Single Parents (season 1)

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{4.5/5} “Emma and I are Shawshanking our way to the neighbours’.” — Amy, who is 7 years old Single Parents season 1, aired in 2018-19 A group of single parents whose kids go to school together help each other out with babysitting. When new guy Will appears, the others decide to help him become slightly […]

Star Trek: The Janus Gate — Present Tense

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{4.5/5} “He made the missing map seem like a minor inconvenience, a problem they could rectify with just a little hard work. And Captain Kirk’s gift for command, Uhura thought, was that he brought out so much of the best in his crew that he really could turn catastrophes like this into minor inconveniences. She […]

Star Trek: TNG — Diplomatic Implausibility

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{4.5/5} “But you — you make us all look like we lead dull lives. Your ship’s destroyed by the Jem’Hadar, you’re captured by the Breen, tortured by the Cardassians, rescued by Cardassia’s biggest folk hero, and then for good measure you kill the Klingon chancellor and appoint his replacement, help win the worst war of […]

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — Ring of Fire

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{4.5/5} “I’ve lived most of my life haunted by the knowledge that I killed that beautiful horse… for nothing. Which I might have lived with, if I hadn’t made the same… mistake at Marbas, sixteen years ago Just like with Sable, I pushed too fast and too hard, all to impress some authority figure and […]

Star Trek: SNW — Toward the Night

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{4.5/5} “‘Are you willing to pay that price?’ La’An looked Rix in the eye. ‘All it takes is one tiny alteration right now, and we might never be born.’ She took in Pike and the others with a gesture. ‘A war that was averted might not be stopped. Lives that we preserved because of missions […]

Abbott Elementary (season 4)

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{5/5} “That’s trash.” Abbott Elementary season 4, aired in 2024-25 Janine and Gregory are now a couple. When a golf course is being built near the school, it creates noise and other problems. When each class gets a pet, Melissa isn’t enthused because she’s never had a pet. When a student’s dad says he’s going […]

Abbott Elementary (season 3)

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{5/5} “Things will go wrong whether you’re doing what you want to or not.” Abbott Elementary season 3, aired in 2024 Janine has taken a job at the district — her first big initiative is Career Day. Gregory prefers to have some alone time at lunch, but then kids start hanging out in his classroom. […]

Abbott Elementary (season 2)

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{5/5} “‘The club that I go to is Bible Club.’ ‘Do they have good music there? My favourite club just got shut down cause they let a horse in.’” — Barbara & Ava Abbott Elementary season 2, aired in 2022-23 Janine is having trouble with her bills since she and Tariq broke up. She’s excited […]

Abbott Elementary (season 1)

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{4.5/5} “‘New experiences can be tough.’ ‘Which I get. I remember the first time I had clam chowder. Cause it was yesterday, and it was awful.’” — Janine & Gregory Abbott Elementary season 1, aired in 2021-22 Janine is a 2nd grade teacher at an elementary school in Philadelphia that doesn’t have a lot of […]

Only Murders in the Building (season 5)

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{5/5} “The easiest way to win a game is to make your opponent think they’re playing a different game entirely.” Only Murders in the Building season 5, aired in 2025 Lester the doorman is dead, apparently an accident. On the day he died Sofia Caccimelio approached Charles and Mabel to ask them to find her […]