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October 7
Wheel of Time: Season 2 Books Included Season 2 (Full Season)
Covering the events of the The Wheel of Time book 2: The Great Hunt. There is an excellent series of show-only posts beginning here - go read those! This is the place for the book-readers (and book-curious) to discuss the adaptation choices and talk about how they fit into the larger picture drawn by the novels. [more inside]
October 6
Book: A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to manifest troubling symptoms of mental illness. [more inside]
Movie: V/H/S/85
Unveiled through a made-for-TV documentary, five chilling tales of found footage horror emerge to take viewers on a gore-filled journey through the grim underbelly of the forgotten 1980s.
Wheel of Time: What Was Meant to Be Show Only Season 2, Episode 8
All roads lead to Falme, so to speak.
October 5
Our Flag Means Death: The Innkeeper Season 2, Episode 3
While the Revenge crew gleefully reunites under Zheng's reign, Stede attempts to discover what happened to Blackbeard, who must face his own difficult truth as he tries out a new profession. [more inside]
Our Flag Means Death: Red Flags Season 2, Episode 2
Aboard Zhang's ship, Stede, Olu and Black Pete have surprising revelations while Blackbeard's crew plots their revenge. [more inside]
Our Flag Means Death: Impossible Birds Season 2, Episode 1
While Stede adjusts to his new normal, a heartbroken Blackbeard fills the void with daily raids — sparking concern amongst Izzy and the crew. [more inside]
Lupin: Part 3 Season 3 (Full Season)
To mend matters with Claire and Raoul, Assane devises a plan to get them out of France. But with high stakes come greater risks — and no room for error.
The Morning Show: Love Island Season 3, Episode 5
Unexpected connections emerge, while the world is in lock down. [more inside]
The Morning Show: The Green Light Season 3, Episode 4
The UBA Upfront brings everyone together for a party in the Hamptons. Bradley and Alex each revisit a problematic relationship. [more inside]
Invasion: Down the Rabbit Hole Season 2, Episode 7
Trevante and Rose investigate a clue that leads them to Ben Shelton's farm. Monty has suspicions about the mission and confides in Jamila.
Loki: Ouroboros Season 2, Episode 1
Loki finds himself lost to time and torn, quite literally, between past, present and future.
Special Event: Cinematic Titanic: THE ALIEN FACTOR
MST Club's quick jaunt through Cinematic Titanic continues. The movie's about aliens landing and attacking the residents of a small town. In the world of cinema, this appears to be a statistically significant problem.
Welcome to Wrexham: Ballers Season 2, Episode 6
The most dominant football team in Wales takes the pitch as they race toward promotion while juggling their day jobs.
Star Trek: Lower Decks: Parth Ferengi's Heart Place Season 4, Episode 6
Ferenginar, joining the Federation? Cerritos better hope that all that latinum doesn't flatten 'em. [more inside]
Movie: Willow Creek
Looking to make a splash online with his research videos into the existence of Bigfoot, Jim and his girlfriend Kelly take a camping trip to the small town of Willow Creek, California, and the surrounding mountains where the infamous footage of the supposed sasquatch was filmed. [more inside]
October 4
Behind Your Touch: Behind Your Touch Season 1 (Full Season)
A village veterinarian receives a secret ability: when she touches a person or animal's butt, she's able to read their past. Though this leads to a lot of questionable scenarios, when a cop discovers her ability, he needs her help to catch the killer in their midst. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: Dynamite 10/4 and Rampage 10/6 Season 5, Episode 1
It seems like yesterday that Year 4 of Dynamite began and here we are at the beginning of Year 5. Dynamite heads into choppy waters as WWE plans counter-programming and sports schedules begin to play havoc with airdates, so Tony Khan is keeping some cards closer than usual. [more inside]
Movie: The African Queen
In WWI East Africa, a gin-swilling Canadian riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced English missionary to undertake a trip up a treacherous river and use his boat to attack a German gunship. [more inside]
The Great British Bake Off: Biscuit Week Season 14, Episode 2
It's Biscuit Week and the bakers get stuck into a marshmallow Signature and a custard classic, and make their favourite meal out of biscuits in an illusion-themed Showstopper.
Movie: The Creator
Against the backdrop of a war between humans and robots with artificial intelligence, a former soldier finds a secret weapon.
Ahsoka: The Jedi, The Witch, and The Warlord Season 1, Episode 8
The heroes race to prevent Grand Admiral Thrawn's escape.
October 3
Book: How to Suppress Women's Writing / Joanna Russ
Are women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women’s Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle—and not so subtle—strategies that society uses to ignore, condemn, or belittle women who produce literature. As relevant today as when it was first published in 1983, this book has motivated generations of readers with its powerful feminist critique.
Only Murders in the Building: Opening Night Season 3, Episode 10
The show circles back to the end, and by the end I mean opening night, as the Besties attempt to solve the murder of Ben Glenroy before the curtain falls.
October 2
Movie: The 400 Blows
A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime. [more inside]
Wheel of Time: Daes Dae'Mar Show Only Season 2, Episode 7
All the chess pieces move in closer to being in battle. A familiar face foils Moraine and Rand's plans. New Allegiances are made, and Egwane remains steadfastly defiant. [more inside]
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Prison Health Care Season 10, Episode 11
This week... the writer's strike is over, and it was successful! The show's been off for five months, and a number of things happened during that time (see inside). And Now: Local News Is Very Excited About What Week It Is (Fat Bear Week). Main story is about the woeful health care in US prisons, a shameful condition often belittled by the media. Yep, Last Week Tonight is back! (On Youtube, 19 minutes) And Now: Fall Is Here, And So Is Something Else (Pumpkin Spice Lattes). [more inside]
October 1
Special Event: All Elite Wrestling presents WrestleDream (2023)
Following the extremely successful All In at Wembley Stadium, AEW President Tony Khan announced WrestleDream, to be held on the anniversary of the death of Japanese wrestling legend Antonio Inoki, at Seattle's Climate Pledge Arena. Tonight the card is STACKED with title defenses, hometown heroes, and a dream-match main event several years in the making. [more inside]
Time Team: Time Team Special - Digging Band of Brothers with Tony Robinson Season 22, Episode 5
He's back! Sir Tony Robinson returns to Time Team to investigate the US 101st Airborne Division in Britain. Time Team have been invited to Aldbourne, Wiltshire, by Operation Nightingale, on the 80th anniversary since Easy Company were stationed here in 1943, shortly before D-Day.
Working alongside service men and women from the US and UK, the team have just over a week to investigate the camp, once home to the iconic 'Band of Brothers'. [more inside]
AEW Collision: September 30, 2023 Season 1, Episode 16
The AEW roster settles into Seattle to get the PNW ready for WrestleDream, and that means: (1) an all-star 8-man tag match, (2) Jericho and Omega teaming up, and (3) several guest spots for local DEFY Wrestling talent. [more inside]
Movie: Floating Weeds
The head of a Japanese theatre troupe returns to a small coastal town where he left a son who thinks he is his uncle, and tries to make up for the lost time, but his current mistress grows jealous.
Movie: Reptile
A detective trying to start over again after a professional betrayal investigates the murder of a local real estate agent. [more inside]
September 30
Movie: Poison
When a poisonous snake slithers onto an Englishman's stomach in India, his associate and a doctor race to save him.
September 29
Welcome to Wrexham: First Losers Season 2, Episode 5
After a second place finish last season and with Notts County challenging for first place, Wrexham AFC focuses on building a winning mentality.
Welcome to Wrexham: Shaun's Vacation Season 2, Episode 4
Some self-inflicted chaos unfolds in Wrexham thanks to co-chairmen Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, much to the frustration of Executive Director Humphrey Ker.
Psi Cops: Psi Cops Season 1 (Full Season)
The first Adult Swim Canada animated show. Incredibly dumb cops investigate paranormal phenomena, supported by varyingly competent colleagues. Everyone talks fast -- kind of Archer cadence, but more blunt force idiocy than rapier wit. The animation style is a very odd semi-rotoscoped thing. Trailer here. [more inside]
Star Trek: Short Treks: Very Short Treks All Seasons
A very special quasi-season of ST:ST, these are micro-episodes of Trek done in the style of Star Trek: The Animated Series. [CW: some gore, improbable aliens] [more inside]
Movie: Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
Follows the iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Caro and his editor, the literary giant Robert Gottlieb, in this chronicle of a unique 50-year professional relationship.
Movie: The Rat Catcher
In an English village, a reporter and a mechanic listen to a ratcatcher explain his clever plan to outwit his prey. [more inside]
Movie: No One Will Save You
A young woman who’s been alienated from her community finds herself in a face-off against a host of extraterrestrial beings who threaten her future while forcing her to deal with her past. [more inside]
September 28
Movie: Cassandro
Gael García Bernal stars in a biopic of the openly gay luchador Saúl Armendáriz, whose drag queen''exotico'' character Cassandro was known as "the Liberace of Lucha Libre." The movie follows his rise from low-level amateur to international fame, and his relationships along the way. 91/85 at RT, streaming at Amazon Prime and in theaters. Director Roger Ross Williams had previously directed a 14-minute documentary about Cassandro for the New Yorker, available here. [more inside]
Book: Foundation’s Edge
It is now four hundred ninety-eight years since the Foundation was established. It is at the peak of its strength, but one Councillor of Terminus does not accept appearances— [more inside]
One Piece: Eat at Baratie! Season 1, Episode 5
After escaping Garp and his Marines the crew is hungry and what better place to eat than a floating restaurant. What do you mean they don't take IOUs? We see the actual greatest swordsman in the world. Also we're introduced to a waiter named Sanji and his boss Zeff, a pirate-turned-chef with a fairly strong resemblance to Gordon Ramsay. [more inside]
Special Event: Cinematic Titanic: EAST MEETS WATTS
a.k.a. Dynamite Brothers. MST Club keeps rolling with a martial arts blaxploitation movie. It's the first Cinematic Titanic DVD that was filmed before a live audience.
Starstruck: Season 3 Season 3 (Full Season)
The continuing (and final?) comedic adventures of 30-something Jessie, a New Zealand woman living in London, working in a cinema, and dealing with a relationship with a very famous movie star. [more inside]
Movie: The Swan
Two large, ignorant bullies ruthlessly pursue a small, brilliant boy.
Star Trek: Lower Decks: Empathalogical Fallacies Season 4, Episode 5
Betazoid? More like Beta-annoyed, amirite? [more inside]
September 27
Book: The Last Continent
The Librarian of Unseen University is sick, and in order to cure him, the Wizards need to know his real name which, uh... none of them do. And he's not telling, because the information could be used to change him back from his preferred form as an orangutan. But an idea! Rincewind might know it! But he accidentally got teleported to the continent of XXXX, and nobody knows where that is. So the Wizards go looking for XXXX, while Rincewind just tries to survive on terra incognita where everything is trying to kill him, well, about the same amount as is usual for Rincewind, really. (Wizards #6, Discworld #22.) By Terry Pratchett. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: Dynamite 9/27 and Rampage 9/29 Season 4, Episode 52
I decided a while ago to partition Dynamite's "seasons" to begin the first week of October (since that's the week Dynamite first premiered), and that means tonight is the season finale and this Sunday's WrestleDream is like the bonus content. This week, AEW (and their co-brand partner NJPW) will do their best to whet your appetite for the PPV. [more inside]
The Great British Bake Off: Cake Week Season 14, Episode 1
It's Cake Week, and a new batch of bakers tackle perfect vertical layers, an iconic chocolate cake and a showstopping sponge menagerie of animals to showcase their architectural skills. [more inside]
Reservation Dogs: Dig Season 3, Episode 10
Old man Fixico has passed. He was a real one. The community comes together to pay their respects. For Uncle. Will the circle be unbroken? By and by lord by and by. [more inside]
Invasion: Pressure Points Season 2, Episode 6
Jamila and the gang reach the hospital and find a surprise. En route to Camp Pierce, the Movement get caught in a savage attack.
Movie: Farewell My Concubine
Abandoned by his prostitute mother in 1920, Douzi (Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing) was raised by a theater troupe. There he meets Shitou (Zhang Fengyi) and over the following years the two develop an act entitled "Farewell My Concubine" that brings them fame and fortune. When Shitou marries Juxian (Gong Li), Douzi becomes jealous, the beginnings of the acting duo's explosive breakup and tragic fall take root. [more inside]
Ahsoka: Dreams and Madness Season 1, Episode 7
Hera must face the New Republic, while in a galaxy far, far away a reunion takes place.
Movie: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Faithfully adapted by filmmaker Wes Anderson from Roald Dahl's short story, this fantastical tale follows a rich man who masters a wondrous skill. [more inside]
September 26
Movie: My Fellow Americans
Two former U. S. Presidents, hated rivals, join forces to expose the current, corrupt President at the risk of their lives. [more inside]
Only Murders in the Building: Thirty Season 3, Episode 9
It's Mabel's birthday and she wants to spend it solving a crime!
Official rundown from IMDB:
Having amassed a plethora of clues, suspects and theories but no concrete answers about Ben's murder, the trio devise a peculiar method of recreating the final moments of his life.
AV Club review. [more inside]
Sex Education: Final Season Season 4 (Full Season)
With Maeve in America and Moordale closed, Otis must find his footing at free-spirited Cavendish College — but he's not the only sex therapist on campus.
September 25
Book: Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
The last few years of cryptocurrency/web3/NFT mania, with appearances by most of the major players, by Zeke Faux. [more inside]
Futurama: All the Way Down Season 11, Episode 10
The crew investigates whether the universe is a simulation.
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