Climate Crisis

Paradise Season 2 ends not with a bang, but with a full-on nuclear meltdown that blows up the Paradise bunker. But even then, that's somehow not the most explosive part of the episode.

It's hard not to find the premise of Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary instantly compelling: Something is slowly killing the sun and threatening life on Earth. That same mysterious force, dubbed the Astrophage, also destroyed every nearby star — except one. Our only hope is to visit that solar system and figure out what helped it survive. And there's just one middle school science teacher who can do it.