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Star Trek: Lower Decks :: Mugato, Gumato
The latest episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks is called 'Mugato, Gumato', which is a reference to the creatures that appear in this episode but also the amusing nonsense of the original TOS episode. There, the creatures were written one ...
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American Horror Story Double Feature: Red Tide :: Thirst
Despite the warning from Belle and Austin, bodies are piling up in P-Town and the new Chief of Police is getting suspicious, especially with all the newcomers in town. Chief Burleson pays a visit to Harry and family at the ...
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Riverdale :: The Night Gallery
The target audience for Riverdale is much younger than myself, so it's unlikely they have any clue what this week's episode was referencing. But when I was a kid in the 1970s, Rod Serling hosted an anthology series (post-The Twilight ...
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What If…? :: What If… Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?
The latest episode of What If...? is called 'What If… Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands' and it shows a level of destruction we’ve only technically seen in Loki (as in that show multiple universes are destroyed ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #58 :: September 1•7
It's the first full week of September, and in most cases over the last 100 years, there are films released over the Labor Day weekend in the US. In the early part of the century, before there was such a ...
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Chapelwaite :: Memento Mori
Even with All Hallows activities this week, it was still another slow-building episode of Chapelwaite ... but I suppose that's what happens when you take a short story and stretch it out to 10 hour-long episodes (and completely re-write the ...
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TV by the Decade :: Aug 29•Sept 4
With a new Fall season approaching, some of the networks began getting a jump on things in four different decades with, among others, the launch of a new soap opera, a British animation import, a solo show for a classic ...
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Dynasty :: The British Are Coming
Well there was another crazy time jump this week as somehow between the previous episode and this one, Fallon has launched her shopping network and it's already the Number 2 shopping channel on TV. But of course that isn't good ...
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Candyman Review :: Candyman offers sweet scares and social commentary
This review is going to be as spoiler-free as possible but one potential (or not) spoiler cannot not be revealed, but I don't think it's that big a deal if you know a major plot point ahead of seeing the ...
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Ted Lasso :: The Signal
The latest episode of Ted Lasso is called ‘The Signal’ and thankfully I do get it this week too -- it refers to the middle finger signal the coaches give to Jaime to have him initiate being awful -- for ...
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The Good Fight :: And the violence spread…
The fifth season finale of The Good Fight was like a runaway train, with situations escalating and increasingly going completely out of control, from the surprise arrival of TSR Laurie to the surprise arrest of Oscar Rivi that culminates in ...
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Star Trek: Lower Decks :: We’ll Always Have Tom Paris
The latest episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks is called 'We’ll Always Have Tom Paris', but although it’s an obvious reference to the famed rapscallion Tom Paris from Star Trek: Voyager, the dude only appears in a bit of the ...
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