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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Ginger Snaps (2000, John Fawcett)
The Stop Button Posted by on May 5, 2020
Ginger Snaps is almost there. Karen Walton’s script is almost there, Fawcett’s direction is almost there, Emily Perkins’s lead performance is almost there, Katharine Isabelle’s is… okay, it’s not almost there by the end, when Isabelle’s acting through latex makeup, but she’s good in read more
Dead to Me (2019) s01e02 – Maybe I’m Crazy
The Stop Button Posted by on May 5, 2020
Oh, the secrets. So many secrets. Linda Cardellini has secrets from Christina Applegate—the scene where Applegate tells Cardellini she’s a saint and Cardellini says something like, “you’ll come to find out I’m the Devil,” is a little too on the nose. But then the show has its secrets too. read more
Frasier (1993) s01e21 – Travels with Martin
The Stop Button Posted by on May 5, 2020
This episode is Linda Morris and Vic Rauseo’s first as the credited writers. Most of the show’s teams as men and women couples; I wonder if it’s intentional or coincidental. But I didn’t catch the writer credits again this time and was curious because Travels With Martin is a quintessential read more
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012) s02e04 – Deadweight
The Stop Button Posted by on May 5, 2020
One upbeat (enough) “Miss Fisher’s” was apparently all they could take because this one is a very, very sad one. It’s all about a boxing troupe and the damage done on the community because of it. The community in question is the young poor men who spend their time in street gangs. Constable read more
Rogue One (2016, Gareth Edwards)
The Stop Button Posted by on May 4, 2020
Sadly, the Writers Guild of America does not publish their arbitrations for writing credits, because the one on Rogue One has got to be a doozy; I desperately want to know how they go to this script. Did it actually start as a video game or did director Edwards really have no idea how to do action read more
Frasier (1993) s01e20 – Fortysomething
The Stop Button Posted by on May 4, 2020
I immediately recognized Reba McEntire as the caller this episode, which is strange because I’m pretty sure I based it entirely on who they could be having as a guest in 1994 with an accent like McEntire’s. Though I suppose it’s possible Tremors is burnt deep into the grey matter. McEntire’s read more
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012) s02e03 – Dead Man’s Chest
The Stop Button Posted by on May 4, 2020
Last season, “Miss Fisher’s” went out of its way not to have detective Essie Davis happen into mysteries solely because she’s a rich White lady in the 1920s. Though… I mean, it sort of did. But this episode makes no attempt to contrive a reason to get Davis involved in the Julia Blake’s read more
Bad Education (2019, Cory Finley)
The Stop Button Posted by on May 3, 2020
Bad Education is the story of a junior in high school (Geraldine Viswanathan) uncovering the biggest school embezzlement case in United States history, something like $12 million dollars. Only it’s not Viswanathan’s movie. It’s Hugh Jackman’s movie, which makes sense because Hugh Jackman’s read more
The Enforcer (1976, James Fargo)
The Stop Button Posted by on May 2, 2020
The Enforcer is cheap in all the wrong ways, both in terms of budget and narrative, which probably ought to be clear in the first scene, when the movie opens on a butt shot of Jocelyn Jones in Daisy Dukes. She’s hitchhiking but it’s all a setup for the villain reveal—Jones is in an ostensible read more