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April 18
Movie: Mandela
A local barber's fate in a small Indian village turns overnight when he becomes the single deciding vote in the village elections. Trailer. Sneak Peek. (Turn on captions)
On Netflix now.
The Nevers: Exposure Season 1, Episode 2
With the city reeling from Maladie's opera debut, Mundi takes a personal stake in tracking her down. Amalia launches an investigation of her own and the charitable Lavinia Bidlow seeks to destigmatize the Touched at a society event. [IMDb] [more inside]
Creepshow: The Right Snuff/Sibling Rivalry Season 3, Episode 3
A misunderstanding in space ends in catastrophe and a woman fears her brother is trying to kill her.
April 17
Movie: Jathi Ratnalu
Three prisoners get released and plan for a happy life outside. Things take a new turn and bring in a twist. Can they find happiness and love now?
Movie: Spontaneous
When students in their high school begin inexplicably exploding (literally), seniors Mara and Dylan struggle to survive in a world where each moment may be their last. [more inside]
Movie: Dark City Beneath the Beat
Musical documentary reimagines the narrative of Baltimore, a city rising above social and economic turmoil to develop a vibrant and close-knit community for the arts through its homegrown sound, Baltimore club music. [more inside]
Them: Season 1 Season 1 (Full Season)
In the first season of Little Marvin's new Amazon horror anthology show Them, which follows 10 days in the lives of a Black family moving to Compton in 1953 during the course of the Great Migration, the horror arises as much from the racism endured by our protagonists as from the spooky occurrences happening in their new house. [more inside]
Taskmaster: Series 7 Season 7 (Full Season)
"I know it's early days. Are we the stupidest so far?" [more inside]
For All Mankind: Triage Season 2, Episode 9
The rivalry between American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts intensifies as last-minute changes impact the Pathfinder mission plan. [more inside]
April 16
Top Chef: Pan African Portland Season 18, Episode 3
The pressure is laid on the chefs in the Quickfire Challenge as they are tasked to make a layered dessert. Carrie Baird joins Padma to pick the winner. Gregory Gourdet and Kwame Onwuachi take the chefs on a tour of restaurants in Portland that feature food from the African diaspora. For the Elimination Challenge, the chefs must make dishes inspired by their tour for the judging and dining panel, as well as the restaurant's owners.
Movie: The Lady from Shanghai
Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot. [more inside]
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: Truth Season 1, Episode 5
Sam Wilson, Bucky Barnes, Baron Zemo, John Walker, and Karli Morgenthau must all deal with the fall out from their actions.
Invincible: You Look Kinda Dead Season 1, Episode 6
Mark tries to patch up things with Amber. They agree to visit at university with William, where strange things are afoot. Debbie pays a visit to Art. Debbie confronts Nolan. [more inside]
April 15
Infinity Train: Book 4 - Duet Season 4 (Full Season)
Min-Gi and Ryan are childhood best friends who dream of performing in a band and traveling across Canada, together. After a sudden falling out splits them apart, both find themselves aboard the mysterious Infinity Train. Lost and confused, they meet Kez, a free-spirited concierge bell, who accompanies them on their journey. As tensions rise and old wounds come to light, both Min-Gi and Ryan must decide if they can work together or else risk losing themselves forever aboard the Infinity Train.
Movie: The New Mutants
Five young mutants, just discovering their abilities while held in a secret facility against their will, fight to escape their past sins and save themselves. [more inside]
The Serpent: What does it take to catch a killer? Season 1 (Full Season)
This 8-part BBC/Netflix series starring Tahar Rahim and Jenna Coleman covers some of the twisting, real-life story of Charles Sobhraj, a murderer, thief and seductive master of disguise, who was a hidden darkness in the mid-70's on Asia's hippie trail. [more inside]
Mystery Science Theater 3000: VILLAGE OF THE GIANTS Rewatch Season 5, Episode 23
Rewatch! Little Ronnie Howard invents a growth "goo" that the angry teens in town get into and cause problems. The last Bert I. Gordon movie MST would cover (as of pre-Season 13). Previously.
Podcast: The Adventure Zone: Graduation Ep. 38: Finals
Where have all the good folks gone? Where is all of HOG? We need a streetwise thunderman to stop these scheming gods. Isn't there a Firbolg upon a flying steed? Reality is ripping, someone get me Argo Keene! We need some heroes. [more inside]
All That Glitters: Britain's Next Jewellery Star: Episode #1.1 Season 1, Episode 1
The 8 jewellers are set their first challenges by the judges. The Bestseller Challenge asks them to make three silver bangles each. For the Bespoke Challenge client Ben wants a pendant necklace for his mum to wear when meeting the Queen.
The Great British Sewing Bee: Episode 1 Season 7, Episode 1
The sewing competition returns for a seventh series and in week one the judges settle the contestants in with a trio of challenges based on everyday wardrobe staples - sleeveless blouses, t-shirts and dresses. [more inside]
Star Trek: The Next Generation: A Matter of Time Rewatch Season 5, Episode 9
While the Enterprise works to save Penthara IV from devastation, visiting Professor Berlinghoff Rasmussen takes advantage of a historic opportunity. [more inside]
April 14
Book: Broken (In the Best Possible Way)
Jenny Lawson's back with her third book, Broken (In the Best Possible Way). In it she chronicles her treatment with transcranial magnetic stimulation for depression, battles with hospital bills, and the many questions that come up in everyday life. Her husband Victor and her daughter (plus the many delightful animals both real and taxidermy) also make appearances throughout. [more inside]
April 13
Movie: The Clash: Westway to the World
A career retrospective of British punk band The Clash, featuring exclusive interviews with the entire band. - IMDB
Black Lightning: Painkiller Season 4, Episode 7
Grace is abducted while she and Anissa go to Akashic Valley for their honeymoon, and Khalil goes looking for Grace. (backdoor pilot for potential spinoff) [more inside]
April 12
The Nevers: Touched Season 1, Episode 1
Three years after an inexplicable event suddenly equips them with extraordinary abilities, Amalia True and Penance Adair work to protect their kind from widespread, deepening antipathy. Meanwhile, police inspector Frank Mundi investigates a string of murders at the hands of a reportedly Touched and highly dangerous serial killer named Maladie. [IMDb] [more inside]
Exterminate All the Brutes: Part One Season 1, Episode 1
Exterminate All the Brutes, from acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro, HBO’s Sometimes in April), is a four-part hybrid docuseries that provides a visually arresting journey through time, into the darkest hours of humanity. Through his personal voyage, Peck deconstructs the making and masking of history, digging deep into the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism — from America to Africa and its impact on society today. Trailer [more inside]
This is a Robbery: The World's Greatest Art Heist: (entire series) All Seasons
In 1990, two men dressed as cops con their way into a Boston museum and steal a fortune in art. Take a deep dive into this daring and notorious crime. [more inside]
Critical Role: Hunter and Hunted Season 2, Episode 133
As the Mighty Nein tentatively explore the edges of Aeor, they debate whether to delve further into mystery or hold the line and set traps for their rapidly approaching enemies...
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for SU2C: Anneka Rice, John Bishop, Nadine Coyle, Ade Adepitan Season 4, Episode 5
Anneka Rice, John Bishop, Nadine Coyle and Ade Adepitan tackle decorative choux buns and financiers before making a showstopping cake that represents something from their bucket list.
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Unification II Rewatch Season 5, Episode 8
On Romulus, Picard and Data meet with Spock, who claims to be trying to reunite the Romulans and Vulcans. While Spock works to achieve his goal, powers within the Romulan government seek to pervert his mission into an invasion of the Federation. [more inside]
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Long-Term Care Season 8, Episode 8
Prince Philip died. Matt Gaetz continues to face accusations of pedophilia and sex trafficking. President Biden promised to reverse Trump's refugee cap, but hasn't yet, and no one seems to know why. And Now: A Farewell Tribute to the Greatest Questions Ever Asked on Yahoo! Answers. Main story (23m): Nursing homes and assisted-living facilities in the US, and the serious problems that many of they have. And Now: A Few More of the Greatest Questions Ever Asked on Yahoo! Answers.
April 11
Movie: Local Hero
Mac (Peter Riegert), an ambitious mid-level executive at a Texas oil company is selected — mainly because his name seems Scottish — by his eccentric boss (Burt Lancaster) to travel to Scotland on a two-pronged mission: 1) to negotiate the purchase of Ferness, a remote fishing village with a beautiful beach that happens to be the perfect location for building a refinery to process North Sea petroleum, and 2) to keep his eyes peeled for anything unusual happening in the night sky. [more inside]
Movie: Bringing Up Baby
While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby. [more inside]
Movie: I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
First-time filmmaker and award-winning photographer Sam Jones documents the recording of Wilco's album, "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot." - IMDB
Podcast: Stuff The British Stole: A Tiger and a Scream
How a toy tiger became the symbol of a struggle between India and its former British colonisers [more inside]
Invincible: That Actually Hurt Season 1, Episode 5
Mark struggles with his obligations. Mark makes a new friend. Debbie finds a notebook. Eve struggles with family. [more inside]
Saturday Night Live: Carey Mulligan / Kid Cudi Season 46, Episode 17
First ever English host! [more inside]
April 10
For All Mankind: And Here’s to You Season 2, Episode 8
Gordo returns to space. Molly faces an upsetting new reality. Aleida confronts her first major hurdle at work. [more inside]
Movie: News of the World
A Texan (Tom Hanks) traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue a young girl who was kidnapped. [more inside]
April 9
Made for Love: Season One Season 1 (Full Season)
Hazel (Cristin Milioti), on the run after 10 years in a suffocating marriage to a tech billionaire, suddenly realizes that her husband has implanted a revolutionary monitoring device in her brain that allows him to track her every move. This American dark comedy television series is based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Alissa Nutting. [more inside]
Movie: Thunder Force
In a world where supervillains are commonplace, two estranged childhood best friends reunite after one devises a treatment that gives them powers to protect their city.
Top Chef: Trouble Brewing Season 18, Episode 2
The Chefs are in for a rude awakening when they enter the kitchen to find Padma and seven hungry all-star chefs [more inside]
Movie: I Am Dragon
In the midst of the wedding princess Miroslava is kidnapped by a dragon and carried away into his castle on the remote island. [more inside]
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: The Whole World is Watching Season 1, Episode 4
The show moves to the Balkans; some meditations of power. The Dora Milaje is unhappy, John Walker is unhappy, Sam Wilson is unhappy.
Podcast: The Adventure Zone: Graduation Ep. 37: Investment Opportunities
The Thundermen race to stop the machinations of the gods. But first, they have to make it past an army of demons and settle some unfinished business. Luckily, they have help. A lot of help. A paradox is solved. A wrong is righted. A resignation is accepted. It is the beginning of the end.
April 8
Mystery Science Theater 3000: TEEN-AGE CRIME WAVE Rewatch Season 5, Episode 22
Rewatch! This one's kind of a sleeper. Some teens break out of jail (where teens come from) and menace a farm family. Teens only get more dangerous with age, folks, and these are at least 30. Previously
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Unification I Rewatch Season 5, Episode 7
Picard and Data must go undercover as Romulans when Starfleet assigns the Enterprise to the search for Spock. [more inside]
Podcast: Harmontown: Nanjianimax
The gang gets back together one more time to catch up on everything since the show's finale. Special guests: Rob Schrab, Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon!
April 7
Kung Fu: Pilot Season 1, Episode 1
A quarter-life crisis causes a young Chinese American woman, Nicky Shen, to drop out of college and go on a life-changing journey to an isolated monastery in China. But when she returns to San Francisco, she finds her hometown is overrun with crime and corruption and her own parents are at the mercy of a powerful Triad. [more inside]
Supergirl: A Few Good Women Season 6, Episode 2
As the stakes with Lex are raised higher than ever before, Lena must decide how far she is willing to go to stop her brother. Meanwhile, Supergirl and the team are faced with a challenge unlike anything they've ever dealt with before and it brings Alex to her breaking point. [more inside]
The Flash: The One with The Nineties Season 7, Episode 6
Cisco and Chester travel back in time and get stuck in 1998. Meanwhile, Iris forges a connection with the speed force. [more inside]
Movie: The Father
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality. [more inside]
April 5
Book: A Desolation Called Peace
The sequel to A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine, winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel. [more inside]
Critical Role: Aeor Season 2, Episode 132
Having located the secret entrance to Aeor, the Mighty Nein take stock of what waits for them both above and below the ice...
Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Game Rewatch Season 5, Episode 6
Wesley Crusher visits the Enterprise only to see everyone behaving strangely on account of an addictive, mind-controlling game. [more inside]
Special Event: Blaseball Season 15
It's been two weeks of downtime, and now Blaseball is back for season 15 and I have no idea what's going on but apparently they did something with snacks and also maybe there are time-fish that can rewind innings? Come on in! [more inside]
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: The US National Debt Season 8, Episode 7
Another week from the White Void of Sad Facts. Right wing media loses their shit at a suggestive music video featuring Lil Nas X. Matt Gaetz is suspected of violating sex trafficing laws. A historic vote of whether to unionize has taken place among workers at an Amazon fulfillment center, which Amazon has fought in ludicrous ways, including anti-union propaganda in bathrooms. And Now: Some Very Unwelcome News Regarding Peeps. (It's the Peeps & Pepsi promotion.) Main story (22m): the US National Debt, and the massive disingenuousness with which it has been portrayed by Republicans. A lot of interesting information in this one! [more inside]
April 4
Saturday Night Live: Daniel Kaluuya / St. Vincent Season 46, Episode 16
Cut for time: [more inside]
April 3
Movie: Slaxx
When a possessed pair of jeans begins to kill the staff of a trendy clothing store, it is up to Libby, an idealistic young salesclerk, to stop its bloody rampage. [more inside]
Better Off Ted: Season Two Season 2 (Full Season)
The second (and final) season of ABC's satirical comedy about the staff of the product development team at an ethically bankrupt corporation.
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