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{5/5} “Does it seem good that they’re counting us?” The Mitchells vs. the Machines, released in 2021 The Mitchells are a pretty average dysfunctional family. Katie has been accepted to film school, and she reassures her brother Aaron that he will be OK without her. Her dad accidentally breaks her laptop, so he attempts to […]
How long ago did we have fast food? When did Europeans and Australians first visit the Americas? When was writing invented? Who built the first city in North America? Where was the biggest city in the world before the industrial revolution? Your ideas about these things might just be wrong. Simon Whistler from TopTenz tells […]
{4.5/5} “There are things we cannot know until we are ready. And we, as we are, may never be. But we are not at the end of humanity. I hope we aren’t even its midpoint. Sometimes the best we can do is offer those who will come after us a glimpse into their own potential […]
{5/5} “‘Why didn’t you use the metal arm?’ ‘I don’t always think of it immediately, I’m right handed.’” The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, aired in 2021 Sam Wilson gives up Captain America’s shield so it can be put in a museum. But he’s still helping the US military take out bad guys that he […]
{4.5/5} “OK, see you.” Kim’s Convenience season 5, aired in 2021 Umma is having a hard time telling Janet that she has MS. Janet is having a hard time finding a job, but a friend of Shannon’s gives her a volunteer placement teaching photography to kids. Shannon makes a private video for Jung but she […]
{4.5/5} “He found himself suddenly grateful that Patel, whatever her other faults, was so ridiculously conscientious. No matter how benign this place looked, like every unknown environment, it could probably kill you fifty different ways. He had forgotten that. She hadn’t. She had come here prepared to keep her team alive, and he could respect […]
{5/5} “Invented by a French chap… to allow a truly universal language. Effie, if everybody learned this we could communicate with people from China, Russia, Mars, Venus, Quebec!” — George Murdoch Mysteries season 14, aired in 2021 When vaudeville performers are in town, Murdoch arrests Stan Laurel for the attempted murder of Charlie Chaplin. Meanwhile, […]
{5/5} “There had been a hardness in her then, something she had gradually shed over the years they worked together to survive and explore the Delta Quadrant on their way home. She’d never lost the capacity to call on her inner strength, to stand and fight when it was warranted. But she had committed herself […]
{4.5/5} “Military engagement is a course of last resort. That’s easy to forget when you’ve been hurt… We make choices in the heat of battle and tell ourselves after the fact that we had no other option. But every time you allow yourself to settle your conflicts by force, you add to the chaos rather […]
{4.5/5} “Fife’s eyes were lit with first-contact infatuation. O’Donnell had never seen the condition listed among communicable illnesses by Starfleet Medical, but it should have been. For those with little experience with alien cultures, a day spent touring their natural and technological wonders nearly always produced this heady effect. Even the most hardened Starfleet officers […]