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𝟎𝟏. ainda estou aqui: in the early 1970s, the military dictatorship in brazil reaches its height. the paiva family - rubens, eunice, and their five children - live in a beachside house in rio de janeiro, open to all their friends. one day, rubens is taken for questioning and does not return.
𝟎𝟐. the substance: a fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.
𝟎𝟑. exhuma: after tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family's ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remains, and soon discovers what happens to those who dare to mess with the wrong grave.
𝟎𝟒. alien: romulus: while scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
𝟎𝟓. a quiet place: day one: as new york city is invaded by alien creatures who hunt by sound, a woman named sam fights to survive with her cat.
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𝟎𝟏. witness for the prosecution (1957): an ailing famous barrister agrees to defend a man in a sensational murder trial where his self-possessed wife's unconvincing testimony confuses him.
𝟎𝟐. isa pa, with feelings (2019): despite their differences, an aspiring architect falls for her deaf neighbor, who teaches her basic sign language.
𝟎𝟑. a separation (2011): a married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has alzheimer's disease.
𝟎𝟒. anatomy of a fall (2023): a woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.
𝟎𝟓. prima facie (2022): tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. from working class origins, she has reached the top of her game. an unexpected event forces her to confront the lines where the patriarchal power of the law, burden of proof and morals diverge.
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𝟎𝟏. hacks III: deborah and ava reunite in hacks season 3 to pursue deborah's late-night host aspirations.
𝟎𝟐. my brilliant friend IV: season 4 delves into the adult lives of lenu and lila, who find themselves entangled in the turmoil of italy in the late 1980s. amid motherhood, career demands, betrayals, threats, disappearances, and natural disasters, the two lifelong friends once again reside in the same neighborhood.
𝟎𝟑. the penguin: with the city in peril following the seawall's collapse, oswald "oz" cobb seeks to fill the power vacuum left by the death of carmine falcone and finally give his mother Francis the life he's always promised. but first, oz must confront his enemies and his own demoralizing reputation as "the penguin".
𝟎𝟒. eye love you: sparks begin to fly when a telepathic japanese woman who'd given up on love meets a kindhearted korean student who thinks in a language she can't understand.
𝟎𝟓. we are lady parts II: fresh from a summer of gigs, lady parts are ready to level up and lay down their legacy by recording their debut album. will they finally hit the big time?
- we are lady parts and we are shattering stereotypes
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𝟎𝟏. in this corner of the world (2018): 18-year-old urano suzu marries hojo shusaku and moves from eba city to kure city in hiroshima prefecture in the middle of the pacific war. as japan slides into a war it cannot get out of, the townspeople go on with their "ordinary" lives. supplies are short, and family and friends get sent to the battlefield. suzu and the hojo family battle such anxieties as they try to live positively.
𝟎𝟐. the real housewives of salt lake city IV (2023): follows the personal and professional lives of women who live in or near salt lake city, utah.
- season 4 of RHOSLC was art
- how I learned to stop worrying and love real housewives
𝟎𝟑. the traitors I (2023): 20 contestants arrive at a castle in the scottish highlands with hopes of winning a large cash prize. the players are referred to as the "faithful" but among them are the "traitors" – a group of contestants selected by the host, whose goal is to eliminate the faithfuls and claim the prize for themselves.
𝟎𝟒. kira kira hikaru (1998): one night during a student reunion, a dead body was found in the kitchen. hikaru, who is a little regretting that she choose her focus in neurology, was moved by another doctor's words: dead bodies will not tell us what happened, that is why we have to piece together its last words.
𝟎𝟓. houkago (1992): the story begins with a girl, azusa, talking about old photos she has on her wall. she talks about a moment in her life when she and a boy, kouhei, exchanged their personality and body. and so the story begins.
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𝟎𝟏. rupaul's drag race global all stars (2024): drag race's purported celebration of global drag culture has been covered by an icky sheen of xenophobia all season long with the dominant fan response being not excitement but outrage over the treatment of queens for whom english is a second language. while questions of inter-queen bullying have arisen, the most obvious culprit has been rupaul herself, who picked her favorites fast and early [...] the queens she already knew, from franchises she hosts, and thus make up the majority of the contestants who speak english as a first language.
𝟎𝟐. drag race españa all stars (2024): the cast featured nine returning contestants from the first three seasons of drag race españa.
- how one challenge win changes everything
𝟎𝟑. majo no jouken (1999): michi is a 26-year-old high school math teacher. hikaru is a 17-year-old boy who enters michi's class as a new transfer student. as their relationship grows, they realize they both feel they've lost themselves to the pressures of those around them, and it is this common bond that draws them dangerously close.
𝟎𝟒. bridgerton III (2024): penelope is finally ready to give up her longtime crush on colin. however, that doesn't mean she's done with love. instead, penelope has decided it's time to take a husband — and preferably one who will give her the freedom to continue her double life as lady whistledown. lacking in confidence, penelope's attempts on the marriage mart fail spectacularly. eager to win back her friendship, colin offers to mentor penelope to help her find a husband this season. but when his lessons start working a little too well, colin must grapple with whether his feelings for penelope are truly just friendly.
𝟎𝟓. kou kou kyoushi (1993): the life of the lead character has been a series of embarrassing events beyond his control. yet his fate is sealed when he falls in love with one of his students, with a passion that seems to intensify in the face of social mores.
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𝟎𝟏. hit my hard and soft by billie eilish
𝟎𝟐. caju by liniker
𝟎𝟑. brat by charli xcx
𝟎𝟒. charm by clairo
𝟎𝟓. access all areas by flo
- wildflower from hit me hard and soft
- l'amour de ma vie from hit me hard and soft
- the greatest from hit me hard and soft
- lunch from hit me hard and soft
- juna from charm
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𝟎𝟏. euphoria by kendrick lamar
𝟎𝟐. too sweet by hozier
𝟎𝟑. bye by ariana grande
𝟎𝟒. good luck, babe! by chappel roan
𝟎𝟓. fantasy by jade
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𝟎𝟏. supernatural by newjeans
𝟎𝟐. whiplash by aespa
𝟎𝟑. magnetic by illit
𝟎𝟒. clik clak by babymonster
𝟎𝟓. boom by nmixx
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𝟎𝟏. in the margins: on the pleasures of reading and writing by elena ferrante: in these four crisp essays, ferrante offers a rare look at the origins of her literary powers. she writes about her influences, her struggles, and her formation as both a reader and a writer; she describes the perils of "bad language" and suggests ways in which it has long excluded women's truth.
𝟎𝟐. nordestino: invenção do falo, uma história do gênero masculino (1920–1940) by durval muniz de albuquerque júnior: the book exposes a problem whose dimensions go beyond the history of the male sex, gender relations and discrimination between social classes, to reach the core of the formation of those in power in brazil.
𝟎𝟑. the history of sexuality, vol. 1: an introduction by michel foucault: michel foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questions of what we are to what our sexuality is.
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