Made for Love (season 1)

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{5/5} “Your plan is to put a bag over my head and put me in a trunk?” Made for Love season 1, aired in 2021 Hazel Green has been living with tech mogul Byron Gogol in the Hub for the last 10 years. When Byron wants to use her as a guinea pig for his […]

Whose Line is it Anyway? (season 17)

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{4.5/5} “We’ll be right back to our documentary on optimistic dyslexics, ‘When Life Gives You Melons’…” — Colin Whose Line is it Anyway? season 17, aired in 2021 See what happens when Wayne and Ryan can only use 2 lines each. Watch Wayne forget the absurdly long song title that Colin gives him. See Ryan […]

The Midnight Library

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{5/5} “The glacial landscape reminded her that she was, first and foremost, a human living on a planet. Almost everything she had done in her life, she realised — almost everything she had bought ad worked for and consumed — had taken her further away from understanding that she and all humans were really just […]

The Mitchells vs. the Machines

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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 […]

Star Trek: Voyager — To Lose the Earth

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{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 […]

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

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{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 […]

Kim’s Convenience (season 5)

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{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 […]

Star Trek: Voyager — Architects of Infinity

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{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 […]

Murdoch Mysteries (season 14)

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{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, […]

Star Trek: Voyager — A Pocket Full of Lies

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{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 […]