “The only limit is one’s imagination… and morals, I suppose.” The Peripheral season 1, aired in 2022 Flynne needs money for her mom’s medication so she tries a new virtual reality system that her brother says will make them lots of money. It feels just like being there. She enjoys the first session, but […]
{3.5/5} “I love festivals, we have them all the time where I come from. They were usually interrupted by evil forces of some kind, but when they weren’t they really brought people together.” Disenchanted, released in 2022 Giselle and Robert decide to move to Monroeville, but teenaged Morgan isn’t happy about it. Morgan doesn’t have […]
{5/5} “‘Please excuse Wednesday, she’s allergic to colour.’ ‘What happens to you?’ ‘I break out into hives and then the flesh peels off my bones.’” — Morticia, Enid & Wednesday Wednesday season 1, aired in 2022 Gomez and Morticia Addams send their daughter Wednesday to a new boarding school, Nevermore, because she was expelled from […]
{5/5} “Nature holds itself impervious to the wishings of would-be sorcerers. But… There are cracks. Not exceptions to the rules, you understand — there’s no such thing — but special cases, natural anomalies that can be discovered and exploited by men of sufficient vision.” Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff, published in 2016 Atticus returned home […]
{5/5} “‘That was such a heartbreaking story.’ ‘I know, I hate stories where everybody lives.’” — Mantis & Drax The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, released in 2022 When Christmastime arrives on Knowhere, a band creates a song about it for Peter Quill but it’s not exactly accurate. Mantis and Drax get the idea […]