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Frasier (1993) s02e03 – The Matchmaker
The Stop Button Posted by on May 18, 2020
Being cishet, it’s not my place to say whether The Matchmaker has aged well. It seems to have aged well. The episode, guest-starring Eric Lutes as Kesley Grammer’s new boss, who happens to be gay and thinks Grammer is into him (because Peri Gilpin lets him think it, as she’s mad Grammer viciously read more
Dead to Me (2019) s02e03 – You Can’t Live Like This
The Stop Button Posted by on May 18, 2020
Not only is the writing better this season—Cara DiPaolo this episode—but the direction is a major improvement as well. Tamra Davis directs this episode (Liza Johnson did the first two) and Davis has a whole bunch of experience. No more stupid portentous angles this season. I imagine the notes on read more
Frasier (1993) s02e02 – The Unkindest Cut of All
The Stop Button Posted by on May 17, 2020
First yay, Lily Tomlin as caller cameo. Second yay, writer Dave Hackel (a seasoned sitcom vet who only will end up writing this one episode) knows how to give Peri Gilpin some great material. Very different from last season—she’s not desperate here, she’s just enthusiastically sexually active. read more
Dead to Me (2019) s02e02 – Where Have You Been
The Stop Button Posted by on May 17, 2020
How’s “Dead to Me” going to keep James Marsden in the cast when his character, Steve, has apparently absconded to Mexico following Linda Cardellini turning him in for money laundering? Well, luckily the creators of “Dead to Me” have seen “The Book Group” too, and James Marsden has a twin read more
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012) s03e01 – Death Defying Feats
The Stop Button Posted by on May 17, 2020
“Miss Fisher’s” season three premiered almost a year and a half after the second season concluded, so the opening run-through—confirming returning cast members and breaking the show’s usual murder sans Miss Fisher intro—makes sense. Ashleigh Cummings is at a magic show with Travis McMahon read more
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012) s02e13 – Murder Under the Mistletoe
The Stop Button Posted by on May 16, 2020
Murder Under the Mistletoe is the “Miss Fisher’s” Christmas (in July) special I obviously needed but didn’t know I needed. The episode opens with Essie Davis taking the girls—Ashleigh Cummings, Miriam Margolyes, Tammy Macintosh—to a ski lodge; Southern Hemisphere, snowy summers. But when read more
Dead to Me (2019) s02e01 – You Know What You Did
The Stop Button Posted by on May 16, 2020
Maybe the first half of the episode is following up from last season’s cliffhanger. The second half of the episode is then trying to get “Dead to Me” to a place where the show can go on. There’s been a seismic change to the relationship between Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini, a seismic read more
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959, Edward D. Wood Jr.)
The Stop Button Posted by on May 16, 2020
There’s not a lot to say about Plan 9 from Outer Space. It’s comically inept on almost every level—the uncredited sound editor (unless it’s also director Wood, who wrote, produced, and edited) does all right. The chirping crickets in the graveyard as the cast mugs their way through an alien read more
What We Do in the Shadows (2019) s02e06 – On the Run
The Stop Button Posted by on May 15, 2020
In addition to being the most Matt Berry episode of “Shadows” ever, this episode also has the best Mark Hamill performance since… 1983? 1980? He’s only in the episode maybe five minutes so it’s hard to compare with the Original Trilogy or Big Red One. Hamill’s another vampire, one who Berry read more
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012) s02e12 – Unnatural Habits
The Stop Button Posted by on May 15, 2020
The episode opens with Hugo Johnstone-Burt and Ashleigh Cummings on their day off, Johnstone-Burt in his civvies somehow clashing with Cummings in her regular clothes; they’re fishing and dreaming of their honeymoon. Rude awakening when they discover a dead body in the water. Even ruder awakening read more
Pennies from Heaven (1981, Herbert Ross)
The Stop Button Posted by on May 15, 2020
Pennies from Heaven is about how being a woman—particularly in the 1930s—is awful because you exist entirely for male consumption. If not sexually, then as production. The film’s supposed to be about how life’s just unfair for dreamers, in this case lead Steve Martin, who’s just trying to read more
Frasier (1993) s02e01 – Slow Tango in South Seattle
The Stop Button Posted by on May 14, 2020
“Frasier” went out on a high point and returns for its new season strong and assured—with a new writer to the series, Martin Weiss, and James Burrows’s ably directing as always. After a quick phone call to the show from James Spader, we get to the main plot. Or we get introduced to the main read more
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012) s02e11 – Dead Air
The Stop Button Posted by on May 14, 2020
It’s a pure delight episode of “Miss Fisher’s,” outside the murders and murderer, obviously, with Essie Davis and company going to hang out at a radio station in the pre-Golden Age of Radio. The format has caught on—especially with Ashleigh Cummings, who is the one who gets Davis involved read more
Signs (2002, M. Night Shyamalan)
The Stop Button Posted by on May 14, 2020
It’s impossible to overstate what a profoundly, risibly bad movie Shyamalan has made with Signs. As the end credits started rolling, after the most disappointing “epilogue” Shyamalan could’ve come up with—it’s not just disappointing, it’s also pointless (pointless is the probably the best read more
Legends of Tomorrow (2016) s05e12 – Freaks and Greeks
The Stop Button Posted by on May 13, 2020
And, now, in the “they all can’t be winners” category, we have Freaks and Greeks, which sends the Legends to Hudson University to steal a chalice from a frat. It’s not a frat in 1979. It’s a frat in 2020, run by special guest star Drew Ray Tanner; he’s Greek party god Dionysus, who’s read more
Dead to Me (2019) s01e10 – You Have To Go
The Stop Button Posted by on May 13, 2020
This season finale is a trip. And not in a good way. Though I guess Geeta Patel directing probably saves it from being any worse, no matter how insipid writers Liz Feldman and Abe Sylvia’s plot points get. Like when forty-one year-old Linda Cardellini, who’s all spiritual and worked in a retirement read more
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012) s02e10 – Death on the Vine
The Stop Button Posted by on May 13, 2020
The show’s hit a nice stride lately; this episode’s rather good, with little in common with the previous two other than Ashleigh Cummings’s detective skills continuing to develop. Otherwise, the setting is all different—Essie Davis has drug Cummings out to a vineyard (after telling her they read more
Friday (2020)
The Stop Button Posted by on May 12, 2020
Friday is actually Friday #1. Or “Chapter One.” I went into it cold, only aware it was Ed Brubaker writing and Marcos Martin on art. I figured it was a done-in-one, but it’s actually the start of a new serial. The titular Friday is one Friday Fitzhugh, who’s just come home from college to her read more
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012) s02e09 – Framed for Murder
The Stop Button Posted by on May 12, 2020
I’m not just interested this episode because it’s all about the silent movie industry; it’s right at the transition to sound, which means we’re in the late twenties and Black Tuesday is approaching. I’m terrified what it’s going to mean for “Miss Fisher.” Especially when you consider read more
Dead to Me (2019) s01e09 – I Have to Be Honest
The Stop Button Posted by on May 12, 2020
I’m curious about “Dead to Me”’s writers’ room. Did they talk about how Sam McCarthy stole a handgun, brought it to school, sold drugs, yet is totally back to petulant White teenager with no consequences this episode or did they just think… well, petulant White teenager, of course there read more