Chuck (season 2)
{4.5/5} “Those seven years of MacGyver finally paid off.” Chuck season 2, aired in 2008-09 Chuck still works at Buy More, where Big Mike is looking for an assistant manager. Chuck is still in a fake relationship with Sarah as part of their cover, but would like to be in a real relationship with her. […]
Sherman’s Lagoon 1991-2001
{4.5/5} “Sherman, I’m beginning to question my carnivorous lifestyle.” Sherman’s Lagoon 1991-2001 Greatest Hits and Near Misses by Jim Toomey, published in 2002 Sherman is a shark. Megan is his girlfriend, Fillmore the turtle and Hawthorne the crab are his friends, and Ernest is a young fish who’s still in school. Sherman looks after his […]
Axis
{4.5/5} “You get off the boat for the first time and you realize you’re literally on another planet — the air smells different, the water tastes different, the moon’s the wrong size and it rises too fast… After a few weeks or months people get disoriented on some deep level. So they turn around and […]
Spin
{5/5} “Suddenly I was running a fully functional family practice, and most of my patients were people who had looked deeply into the Reality of the Spin and confronted it with courage and resolve… Before long I began to consider myself one of them, part of the work of extending human influence into the raging […]
Inside Out
{5/5} “All these facts and opinions look the same. I can’t tell them apart.” Inside Out, released in 2015 Riley is an 11-year-old girl. Inside her head, her emotions try to keep things under control. Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger all have their role to play. When Riley moves to a new city she […]
Outland
{3.5/5} “There’s a guy like me on every mining operation all over this system.” Outland, released in 1981 O’Neil is a marshall who’s just been assigned to the mining colony on Io. Soon after he arrives his wife leaves him, telling him that she thinks their son should grow up on Earth. After a couple […]
Shackleton
{5/5} “Not everyone is fortunate enough to understand their own talent. But you know yours. Well, use it — for your family, and for your country.” Shackleton, aired in 2002 It’s 1914 and war seems imminent. Ernest Shackleton has made one journey to the Antarctic but he had to abandon his goal of the South […]
Chuck (season 1)
{4.5/5} “‘I think I see a scenario where we both get out of here with acceptable losses.’ ‘What exactly is your version of acceptable?’ ‘Breaks and punctures, possible loss of a limb, no major organ damage.’” Chuck season 1, aired in 2007-08 Chuck works at a big box store fixing computers, and tries to escape […]
Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
{5/5} “A goal is a specific objective that you either achieve or don’t sometime in the future. A system is something you do on a regular basis that increases your odds of happiness in the long run.” How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life by […]
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
{4.5/5} “How could humans create so many right angles, when their behaviour was so convoluted and illogical?” The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet, released in 2013 T.S. Spivet is only a young boy but his design for a perpetual motion machine has won a contest at the Smithsonian. His father is a cowboy, his mother […]