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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
Doctor Who (2005) s01e12 – Bad Wolf
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 12, 2020
At least it’s got Joe Ahearne directing. I mean, it’s not terrible. Guest star Jo Joyner is a nice “romantic” interest for Christopher Eccleston, which is this standard thing where Eccleston and Rose Piper go to some time period and don’t spend any time together and Eccleston has this chaste read more
What We Do in the Shadows (2019) s02e10 – Théâtre des Vampires
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 11, 2020
Something about the episode having three credited writers (Sam Johnson, Stefani Robinson, Paul Simms) foretold it being a grandiose season finale. I can’t remember there being another episode with three writers. It’s got to be big. And it’s big. It just takes a while to get there. The episode read more
Defending Jacob (2020) s01e08 – After
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 10, 2020
Did you ever see the movie, Before and After? I haven’t. I haven’t read the book either. So I’m not sure if the dad covering up the teenager murdering someone or the mom covering up the teenager murdering someone talks about how it’s “before and after” when it comes to the murdering teen. read more
Devs (2020) s01e01
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 9, 2020
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a director more desperately want to be compared to Stanley Kubrick than “Devs” creator, writer, and director Alex Garland. The show’s a stylistic mash-up of 2001 and The Shining, maybe with some Eyes Wide Shut thrown in (for the street scenes). It takes place in read more
Defending Jacob (2020) s01e07 – Job
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 8, 2020
Finally the start of the courtroom episodes, which are apparently going to be two because it’s the second-to-last episode. It opens with a flashback to Pablo Schreiber with a goatee getting advice from—oh, look, they were friendly once—Chris Evans. Evans gives Schreiber a list of things to work read more
Defending Jacob (2020) s01e06 – Wishful Thinking
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 7, 2020
Last episode they were at like seven weeks from the trial, now it’s ten days before the trial. Apparently nothing interesting happened in five weeks, which is believable given “Defending Jacob.” The episode opens with Chris Evans and lawyer Cherry Jones looking at the dead kid’s cellphone, which read more
Nailbiter Returns (2020) #1
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 6, 2020
I jumped shift halfway through the original Nailbiter series, so I think I missed the part about the serial killer antihero (the Nailbiter) having a daughter with the hero of the series. It’s been so long I can’t remember if the first series felt like a pitch for McFarlane Toys, but Nailbiter Retur read more
Defending Jacob (2020) s01e05 – Visitors
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 6, 2020
The episode opens with Chris Evans driving to see his father in prison to get a DNA swab so they can test for the murder gene intercut with the middle school graduation Jaeden Martell is missing. The school choir is singing Circle Game by Joni Mitchell, which is a great song but a very odd choice. read more
Doctor Who (2005) s01e11 – Boom Town
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 5, 2020
This episode is easily writer Russell T. Davies’s best so far. Maybe it helps he’s got Joe Ahearne directing, who’s even able to weather the Noel Clarke storm. Though it’s a new Noel Clarke. A moody one who’s not hanging on Billie Piper’s every word hoping for a kiss. In fact, they suggest read more
What We Do in the Shadows (2019) s02e09 – Witches
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 4, 2020
This episode is the “What We Do in the Shadows” equivalent of a dick and fart joke episode. Literally in the former’s case—the episode’s about a coven of witches kidnapping Laszlo (Matt Berry) because they want his immortal seed. Turns out they use vampire semen to stay young. Witches, I mean. read more
Doctor Who (2005) s01e10 – The Doctor Dances
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 4, 2020
It’s a disappointing conclusion. It’s not a bad episode, but it’s a fairly obvious, kind of silly finish to the much stronger first episode. Partially because the show never really finds its footing with Christopher Eccleston and John Barrowman, who are now in a pissing contest for a number of read more
Defending Jacob (2020) s01e04 – Damage Control
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 4, 2020
The episode opens unironically with Michelle Dockery going to the grocery store before it opens at 6 a.m. and waiting to go in and be alone while shopping while Chris Evans does the same thing… only with the swimming pool. Makes me wonder if the Dockery character is such a non-entity in the William read more
Doctor Who (2005) s01e09 – The Empty Child
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 3, 2020
It’s a really creepy episode. Like, really creepy. Writer Steven Moffat comes up with a fantastic “villain,” this little kid in a gas mask who calls out, “Mummy,” over and over again. And then when he touches you, you get infected with something and eventually turn into a gas mask covered read more
Legends of Tomorrow (2016) s05e15 – Swan Thong
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 3, 2020
I sometimes forget “Legends of Tomorrow” is at its best when it’s completely unconcerned with continuity. It’s a fun, heart-y, and then time travel time travel show. I went into this season finale worried how they were going to wrap things up in one episode after Greek Fates Sarah Strange, Joanna read more
Defending Jacob (2020) s01e03 – Poker Faces
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 3, 2020
I am a fan of both Chris Evans and Michelle Dockery. I’m not a fan of them together but, individually, I am a fan. Though, sadly—and “Defending Jacob” proves it—Evans is not working with the right directors in the right projects. He comes off in this thing like a not-fun period Dennis Quaid read more
Frasier (1993) s02e05 – Duke’s, We Hardly Knew Ye
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 3, 2020
Linda Morris and Vic Rauseo write this one, making it the first episode of the season to have season writers back (credited anyway), and they go in for the laughs from the start. We get Peri Gilpin on a chocolate hunt—leading to a fantastic rant about Raisinets—before David Hyde Pierce shows up read more