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Devs (2020) s01e08
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 22, 2020
With “Devs,” writer, director, and creator Alex Garland manages to be at least twenty-one years late to be original with what he’s going for. Though he’s also apparently in the zeitgeist because the big twist is also another show this year. Does he bring anything new to the table? Not really? read more
Doctor Who (2005) s02e03 – School Reunion
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 22, 2020
They did a CGI werewolf episode, so why not a CGI vampire episode—except the vampires are aliens who can’t really turn into humans except Anthony Head (get it, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” non-vampire, playing a vampire, get it—also, he plays the headmaster of a school; headmaster; get it). read more
Devs (2020) s01e07
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 21, 2020
Lots of “surprises” this episode as far as how the show’s going to go into its final episode. Like three deaths surprises, as writer, director, and creator Alex Garland starts paring down the cast to something more manageable. The funniest thing about the death scenes is how anticlimactic they read more
Devs (2020) s01e06
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 20, 2020
This episode introduces “dumb Jamie,” which is writer, director, and show creator Alex Garland’s way of making Sonoya Mizuno clearly smarter than Jin Ha. It just requires Ha be really dense all of a sudden. Even though he just got done doing the superhero move of breaking Mizuno out of a mental read more
Frasier (1993) s02e08 – Adventures in Paradise (1)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 20, 2020
Remember when we didn’t see TV show episodes all the time? What were they called—electronic programming guides (thanks, Google). So watching Adventures in Paradise: Part 1 in fall 1994, you weren’t wondering why it was called part one. The episode’s got a somewhat strange pacing as writers Ken read more
Space Force (2020)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 20, 2020
“Space Force” | Season one, 10 episodes | Netflix, 2020 While comedic sitcoms usually take a while to find their footing on the way to a successful vehicle, the creators of “Space Force” seem to be striding the fence here in their pursuit of a balance between comedy and darker social read more
Frasier (1993) s02e07 – The Candidate
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 19, 2020
I missed the writing credit on this episode and I’m glad I did. Seeing it’s Chuck Ranberg and Anne Flett-Giordano is icing. Candidate’s the team’s first script this season (they did a bunch last season) and it’s great. It’s also a bit risqué for a network sitcom as far as politics goes, read more
Devs (2020) s01e05
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 19, 2020
So last episode ended on two pretty significant cliffhangers for intrepid hero Sonoya Mizuno and her loyal sidekick Jin Ha. This episode opens with a “stylish” composite shot where involuntarily psychiatrically held Mizuno remembers life in her apartment with ex Ha as well as recently deceased boyf read more
The Wrong Missy (2020, Tyler Spindel)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 19, 2020
The Wrong Missy | Directed by Tyler Spindel | Netflix, 2020 Alright, I’ll come clean early and confess a weakness for rom coms. Especially after a few beers, and featuring lively young talents. When I saw the commercial for this one evening while pursing Netflix series, the presence of Lauren Lapku read more
Teknophage (1995) #1-6
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 18, 2020
Let’s see how long it takes me to describe Teknophage. Our reality is just one of an infinite (I think) number of realities, a multiverse woven together through the will of one single creature—the Teknophage, or Mister Henry Phage. He’s a giant dinosaur. On his planet, through mutation, he became read more
Devs (2020) s01e04
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 18, 2020
I believe the technical term for what writer, director, and show creator Alex Garland does with the “cold open.” Artsy-fartsy. I mean, it’s not bad or anything, it’s just blandly stylized. Though in a somewhat different way than usual. It doesn’t have that “compare it to Kubrick” desperation read more
Doctor Who (2005) s02e02 – Tooth and Claw
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 18, 2020
Tooth and Claw opens in nineteenth century Scotland, where a bunch of royals get attacked by a group of monks who know wire fu. Is it good wire fu? No. But it’s odd enough to get one interested and then it’s only a few minutes before David Tennant and Billie Piper find themselves in the same castle read more
Pulp (2020)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 17, 2020
Pulp is good. I would’ve liked it a lot more with a different ending, instead of the same ending writer Ed Brubaker has used at least once before—but it’s such a distinctive, painfully obvious a reveal it sticks with me a decade after I first read it in Criminal. Though maybe he’s just trying read more
Frasier (1993) s02e06 – The Botched Language of Cranes
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 17, 2020
There’s a really bad line in this episode—written by Joe Keenan, back after a big success with his first script a few episodes ago—about Kelsey Grammer not being willing to emcee a Catholic Church charity event but willing to do the “Miss Teenage Seattle” one. So. Ew. Nineties. Also it comes read more
Doctor Who (2005) s02e01 – New Earth
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 17, 2020
I just realized—while I was watching New Earth, which aired almost four months after the Christmas special, it never occurred to me how weird it is the show doesn’t try to establish Billie Piper’s relationship with the new Doctor (David Tennant). They have a bunch of scenes together but most of read more
Devs (2020) s01e03
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 16, 2020
About three-quarters through this episode, when I was wondering if Alex Garland had indeed both written and directed this episode as well because it sure doesn’t have as much of the directorial flourish as the two previous episodes, I also realized the show’s closed its open questions. Three-quarte read more
Doctor Who (2005) s01e13 – The Parting of the Ways
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 14, 2020
This episode just ought to be called Deusest Ex Machina because it turns out everything this season has been building towards is a giant reset for the series. Which does make sense, given the Doctor gets reborn whenever they recast, but it completely dismisses the idea of Christopher Eccleston havi read more
Personal Foul (1987, Ted Lichtenfeld)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 13, 2020
My initial impulse as I sat through the droning minutes of Personal Foul was to give the film a pass. Not give it any stars, but a pass. Also, when I say droning, I mean droning. The film’s music is a set of three or four songs by folk singer Greg Brown (and friends) on repeat. One of them even has read more
Devs (2020) s01e02
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 12, 2020
The start of the episode introduces some more of the Devs at work—there’s also a concerning assault in a garage—before getting to Nick Offerman’s Stallman-bearded tech giant telling lead Sonoya Mizuno she’ll have a job and secure income forever. Her boyfriend lighting himself on fire in front read more
Ashfall (2019, Kim Byung-seo and Lee Hae-jun)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 12, 2020
I don’t know how long it would’ve taken me to see Ashfall if it hadn’t been for a blogathon. Maybe never. While I’m a Ma Dong-seok fan because how can you not be, I’ve always been lukewarm on top-billed Lee Byung-hun. Lee’s not actually the lead; the lead is Ha Jung-woo, who I don’t follow. read more