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Moroccan filmmaker Maryam Touzani's 2019 debut is a quiet, understated exploration of the evolving relationship between 2 women in a poor neighborhood in Casablanca: the unwed, pregnant Samia, who's looking for work and a place to stay, and Abla, a widowed baker with a young daughter. Beautifully and sensually filmed, with excellent performances, a sharp sense of place and a neat thread about baking running through. Trailer. 87% at Rotten Tomatoes. [more inside]
posted by mediareport on Aug 3, 2023 - 2 comments

Each senior officer gets trapped in an uncomfortable social, biological, and/or respiratory situation when a quantum filament disables the Enterprise, stranding the crew in various parts of the ship. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Apr 1, 2021 - 13 comments

A pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy. [more inside]
posted by Carillon on Dec 20, 2020 - 5 comments

Change is coming too fast for Wesley Crusher's career, the unstable viruses in the Enterprise's cargo bay, and Troi's new family member. (CW: sci-fi sexual assault) [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jul 3, 2020 - 14 comments

A young couple moves in to an apartment only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins to control her life [content warning]. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Jun 30, 2018 - 5 comments

Poplar welcomes Lucille Anderson, the first West Indian midwife to be featured as a series regular. Tested as never before, the nuns and nurses face challenging issues, from leprosy, tokophobia, and stroke to Huntington's chorea and unmarried mothers. Note: This season has already aired in the BBC; the US PBS premiere is March 25, 2018.
posted by elsietheeel on Mar 18, 2018 - 13 comments

While the crew is viewing a wormhole, Moya is suddenly hit by a large, toxic space plant. The crew must find a way to kill the plant before it kills Moya. Aeryn tells Chiana a secret about her pregnancy, and asks her to keep it secret.[via]
posted by cshenk on Apr 5, 2016 - 2 comments

This week on Sawbones, Sydnee and Justin are back with, and we don't think we're exaggerating here: The weirdest story they've ever told. [more inside]
posted by Cash4Lead on Nov 19, 2015 - 4 comments

Cordelia has a fast-rising bun (or seven) in the oven. Of course it's because of a demon. Phantom Dennis is protective. Wesley starts down the gunpowder road. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Sep 3, 2015 - 4 comments

Rob (Rob Delaney of Twitter fame) and Sharon (Sharon Horgan of Pulling fame) have a wild week of virtually anonymous sex while he's in London. Months later, she calls him out of the blue to tell him she's pregnant. He moves across the Atlantic to raise the baby with her. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Jun 20, 2015 - 5 comments

After Frank collapses in his jail cell, he wakes up in a hospital bed and thinks he’s in Heaven. A doctor tells him he’s not dead, but he will be soon unless he stops drinking. Meanwhile, Fiona leaves a dramatic series of messages for Jimmy … [more inside]
posted by John Cohen on Apr 6, 2015 - 2 comments

Ann and Leslie are a lesbian couple in NYC in 2000 trying to have a baby. [more inside]
posted by jillithd on Mar 2, 2015 - 1 comment

Monica and Frank are back together — the first time we get to see what they’re like as a couple. Fiona walks in on them having sex in the kitchen, and scolds them for the inappropriate location (hypocritically — see the pilot). Fiona puts her mom on birth control because “the world doesn’t need another Gallagher.” [more inside]
posted by John Cohen on Feb 18, 2015 - 0 comments

Sheila is literally making great strides in going outside. Frank is worried she’ll go back to working at her old job and realize she can do better than him. Lip’s good advice to Frank: “No one trades an MVP.” Frank understands: “Make myself valuable, untradeable.” But Frank has an ever better idea: convince the recovering agoraphobe that “the world out there is a scary place” — by making it “even scarier”! [more inside]
posted by John Cohen on Jan 31, 2015 - 12 comments

Through a series of plausible accidents, Jane gets pregnant through artificial insemination. Now she has to make some decisions. [more inside]
posted by Margalo Epps on Oct 20, 2014 - 7 comments