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Dead to Me (2019) s01e08 – Try to Stop Me
The Stop Button Posted by on May 11, 2020
Early on in the episode, there’s this shot looking through the skylight at Judy (Linda Cardellini) after she’s had a fainting sell and friends Christina Applegate and Brandon Scott have brought her home. They were out investigating the list of 1966 Mustang owners Scott procured (Applegate’s husband read more
Frasier (1993) s01e24 – My Coffee with Niles
The Stop Button Posted by on May 11, 2020
My Coffee with Niles is a concept episode victory lap for the first season, scripted by two of the three creators (David Angell and Peter Casey), with James Burrows directing, set entirely in the coffee shop where Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) and Niles (David Hyde Pierce) regularly meet to have coffee read more
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012) s02e08 – The Blood of Juana the Mad
The Stop Button Posted by on May 11, 2020
Depending on the setting, there are certain predictable reactions from Miss Fisher (Essie Davis) as well as from “Miss Fisher,” the show; for instance, this episode takes place at a medical university—where Dr. Mac (Tammy Macintosh) teaches—and involves the rich male students (and the male teachers read more
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006) s01e01
The Stop Button Posted by on May 11, 2020
I wish I were taking a rhetoric class so I could write a paper on whether “Studio 60” aged badly or poorly. I’ve never taken rhetoric and I’ve also never been great at first draft word choice so I’m not sure if that joke’s accurate but I will say it’s about as funny as anything on “Studio read more
Upload (2020) s01e01 – Welcome to Upload
The Stop Button Posted by on May 11, 2020
“Upload” takes place in a mundane future dystopia where Bloomingdales runs liquor stores and Panera Bread was able to acquire Facebook. The most oddly prescient bit has a bunch of people on the packed commuter train wearing masks. Worker drones take the train it seems like. The middle class and read more
Dead to Me (2019) s01e07 – I Can Handle It
The Stop Button Posted by on May 10, 2020
In a somewhat incredible turn, the episode opens with Christina Applegate and investigator—I guess—Brandon Scott going to cop Diana Maria Riva and telling her about the evidence they found. Riva doesn’t seem to care much about the evidence and seems ready to throw it away; it’s incredible Applegate read more
Solo (2018, Ron Howard)
The Stop Button Posted by on May 10, 2020
Solo: A Star Wars Story is juvenile, which might be what manages to save it. It’s got nothing but problems—a troubled production (director Howard took over from fired “executive producers” Christopher Miller and Phil Lord and shot seventy-percent of what’s in the film), an uninspired screenplay read more
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012) s02e07 – Blood at the Wheel
The Stop Button Posted by on May 9, 2020
Even if the subplot of this episode weren’t Nathan Page deciding he can’t remain friendly (friendly plus) with Essie Davis given her dangerous lifestyle and isn’t going to ask her to knock it off because Page’s non-sexism is one of the most winning parts of his personality… it’d still be read more
Dead to Me (2019) s01e06 – Oh My God
The Stop Button Posted by on May 9, 2020
After Christina Applegate opens the episode self-identifying as an atheist, I guess I turned on the religiosity radar. Or did I? Because the Christian imagery is everywhere this episode. Woo-loving spiritual White lady Linda Cardellini takes the cross she and Applegate find at the dead husband’s ac read more
Frasier (1993) s01e23 – Frasier Crane’s Day Off
The Stop Button Posted by on May 9, 2020
The episode’s another superlative one—Chuck Ranberg and Anne Flett-Giordano’s script is exceptional, with a bunch of great detail (everyone in the cast has something going on this episode, all of it somewhat related to Kelsey Grammer coming down with a man cold)—but it’s also got the distinction read more
What We Do in the Shadows (2019) s02e05 – Colin’s Promotion
The Stop Button Posted by on May 8, 2020
“Shadows” does a full Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) showcase episode this season (much more of a Proksch-centric episode than the one last season when he got a love interest). Last time he had to share with the love interest, this time it’s all Proksch. He gets a promotion at work and discove read more
Dead to Me (2019) s01e05 – I’ve Gotta Get Away
The Stop Button Posted by on May 8, 2020
This episode’s set an indeterminate time since the previous, with Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini poolside in Palm Springs, taking it easy. Except they’re on a retreat with their grief group—the one other group members we see in the episode are the leader, Pastor Wayne (Keong Sim) and read more
The Hustler (1961, Robert Rossen)
The Stop Button Posted by on May 8, 2020
It’s an hour into The Hustler before the film offers any real information about protagonist Paul Newman. We’ve seen Newman and mentor slash manager Myron McCormick pool hustle their way across the North American continent, getting Newman to New York City so he can play the best pool player in the read more
Dead to Me (2019) s01e04 – I Can’t Go Back
The Stop Button Posted by on May 7, 2020
James Marsden’s character loses all appeal when—in the morning after scene with he and Linda Cardellini—he starts listening to his White man self-actualization podcast. Then he does his workout on the trampoline and you wonder just how Marsden came up with his characterization. Did he get to see read more
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012) s02e06 – Marked for Murder
The Stop Button Posted by on May 7, 2020
Confession: I had no idea what they were talking about with footy. I assumed Australians played football—as in association football—but it looks like a big American football. My wife thought they were talking about rugby. But apparently there’s Aussie rules? Or footy? The episode’s about two read more
Legends of Tomorrow (2016) s05e11 – Ship Broken
The Stop Button Posted by on May 6, 2020
It’s a good episode with a great twist in the third act but it’s not the episode the cold open promises. We’re supposed to be getting pyromaniac, patricidal supervillain turned time-traveling adventurer and romance novelist Mick (Dominic Purcell) bringing daughter Mina Sundwall onto the time machin read more
Frasier (1993) s01e22 – Author, Author
The Stop Button Posted by on May 6, 2020
It’s another great episode. As in, great example of what a multicam sitcom can do. What’s particularly interesting is Author, Author is the first episode credited to writers Don Seigel (not to be confused with Don Siegel, insert Dirty Harry reference here) and Jerry Perzigian. James Burrows directs read more
Dead to Me (2019) s01e03 – It’s All My Fault
The Stop Button Posted by on May 6, 2020
Even more secrets! Not only does Christina Applegate find out something she didn’t know—and not Linda Cardellini’s secret, even though Cardellini puts her secret out into the world in the form of a confession in a balloon—to send up to Heaven to Applegate’s dead husband, along with the family read more
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012) s02e05 – Murder à la Mode
The Stop Button Posted by on May 6, 2020
It’s kind of a Dot (Ashleigh Cummings) episode. At least more of a Dot episode than the show’s ever had before. Not only does she get a real subplot with beau Hugo Johnstone-Burt, who’s very taken with the outfits he sees around a fancy dressmaker’s (at least the ones modeled on half-French read more
All Rise (2019) s01e21 – Dancing at Los Angeles
The Stop Button Posted by on May 5, 2020
Dancing at Los Angeles is an admirable effort from “All Rise,” cast and crew, but it’s not a particularly good forty minutes of television. There are a couple big parallels between the episode, a “Coronavirus shelter-at-home” special episode with the cast filming in their homes in character, read more