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April 9
Ripley: LUCIO Show Only Season 1, Episode 5
Dickie has a visitor. [more inside]
Ripley: La dolce vita Show Only Season 1, Episode 4
Dickie heads to Rome. [more inside]
Resident Alien: Homecoming Season 3, Episode 8
Harry and Asta team up with an unlikely ally to save Earth. [more inside]
Shogun: The Abyss of Life Show Only Season 1, Episode 8
Toranaga's defeated clan moves to Edo; Blackthorne must decide who he fights for. [more inside]
Defiance: Fighting the Far Right: Episodes 1-3 Season 1, Episode 1
The story of how - from 1976 to 1981 - Britain's Asian community stood tall against far-right violence and a rising tide of racist murders. [more inside]
Delicious in Dungeon: Red Dragon I Season 1, Episode 11
This is it. This is what all the adventures, all the trials, all themeals have been leading up to. For Team Touden, it's do or die - for Falin's sake, the red dragon must fall... [more inside]
April 8
Saturday Night Live: Kristen Wiig / Raye Season 49, Episode 16
Kristen joins the 5 Timers Club [more inside]
Saturday Night Live: Ramy Youssef / Travis Scott Season 49, Episode 15
Better late than never! [more inside]
Hazbin Hotel: The Show Must Go On Season 1, Episode 8
Adam and the other Exorcists arrive for Extermination Day. [more inside]
Tracker: Missoula Books Included Season 1, Episode 2
Colter is tasked with tracking down a missing young man who may have been pulled into a cult, and who seemingly doesn't want to be found. [more inside]
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End: Smells Like Trouble Season 1, Episode 15
When the party finds a town afflicted by a curse that puts people to sleep, Sein finds himself put to the test - not just of his skills, but of his belief in his fellow travelers as well. Then, a chance encounter with the ruler of the region has Stark play the role of his son - a false role that nonetheless brings up real emotions for the young warrior... [more inside]
Ripley: Sommerso Show Only Season 1, Episode 3
When Dickie and his father start seeing through his ruse, Tom resorts to drastic methods. [more inside]
Special Event: Eclipse 2024
For people who can’t see it in person, NASA has coverage for the three hours it will take to go from Mexico to Canada.
Link.
April 7
Movie: Scoop
How the BBC obtained the bombshell interview with Prince Andrew about his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. [more inside]
AEW Collision: April 6, 2024 (& Rampage April 5) Season 1, Episode 41
Collision gallantly delays it's Saturday night start time knowing that it's tough to compete with the first night of WrestleMania XL (the varying quality of the WM matches notwithstanding). As a study in contrasts, AEW offers House Of Black vs. an ad-hoc trio, the return of Yuka Sakazaki, Claudio in singles action, and main-event lucha libre. [more inside]
Delicious in Dungeon: Giant Frogs/Aboveground Season 1, Episode 10
Refreshed physically, emotionally, and manawise, Team Touden begins the descent to the castle town - and to their confrontation with the red dragon. Unfortunately, the path downward will not be an easy one, with the stairwell down full of dangers. Meanwhile, Tansu reports his findings to the (nominal) head of the island, while Namari looks to see if by some miracle Falin's corpse has made it back for revival.
One thing is clear - things are coming to a head, in several ways... [more inside]
Movie: Invention for Destruction
[TRAILER] Also known as The Fabulous World of Jules Verne. An evil millionaire named Artigas plans to use a super-explosive device to conquer the world from his headquarters inside an enormous volcano. Karel Zeman's legendary Czechoslovak black-and-white science fiction adventure film, based on several works by Jules Verne. [more inside]
Ripley: A Hard Man To Find Show Only Season 1, Episode 1
A grifter named Ripley (Andrew Scott) living in 1960s New York is hired by a wealthy man to visit Italy and convince his son to come home. (8-episode mini-series, Netflix, 2024) [more inside]
April 6
Special Event: Wrestlemania XL: Night One & Night Two (4/6/24 & 4/7/24)
"The virtue of all-in wrestling is that it is the spectacle of excess. Here we find a grandiloquence which must have been that of ancient theatres. And in fact wrestling is an open-air spectacle, for what makes the circus or the arena what they are is not the sky... it is the drenching and vertical quality of the flood of light. ...[W]restling partakes of the nature of the great solar spectacles, Greek drama and bullfights: in both, a light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve." -- Roland Barthes, "The World Of Wrestling" from Mythologies, 1957 [more inside]
Sugar: These People, These Places Season 1, Episode 2
Sugar suspects Melanie's not telling the full story. Meanwhile, he and Ruby may not be the only ones looking into the mysterious body in Olivia's trunk. Streaming on AppleTV [more inside]
Sugar: Olivia Season 1, Episode 1
After solving a case in Japan, private eye John Sugar returns to LA to help find a missing woman with ties to a Hollywood legend. Streaming on Apple TV [more inside]
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End: Privilege Of The Young Season 1, Episode 14
It's Fern's birthday, and tensions are high as it seems that Stark has forgotten and Fern is upset - but the reality of the situation is more complicated, as it usually is when emotions are in play, especially one particular one. Then while on the road, a monster attack causes a particular item of Frieren's to be lost - one with significant meaning... [more inside]
April 5
Renegade Nell: Don't Call Me Nelly Season 1, Episode 1
England, 1705: Nell Jackson's supernatural fighting skills stir up trouble on her return from war.
Delicious in Dungeon: Tentacles/Stew Season 1, Episode 9
With Marcille weakened from the undine's assault, Team Touden is surprised when another adventuring party comes upon them - with a familiar face in tow. But the realities of how dungeoneering works forces Laios to trade his labor for healing. And the enraged undine is still out there - but Marcille has a plan to kill two birds with one stone, and use it to replenish her mana... [more inside]
April 4
Star Trek: Discovery: Under the Twin Moons Season 5, Episode 2
Burnham and Co. race to follow the Romulan diary to the next clue before Moll and L'ak. [more inside]
Special Event: Rifftrax: For Love Or Death
MST Club presents a 2024 Rifftrax of a movie from 1996. A karate monk doesn't want to do the karate-monk thing any more and leaves their evil karate sect. They come after in the evil karate sect way. So he transfers his soul into a passed-out hobo, giving him his karate moves. I didn't know it was so easy! Neo's skills in The Matrix don't seem so impressive now. Wait... maybe this is the Matrix, and the robots got their brain files mixed up? Agent Smith is going to have to pull overtime to fix this. You know most of the work the Agents do is going to be dumb gruntwork like that. Anyway, 1996 karate hobo action flick go.
Movie: Omen IV: The Awakening
[TRAILER] A Virginia congressman (Michael Woods) and his wife (Faye Grant) see signs of the devil in their adopted daughter, Delia (Asia Vieira). [more inside]
Movie: Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981)
[TRAILER] Antichrist Damien Thorn (Sam Neill) is now a successful 32-year-old businessman ready to fulfill his destiny. As Damien is appointed United States ambassador to Britain, priests led by Father DeCarlo (Rossano Brazzi) try to kill him. While Damien prepares for the return of Jesus Christ, he takes advantage of his relationship with Kate Reynolds (Lisa Harrow) to recruit her son, Peter (Barnaby Holm), as his follower. [more inside]
Movie: Damien: Omen II
[TRAILER] Richard (William Holden) and Ann Thorn (Lee Grant) have taken their 13-year-old nephew, Damien (Jonathan Scott-Taylor), into their Chicago home following the death of Richard's brother seven years earlier. The Thorns love the child, whom they are sending to military school, but not everyone is so sanguine about his presence. Soon after Great Aunt Marion (Sylvia Sidney) expresses concerns about the boy, she dies suddenly and unexpectedly. And she is certainly not the last. [more inside]
Star Trek: Discovery: Red Directive First Watch Season 5, Episode 1
The Adventure Begins! Burnham and team race to acquire "the greatest treasure in the known galaxy" from an 800-year old Romulan ship.
[Previous episode] [more inside]
Movie: Mute Witness
[TRAILER] Billy (Marina Sudina) is mute, but it hasn't kept her from becoming a successful makeup artist. While in Russia, working on a film directed by her sister's boyfriend, Andy (Evan Richards), Billy finds herself trapped in the studio one night and is horrified to see a snuff film being made. Billy escapes and, with the help of her sister, Kate (Fay Ripley), alerts authorities about what she saw. Unfortunately, in doing so, she makes an enemy of the Russian mafia, who funded the snuff film. [more inside]
Tracker: "Klamath Falls" Books Included Season 1, Episode 1
Tracker is an American action drama television series created by Ben H. Winters based on the book, 'The Never Game' by Jeffery Deaver. The series stars Justin Hartley (Kevin - This Is Us) as Colter Shaw, a skilled survivalist and tracker who earns his living by assisting law enforcement and private citizens in exchange for reward money. Hartley is joined by principal cast members Robin Weigert (Calamity Jane - Deadwood), Abby McEnany, (Abby - Work In Progress) Eric Graise, (Logan - Locke & Key), Fiona Rene, (Gloria - The Lincoln Lawyer) with rotating guest stars as Colter's family members - the show features some flashbacks to Colter's younger life. [more inside]
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End: Aversion To One's Own Kind Season 1, Episode 13
A chance meeting with a priest in the woods leads Frieren to learn more about the man - and to convince him to join her party to fulfill a childhood dream...and find a childhood friend... [more inside]
April 3
Top Chef: Take It Cheesy Season 21, Episode 3
You knew it was coming in the Wisconsin season: the cheese episode! [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: April 3, 2024 Season 5, Episode 27
Is Will Ospreay still in the Callis Family? If yes, why is he fighting a fellow member for the third time? Tonight it's "A Battle Of Wills" as Ospreay fights "Powerhouse" Will Hobbs, Bryan Danielson fights a man twice his size, Thunder Rosa gets angry on Mariah May, plus Samoa Joe and Swerve Strickland sign on the dotted line. [more inside]
Star Wars: The Bad Batch: Point of No Return Season 3, Episode 11
The Empire closes in on the Batch.
Star Wars: The Bad Batch: 10. Identity Crisis Season 3, Episode 10
Emerie confronts the dark secrets behind Hemlock’s scientific research.
Grey's Anatomy: Season Twenty Season 20 (Full Season)
Imagine a young soldier, finishing his first tour in the US military... perhaps he is a sniper... maybe he drives a tank... but this soldier was not born when Grey's Anatomy premiered in 2005.
Delicious in Dungeon: Raspberries/Grilling Meat Season 1, Episode 8
Marcille thinks back on how she and Falin first met at school, and how she taught the elf valuable lessons about how there's more to the world than what's in books. Unfortunately, her ablutions wind up creating a very angry water spirit with murder on its mind... [more inside]
April 2
Resident Alien: Here Comes My Baby Season 3, Episode 7
Harry learns about love and happiness. Ben learns that Joe may not be what he seems after following Liv and Mike. [more inside]
Movie: Bride of Re-Animator
[TRAILER] Unperturbed by the disastrous outcome of his previous meddling with the dead, Dr. West (Jeffrey Combs) continues his research into the phenomenon of re-animation; only this time, he plans to create life... starting with the heart of his young protégé Dan's dearly deceased Meg Halsey. [more inside]
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End: A Real Hero Season 1, Episode 12
Continuing on to Äußerst, the trio finds themselves in the Village of the Sword just in time to keep a promise made by Frieren, and to learn a truth about Himmel's legend. Then, it's Stark's birthday - but the warrior feels that there's little reason to celebrate it - or him... [more inside]
Shogun: A Stick of Time Show Only Season 1, Episode 7
Outplayed by new alliances in Osaka, Toranaga is forced to carve out a new deal with a long lost family member. [more inside]
April 1
Movie: Twelfth Night
'Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.' Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters, Twelfth Night combines cruelty with high comedy and the pangs of unrequited love with some of the subtlest poetry and most exquisite songs Shakespeare ever wrote. The Globe revisits its award-winning Twelfth Night of 2002 with an all-male Original Practices production, exploring clothing, music, dance and settings possible in the Globe of around 1601. Mark Rylance reprises his performance of Olivia in Twelfth Night, 10 years after its original premiere at Middle Temple Hall and The Globe.
This production was also on Broadway where Rylance won a Tony for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play in 2014.
Shakespeare Movie Club pick for April. [more inside]
FEUD: Phantasm Forgiveness Season 2, Episode 8
Past, present and future collide as Truman makes a final push to finish Answered Prayers. [more inside]
Delicious in Dungeon: Kelpie/Porridge/Broiled In Sauce Season 1, Episode 7
Finally reaching an underground lake at the base of the castle, the party - and Senshi in particular - gets a valuable lesson in the reality of wild monsters being exactly that. And as Team Touden crosses the lak, they wind up finding out personally how one very large predator can throw off the ecosystem... [more inside]
March 31
Steve!: (Martin) A Documentary in 2 Pieces Season 1, Episode 1
AppleTV+ TV show (very short show, really) in two parts about (a) Steve Martin's career from childhood to 1980, and (b) current day reflections on his career, how life is going with the new wife and kid, etc. NPR review here. [more inside]
AEW Collision: March 30, 2024 (& Rampage March 29) Season 1, Episode 40
Collision skipped a week because of basketball and comes back with a hot Ontario crowd. Adam Copeland (the former Edge) defends his new title against a former Edge-head, Thunder Rosa meets a worthy opponent, and a big upset in the tag team tournament. [more inside]
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End: Winter In The Northern Lands Season 1, Episode 11
With Aura and her subordinates now dead, the people of Graf Granat's realm can finally relax and begin recovering from the wounds The Guillotine left. And with that, Frieren and her party now have a new goal - one that will lead to a chance encounter with another of her kind... [more inside]
March 30
3 Body Problem: Wallfacer Books Included Season 1, Episode 8
A high-level operation upends Saul's life. With emotions and expectations high, the probe launches into space as humanity enters a daunting new era. [more inside]
3 Body Problem: Only Advance Books Included Season 1, Episode 7
A bold proposition for the Staircase Project puts the group at odds. Will weighs his options. Ye returns to a familiar place. [more inside]
Slay the Princess
You're on a path in the woods, and at the end of that path is a cabin. And in the basement of that cabin is a Princess. You're here to slay her. If you don't, it will be the end of the world. Don't believe her lies. GOG | Steam | Itch Demo [more inside]
Movie: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Two ancient titans, Godzilla and Kong, clash in an epic battle as humans unravel their intertwined origins and connection to Skull Island's mysteries. [more inside]
Delicious in Dungeon: Court Cuisine/Boiled In Salt Water Season 1, Episode 6
Curiosity - and a rumbling tummy - lead Laios to try seeing if the food in the enchanted paintings is a possible food source. But he gets more than a meal as the scenes he enters tell the tale of the Golden Kingdom, as well as that of the Mad Mage. Later, a midnight bathroom break leads to Chilchuck trapped with his nemesis... [more inside]
Taskmaster: Season 17 (Full Season) Season 17 (Full Season)
Flanked by his efficient assistant Alex Horne, Greg Davies returns to remorselessly judge five quaking comics desperate to get their hands on his fabled golden head trophy. [more inside]
March 29
3 Body Problem: The Stars Our Destination Books Included Season 1, Episode 6
With the world in a state of panic following a momentous declaration, Wade gathers the world's greatest minds to prepare a defense plan. [more inside]
Podcast: If Books Could Kill: Who's Afraid of Naomi Wolf? [TEASER]
We’re finally discussing a good book! Naomi Klein’s "Doppelgänger" chronicles the long, steady descent of another Naomi — Wolf (buddy oof) — from feminist icon to crank conspiracist. To hear the rest of the episode, support us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/IfBooksPod [more inside]
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End: A Powerful Mage Season 1, Episode 10
Frieren has earned many epithets throughout her many years, but the first of those was apprentice to the great mage Flamme, she who brought the flame of magic to humanity - and waged a war against the monsters who preyed from the shadows. And it is that war that her elven apprentice has carried on, and which leads her to a confrontation with The Guillotine herself... [more inside]
March 28
3 Body Problem: Judgment Day Books Included Season 1, Episode 5
As threat levels rise, a secret mission to retrieve enemy intel ventures into dangerous territory. An ominous message reaches Earth. [more inside]
FEUD: Beautiful Babe Season 2, Episode 7
Babe reflects on her life and her greatest treasures. Truman and the Swans reel in the fallout of a tragedy. [more inside]