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February 24
Jekyll & Hyde: Full Season Season 1 (Full Season)
Set in the 1930s, after saving a young patient from a car accident, young Dr Jekyll discovers that his true origins are shrouded in mystery when he is contacted about his grandfather's estate by a British lawyer. [more inside]
Young Rock: On The Road Again Season 1, Episode 2
Pennsylvania, 1987: Dwayne pretends he’s rich to impress popular girl Karen, but a date to Rocky’s wrestling match at the flea market risks exposing the truth. Stressed about money, Ata takes on a wealthy new client.
Superman and Lois: Pilot Season 1, Episode 1
Superman and Lois' return to idyllic Smallville is set to be upended by mysterious strangers. [more inside]
February 23
Movie: Minari
A Korean-American family moves to Arkansas in search of their own American Dream. With the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother, the stability of their relationships is challenged even more in this new life in the rugged Ozarks, testing the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home. [more inside]
Movie: Phantom Detective
Hong Gil-dong is an infallible private detective with an exceptional memory and an odd personality. While chasing the only target he failed to find, his plan for revenge is complicated when two little girls attach themselves to him. An action/mystery film from South Korean writer-director Jo Sung-Hee (Space Sweepers). [more inside]
Movie: I Care a Lot
A crooked legal guardian who drains the savings of her elderly wards meets her match when a woman she tries to swindle turns out to be more than she first appears.
February 22
Critical Role: Worth Fighting For Season 2, Episode 126
Faced with unsettling visions and a leering countdown, the Mighty Nein take stock of supplies, of lingering wounds, and of matters of the heart.
The Great Pottery Throw Down: Animal Water Feature & a Strawberry Planter Season 4, Episode 7
It's Garden Week and the remaining potters face a green-fingered challenge to build an animal water feature and throw a strawberry planter, for a place in the quarter-finals.
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Qpid Rewatch Season 4, Episode 20
Q picks up on romantic tensions between Captain Picard and an old flame, transporting them and the senior officers into a representation of Robin Hood. [more inside]
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Working Conditions in Meat Packing Factories Season 8, Episode 2
This week, again from the White Void of Sad Facts: Winter storms caused problems nationwide, but especially in Texas, which suffered power outages due to Texas disconnecting itself from the national power grid to avoid regulation, or, according to Tucker Carlson and the rest of Fox News, wind turbines. Fallout was so severe that Ted Cruz, a man who has given Texas dozens of reasons to dump him, may actually, finally, face political repercussions for attempting to abandon the state during its hardship and go to Cancun. And Now: People Who Went to Harvard. The main story (19m) has to do with the terrible conditions meat packing workers face on the job, including production quotas so onerous that many workers feel like they have to pee beneath the line or wear diapers on the job to keep up. And Now, finally: Working Remotely Sucks For 'The People's Court," too. [more inside]
February 21
Book: Big Girl, Small Town
A young working-class woman named Majella navigates a constrained life in Northern Ireland sometime after "peace broke out" in Ireland in the nineties. Some things distinguish her from her fellows: she's not social at all, she's unusually sensitive to sensory input, and her grandmother was just murdered. [more inside]
Saturday Night Live: Regé-Jean Page / Bad Bunny Season 46, Episode 13
The guy from Netflix's "Bridgerton." [more inside]
February 20
Movie: Little Fish
A couple fights to hold their relationship together as a memory loss virus spreads and threatens to erase the history of their love and courtship.
For All Mankind: Every Little Thing Season 2, Episode 1
Nearly a decade later, technology and lunar exploration have taken huge strides - but a solar storm threatens the astronauts on Jamestown.
February 19
Movie: Nomadland
A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the Western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
Movie: Lucas
A precocious fourteen-year-old experiences heartbreak for the first time. [more inside]
WandaVision: Breaking the Fourth Wall Season 1, Episode 7
Don't you just hate it when they reprogram the time slot?
February 18
Movie: Winter Light
A small-town pastor struggles with his faith. [more inside]
Kim's Convenience: A Tangled Web Season 5, Episode 5
Appa's nerves are tested when Nayoung arrives with a furry friend; Umma shares an uncomfortable lunch with Jung and Shannon; bad timing makes Kimchee neglect a co-worker in need. [more inside]
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Future Pandemics Season 8, Episode 1
This week, still from the void, but hopefully not for much longer.... The farce of an impeachment trial against Donald Trump, where Ted Cruz met with the defense lawyers during it and told them they'd already won because Republicans weren't going to convict regardless, and on Republican support of the Capitol riots and state Republican efforts to make voting much harder, efforts that some Democrats don't seem very excited about thwarting. And Now: Newscasters Offer Tips For How To Say "I Love You" In The Worst Imaginable Way. Main story (20m): Pandemics of the future! Not COVID, but the next ones, which believe it or not could be much worse. John discusses where they may come from, why they're on the rise, and what we can do to limit them. [more inside]
Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Nth Degree Rewatch Season 4, Episode 19
Lt. Barclay gets into a competition with Einstein and some aliens about who's more big-headed. [more inside]
Young Rock: Working the Gimmick Season 1, Episode 1
As Dwayne Johnson runs for president in 2032, he reflects on his life that's shaped him into the man he is today, from growing up in a resilient family, to navigating rebellious teen years, to playing NCAA football.
February 17
The Watch: Better to Light a Candle Season 1, Episode 8
Carcer has everything he needs to destroy the city. Can the Watch save it?
Movie: Aliens
Fifty-seven years after surviving an alien loose aboard her ship, first officer Ripley finds herself returning to the planet where she first encountered the creature. [more inside]
Mystery Science Theater 3000: TEEN-AGE STRANGLER Rewatch Season 5, Episode 14
Rewatch! Someone's strangling teen girls and the blame falls on members a local gang. This is the movie with Mikey, the object of some scorn by the space-trapped human and his automated mocking machines. Has the short "Is This Love?", and you can just imagine how they treat that one. Previously.
Book: Earthlings
Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata's first novel to be translated from Japanese to English, received glowing reviews for its portrayal of a woman who rejects the values of her family-oriented social class and finds her niche working in a convenience store. Now comes Earthlings. As one reviewer puts it:" The two books might be seen as siblings, though Earthlings would definitely be the evil twin." [more inside]
Taskmaster: Series 2 Season 2 (Full Season)
Contestants are Doc Brown, Joe Wilkinson, Jon Richardson, Katherine Ryan, and Richard Osman. Come to watch a man throw a potato, stay for an inanimate object that looks like someone, be rewarded by watching them hide the pineapple. All episodes are on the Taskmaster channel on YouTube. [more inside]
February 15
Movie: For Love of the Game
After 19 years of playing the game he's loved his whole life, Detroit Tigers pitcher Billy Chapel has to decide if he's going to risk everything and put everything out there. [more inside]
Movie: Romancing the Stone
A mousy romance novelist sets off for Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure hunting for treasure with a mercenary rogue. [more inside]
Book: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
“Wintering is a season in the cold. It is a fallow period in life when you’re cut off from the world, feeling rejected, sidelined, blocked from progress, or cast into the role of an outsider. Perhaps it results from an illness or a life event such as a bereavement or the birth of a child; perhaps it comes from a humiliation or failure....However it arrives, wintering is usually involuntary, lonely, and deeply painful.” Katherine May's memoir, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times, reflects on what she has learned about this life season: not avoidance, but acceptance of its inevitability, and the ways she has found to soften its impact. [more inside]
Critical Role: The Neverending Day Season 2, Episode 125
Having escaped the frozen fields of Eiselcross, the Mighty Nein search for allies and assets to help them in their fight against the nine eyes...
The Head: Entire Series Season 1 (Full Season)
Winter has fallen on the South Pole. The sun will soon disappear for the next six months. A small team, known as the Winterers, will remain at the Polaris VI Antarctic Research Station to continue their innovative research, a crucial part in the fight against climate change, under the command of renowned biologist Arthur Wilde (John Lynch). But when spring comes, summer commander Johan Berg (Alexander Willaume) returns to the station only to find the entire team are either dead or missing. [more inside]
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Identity Crisis Rewatch Season 4, Episode 18
Something is luring a former away team back to the planet they once investigated five years ago – an away team that La Forge was a part of. [more inside]
The Great Pottery Throw Down: Terracotta Cookware & Engraved Tiles Season 4, Episode 6
It's Terracotta Week and the remaining potters are tasked with making their own range of cookware, before judge Rich Miller sets a second terracotta challenge to engrave tiles.
February 14
Movie: Saint Maud
Follows a pious nurse who becomes dangerously obsessed with saving the soul of her dying patient. [more inside]
The Great North: Avocado Barter Adventure Season 1, Episode 3
Wolf tries to find Honeybee the perfect gift for their six-month anniversary, while Judy interviews her for the school newspaper and learns about her early years in Fresno.
The Great North: Feast of Not People Adventure Season 1, Episode 2
Judy learns that Ham's been keeping a secret from her, while the rest of the family participates in a town festival.
The Great North: Sexi Moose Adventure Season 1, Episode 1
The Tobins' plan to celebrate Judy's 16th birthday on their fishing boat goes awry when a moose breaks into their home.
Small Axe: Lovers Rock Season 1, Episode 2
Lovers Rock is a 2020 romance film directed by Steve McQueen and co-written by McQueen and Courttia Newland. It stars Micheal Ward and Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn as two lovers who meet at a reggae house party in 1980 in West London. The film was released as part of the anthology series Small Axe.
Saturday Night Live: Regina King / Nathaniel Rateliff Season 46, Episode 12
First-time host. [more inside]
Book: Slough House, by Mick Herron
At Slough House, Brexit has taken a toll. The slow horses have been pushed further into the cold, Slough House has been erased from official records, and its members are dying in unusual circumstances, at an unusual clip. No wonder Jackson Lamb’s crew is feeling paranoid. But are they actually targets?
With a new populist movement taking hold of London’s streets and the old order ensuring that everything’s for sale to the highest bidder, the world’s a dangerous place for those deemed surplus. Jackson Lamb and the slow horses are in a fight for their lives as they navigate dizzying layers of lies, power, and death.
Movie: Scare Me
Frustrated wannabe writer Fred (Josh Ruben) holes up in a cabin in hopes of getting something done. During a power outage, Fred and Fanny (Aya Cash of The Boys and You're the Worst) the tenant of a neighboring cabin tell each other scary stories. The more Fred and Fanny
commit to their tales, the more the stories come to life in the dark of a Catskills cabin. The horrors of reality manifest when Fred confronts his ultimate fear: Fanny is the better storyteller. [more inside]
Movie: Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar
Lifelong friends Barb and Star embark on the adventure of a lifetime when they decide to leave their small Midwestern town for the first time - ever. [more inside]
Movie: Judas and the Black Messiah
The story of Fred Hampton, Chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party, and his fateful betrayal by FBI informant William O'Neal. [more inside]
Can't Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World (Full Series) All Seasons
Love, power, money, ghosts of empire, conspiracies, artificial intelligence – and you. Dystopia revisited, through the mind of Adam Curtis. [more inside]
February 13
Movie: Scare Package
Chad, the owner of Rad Chad's Horror Emporium, recounts a series of bone-chilling, blood-splattered tales to illustrate the rules of the horror genre to his newest employee. [more inside]
Podcast: Reply All: #173 The Test Kitchen, Chapter 2
Chapter 2, "Glass Office": Years later, in 2018, a new wave of people of color arrives at Bon Appétit. And when their white bosses don't understand the problems they're facing, those people will decide to fix the place themselves. [more inside]
February 12
Kim's Convenience: Tennis Anyone? Season 5, Episode 4
Umma and Appa try to fit in at an upscale tennis court. Shannon helps Omar deal with his over-eager family. Janet misjudges a co-worker. [more inside]
Podcast: Reply All: #172 The Test Kitchen, Chapter 1
In the summer of 2020, Bon Appétit faced an online reckoning. It imploded, seemingly overnight, former employees calling it a racist and toxic workplace. But the story of what actually happened there started ten years earlier. This is Chapter One, "Original Sin," of our series The Test Kitchen. This is chapter one of a four part series reported and presented by Sruthi Pinnamaneni. [more inside]
The New York Times Presents: Framing Britney Spears Season 1, Episode 6
Britney Spears hasn't been able to fully live her own life for 13 years, stuck in a court-sanctioned conservatorship. A new documentary by The New York Times examines what the public might not know about the pop star's court battle with her father for control of her estate. It also explores the fervent fan base that is convinced Spears should be liberated from the conservatorship, and re-examines the media's handling of one of the biggest pop stars of all time.
"Framing Britney Spears' premiered in the US on FX and Hulu.
WandaVision: All-New Halloween Spooktacular! Season 1, Episode 6
The Halloween special is here
February 11
Movie: Ordinary People
Calvin, Beth, and their son Conrad are attempting to get back to normal after Conrad's return home from a psychiatric hospital. Conrad visits Dr. Berger who works with him to not push away his pain. [more inside]
The Stand: The Circle Closes Season 1, Episode 9
Limited series finale written by Stephen King. After seeing both the light and the dark, Frannie makes her stand. Air Date: Feb 10, 2021 [more inside]
Taskmaster: Series 1 Season 1 (Full Season)
Greg Davies is the Taskmaster. Alex Horne is the Taskmaster's assistant.
Contestants for series 1 are Frank Skinner, Josh Widdicombe, Roisin Conaty, Romesh Ranganathan, and Tim Key. All episodes (in the USA) are on the Taskmaster YouTube channel. [more inside]
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Night Terrors Rewatch Season 4, Episode 17
Investigating a distress signal, the Enterprise crew discovers that everyone went insane in the Brattain. [more inside]
Mystery Science Theater 3000: THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE Rewatch Season 5, Episode 13
Rewatch! A brilliant scientist is thought of as "mad," and only because he saves his girlfriend's severed head when she is killed in a car crash, then keeps it alive by setting it in Neck Juice (TM), allowing her to befriend the terrible monster he keeps in his basement while he goes out trying to murder women to provide her with a donor body. But really, is that "mad?" Okay. Yeah, on further reflection I guess it is. Oh, and he has an assistant with his own weird issues. This is Mike Nelson's first episode as host of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Previously.
February 10
Movie: Bloody Hell
When Rex stops a bank robbery, a video of his heroics makes him famous. [more inside]
February 9
The Watch: Nowhere in the Multiverse Books Included Season 1, Episode 7
Vimes slips into an alternative universe where he is part of a jailbreak. [more inside]
February 8
Critical Role: A Walk to Warmer Welcomes Season 2 (Full Season)
Exhausted and hunted, the Mighty Nein search for sanctuary in Aeor while contemplating their own potential chess moves...
A Place to Call Home: Season Five Season 5 (Full Season)
Jumping ahead four years to 1958, season five looks at the changes in Australian society during that period, as cultural norms fall away, morals evolve, and the younger generation rejects the values of their elders and the continued focus on the War years. [more inside]
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