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Inside No. 9 is a British anthology series created by Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, initially airing on BBC Two from 2014 to 2024. Each episode presents a self-contained story featuring new characters and settings, often linked by the number nine and the presence of a brass hare statue. The...
The Walking Dead: Season One is a story-driven video game set in a post apocalyptic world overrun by zombies. It focuses on the evolving relationship between Lee Everett and Clementine as they navigate desperate circumstances. The game’s narrative emphasizes difficult choices and their lasting impac...
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine follows the activities of the space station Deep Space Nine in the 24th century. The station’s location near a wormhole connects it to the unexplored Gamma Quadrant, presenting challenges for the United Federation of Planets. The series ran for seven seasons, spanning 176...
Baltasar and Blimunda is a historical novel published in 1982 by the Portuguese author José Saramago. Set in the eighteenth century, the narrative intertwines a love story between a disabled soldier and a clairvoyant woman with the massive construction of the Mafra Convent. Blending historical fact...
Endel Tulving was an Estonian-born Canadian experimental psychologist known for research on human memory. In 1972 he distinguished episodic memory, involving personally experienced events situated in time and place, from semantic memory, involving general knowledge not tied to a specific recollectio...
"The Kingdom of This World" is a 1949 historical novel by Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier that chronicles the Haitian Revolution against French colonial rule. The narrative follows the enslaved protagonist Ti Noël through the political upheavals of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, including the...
"The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll" is a compilation of seven interconnected novellas written by the Colombian poet and author Álvaro Mutis. The series follows the journeys of Maqroll the Gaviero, an itinerant sailor, wanderer, and merchant who finds himself involved in doomed business ven...
The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai is Han Bangqing's 1892 Chinese novel, notable for its detailed Wu-dialect portrayal of courtesans in late-Qing Shanghai.
Wu Jingzi’s *The Scholars* offers a vivid portrayal of late 18th-century China. This picaresque novel follows a group of impoverished men navigating corruption and social injustice through episodic adventures. It's notable for its sharp satire targeting the rigid civil service examination system and...
The Wolf Among Us is an episodic adventure game adapted from Bill Willingham’s comic book series. Set in Fabletown, a hidden community within New York City populated by fairytale characters, the game follows Sheriff Bigby Wolf as he investigates multiple murders. Five episodes were released between...
Scarlet Hollow is a mystery horror visual novel developed by Black Tabby Games. The game unfolds through an episodic structure, exploring a dark narrative set in the Appalachian region. It’s notable for its atmospheric storytelling and focus on suspenseful investigation. Scarlet Hollow is designed f...
The Blue Flowers is Raymond Queneau's 1965 French novel, alternating between Cidrolin and the Duke of Auge until dreamer and dreamed become uncertain.
Camilo José Cela's 1951 Spanish novel presents interwoven lives in impoverished postwar Madrid and was first published in Argentina.
The Walking Dead: Season One is a 2012 graphic adventure game developed by Telltale Games. It follows Lee Everett as he protects Clementine during an outbreak in Georgia, featuring five main episodes and one DLC released between April and July of that year. Player choices significantly impact the na...
Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix is a compilation featuring Kingdom Hearts II, Birth by Sleep, and Re:coded. Released initially for the PlayStation 3 in 2014, it serves as a remastered collection of prior Square Enix titles within the Kingdom Hearts series. The release followed the earlier HD 1.5 Remix c...
Life is Strange, an episodic narrative adventure, centers around Max Caulfield, a photography student who discovers she can rewind time. This ability is initially used to navigate social awkwardness, but quickly becomes crucial to solving a larger mystery and preventing a tragedy. The games strength...
Due to the violence portrayed in the Cowboy Bebop world and violence in Japanese schools, the series was briefly cancelled and an extra session was created as a final episode to the first thirteen episodes aired. Called "Session XX: Mish-Mash Blues," a compilation of clips from previous episodes, it...
The General in His Labyrinth is Gabriel García Márquez's 1989 novel depicting Simón Bolívar's final journey down Colombia's Magdalena River in 1830.
Herman Melville's 1857 novel unfolds aboard a Mississippi steamboat, where shifting con artists test the meanings of trust, identity, and confidence.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour presented a series of standalone mystery and thriller stories each week from 1962 to 1965. Hosted by Alfred Hitchcock himself, the anthology explored themes of suspense, crime, and psychological drama. These self-contained episodes typically featured original narratives and...
Amos Tutuola's 1954 Nigerian novel follows a child wandering a supernatural wilderness populated by spirits from Yoruba oral tradition.
The Walking Dead: Season Two is a 2013 episodic graphic adventure game developed by Telltale Games following the original title. The narrative structure features player choices impacting future story elements, building upon save files from previous episodes including "400 Days." Clementine returns a...
Star Trek: Picard is a CBS All Access television series set in the 24th century, twenty years following Jean-Luc Picard’s departure from active duty as a Starfleet Admiral. The show centers on the retired character and forms part of an expanded Star Trek Universe developed by Kurtzman and others. It...
This classic anthology series features Lieutenant Columbo solving crimes through meticulous observation and brilliant deductive reasoning. The format reveals the murder and perpetrator at the start, making the journey more important than the destination. Peter Falk's iconic portrayal created televis...
Measuring the World is Daniel Kehlmann's 2005 German-language novel, imaginatively pairing the lives of explorer Alexander von Humboldt and mathematician Carl Gauss.
Released in 2015, this tabletop role-playing game uses the Powered by the Apocalypse engine to emulate episodic TV shows where players hunt down dangerous supernatural creatures.
The Walking Dead (Telltale Game) is a narrative-driven video game series released in 2012. It adapts Robert Kirkman’s comic book story focusing on the relationship between Lee Everett and Clementine as they navigate a zombie-infested post-apocalyptic world. The game's interactive storytelling emphas...
Star Wars: Visions presents an animated anthology series exploring established and expanded Star Wars lore through distinct Japanese animation styles. Eight independent episodes, produced by multiple studios, offer unique interpretations of the galaxy’s themes and characters. The project highlights...
Sam & Max Save the World is a graphic adventure developed by Telltale Games through an episodic release format. Six episodes were initially distributed online between late 2006 and early 2007, with subsequent ports available on Wii, Xbox Live Arcade, Switch, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. A remaster w...
Armchair Theatre was a long-running British television anthology series broadcast by ITV from 1956 to 1974. It featured a new, self-contained dramatic play each week, establishing itself as a significant force in live television drama. The series showcased established and emerging writers and actors...
