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March 30
Lost: House of the Rising Sun Rewatch Season 1, Episode 6
Sun plans an escape. [more inside]
Special Event: NJPW x IMPACT: Multiverse United
Previously, New Japan Pro Wrestling and All Elite Wrestling teamed up to produce Forbidden Door, the first multi-company large-scale pro-wrestling event since All In. Less than a year later, lightning strikes again as NJPW and Impact Wrestling produce their own crossover event, with titles from both companies defended and stars going in head-to-head dream matches. [more inside]
Mystery Science Theater 3000: MAC AND ME Rewatch Season 12, Episode 1
Rewatch! A disturbingly malleable, bubble-gum-like alien and their family get stuck on Earth and befriend a wheelchair-riding boy in this notable box-office failure. Chris Pratt seems to like it though! Season 12 ties Season 7 for the shortest season of MST3K. This is the first episode of "The Gauntlet," a series of MST3K episodes designed to be binged, although that'd be over nine hours of riffed film, so good luch surviving that. Unlike the previous episodes, I only posted each MST3K episode from Season 12 once, so less of a retread this time! Previously.
Book: Monstrous Regiment
Borogravia, a small mangy cur of a country with nothing much to speak of, is at war. It's always at war, of course, but now they've torn down the Clacks Towers, which brings His Grace Duke Samuel Vimes in as ambassador to hopefully finally put a stop to things. And William de Worde of the Ankh-Morpork Times in to cover the stories on the ground. And Polly Perks, a young barmaid, chops off her hair and puts a sock in her trousers to enlist in the last company Borogravia can hope to recruit in this struggle, every member of which seems to have a secret. (Discworld #31, Industrial Revolution #3.) By Terry Pratchett. [more inside]
Star Trek: Picard: Dominion Season 3, Episode 7
While Data battles his alternate, Vadic tells the misbegotten tale of her not-so-Great Link. [more inside]
March 29
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: Dynamite 3/29 and Rampage 3/31 Season 4, Episode 26
On Dynamite tonight, for the first time since Forbidden Door last summer, Adam Cole returns to the ring, Jeff Cobb shows up to grab at Kenny's gold, plus everyone's secret favorite Dalton Castle! [more inside]
The Big Door Prize: The Big Door Prize, all episodes Season 1, Episode 1
Apple TV Plus show in which a mysterious "Morpho" machine, for the low price of 8 quarters, your SSN and fingerprints, will tell you your potential. AV Club review. [more inside]
Book: Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
In this gripping, horror-laced debut, a young Cree woman’s dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence on her family, her community and the land they call home. [more inside]
Quantum Leap (2022): Timey-wimey at last! Season 1 (Full Season)
This is to discuss the season arc for the new Quantum Leap - despite early doubts, it's turning out to be a valuable addition to the reboot. [more inside]
The Mandalorian: Chapter 21: The Pirate Season 3, Episode 5
Navarro comes under attack.
Star Wars: The Bad Batch: Plan 99 Season 2, Episode 16
The heroes are tested. Part 2 of a 2-episode finale.
Star Wars: The Bad Batch: The Summit Season 2, Episode 15
An infiltration proves more challenging than expected. Part 1 of a 2-episode finale.
March 28
Book: The Truth
Lost: White Rabbit Rewatch Season 1, Episode 5
Jack searches for his father. [more inside]
Ted Lasso: 4-5-1 Season 3, Episode 3
Welcome Zava! Everyone but Jamie's happy. Sam has a soft opening of his restaurant. Rebecca sees Tish the psychic and freaks out. Ted talks to Jake on the phone and freaks out. [more inside]
Perry Mason: Chapter Twelve Season 2, Episode 4
Paul’s shocking discovery brings the brothers’ testimony into question. Perry pursues a plea deal. Della continues her search for answers.
Movie: Mae Martin: SAP
From a mythical moose encounter to the gender spectrum in "Beauty and the Beast," Mae Martin reflects on a world off its axis in this comedy special.
March 27
Movie: The Killers
A remake of the 1946 noir movie by the same name. A hit man and his annoying sidekick wonder why their target didn't resist being murdered, threaten many people to find out the story, get obsessed, things do not go well for pretty much anyone. [more inside]
Book: Night Watch
In the midst of chasing Ankh-Morpork's most punchable psychopath across the rooftops of Unseen University, a freak lightning strike plays havoc with the magical temporal energy around, sending both Sam Vimes and his quarry thirty years into the past. This was a time when the Patrician wasn't quite so sane, the Watch not nearly so upstanding, the City was ready for a Revolution, and a young Sam Vimes had just joined the force but was desperately in need of a decent mentor. (Discworld #29, City Watch #6.) By Terry Pratchett. [more inside]
Party Down: Once Upon a Time 'Proms Away' Prom-otional Event Season 3, Episode 5
Lydia, worried that daughter Escapade missed her childhood, plans a "prom" promotional event for her new movie. Meanwhile, Ron schemes to impress a studio PR bigwig who could make or break Party Down.
Misfits: Episode Eighteen Season 3, Episode 5
Kelly is accidentally body-swapped with a coma patient. Rudy gets anger management therapy. [more inside]
March 26
Succession: The Munsters Season 4, Episode 1
As Kendall, Shiv, and Roman hone their pitch for investors in LA, Logan learns of a rival bid on a long-coveted acquisition.
Kokdu: Season of Deity: Kokdu: Season of Deity Season 1 (Full Season)
A drama about what happens when a death god, Kokdu who comes down to the earth every 99 years to punish humans, works as a visiting doctor. [more inside]
Book: The Curator
It begins in an unnamed city nicknamed “the Fairest”, it is distinguished by many things from the river fair to the mountains that split the municipality in half; its theaters and many museums; the Morgue Ship; and, like all cities, but maybe especially so, by its essential unmappability. [more inside]
Time Team: Season 22 - Dig One - Knights Hospitaller Preceptory - Shropshire Season 22, Episode 1
In the first of three episodes in Season 22, Time Team descends on Halston Hall in Shropshire to investigate if Stewart Ainsworth has found a rare Preceptory of the Knights Hospitalier near an old chapel in the middle of a giant estate landscape garden.What's a folly? What's reality? What do the bricks, coins, test pits, crypts, etc. tell us. [more inside]
Book: I Have Some Questions For You
In I Have Some Questions for You, award-winning author Rebecca Makkai has crafted her most irresistible novel yet: a stirring investigation into collective memory and a deeply felt examination of one woman’s reckoning with her past, with a transfixing mystery at its heart. Timely, hypnotic, and populated with a cast of unforgettable characters, I Have Some Questions for You is at once a compulsive page-turner and a literary triumph. [more inside]
The Heavenly Idol: The Heavenly Idol Season 1 (Full Season)
A fantasy-romance drama about a High Priest from another world who body-swaps with a K-pop idol to fight a demon king on this world. (Based on the webnovel High Priest Rembrary) [more inside]
Party Down: KSGY-95 Prizewinner's Luau Season 3, Episode 4
The gang gets hired to work a laid-back radio promotion luau in Malibu, Calif.; things get weird as they decide to take mushrooms together.
March 25
Movie: The Woman in the Window
When a conservative middle aged professor engages in a relationship with a femme fatale, he's plunged into a nightmarish world of blackmail and murder. [more inside]
Top Chef: Cheeky Pints and Pub Bites Season 20, Episode 3
GABRI: The kitchen is freaking insane right now. There's a lot of chefs running like dogs in a boat. Have you ever
seen dogs in a boat?
It's like… [floundering]
Movie: The Killers
Look, you get to stare at Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner for almost two hours, what more do you need? But fine, fine: you get a boxing movie, a heist movie, star-crossed lovers, a noir detective movie, betrayal, and amazing costumes. [more inside]
Movie: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Steve Martin and Carl Reiner's homage to, and parody of, film noir. Private eye Rigby Reardon investigates the mysterious death of a famous scientist and cheesemaker on the request of his gorgeous daughter (Rachel Ward), and finds himself deep in a conspiracy with the lowest of the low. Using clips from famous movies of the 1940s seamlessly blended with original black and white scenes, this rises above gimmicky to be an entertaining and unique film.
Gowns by Edith Head.
Lost: Walkabout Rewatch Season 1, Episode 4
Don’t tell Locke what he can’t do. [more inside]
Yellowjackets: Friends, Romans, Countrymen Season 2, Episode 1
The survivors cope with falling rations and low morale. Season premiere.
March 24
Movie: Hansel and Gretel
A man on his way to help his sick mother crashes his car. Trying to find help, he mets a girl who takes him to her house in the woods. [more inside]
Servant: Final Season Season 4 (Full Season)
M. Night Shyamalan's Apple TV series about grief and creepy baby dolls comes to an end in its fourth season. [more inside]
Movie: John Wick: Chapter 4
John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes. [more inside]
Book: The Fifth Elephant
THE LOW KING IS DEAD! LONG LIVE THE LOW KING! Commander Sam Vimes, in his new role as Duke of Ankh, has been sent to lead a delegation to Überwald for the Coronation of the new Low King of the Dwarves. Coming along with him are Detritus the Troll, Cheery Littlebottom the Dwarf, and... well nobody seems to know where Angua is, so Carrot resigns his position of Captain to find her. A replica relic has been stolen and the proprietor of a condom factory has been murdered, but Fred Colon is in charge of the Watch for the time being, so everything's in good hands. It's all very political... (Discworld #24, City Watch #5.) By Terry Pratchett. [more inside]
Game Changer: Escape the Greenroom Season 5, Episode 9
Brennan Lee Mulligan, Siobhan Thompson, and Lou Wilson are locked in the greenroom and must get out before a bomb levels the studio! [more inside]
March 23
Shrinking: Closure Season 1, Episode 10
The wedding episode and season finale. Liz wants to partner with Sean. Jimmy cleans house. Alice gets "hot as shit" shoes. Paul, Gaby and Jimmy all have touching moments. And then... [more inside]
Movie: Empire of Light
A drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times, set in an English coastal town in the early 1980s.
Mystery Science Theater 3000: AT THE EARTH'S CORE Rewatch Season 11, Episode 14
Re-rewatch! Once again, it's the last episode of Season 11, the first Netflix season. People go to the center of Edgar Rice Burroughs Earth and meet dinos and cavefolk. It's Growler's first episode, and the episode of Kinga's ratings-stunt marriage that never ends up happening. It ends on a kind of cliffhanger, but Jonah's okay, he's outside the SOL in a space suit. Previously and again.
Movie: Man Hunt
British hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by German agents and aided by a young woman. [more inside]
Sweet Home: Sweet Home-Full 1st Season Season 1 (Full Season)
In the wake of a huge personal tragedy, a young man finds himself trapped in his apartment building with his fellow neighbors fighting to survive as humanity turns into monsters. [more inside]
Misfits: Episode Seventeen Season 3, Episode 4
Elderly Jew Friedrich Hirsch, having purchased Curtis's rewind power from power broker Seth, travels back to 1930s Berlin to kill Hitler. He fails, in doing so, dropping his cell phone, giving the Nazis technology which alters history so Germany wins the war. In the altered present, Britain is under Nazi control, and none of the misfits know each other. [more inside]
Star Trek: Picard: The Bounty Season 3, Episode 6
Fleeing a galactic manhunt, our outcast heroes infiltrate the Fleet Museum and Daystrom Station, where they make a shocking discovery about which of the relics was stolen by the enemy. [more inside]
March 22
Star Wars: The Bad Batch: Tipping Point Season 2, Episode 14
New information takes our heroes on a dangerous mission.
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: Dynamite 3/22 and Rampage 3/25 Season 4, Episode 25
Undefeated streaks and grudge matches are the order of the day, as Kenny Omega has his first televised singles match in quite a while against an old enemy from AAA. Meanwhile Stokely Hathaway faces HOOK, and Sting has his first match of 2023! [more inside]
Book: Jingo
TO ARMS! Ankh-Morpork gears up for War! The Fabled Island of Leshp has arisen in the Circle Sea, discovered simultaneously by fishermen from Ankh-Morpork and Klatch! Assassination attempt made on Prince Khufurah! Lord Vetinari runs off with Leonard of Quirm! Captain Carrot coaches local youths in Football! Corporal Nobbs tries to understand Women! Sergeant Angua receives a new Collar! And Commander Vimes grabs the wrong Dis-Organizer on his way out the door. (Discworld #21, City Watch #4.) By Terry Pratchett. [more inside]
Lost: Tabula Rasa Rewatch Season 1, Episode 3
Kate knows how to work a farm; Jack struggles to save the marshal. [more inside]
The Mandalorian: Chapter 20: The Foundling Season 3, Episode 4
Din and Bo-Katan spend time in the hidden Mandalorian covert.
March 21
Ted Lasso: (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea Season 3, Episode 2
Richmond decides to get a crazy/drama queen/trophy-winning Italian player. Trent Crimm, Independent, embeds with the team to write a book, which Roy is not happy about. Keeley reunites with an old friend and hires her for her organization. [more inside]
Movie: Dragonslayer
A young wizarding apprentice is sent to kill a dragon which has been devouring girls from a nearby kingdom. [more inside]
Book: Bea Wolf
Listen to the lives of the long-ago kids, the world-fighters,
The parent-unminding kids, the improper, the politeness-proof,
The unbowed bully-crushers,
The bedtime-breakers, the raspberry-blowers,
Fighters of fun-killers, fearing nothing, fated for fame. [more inside]
Movie: Almost Famous
A high-school boy in the early 1970s is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour.
Movie: The Lawnmower Man
A simple lawnmower man is turned into a genius through virtual reality, with dire side-effects. Not based on a Stephen King story.
Movie: Shazam! Fury of the Gods
The film continues the story of teenage Billy Batson who, upon reciting the magic word "SHAZAM!" is transformed into his adult Super Hero alter ego, Shazam.
Movie: The Quiet Girl
A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one. [more inside]
Movie: Joe Lycett: More, More, More! How Do You Lycett? How Do You Lycett?
Join Joe Lycett (the artist formerly known as Hugo Boss) doing what he does best: talking at a room of people in a queer and comedic fashion. His first tour in years promises to be packed with MORE jokes, MORE comedy anecdotes and MORE inappropriate and arguably disturbing paintings, all in the hope of answering the age-old question: How do you Lycett? How do you Lycett? [more inside]
Misfits: Episode Sixteen Season 3, Episode 3
Simon stops the mugging of a comic book fan named Peter. The two become fast friends until Alisha discovers Peter might be influencing Simon with powers of his own. [more inside]