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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
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
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
Dead to Me (2019) s01e08 – Try to Stop Me
The Stop Button Posted by on May 11, 2020
Early on in the episode, there’s this shot looking through the skylight at Judy (Linda Cardellini) after she’s had a fainting sell and friends Christina Applegate and Brandon Scott have brought her home. They were out investigating the list of 1966 Mustang owners Scott procured (Applegate’s husband read more
Frasier (1993) s01e24 – My Coffee with Niles
The Stop Button Posted by on May 11, 2020
My Coffee with Niles is a concept episode victory lap for the first season, scripted by two of the three creators (David Angell and Peter Casey), with James Burrows directing, set entirely in the coffee shop where Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) and Niles (David Hyde Pierce) regularly meet to have coffee read more
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012) s02e08 – The Blood of Juana the Mad
The Stop Button Posted by on May 11, 2020
Depending on the setting, there are certain predictable reactions from Miss Fisher (Essie Davis) as well as from “Miss Fisher,” the show; for instance, this episode takes place at a medical university—where Dr. Mac (Tammy Macintosh) teaches—and involves the rich male students (and the male teachers read more
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006) s01e01
The Stop Button Posted by on May 11, 2020
I wish I were taking a rhetoric class so I could write a paper on whether “Studio 60” aged badly or poorly. I’ve never taken rhetoric and I’ve also never been great at first draft word choice so I’m not sure if that joke’s accurate but I will say it’s about as funny as anything on “Studio read more
Upload (2020) s01e01 – Welcome to Upload
The Stop Button Posted by on May 11, 2020
“Upload” takes place in a mundane future dystopia where Bloomingdales runs liquor stores and Panera Bread was able to acquire Facebook. The most oddly prescient bit has a bunch of people on the packed commuter train wearing masks. Worker drones take the train it seems like. The middle class and read more