i put a spell on you and now you're mine.

Cinematography by Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC: House of Sand and Fog (2003) directed by Vadim Perelman

SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (1983) dir. Jack Clayton

Black Mirror : Bandersnatch

Hokum (2026) dir. Damian McCarthy

SEVERANCE 1.02 → "Half Loop"

- I do want you to put together a proposal for a new mission. An American astronaut and a Soviet cosmonaut coming together to show our common purpose with a handshake in space. […]You dock the two ships, open the hatch, they shake hands on live TV, Bob's your uncle. Ed, I'll need some ideas on the crew, people that best reflect what our country is all about. Strength, freedom, maybe, uh… maybe a young face in there for the MTV crowd. - Yeah. I'll see if Madonna's available.

In just under ten minutes, Sojourner will launch from NASA's Jamestown moon base, joining Helios and Russia in a three-way race to Mars. With the three missions launching in the same two-week period, it's an open question. Who will be the first to complete the million mile journey?

You know, growing up in Detroit, there weren't a lot of kids like me. Back then, especially in the neighborhood I grew up in, you just didn't tell people you were gay. It was hard. I got bullied a lot. And there were days where I felt like I didn't want to go on... like maybe the world was better off without me in it. But I did go on, and now here I am. The first gay man on Mars. So, if you're a kid out there that feels like maybe you're broken somehow, like the world would be better off without you in it... I promise you, it's the world that's broken, not you.

-About your work thing, maybe there's some data points you're not considering. -Trust me, I've looked at everyone who's worked for me. -I know, but... maybe it's not someone that worked for you. I don't know. Just saying.

-That's a shooting star. That's the universe sending us a message. -The universe doesn't send messages. -How do you know? -It's not sentient. Doesn't give a damn about you and me. It's just a collection of random particles careening through a void. -Well, that's a message too. Isn't it?

When I was younger, I wasn't afraid of anything. Not even death. I always thought I'd go out in a... blaze of glory. Gordo. He once told me about his father when he got cancer. His dad was a marine. Tough as nails, but... towards the end... he was terrified. Weak. I just. I don't wanna wind up like that, Kel.

Kuragin rushed into a mission plan before everything was ready. And guess what? The exact same thing happened to us. This whole mission has suffered from what NASA used to call "go fever." When everyone convinces themselves they're not seeing the problems they're seeing because everyone wants to say "go" and no one wants to say "stop." Well, I am saying stop.

FOR ALL MANKIND (2019 - ): Season One

FOR ALL MANKIND | S01E01 ‘Red Moon’

Face it. We are egomaniacal narcissists. I bet Columbus was… and Magellan. And they had to be to do what they did. I say here’s to selfish pricks. ‘Cause we move the ball forward for mankind.

For All Mankind | Season 4 (2023-24), Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert, and Ben Nedivi