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The Witcher (2019) s01e05 – Bottled Appetites
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 24, 2019
This episode has storylines converging, something I really thought they’d wait to do until the season finale cliffhanger. Instead, Henry Cavill and Joey Batey run across Anya Chalotra in their quest for a cure to Batey’s magically inflamed throat. The episode opens with Cavill trying to find a djin read more
The Witcher (2019) s01se03 – Betrayer Moon
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 23, 2019
I didn’t even realize Freya Allen’s princess on the run character was missing from the episode until she shows up for the cliffhanger setup. Because Anya Chalotra’s B plot is so compelling; also Henry Cavill’s A plot. The monster plot is decent this episode. But Chalotra’s story is all about read more
Clue: Candlestick (2019) #1
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 23, 2019
Dash Shaw’s style is perfect for Clue: Candlestick. His cartooning is through, detailed, and loose. His figures seem to expand and contract as needed, when they’re pontificating they seem big, when they’re recoiling they seem small. Works with them being noisy and not as well. The comic opens read more
The Witcher (2019) s01e04 – Of Banquets, Bastards and Burials
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 23, 2019
Is tricking a viewer with time periods called a Westworlding it yet? “The Witcher” does a soft Westworld this episode; initially I thought they were just cheap with the CGI establishing shots—Henry Cavill and returning sidekick Joey Batey go to a royal wedding auction (we get a little about the read more
Chasing Echoes (2019)
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 22, 2019
The most perplexing thing about Chasing Echoes isn’t how it got made—there’s a writer, there’s an artist—but how it got published. Specifically, the market research saying there are people who are going to buy this thing. If it weren’t for the swearing and the women always bonding over the read more
Gowanus, Brooklyn (2004, Ryan Fleck)
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 22, 2019
Gowanus, Brooklyn is quite possibly the best you could hope for early aughts digital video short. Director Fleck and cinematographer Chris Scarafile know the limitations of the medium. Some of those limitations are seemingly self-imposed—if a scene isn’t obviously handheld, it’s because Scarafile read more
The Witcher (2019) s01e01 – The End’s Beginning
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 22, 2019
There are so many names to learn in this episode. There are at least seven principals and then there’s a bunch of supporting cast and then everyone they’re information dumping about. “Witcher” is all about the exposition. Except when it’s not and then so long as it’s not about titular character read more
The Witcher (2019) s01e02 – Four Marks
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 22, 2019
Another episode another main character… this time introducing peasant girl Anya Chalotra, who’s got magical powers. She’s got a spinal birth abnormality, leading to a pretty big hump and something going on with her jaw. She’s hated by all—including her father (who’s half elf and so it’s read more
All Rise (2019) s01e11 – The Joy From Oz
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 21, 2019
Does the Los Angeles court really have a bring your kids to work day? I’m less engaged with the dramatics of “All Rise,” which has Wilson Bethel hemming and hawing over whether or not to help dad Tony Denison with his upcoming trial or just abandon him and Simone Missick having to defend herself read more
Watchmen (2019) s01e06 – This Extraordinary Being
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 21, 2019
If it were my choice, I’d stop watching Watchmen: The HBO Event Series with this episode. Unfortunately I’m watching it as a social thing so I can’t get out of it. I suppose I could sleep through the rest, but then I wouldn’t be able to shit on it in a post. Because this episode is where Watchmen read more
Eve Stranger (2019) #1
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 21, 2019
Eve Stranger feels a little retro. Lead Eve is a woman who only can remember the last week before her memory resets. She’s an assassin or something. Some kind of mercenary. Her mission this issue is shockingly unimportant; the story skips from her getting normalized in her situation and to the mis read more
Nobody’s Fool (1994, Robert Benton)
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 20, 2019
Nobody’s Fool takes place during a particularly busy December for protagonist Paul Newman. He’s got a lot going on all at once, but mostly the reappearance of son Dylan Walsh and family. They’re in town at the beginning for Thanksgiving, but Walsh’s marriage is in a troubled state—we’re read more
The Mandalorian (2019) s01e07 – The Reckoning
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 20, 2019
This episode feels like old home week—even though “The Mandalorian” is only on episode seven, it’s been in the weeds for three episodes so even the promise of Carl Weathers (who’s no better than before, though also no worse) at least reminds of when the show didn’t disappoint. Better, though read more
Lodger (2018) #2
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 20, 2019
I may have already read this issue of Lodger. I thought I’d only read (and mostly forgotten) the first issue, but this one seems very familiar. Going into it without having read the first issue recently and not really remembering the setup—it’s about some white guy named Dante who travels around read more
The Stringbags (2020)
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 19, 2019
When I saw the announcement for The Stringbags, after the obvious glee at a new Garth Ennis comic, the publisher stood out; publisher Dead Reckoning is the graphic novel imprint of the U.S. Naval Institute’s Naval Institute Press. So war comics but for war history enthusiasts, which is about the o read more
Superstore (2015) s01e06 – Secret Shopper
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 19, 2019
This episode very nicely balances the sitcom potential of corporate sending a secret shopper to spy on the cast as they work with some character development on leads America Ferrera and Ben Feldman. Feldman has just aced a store policy exam, which he can’t stop bragging about, aggravating superviso read more
C.H.U.D. (1984, Douglas Cheek)
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 18, 2019
The only name I recognized during C.H.U.D.’s opening titles—after the more obvious names in the cast—was casting director Bonnie Timmermann. Timmermann’s an A tier casting director; C.H.U.D. is a B movie with a lower A movie cast (I mean, John Heard and Daniel Stern are both capable of fine read more
Black Hammer: Age of Doom (2018) #8
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 18, 2019
I’m not sure if I’m caught up on Black Hammer: Age of Doom. I might be one issue behind. I know the big reveal, but I don’t know if I missed one since. This issue is apparently a new arc—not really a jumping on point because, even though it’s accessible to new readers (the cast is starting read more
Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen (2019) #1
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 17, 2019
Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen has fairly unsurpassable creator pedigree. Steve Lieber’s mainstream superhero outings are always visually delightful since he’s able to infuse a bit of Silver Age glee into his otherwise hyper-realistic (but still very artful) style. There’s this great page where read more
All Rise (2019) s01e10 – Dripsy
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 17, 2019
Lots of guest stars this episode—Tony Denison, Ileana Douglas (who brings so much energy to the show she ought to be added as a regular), familiar-faced Brian Howe, and then Dina Meyer for a scene. The episode’s about Simone Missick having to switch courtrooms due to a leak and then protect the read more