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Supergirl (2015) s05e04 – In Plain Sight
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 31, 2019
It took me a while to like Mehcad Brooks’s “Don’t Call Me Jimmy” Olsen. The character’s fairly flat, the show never really let Brooks do much either. He’d always get in the orbit of a controversial topic and then rush through a couple episodes and move on. Let’s not forget the show didn’t read more
All Rise (2019) s01e01 – Pilot
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 31, 2019
I wanted to watch “All Rise” because it’s Simone Missick’s new show. Missick was awesome on “Luke Cage,” figured I’d try it. But you know who else is in “All Rise”? Bullseye from “Daredevil,” Wilson Bethel. They play best friends. She’s a new judge, he’s her ex-fellow district read more
All Rise (2019) s01e03 – Sweet Bird of Truth
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 31, 2019
I’m very curious how this episode went through standards and practices. Was there a version of it where Black bailiff J. Alex Brinson doesn’t give a heartwarming speech about how the sheriff’s department needs to work within the system to fix the system. It’s just after Brinson has approached read more
All Rise (2019) s01e02 – Long Day’s Journey Into ICE
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 31, 2019
Going into this episode, I thought I had the show figured out. It was “‘Major Crimes’ universe,” where white cops could be progressive about gay and trans rights and so on. Still pretty invested in white supremacy, but maybe not as much as usual. And no talking about killer cops. Progressive, read more
All Rise (2019) s01e04 – A View from the Bus
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 31, 2019
Todd Williams shows up for the first scene—he’s top-billed Simone Missick’s husband who’s been MIA most episodes—and gets her off to work. They still don’t have much chemistry together. Even if Missick and Wilson Bethel don’t have romantic chemistry together, they’ve got something. Missick read more
All Rise (2019) s01e05 – Devotees in the Courthouse of Love
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 31, 2019
Nadia Gray’s back this episode, which is surprisingly distinguishing as Gray doesn’t make much impression other than everyone making fun of her name—Ria’s hard for them—and boyfriend Wilson Bethel’s general eye-rolling at her being a supermodel brand influencer. Of course, Bethel doesn’t read more
Blade (1998, Stephen Norrington)
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 31, 2019
Back when the movie came out—on DVD, anyway—I tried watching Blade 1 a couple times. The first time I turned it off before I was twenty minutes in, which used to be a soft rule (give the movie twenty minutes, depending on runtime); I think I gave it until Stephen Dorff showed up, then had to stop. read more
All Rise (2019) s01e01 – Pilot
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 31, 2019
I wanted to watch “All Rise” because it’s Simone Missick’s new show. Missick was awesome on “Luke Cage,” figured I’d try it. But you know who else is in “All Rise”? Bullseye from “Daredevil,” Wilson Bethel. They play best friends. She’s a new judge, he’s her ex-fellow district read more
Supergirl (2015) s05e04 – In Plain Sight
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 31, 2019
It took me a while to like Mehcad Brooks’s “Don’t Call Me Jimmy” Olsen. The character’s fairly flat, the show never really let Brooks do much either. He’d always get in the orbit of a controversial topic and then rush through a couple episodes and move on. Let’s not forget the show didn’t read more
All Rise (2019) s01e03 – Sweet Bird of Truth
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 31, 2019
I’m very curious how this episode went through standards and practices. Was there a version of it where Black bailiff J. Alex Brinson doesn’t give a heartwarming speech about how the sheriff’s department needs to work within the system to fix the system. It’s just after Brinson has approached read more
All Rise (2019) s01e02 – Long Day’s Journey Into ICE
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 31, 2019
Going into this episode, I thought I had the show figured out. It was “‘Major Crimes’ universe,” where white cops could be progressive about gay and trans rights and so on. Still pretty invested in white supremacy, but maybe not as much as usual. And no talking about killer cops. Progressive, read more
All Rise (2019) s01e04 – A View from the Bus
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 31, 2019
Todd Williams shows up for the first scene—he’s top-billed Simone Missick’s husband who’s been MIA most episodes—and gets her off to work. They still don’t have much chemistry together. Even if Missick and Wilson Bethel don’t have romantic chemistry together, they’ve got something. Missick read more
All Rise (2019) s01e05 – Devotees in the Courthouse of Love
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 31, 2019
Nadia Gray’s back this episode, which is surprisingly distinguishing as Gray doesn’t make much impression other than everyone making fun of her name—Ria’s hard for them—and boyfriend Wilson Bethel’s general eye-rolling at her being a supermodel brand influencer. Of course, Bethel doesn’t read more
Star Trek: Discovery (2017) s02e06 – The Sound of Thunder
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 30, 2019
At this point, not even halfway through the second season of “Discovery,” it seems like the only way they’re going to redeem it at all is if they go full absurd. Like the Red Angel, which is actually a time traveling humanoid in an outfit with metal (as in heavy metal) wings. Unless it’s Matt read more
The Shadow of the Tower (1972) s01e09 – Do the Sheep Sin?
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 30, 2019
Continuing the hit streak is this episode, Do the Sheep Sin?, which has King James Maxwell dealing with a protest march. He’s been taxing the hell out of the poor, albeit somewhat unintentionally (he thought he was taxing the rich, they just put it on to the poor), and the poor decide they’re going read more
The Shadow of the Tower (1972) s01e10 – The Man Who Never Was
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 30, 2019
I was unprepared for The Man Who Never Was, even acknowledging the anthology nature of the show, which has had great successes, could also have great failures. And the episode is most definitely a failure. But because of casting. It’s a strange episode in general—lots of flashbacks, lots of seventi read more
The Shadow of the Tower (1972) s01e12 – The Fledgling
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 30, 2019
I really had no idea how far “Shadow” could drop, did I? I mean, The Fledgling manages to be the worst episode of the series (with only one left) and with Richard Warwick in it but nowhere near the worst part. Though, to be fair, Warwick is in a much reduced role compared to the last two episodes. read more
The Shadow of the Tower (1972) s01e11 – The Strange Shapes of Reality
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 30, 2019
Oh, no, Richard Warwick is back. And now we’re getting the story of his time just imprisoned, because the king (James Maxwell) pities him so won’t just execute him. Executing him means taking him seriously as a threat to the crown and Warwick can’t be seen as a threat. And so on and so forth. read more
The Shadow of the Tower (1972) s01e13 – The King Without a Face
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 30, 2019
This episode is a direct continuation of the last, but from James Maxwell’s king’s perspective. At least at the start, tragedies quickly start changing it up and Queen Norma West ends up with the most to do… then the episode brings Maxwell in and gives them a joint focus, then it shifts to Maxwell read more
The Flash (2014) s06e04 – There Will Be Blood
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 30, 2019
It’s a big sad episode, with all the men going through their pre-Crisis sads about Barry (Grant Gustin) dying in just six weeks. Cisco (Carlos Valdes) is sad so he steals the super-cure they’re supposed to be stealing to save villain Sendhil Ramamurthy, who is stunningly bad at the acting thing. read more