A decade after crossing the stage at her college graduation, Lily must return to college to relive her senior year after discovering she’s a few credits shy of completing her degree-only to find one of her TAs is her old college boyfriend. _Publishers Weekly_ calls [**_The Do Over_**](https://likewise.com/Books/5dZ4EAAAQBAJ/5a8cab4c958d870a34ae10fe), “a winner… Park’s pitch-perfect comedic timing and knack for creating heartstring-tugging moments make this thoughtful romance really shine.”

Former comedian and bestselling author of [**_So We Meet Again_**](https://likewise.com/books/D7IGEAAAQBAJ), Suzanne Park is known for her hilarious and heartwarming romances with unforgettable Korean-American characters. To celebrate the release of her new book, we spoke to Suzanne about her inspiration.

# Q&A

**Likewise:** There are a lot of second-chance romances coming out right now, but Lily's story is as much a second-chance at college story as it is a romance. What inspired the back-to-school plot?

**Suzanne Park:** For years I’ve had a common school anxiety dream in which I need to take a final exam for a class I’ve never attended. Early in the pandemic, this recurring nightmare disrupted my sleep so badly that I began to journal everything I was feeling to get it out of my head and onto paper. 

**SP (cont'd):** One day I wondered, "What if I write a book about this? Surely this is something others can relate to," and that’s when I pitched the idea to my editor. When I started writing the book, I wanted to make the setting feel authentic so, with the help of a university admin friend, I visited a local college campus while school was in session to capture what being in college is like now.

**LW:** Before you became a novelist, you were a stand-up comedian! How does your comedy career influence your writing?

**SP:** My adult and YA fiction includes both observational and absurd humor, similar to what I had in my stand-up comedy acts. I’ve found that for both stand-up comedy and writing humorous novels that context, specificity and timing can be just as important as word and phrasing choices. For me, the biggest difference between writing jokes for stand-up and putting comedy in books is that with stage comedy, you can use physical humor to help convey a joke, but on page, you only have your words, so that was an adjustment for me.

**LW:** There are a lot of fun secondary characters in _The Do-Over_, from Lily's best friend Mia to her hyper-positive roommate Beth. Do you have a favorite?

**SP:** What a tough choice! It would probably be between Mia and Beth—I love them both and they each bring different energy to their friend group. Beth’s optimism and excessive stress-baking is so funny and relatable, and Mia is a rough-around-the-edges friend you want in your corner when things get rough. Ali Hazelwood read the book and commented to me “Is Mia getting her book? Please tell me we'll see Lily and Jake again in Mia's book,” so I know Mia has a big fan!

**LW:** Tell us about three books that inspire you as a writer.

**SP:**
1. [_Morris the Moose Goes to School_](https://likewise.com/books/xyOy5WKBZ-cC):** The first funny book I read (and owned) is _Morris the Moose Goes to School_—it was the first time I remember laughing out loud while reading. My humor has evolved since first grade though (at least I hope it has), but looking back this book inspired me to find comedy in everyday life.
2. [**_Me Talk Pretty One Day_**](https://likewise.com/books/WVKiq9stTNgC) by David Sedaris made me realize that dysfunctional families could be wonderful fodder for a book, and reading David Sedaris’ body of work made me want to become an author.
3. **[_Pachinko_](https://likewise.com/books/oFRsDAAAQBAJ):** The novel I can’t stop thinking about is _Pachinko_ by Min Jin Lee. Lee is such a gifted writer, being able to write spare prose and create imagery that is somehow both accessible and rich at the same time. She inspires me to improve my craft with each book I write.

_[**The Do Over**](https://likewise.com/Books/5dZ4EAAAQBAJ/5a8cab4c958d870a34ae10fe) by Suzanne Parks is out now!_

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Author Suzanne Parks talks about her hilarious and heartwarming second-chance romance, 'The Do Over!'

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Q&A with Suzanne Park, Author of The Do Over 

Julia Langbein’s debut novel, [**_American Mermaid_**](https://likewise.com/books/PEKNEAAAQBAJ), has drawn raves from some of the biggest names in contemporary literature, including [**_Song of Achilles_**](https://likewise.com/books/opC3d3ltQ94C) author Madeline Miller, who called it “brilliantly sharp, funny, and thought-provoking.”  

Penelope Schleeman is a broke teacher who is as surprised as anyone when her feminist eco-thriller (also titled _American Mermaid_) becomes a bestseller. Then a movie studio buys it and offers Penelope the chance to work on the adaptation, so she quits her teaching and job and moves to Los Angeles. But when the studio pushes to make the adaptation sexier and dumber than the story that Penelope labored over, strange things start to happen, and Penelope wonders if the novel might and its marine heroine have a mind of their own. 

_American Mermaid_ hits shelves on March 21st, 2023, and we were delighted to talk to Julia about it and the books that inspire her.


**There are two stories in _American Mermaid_–Penelope's and Sylvia's. Why did you decide to use the book-inside-a-book format?**

The book-within-a-book format didn't come to me as a literary device; rather, it came from improv comedy. I had been doing tons of improv, particularly this longform game called "Harold" which involves returning over and over to the same scenes. When I started writing a novel it was just second nature to think this way. And from the get-go it just worked. I found it was producing all these hilarious connections and it was really building meaning and comedy for me better than I could have imagined. It was just luck that I was so deep into the improv at that moment that the rhythms of comic scene-building on stage were part of the way I was thinking. 
 
**Teenagers play a not-insignificant role in this story. What intrigues you about adolescence?**
 
I wasn't a stereotypical teenager. I didn't really rebel, I was very docile and well behaved (this isn't rose-colored glasses–my dad even said recently, "you were never obnoxious as a teenager, that happened in your thirties," LOL). But I do remember a kind of intellectual openness, of reading a poem and feeling I was inside of it, reading a book and feeling it was about me, for me. I lived what I read. Then later in my career, when I was a PhD student and an early-career researcher, I taught college students and came into contact again with that depth of reading. Even the kids who were not A students, they had access to this depth. As Penelope, the high school teacher, observes in _American Mermaid_, some day her students will "have their familiar chords and modulations. But now they’re atonal, so dumb they’re avant-garde."  
 
**There are so many hilarious secondary characters in _American Mermaid_. Do you have a favorite?**

So many people who have read this book love Susie, the kind of politically-incorrect but extremely confident and caring sister. I have to say, I have read those scenes with her a thousand times and they still make me laugh. She might come back in another book, in another guise. 
 
**Can you tell us about three books you love? One sentence each would be great!**
1. [**_A Way of Life, Like Any Other_**](https://likewise.com/books/u0Yjp88EjdkC), by Darcy O'Brien (1978). The NYRB re-released _A Way of Life_ in 2001 with a gorgeous intro by Seamus Heaney.  It's a semi-autobiographical story of a boy growing up in LA with eccentric parents caught up in the biz. It's absolutely drop-dead hilarious, and captures Los Angeles not as a stereotype but as intimate and strange and comically warping. 
2. [**_The Girl with the Louding Voice_**](https://likewise.com/books/3C6aDwAAQBAJ), by Abi Daré (2020). I read this not long ago and it has stayed with me–it is a perfectly told, electrifying story of one girl fighting for her physical and intellectual survival in rural Nigeria and then Lagos, but what really astonished me was the voice itself. From the first sentence, she's hilarious, she's herself, you understand from the first page how important she is, and you're in the fight with her 1,000%. 
3. [**_The Force of Such Beauty_**](https://likewise.com/books/oqZPEAAAQBAJ), Barbara Bourland (2022). With clear parallels to the life of Princess Charlene of Monaco, this story of an athlete turned princess turned prisoner of her own luxurious life–Bourland is fantastic on the sheer material trappings–is both an empathetic portrait of an individual caught in a nightmare fairytale and a chilling reminder of the real economic inequalities that "princess" myths obscure. 


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Author Julia Langbein talks about her weird and wonderful debut novel, 'American Mermaid.'

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Q&A with Julia Langbein, Author of American Mermaid

Jesse Q. Suntanto is the author of [**_Dial A for Aunties_**](https://likewise.com/books/d8PhzQEACAAJ) and four other books for teens and adults that masterfully combine humor, romance, and thrills. Her new book, [**_Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers_**](https://likewise.com/books/IB11EAAAQBAJ), follows a Chinese lady of a certain age who sets out to solve the mystery of the dead body in her tea shop and comes out March 14, 2023.

# Q&A

**Likewise:** Vera is such a fun and memorable character. What inspired her?

**Jesse Q. Sutanto:** 100% my mom! Vera is basically just my mom with the dial turned up to a hundred. I was very nervous to have my mom read it, but luckily she _LOVED_ Vera. She devoured the book in less than two days and said, "I like this one. I shall give a copy to all my friends." Which is like a standing ovation coming from her.

**Likewise:** Readers hear from a big cast of characters over the course of the novel. What intrigued you about writing from multiple points-of-view?

**JS:**  I thought it would be fun to do a murder mystery where each POV character is a possible suspect. It was so interesting getting to dive into such different characters' heads, although I definitely found it challenging having to hint at some kind of secret with each of them without revealing what the secret was.

**Likewise:** What's your favorite part of writing a mystery?

**SH:** The big reveal! There's something so incredibly satisfying about pulling back the curtain and finally revealing the truth and showing all of the little bits of clues that I've sprinkled along the way. 

**Likewise:** Tell us about three books that inspire you.

**JS:** So many! [**_Gone Girl_**](https://likewise.com/books/mmWODQAAQBAJ) is definitely one of them. This book single-handedly changed the entire suspense genre. I used to not read too much suspense even though it's my favorite genre, because it was so male-dominated and every story had some kind of graphic rape scene. But _Gone Girl_ shook things up and now we have such a rich subgenre–psychological suspense–and every day I am thankful that Gillian Flynn wrote this brilliant masterpiece. The second book would be [**_Witches Abroad_**](https://likewise.com/books/cSYMngEACAAJ) by Terry Pratchett. It's just so hilarious and so subversive, and the witches have totally influenced me because they made me want to write about older women who have run out of f*cks to give! Third book would be [**_Babel_**](https://likewise.com/books/ZWRQEAAAQBAJ) by RF Kuang, because it's one of those books where as soon as you read the first chapter, it becomes obvious that it was written by an actual, real-life genius. It's a work of staggering depth and I really need to read it a second and third time over to fully grasp the breadth of Kuang's research.

_Check out more author interviews [here](https://likewisetv.com/blog/tag/q-and-a)!_



Author Jesse Q. Suntanto talks about her charming new mystery, 'Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers.'

The cover of the new book, Vera Wang's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, by author Jesse Q. Sutanto.

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Q&A with Jesse Q. Sutanto, Author of Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

# Q&A Transcript

**Likewise:** What made you fall in love with paranormal romance?

**Sarah Hawley:** My mother shared her fantasy/sci-fi collection with me when I was a kid ([Andre Norton](https://likewise.com/books/xb-mAwAAQBAJ), [Ray Bradbury](https://likewise.com/books/HM-Y6zWNkjwC), [J.R.R. Tolkien](https://likewise.com/books/pD6arNyKyi8C), [Ursula K. Le Guin](https://likewise.com/books/M45vPwAACAAJ), [Douglas Adams](https://likewise.com/books/BvjFAAAAIAAJ), etc. etc.), and I’ve always gravitated towards SFF novels with romantic subplots in them ([Tamora Pierce](https://likewise.com/books/Lm_4rQEACAAJ)’s books were a strong early influence). Once I discovered the romance genre in college, I was thrilled to find books that had all the magic I wanted plus satisfying romantic arcs! One thing I love about paranormal romance is how creative it can be in terms of worldbuilding and stakes (there’s an entirely different level of stakes when characters are immortal or have fated mates, for instance). The only limits are the author’s imagination.

**Likewise:** Tell us about Glimmer Falls! What intrigued you about writing about a magical small town?

**SH:** Glimmer Falls is a small town in Washington State that’s full of paranormal people of all types. The surrounding forest contains hot springs, and the magic woven into the soil nourishes a variety of unusual plants and animals. I’ve never lived in a town that small, so it was interesting to imagine what it would be like—the politics, small businesses, festivals, and interpersonal dynamics. It was fun deciding how a town full of so many different species would work, from building construction to community events. I even wrote a year’s worth of newspapers for fun and to explore more of the world, which you can read [on my website](https://www.sarahhawleyauthor.com/glimmer-falls-gazette). 

**Likewise:** Oz is a special case, but even in general, the demons in [_A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon_](https://likewise.com/books/LNNzEAAAQBAJ) are less terrible than readers might expect. Why did you want to re-imagine demons?

**SH:** I wanted to preserve a lighthearted tone and keep religion out of the story, so that meant envisioning demons as a separate species rather than malevolent entities of darkness. The world is meant to be a diverse and inclusive one, so even though demons are generally less emotional than humans, they aren’t better or worse—just different. I also wanted to do a twist on the typical “sell your soul to a demon” narrative, which started with asking why demons need human souls in the first place. It ended up being a symbiotic relationship—demons can’t survive without the magic humans provide, and humans benefit from what demons offer in exchange for that magic.

**Likewise:** Tell us about three books that made you love romance.

**SH:**
- **[_Dreaming of You_](https://likewise.com/books/1u5FfxyjtsAC) – Lisa Kleypas:** Kleypas’s historical romances are masterpieces full of romantic tension, historical details, and fun and complex friend/family dynamics. This classic story about shy author Sara Fielding who captures the heart of dangerously sexy club owner Derek Craven is one of her best.
- **[_Demon Forged_](https://likewise.com/books/tY1Y0ov7tq8C) – Meljean Brook (from the _Guardian_ series):** Set in a paranormal world where immortal humans with magic powers fight demons to protect humanity’s free will, this book features a tough blacksmith heroine with the power to warp metal and a sexy swordsman who wields fire. It’s an angsty, complex, brilliantly crafted, and sensual novel that addresses trauma in a nuanced way.
- **[_The Hating Game_](https://likewise.com/books/5a3rCgAAQBAJ) – Sally Thorne:** Thorne’s voice is witty and fun, and this enemies-to-lovers story featuring rival executive assistants at a publishing house is a delight the entire way through. Josh is deliciously uptight while Lucy brings the best sort of chaos, and their journey from shouting at each other to falling in love kept me smiling.


_Sarah’s book is one of 15 new romances we can’t wait to read in March - [check out the others here](https://likewise.com/list/New-Romances-Were-Excited-to-Read-in-March-63efc371522db200622c2da4)!_

Author Sarah Hawley talks about her new novel 'A Witch’s Guide to Fake Dating a Demon,' the debut paranormal rom-com novel set in a quirky magical town. 

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Q&A with Sarah Hawley, Author of A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon

Author Alexis Daria and podcaster Kelly Reynolds discussed the updated edition of her opposites attract, enemies to lovers, reality TV romance 'Take the Lead.'

Alexis Daria's updated version of Take the Lead releases on Valentine's Day, 2023.

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Q&A with Romance Author Alexis Daria

Kat Rosenfield spoke to fellow writer Catherine McKenzie about her new novel 'You Must Remember This.'

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Q&A with Thriller Writer Kat Rosenfield

Kate Clayborn, author of seven critically acclaimed novels, spoke to podcast host Jennifer Prokop about her new release, 'Georgie, All Along.'

Georgie, All Along is the newest novel by author Kate Clayborn

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Q&A with Kate Clayborn, Author of Georgie, All Along

The Book of Magic author Alice Hoffman chats with fellow novelist Alix E. Harrow about witches, romance, genre wars, and more.

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Q&A with The Book of Magic Author Alice Hoffman

Luckiest Girl Alive author Jessica Knoll shares her behind-the-scenes journey of turning her bestselling book into a hit Netflix movie starring Mila Kunis.

Mila Kunis plays Ani Fanelli in Netflix's Luckiest Girl Alive

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Q&A with Luckiest Girl Alive Author Jessica Knoll 

Ted Lasso, an American football coach, moves to England when he’s hired to manage a soccer team—despite having no experience. With cynical players and a doubtful town, will he get them to see the Ted Lasso Way?

Ted Lasso

In 1988, American video game salesman Henk Rogers discovers the video game Tetris. When he sets out to bring the game to the world, he enters a dangerous web of lies and corruption behind the Iron Curtain.

Tetris

The world of The Power is our world, but for one twist of nature. Suddenly teenage girls develop the power to electrocute people at will. Following remarkable characters from London to Seattle, Nigeria to Eastern Europe, the Power evolves from a tingle in teenagers’ collarbones to a complete reversal of power balance.

The Power

After starting their own detective agency, Nick and Audrey Spitz land a career-making case when their billionaire pal is kidnapped from his wedding.

Murder Mystery 2

A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

With the price on his head ever increasing, John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.

John Wick: Chapter 4

A small town is forever changed when a mysterious machine appears, promising to reveal everyone's true potential. Soon residents start changing jobs, rethinking relationships, and questioning long-held beliefs—all in pursuit of a better future.

The Big Door Prize

Nick and Vanessa Lachey host this social experiment where single men and women look for love and get engaged, all before meeting in person.

Love Is Blind

Follow the lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control.

Succession

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A retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette, from her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and ultimately the fall of Versailles.

Marie Antoinette

Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who, through an extraordinary string of events, enters the afterlife where she comes to realize that she hasn't been a very good person. With the help of her wise afterlife mentor, she's determined to shed her old way of living and discover the awesome (or at least the pretty good) person within.

The Good Place

Speed Racer is the tale of a young and brilliant racing driver. When corruption in the racing leagues costs his brother his life, he must team up with the police and the mysterious Racer X to bring an end to the corruption and criminal activities. Inspired by the cartoon series.

Speed Racer

Suburban soccer moms find themselves constantly competing against each other in their personal lives as their kids settle their differences on the field.

Greener Grass

An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.

Mad Max: Fury Road

After stealing the Tesseract during the events of “Avengers: Endgame,” an alternate version of Loki is brought to the mysterious Time Variance Authority, a bureaucratic organization that exists outside of time and space and monitors the timeline. They give Loki a choice: face being erased from existence due to being a “time variant” or help fix the timeline and stop a greater threat.

Loki

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red and Mandy lead a loving and peaceful existence; but when their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with fire.

Mandy

An ex-con becomes the traveling partner of a conman who turns out to be one of the older gods trying to recruit troops to battle the upstart deities. Based on Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel.

American Gods

One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other's lives, each other's secrets, and in terrible danger. Ordinary people suddenly reborn as "Sensates."

Sense8

An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Driver is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he's been warming up to a pretty neighbor named Irene and her young son, Benicio. When Irene's husband gets out of jail, he enlists Driver's help in a million-dollar heist. The job goes horribly wrong, and Driver must risk his life to protect Irene and Benicio from the vengeful masterminds behind the robbery.

Drive

When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.

Stranger Things

When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it: Paprika.

Paprika

As bass guitarist for a garage-rock band, Scott Pilgrim has never had trouble getting a girlfriend; usually, the problem is getting rid of them. But when Ramona Flowers skates into his heart, he finds she has the most troublesome baggage of all: an army of ex-boyfriends who will stop at nothing to eliminate him from her list of suitors.

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

After four college girls rob a restaurant to fund their spring break in Florida, they get entangled with a weird dude with his own criminal agenda.

Spring Breakers

Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

Blade Runner 2049

Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence-a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest potential-only those who can conquer their fear will survive.

Dune

When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.

The Neon Demon

In a world where people collect pocket-size monsters (Pokémon) to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent monster who seeks to be a detective.

Pokémon Detective Pikachu

Top 20 Colorful and Visually Appealing Shows and Movies

After trading in the seemingly charmed life of a gentleman for one of a swashbuckling buccaneer, Stede Bonnet becomes captain of the pirate ship Revenge. Struggling to earn the respect of his potentially mutinous crew, Stede’s fortunes change after a fateful run-in with the infamous Captain Blackbeard. Stede and crew attempt to get their ship together and survive life on the high seas.

Our Flag Means Death

Follow Captain Christopher Pike, Science Officer Spock and Number One in the years before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

This quick-witted spy drama follows a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents—and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb—as they navigate the espionage world’s smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.

Slow Horses

This psychological thriller follows two Navajo police officers, Leaphorn and Chee, in the 1970s Southwest as their search for clues in a grisly double murder case forces them to challenge their own spiritual beliefs and come to terms with the trauma of their pasts.

Dark Winds

Foul-mouthed, chirp-serving, mother-loving, fan favourite character, Shoresy, joins the Sudbury Bulldogs of the Northern Ontario Senior Hockey Organization (The NOSHO) on a quest to never lose again.

Shoresy

Dan Chase absconded from the CIA decades ago and now lives off the grid. When an assassin arrives and tries to take Chase out, the old operative learns that to ensure his future he now must reconcile his past.

The Old Man

Finding love, making friends, getting a job, adulting. Watch as three roommates on the autism spectrum navigate their early 20s with all its joy, tears and laughter. With the help of their families, aide, and sometimes even each other, these roommates experience setbacks and celebrate triumphs on their own unique journeys towards independence and acceptance.

As We See It

In 1943, Carson Shaw travels to Chicago to try out for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. There, she meets other women who also dream of playing pro baseball and makes connections that open up her world. Rockford local Max Chapman also comes to the tryouts but is turned away. With the support of her best friend Clance, she must forge a new path to pursue her dream.

A League of Their Own

When a high school reunion’s afterparty ends in a stunning death, everyone is a suspect. A detective grills the former classmates one by one, uncovering potential motives as each tells their version of the story—culminating in the shocking truth.

The Afterparty

Sam is a true Kansan on the surface but beneath it all struggles to fit the hometown mold. As she grapples with loss and acceptance, singing is Sam’s saving grace and leads her on a journey to discover herself and a community of outsiders that don’t fit in but don’t give up, showing that finding your people, and finding your voice, is possible. Anywhere. Somewhere.

Somebody Somewhere

A high-stakes competition series where twelve players work together in challenges to add money to a pot that only one of them will win at the end. Among the players is one person who has secretly been designated "the Mole" and tasked with sabotaging the group's money-making efforts. In the end, one player will outlast their competition and expose the Mole to win the prize pot.

The Mole

A pro League of Legends esports team pursues their first championship after years of close calls and heartache. To win it all, they will need their prodigy, a 17-year-old rookie, and their 27-year-old veteran to put their egos aside and work together.

Players

A psychotherapist finds himself held prisoner by a serial killer with an unusual request: curb his homicidal urges.

The Patient

The tight-knit Garvey sisters have always looked out for each other. When their brother-in-law winds up dead, his life insurers launch an investigation to prove malicious intent—and set their sights on the sisters, all of whom had ample reason to kill him.

Bad Sisters

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A brilliant toy company roboticist uses artificial intelligence to develop M3GAN, a life-like doll programmed to emotionally bond with her newly orphaned niece. But when the doll's programming works too well, she becomes overprotective of her new friend with terrifying results.

M3GAN

A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.

Westworld

Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

Ex Machina

In 2035, where robots are commonplace and abide by the three laws of robotics, a technophobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a robot may be responsible for the death, his investigation leads him to believe that humanity may be in danger.

I, Robot

A contemporary British re-working of The Twilight Zone with stories that tap into the collective unease about our modern world. 

Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on every desk; in every palm - a plasma screen; a monitor; a smartphone - a black mirror of our 21st Century existence.

Black Mirror

Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.

2001: A Space Odyssey

High School student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his girlfriend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.

WarGames

Forbin is the designer of an incredibly sophisticated computer that will run all of America's nuclear defenses. Shortly after being turned on, it detects the existence of Guardian, the Soviet counterpart, previously unknown to US Planners. Both computers insist that they be linked, and after taking safeguards to preserve confidential material, each side agrees to allow it. As soon as the link is established the two become a new Super computer and threaten the world with the immediate launch of nuclear weapons if they are detached. Colossus begins to give its plans for the management of the world under its guidance. Forbin and the other scientists form a technological resistance to Colossus which must operate underground.

Colossus: The Forbin Project

When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. As the villainous Ultron emerges, it is up to The Avengers to stop him from enacting his terrible plans, and soon uneasy alliances and unexpected action pave the way for an epic and unique global adventure.

Avengers: Age of Ultron

In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.

Blade Runner

WALL·E is the last robot left on an Earth that has been overrun with garbage and all humans have fled to outer space. For 700 years he has continued to try and clean up the mess, but has developed some rather interesting human-like qualities. When a ship arrives with a sleek new type of robot, WALL·E thinks he's finally found a friend and stows away on the ship when it leaves.

WALL·E

Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator. Once again, the resistance has managed to send a protector back to attempt to save John and his mother Sarah.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.

The Matrix

When a destructive space entity is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral Kirk resumes command of the Starship Enterprise in order to intercept, examine, and hopefully stop it.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

When brilliant video game maker Flynn hacks the mainframe of his ex-employer, he is beamed inside an astonishing digital world...and becomes part of the very game he is designing. In his mission through cyberspace, Flynn matches wits with a maniacal Master Control Program and teams up with Tron, a security measure created to bring balance to the digital environment.

Tron

Artificial Intelligence Gone Wrong: AI in Movies and Shows

An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Doctor Strange, with the help of mystical allies both old and new, traverses the mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities of the Multiverse to confront a mysterious new adversary.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected consequences.

The Butterfly Effect

When carefree Nyles and reluctant maid of honor Sarah have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things get complicated when they find themselves unable to escape the venue, themselves, or each other.

Palm Springs

On the night of an astronomical anomaly, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events.

Coherence

On the night of the discovery of a duplicate Earth in the Solar system, an ambitious young student and an accomplished composer cross paths in a tragic accident.

Another Earth

Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.

Mr. Nobody

Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

Inception

London publicist Helen, effortlessly slides between parallel storylines that show what happens when she does or does not catch a train back to her apartment. Love. Romantic entanglements. Deception. Trust. Friendship. Comedy. All come into focus as the two stories shift back and forth, overlap and surprisingly converge.