The Rookie (season 4)

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{5/5} “I am standing here as living proof that people can change. Who you were up until this very moment is not who you have to be going forward.” The Rookie season 4, aired in 2021-22 La Fiera has escaped custody and her people kidnapped Angela from her own wedding and killed Jackson. In order […]

The Rookie (season 3)

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{5/5} “These people are all your neighbours. Now, some are neighbours with problems who do stupid things, crazy things, selfish things, but they’re just people.” The Rookie season 3, aired in 2021 John has been taken into custody for shooting Detective Armstrong and conspiring with the Derian crime family — Armstrong is trying to frame […]

Star Trek: SNW — The Scorpius Run

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{4.5/5} “If our new crewman has taught us anything today… it is that logic without empathy is illogical.” Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — The Scorpius Run by Ryan Parrott & Mike Johnson, published in 2024 While in the region known as the Scorpion, Captain Pike and the Enterprise respond to a distress call. They […]

To Guard Against the Dark

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{4.5/5} “AllThereIs did not forget, nor forgive. There were ‘entities’ within it, Sira’d warned, who reacted to threat. When the Hoveny breached their home with devices designed to feed from its energy, those entities responded. Their defense had ended the vast Hoveny Concentrix.” To Guard Against the Dark by Julie E. Czerneda, published in 2017 […]

The Rookie (season 2)

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{5/5} “When people are having their worst day I want to be there, to try to make it right.” The Rookie season 2, aired in 2019-20 When a bunch of police uniforms are stolen, everyone is wondering what the thieves are going to use them for. When Jackson arrests a guy in an alley for […]

The Rookie (season 1)

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{5/5} “Those lost seconds didn’t matter this time, but they may in the future. So celebrate the victory, but recognize — you’ve got work to do.” The Rookie season 1, aired in 2018-19 John Nolan used to be in construction but he decided to go to the police academy even though he was older that […]

Juror #2

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{5/5} “I will protect our family. I promise.” Juror #2, released in 2024 Justin is selected for jury duty. He doesn’t really want to do it because his wife Allison is having a tricky pregnancy. It’s a murder trial but the judge says the trial won’t take long. Once the prosecutor starts describing the story, […]

The Gate to Futures Past

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{4.5/5} “Now we know they didn’t die off. Instead, the Hoveny hid themselves so well other spacefaring species had no idea they still existed or where. And a thousand years later, a new generation sent ships like this to Cersi — and who knows where else — in what I assure you was a very […]

Deadpool & Wolverine

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{4.5/5} “Want to talk about what’s haunting you, or should we wait for a third act flashback?” Deadpool & Wolverine, released in 2024 Wade Wilson attempts to join the Avengers but Happy Hogan rejects him. Eventually he gets a job as a used car salesman. Then he gets hauled in to the Time Variance Authority. […]

Endurance

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{5/5} “Why we go I cannot say. What the impelling force is that makes explorers, I cannot describe. And as long as there is any mystery on this globe it is not only man’s right but his duty to try to unravel it.” Endurance, aired in 2024 During Ernest Shackleton’s third expedition to Antarctica in […]