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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
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
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
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
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
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
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