Stranger Things (season 5)

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{5/5} “I was looking for answers in somebody else. But I had all the answers. I just needed to stop being so… scared. Scared of who I really was. Once I did that, I felt so free. It’s like I could fly.” — Robin Stranger Things season 5, aired in 2025 Many residents of Hawkins […]

Documentaries

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Here is an update to this list. I’m listing both movie documentaries and TV documentaries here. Best of the best The Battle Over Citizen Kane Bowling for Columbine Capitalism: A Love Story The Corporation Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner Eden: Untamed Planet The Elephant Queen Endurance Fahrenheit 9/11 Fahrenheit 11/9 The Fog of War For […]

TV movies, miniseries & specials

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Here’s an update to this list. Best of the best 11.22.63 Anne of Green Gables (1985) Ascension Babylon 5: In the Beginning Babylon 5: The Road Home Battlestar Galactica (2003) Bodies Devs The English The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Friends: The Reunion The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special Hawkeye The Miniaturist A Murder […]

SF & fantasy TV shows

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Here’s an update to this list. 5/5 3rd Rock from the Sun 5 5 5 5 5 4.5           4.92 Agents of SHIELD 4.5 4.5 5 5 5 5 5         4.86 Andor 5 5                   5 Angel 5 5 […]

TV shows

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Here is an update to this list. Comedy Best of the best Abbott Elementary Arrested Development (the first 3 seasons) The Big Bang Theory Black Ops Garfunkel and Oates The IT Crowd (the first 2 seasons) A Man on the Inside Modern Family Mr. Bean New Girl (the first 2 seasons) Parks and Recreation Raising […]

Not Dead Yet (season 1)

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{4.5/5} “‘This is a dear friend of my family, Alistair Banister. And before anyone asks, yes, Banister of the handrails fortune.’ ‘Well, it’s nice to meet you. Thank you for helping me stay on the stairs.’” Not Dead Yet season 1, aired in 2023 Nell has been away in England for 5 years with her […]

Reboot (season 1)

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{4.5/5} “‘I like this idea, but are people still doing reboots?’ ‘Let’s see, Fuller House, Saved by the Bell, iCarly, Gilmore Girls, Gossip Girl.’ ‘Party of Five, Party Down, One Day at a Time.’ ‘Boy Meets World, How I Met Your Father, The Wonder Years.’ ‘Battlestar Galactica.’ ‘Doogie Houser, The Odd Couple, Perry Mason, Hawaii […]

Forever (season 1)

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{5/5} “Atonement can take many forms: a heartfelt apology, a grand gesture, a silent prayer, or something more complex, more grey, more difficult to decipher. And while it’s true that no amount of atonement can ever change the past, it does have the power to heal us, to restore relationships and connections we thought were […]

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (season 5)

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{5/5} “Like every other parent, I spend sleepless nights imagining what my kids are going to say about me to their psychiatrists. ‘She wasn’t home.’ ‘She missed my baseball game.’ ‘She made me listen to her tight ten for a week before she opened in Toledo and then had us heckle her for three hours […]

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (season 4)

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{5/5} “I want revenge. And I’m talking real revenge, not the ‘Hey, I got you a lifetime subscription to The Watchtower’ kind of revenge, but Shakespearean, blood-soaked, painful, soul-crushing revenge. I will dig out my high school clarinet and play klezmer music next door to you 24 hours a day. I will sneak into your […]