The entrance to For All Mankind’s Happy Valley.
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In sci-fi depictions, extraterrestrial habitats have evolved tandem with scientific understanding of conditions on planets
Masha Mashkova and Joel Kinnaman in For All Mankind.
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For All Mankind is set in an Apollo era transformed by the inclusion of women, characters of colour and LGBTQ+ protagonists.
Main image: Brie Larson in Lessons in Chemistry. Dog at centre (Sharon Snider/Pexels).
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Briohny Doyle picked up Lessons in Chemistry not for its sassy-romance cover – which this subversive international bestseller does not deliver – but because she heard it featured a ‘good dog’.
Keegan-Michael Key and Cecily Strong in season two of Schmigadoon!.
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Compared to the dopamine-fest of season one, Josh and Melissa’s situation in season two feels bleak.
An image of the first season of the TV series Severance.
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A drastic approach to work-and-life balance is met in Apple TV+ series Severance. But some approaches at the management systems are not that far off.
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Apple TV’s Severance imagines what would happen to our sense of self if we could completely separate our work and home lives.
A furry friend, Goodyear the dog, makes a safe human home in the post-apocalyptic ‘Finch.’
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‘Finch’ can be seen in a larger tradition of science fiction that explores the nature of being human through the human-dog relationship.