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{5/5} “I don’t want you to listen to me. I want you to listen to the science.” Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World, aired in 2021 This 3-part documentary depicts the year that Greta Thunberg, a young climate activist, travelled to learn more about the changing climate from experts and to speak to […]
{4.5/5} “That’s one of the benefits of bad luck. It teaches you to pivot.” Luck, released in 2022 Sam has had bad luck all her life. She lived at an orphanage and was never adopted, and now she has to move out because she’s 18. When she feeds a cat, the cat leaves behind a […]
{4.5/5} “Just another Thursday.” The Gray Man, released in 2022 Six has been working for the CIA for 18 years as an assassin, ever since they got him out of jail. He’s given a target at a New Year’s Eve party in Bangkok. When he finally gets to the target, he reveals that he’s Four […]
{5/5} “It could change everything. He needed to paint well, earn respect from the khalif and his court, remember all he saw and heard, come home remembering. Unless the most secret, least likely part of his mission somehow happened. He had already decided he wasn’t going to think about that.” Children of Earth and Sky […]
{4.5/5} “And remember, live a great life and die a great death!” The Sea Beast, released in 2022 Captain Crow is the most famous of hunters and the Inevitable is the most famous of hunter ships. They hunt sea beasts. One such beast, the Red Bluster, lost Crow his eye. Crow tells his adopted son […]
{4.5/5} “You may be dying, but don’t let it affect those who love you most. Replacement is a gift to them.” Dual, released in 2022 Sarah finds out she’s dying from an incurable rare disease. She decides to sign up for Replacement, where they clone you and after you die your clone carries on your […]
{5/5} “Let’s be a little stupid. We got married when we were 17, so we know how to do it.” Jerry and Marge Go Large, released in 2022 Jerry retires from working 42 years at the cereal plant. His kids give him a boat as a retirement gift but he’s hesitant to use it. Being […]
{4.5/5} “That’s a lightsaber, dude.” The Adam Project, released in 2022 Adam lives in 2050 and intends to travel back in time to 2018. He hits 2022 instead and runs into his younger self, who’s 12. The older self flies time jets, and the younger self gets bullied at school and is grieving the loss […]
{5/5} “As soon as you became aware that eating huge amounts of salt is really, really, uncomfortably salty, you should have stopped eating salt. That’s the solution. The solution is not to begin eating pepper to cancel out the salt.” — from a letter to her 4-year-old self Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate situations, flawed […]
{5/5} “We’re the heroes of this building. Before us, you could be killed in your own apartment, and no one would know it.” — Oliver Only Murders in the Building season 1, aired in 2021 Three people who don’t really know each other but live in the same building decide to start a podcast about […]