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The Séance of Blake Manor

The Séance of Blake Manor is a 2025 first-person supernatural detective game by Spooky Doorway and Raw Fury, set in 1897 Ireland, where Declan Ward investigates Evelyn Deane's disappearance before a séance using a minute-per-action time mechanic.

The Search

The Search (al-Ṭarīq, الطريق) is a 1964 novel by Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz, in which Saber leaves Alexandria for Cairo to find the father he believed dead.

The Search for Everything

The Search for Everything is John Mayer's seventh studio album, released April 14, 2017 on Columbia. A breakup album about Katy Perry, it was issued via two four-song EP waves, recorded over three years at Capitol Studios with Pino Palladino and Steve Jordan, scoring 61 on Metacritic.

The Searcher (novel)

The Searcher (2020) is Tana French's seventh novel, a standalone crime story and her first in third person, following retired Chicago cop Cal Hooper in rural Ardnakelty, Ireland, investigating a missing teen; sequels The Hunter and The Keeper follow.

The Searchers

The Searchers (1956) is John Ford's Western, also known as Ford and Wayne's Monument Valley classic, starring John Wayne as Ethan Edwards, a racist ex-Confederate searching years for his kidnapped niece; initially snubbed by the Oscars, it later ranked 12th on AFI's 2007 list.

The Searchers (band)

The Searchers: Liverpool Merseybeat pop rock band (founded 1957/1959/1960, sources differ) with UK No 1s Sweets for My Sweet, Needles and Pins, and Don't Throw Your Love Away; retired at Glastonbury, 27 June 2025, after 68 years.

The Season

The Season is a 2026 six-episode English-language revenge thriller miniseries set in Hong Kong's elite boating scene, produced by PCCW Media and SK Global, created by Yalun Tu, directed by Marialy Rivas, starring Jessie Mei Li, and premiering June 17, 2026 on Hulu, Viu, and Now TV.

The Season at Sarsaparilla

The Season at Sarsaparilla is a 1962 two-act play by Patrick White, set in a fictional Sydney suburb and following three adjoining households through conformity and repressed desire.

The Seated

The Seated is a group of four bronze female figures by Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu, installed in 2019 in niches on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's facade.

The Second Act (film)

The Second Act (Le Deuxième Acte) is Quentin Dupieux's 2024 French meta-comedy starring Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Louis Garrel, and Raphaël Quenard; it opened the 2024 Cannes Film Festival out of competition on May 14, 2024.

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, also known as The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 2, is a 2015 British-American comedy-drama sequel directed by John Madden.

The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy

The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy is a Prime Video adult animated sci-fi comedy created by Cirocco Dunlap, starring Stephanie Hsu and Keke Palmer as alien surgeons Dr. Sleech and Dr. Klak; two seasons, 16 episodes, 2024-2025.

The Second Book

The Second Book most commonly refers to the second volume of Armenian writer Hrant Matevosyan's Yerker (Works), published in Yerevan in 1985, collecting mature novellas including Autumn Sun and Trees.

The Second City

The Second City is an improv and sketch comedy theater founded December 16, 1959, in Chicago's Old Town by Paul Sills, Bernie Sahlins, and Howard Alk; known for its satirical revues, Training Centers, and alumni pipeline to Saturday Night Live.

The Second Coming (poem)

The Second Coming is a 1919 poem by W. B. Yeats, published in 1920 in Michael Robartes and the Dancer, which replaces Christ's return with a "rough beast" and supplies English's most-quoted lines of apocalyptic prophecy.

The Second Coming (The Sopranos)

"The Second Coming" (The Sopranos): season 6, episode 19 of HBO's The Sopranos, aired May 20, 2007; written by David Chase and Terence Winter, directed by Alan Taylor; titled after Yeats's poem, which A.J. Soprano reads before his pool suicide attempt.

The Second Handshake

The Second Handshake (第二次握手) is a Chinese novel by Zhang Yang that circulated as a hand-copied book during the Cultural Revolution and became a bestseller after its 1979 publication.

The Second Mother

The Second Mother (Que Horas Ela Volta?) is Anna Muylaert's 2015 Brazilian comedy-drama about live-in maid Val (Regina Casé), whose daughter Jéssica's arrival in São Paulo upends class hierarchies; Sundance and Berlin prize winner and Brazil's 2016 Oscar submission.

The Second Mrs Tanqueray

The Second Mrs Tanqueray is an 1893 play in four acts by Arthur Wing Pinero about a widower's marriage to a woman with a past, which made a star of Mrs Patrick Campbell.

The Second of May 1808

The Second of May 1808, also known as The Charge of the Mamelukes, is an 1814 oil painting by Francisco de Goya depicting Madrid's uprising against Napoleon's cavalry.

The Second Sex

The Second Sex (Le Deuxième Sexe) is Simone de Beauvoir's 1949 two-volume feminist philosophy work arguing one becomes a woman; censored by the Vatican, cut in its 1953 English translation, foundational to second-wave feminism.

The Second Shepherds' Play

The Second Shepherds' Play, also known as the Secunda Pastorum, is a 15th-century English mystery play from the Towneley collection that joins a comic sheep-stealing plot with the shepherds' visit to Bethlehem.

The Second Wife (1998 film)

The Second Wife (La seconda moglie) is a 1998 Italian comedy-drama by Ugo Chiti, starring Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Lazar Ristovski, and Giorgio Noè; a Sicilian mother marries a Tuscan truck driver and falls for his stepson, premiered at Venice 1998.

The Second World War

The Second World War is Winston Churchill's six-volume memoir of the 1939–1945 war, published in London from 1948 to 1954 and helping earn him the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature.

The Secret (2006 film)

The Secret (2006) is an Australian-American documentary by Rhonda Byrne and Drew Heriot promoting the law of attraction, released as web pay-per-view and DVD, a $3.5M production that spawned a bestseller and legal dispute.

The Secret (Byrne book)

The Secret is a 2006 self-help book by Australian producer Rhonda Byrne that presents the law of attraction, the claim that positive thinking and visualization bring a person's wishes.

The Secret (treasure hunt)

The Secret: A Treasure Hunt, Byron Preiss's 1982 Bantam book, hides 12 ceramic casques across North America via 12 Palencar paintings and 12 verses; three found (Chicago 1983, Cleveland 2004, Boston 2019), nine remain.

The Secret Agent

The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad's 1907 political novel set in 1886 London, follows double agent Adolf Verloc, whose embassy-ordered Greenwich Observatory bombing kills his brother-in-law Stevie; inspired by the 1894 Martial Bourdin case.

The Secret Agent (2025 film)

The Secret Agent (O Agente Secreto) is a 2025 Brazilian political thriller by Kleber Mendonça Filho, starring Wagner Moura as a man on the run in 1977 Recife during the military dictatorship; it won Cannes Best Director and Best Actor and earned four Oscar nominations.

The Secret Circle (TV series)

The Secret Circle is a 2011–2012 CW supernatural teen drama, one season of 22 episodes, adapted from L.J. Smith's witch novels, created by Andrew Miller with Kevin Williamson as executive producer, starring Britt Robertson and Phoebe Tonkin.