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October 24
Movie: Viking
A sly, deadpan Canadian comedy about a team of non-astronauts sent into isolation in a desert on Earth because their personalities match the members of an actual ongoing Mars mission that's having interpersonal conflicts. The earthbound team is tasked with mirroring the real astronauts' behavior and coming up with solutions to the Martian team's psychological problems. 100% on RT with 9 reviews, free on Tubi and other options, mostly in French with English subtitles.
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MetaFilter is beginning the transition to becoming a non-profit (seee this thread ) and to begin that process, a temporary transitional board is needed. This board of volunteers would establish a basic framework for the future site, along with defining what to look for in an Executive Director
We have several volunteers already, but most are based in the United States and have similar backgrounds, so we’re casting our net wider to encourage a more globally diverse board.
Interested? Let us know in the October 18, 2023 MetaTalk thread about changing the site to nonprofit.
October 23
Miracle Brothers: Miracle Brothers (aka Miraculous Brothers) Season 1 (Full Season)
An aspiring writer deep in debt encounters a young man with no memories and strange abilities. Together they fight injustice and form an unlikely bond. [more inside]
The Fall of the House of Usher: The Raven Season 1, Episode 8
In 1980, Roderick and Madeline seize a chance to cement their fortune—for a price. Decades later, the remaining Ushers reckon with the consequences. [more inside]
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: McKinsey Season 10, Episode 14
This week... things that continue: the hostage situation in Gaza, the US House continues failing to elect a new Speaker, and New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez facing corruption charges. And Now: Some Things That Turn Stuart Varney On. The main story is management consultants McKinsey & Company, a gigantic organization that advises huge corporations and government agencies alike. They have a pretty high opinion of themselves, while keeping a low profile. "They are, without question, the go-to consultants for managers seeking justification for savage cost cutting[...]as well as a convenient scapegoat on which to blame it." (Duff McDonald, The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence) The episode finishes with a LWT-made "commercial" for McKinsey, who are "capable of anything, and culpable for nothing." The McKinsey segment is on Youtube. (27 minutes) [more inside]
Saturday Night Live: Bad Bunny Season 49, Episode 2
I think it was Lady Gaga who introduced the first song. [more inside]
October 22
Rick and Morty: The Jerrick Trap Season 7, Episode 2
Rick and Jerry swap minds. [more inside]
Rick and Morty: How Poopy Got His Poop Back Season 7, Episode 1
Rick and friends have a wild night with Mr. Poopybutthole during a rough time in his life. [Season 7 Premiere, as well as New Voice Actors Premiere] [more inside]
Creepshow: George Romero in 3-D/ Baby Teeth Season 4, Episode 6
Two stories concerning single mothers-one running a bookstore on the verge of eviction and another dealing with her teenage daughter recovering from having teeth extracted.
Movie: Killers of the Flower Moon
Members of the Osage tribe in the United States are murdered under mysterious circumstances in the 1920s, sparking a major F.B.I. investigation involving J. Edgar Hoover. [more inside]
The Fall of the House of Usher: The Pit and the Pendulum Season 1, Episode 7
A furious Frederick sets out to handle unfinished business. Madeline receives an ominous message at an old haunt. Dupin grows wary of Roderick's motives. [more inside]
October 21
Movie: Last Stop Larrimah
Nestled deep in the Australian Outback is the town of Larrimah and its 11 eccentric residents. When one of them mysteriously disappears into thin air, the remaining residents become suspects and a long history of infighting is unveiled. [more inside]
AEW Collision: October 21, 2023 & Battle of the Belts VIII Season 1, Episode 19
Eat a hearty dinner, because AEW goes long tonight. Emnating from Memphis this evening, Collision will be immediately followed by Battle of the Belts VIII, for a grand total of 8 announced matches including four title defenses. [more inside]
Creepshow: Something Burrowed, Something Blue/Doodles Season 4, Episode 5
A woman's rich, but estranged father wants to make amends by gifting her a wedding. A fledgling cartoonist struggles to get published. [more inside]
The Fall of the House of Usher: Goldbug Season 1, Episode 6
Pym digs up disturbing information on Verna. With her marriage on the decline, Tamerlane hosts a turbulent product launch that shatters expectations. [more inside]
October 20
Bob's Burgers: The Amazing Rudy Season 14, Episode 2
Rudy prepares for an awkward night out with his divorced parents and their new partners. Meanwhile, the Belchers make an important casserole. [more inside]
Gen V: First Day Season 1, Episode 2
The Godolkin University Mental Health Hotline would like to remind students at this difficult time that you are not alone. You might be bulletproof on the outside, but you're not on the inside. Our caring staff is trained to deal with the specific emotional needs of superheroes and they're here to help you. If you need to talk to someone, help is just a phone call or vMessage away. #GodUCares (Content warnings: various) [more inside]
Lessons in Chemistry: Living Dead Things Season 1, Episode 3
A surprising discovery leaves Elizabeth feeling isolated and alone, but she finds comfort in her new friendship with Harriet.
Quantum Leap (2022): Let's do the time warp again... Season 2 (Full Season)
This thread is for discussing the second season of the new Quantum Leap, which so far doesn't have any timey-whimey stuff apart from its usual "victim-of-the-week" procedural. Enjoying it so far, especially Ben's angst, but hoping for more of the time war that we saw in the season 1 finale.
The Fall of the House of Usher: The Tell-Tale Heart Season 1, Episode 5
Victorine inches closer to testing her heart technology on a patient until tensions erupt between her and Alessandra. Dupin makes a chilling confession. [more inside]
Loki: 1893 Season 2, Episode 3
Loki and Mobius go on the hunt for everyone's favorite cartoon clock as they try to save the TVA.
October 19
Our Flag Means Death: Man on Fire Season 2, Episode 7
As Blackbeard reevaluates his life, Stede revels in his newfound infamy. With some help from Jim, Oluwande reunites with a hesitant Zheng. [more inside]
Welcome to Wrexham: Glove Triangle Season 2, Episode 9
The return of Rob Lainton complicates the goalie situation while Co-Chairmen Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds make a difficult roster decision.
Welcome to Wrexham: The Grind Season 2, Episode 8
Injuries, the weather, and a brutal schedule test Wrexham AFC as the team enters do or die time.
Our Flag Means Death: Calypso's Birthday Season 2, Episode 6
While the crew celebrates Calypso's birthday, Blackbeard faces a violent party-crasher seeking revenge. [more inside]
Doom Patrol: Immortimas Patrol Season 4, Episode 9
The Doom Patrol emerge from an apocalyptic event transformed. [more inside]
One Piece: The Girl With the Sawfish Tattoo Season 1, Episode 7
In the present Nami rejoins her place in Arlong's crew while Luffy and the Straw Hats come to try to get her back. In the past we learn of her painful backstory and how she came to join Arlong in the first place. Finally, past and present collide.
Also Garp and Zeff have a conversation over a nice meal. It's nice when possible adversaries can just talk things out instead of resorting to violence. [more inside]
Special Event: Cinematic Titanic: WAR OF THE INSECTS
a.k.a. "Genocide." In this Japanese-made horror movie, the bugs hate people. The bugs attack people. There's an atomic bomb involved too, that can't be good. Released on DVD in 2011.
Movie: The Others
In 1945, just after the close of World War II, Grace, a devout Catholic, lives an unendurable sort of life on the Channel island of Jersey, with a husband missing in action and presumed dead, and an isolated family mansion that must be kept dark because her two young children, Anne and Nicholas, are photosensitive. When she and her children start to see and hear inexplicable things, she begins to fear for her own and her children's safety. [more inside]
Star Trek: Lower Decks: Caves Season 4, Episode 8
Cave missions: when you need to do a bottle episode but don't want it to seem like one, there's always the cave set. [pause] But LD is an animated series... it doesn't use--never mind. [more inside]
The Fall of the House of Usher: The Black Cat Season 1, Episode 4
Leo adopts a black cat who soon brings evil--and a mysterious woman--into his home, while Roderick struggles with terrifying hallucinations. [more inside]
October 18
Destined with You: Destined with You Season 1 (Full Season)
A lawyer bound by a centuries-old curse becomes entangled with a civil servant who holds the key to his freedom — igniting an unexpected romance. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: Dynamite 10/18/23 and Rampage 10/20/23 Season 5, Episode 3
Dynamite celebrates returning to it's regular slot by hosting a battle royale, a joshi queen, and featuring Kenny Omega and Jay White in two separate matches. But it might be words that hurt worst this time, as a few talking segments have potential to turn on the melodrama this week. [more inside]
The Great British Bake Off: Chocolate Week Season 14, Episode 4
It's Chocolate Week, and the bakers take on a tricky torte and a showstopping chocolate box. Who can smoothly make it through to the next week, and who'll have a meltdown?
The Morning Show: Strict Scrutiny Season 3, Episode 7
Harsh reality collides with an opulent night celebrating fashion. Cory and Bradley visit a crucial player in the potential sale of UBA. [more inside]
The Fall of the House of Usher: Murder in the Rue Morgue Season 1, Episode 3
In charge of the Ushers' publicity, Camille conspires to spin controversy in her family's favor and expose the grim details of her sister's experiments. [more inside]
Invasion: Breakthrough Season 2, Episode 9
A dangerous trip to the alien mothership results in a connection across dimensions.
October 17
Book: Thief of Time
The Auditors of Reality have come up with a plan to finally rid existence of human unpredictability once and for all so that they may finally bask in a universe of perfect order, a plan which sweeps up the Disc's greatest clockmaker, a centuries-old temple-sweeper, a former thieves guild member turned troublesome apprentice monk, a very effective schoolteacher, and the schoolteacher's grandfather who also goes by the name of Death... (Discworld #26, Death #5) By Terry Pratchett. [more inside]
The Fall of the House of Usher: The Masque of the Red Death Season 1, Episode 2
Motivated by money and revenge, Perry hosts an exclusive masque-rave that takes a twisted turn. A young Roderick pitches a revolutionary new opioid. [more inside]
October 16
Beckham: Full Series Season 1 (Full Season)
This four-episode documentary series follows the life and career of Mr. Posh Spice, David Beckham. Directed by Fisher Stevens (Short Circuit, Succession, and The Cove), it is an in-depth look at his life both on and off the pitch.
Movie: Blanquita
Blanca, an 18-year-old foster home resident, is the key witness in a scandal involving kids, politicians and rich men taking part in sex parties. Yet, the more questions are asked, the less clear it becomes what Blanca's role in the scandal exactly is. [more inside]
The Fall of the House of Usher: A Midnight Dreary Season 1, Episode 1
A wealthy CEO faces a criminal investigation amid tragedy, trauma, and a supernatural threat. The Usher family learns an informant lurks among them. [more inside]
Creepshow: Meet the Belaskos/Cheat Code Season 4, Episode 4
New neighbors move into an "integrated" neighborhood causing tensions to rise, and a father attempts to bond with his teenage son using a vintage video game.
Movie: The Conference
A Swedish movie about a "team-building conference" for a small group of people with horrible jobs that is looking like it's going to be exactly what I needed this supremely irritating WFH Monday. Netflix seems to think it's a horror movie, but I think it's going to be like sinking into a hot bubble bath while drinking cocktails made from Amarula and demerol and eating a few pounds of warm chocolate chip cookies. [more inside]
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Food Safety and the FDA Season 10, Episode 13
This week... a cold open about the situation in Gaza. The US House voted out Speaker Kevin McCarthy, and replacing him won't be easy. And Now: Jim Cramer Is Totally Untroubled By His Haters. The main story (Youtube, 20 minutes) involves food safety and the failings of the Food & Drug Administration in ensuring it. And Now: Check Out The Sexual Tension Between Fox Business' Liz Claman And Charlie Gasparino. [more inside]
October 15
Creepshow: Parent Deathtrap/To Grandmother's House We Go Season 4, Episode 3
Nothing Lyle does is good enough for his parents, and a woman attempts to bring her daughter to see her ailing great aunt.
Creepshow: The Hat/Grieving Process Season 4, Episode 2
A novelist who wants to achieve greatness is gifted the hat of his literary idol, and after a terrible accident, a husband struggles to reconnect with his wife. [more inside]
Book: Elder care book club
This is the 1st iteration of the elder care book club that will have an asynchronous discussion here in FanFare and perhaps a live, virtual meeting to cap off the conversation. The goal is to create a space for learning and mutual compassion as we all support the elders (parents, relatives, chosen family) in our lives.
The first book is Creative Care: A Revolutionary Approach to Dementia and Elder Care by Anne Basting. For those who would be able to listen to a podcast interview but not read a book, here's an episode of Zestful Aging that features Anne Basting (43 min, 2020). [more inside]
Saturday Night Live: Pete Davidson / Ice Spice Season 49, Episode 1
Writer's strike is over! [more inside]
Movie: Troop Beverly Hills
A soon to be divorced Beverly Hills socialite is determined to prove to her husband and herself that she can finish what she starts out to do, by becoming a den mother to a troop of Beverly Hills Girl Scouts. [more inside]
October 14
Movie: Dog Soldiers
A squad of British soldiers on training in the lonesome Scottish wilderness find a wounded Special Forces captain and the remains of his team. [more inside]
AEW Collision: October 14, 2023 Season 1, Episode 18
All the main feuds on Collision get rolled into a big spicy goulash this week, also three title defenses, the return of some faces that haven't gotten much TV time in a while, and CJ and Miro flirt in the weirdest way. (This post is going up late because of NY Comic Con, so some commentary borrowed from Wrestling Observer.) [more inside]
Creepshow: Twenty Minutes with Cassandra/Smile Season 4, Episode 1
A woman chased by a monster seeks help and an award winning photographer is stalked.
October 13
Welcome to Wrexham: Giant Killers Season 2, Episode 7
The FA Cup provides Wrexham a chance to live up to its storied past and to take on teams playing many leagues above them.
Doom Patrol: Fame Patrol Season 4, Episode 8
Casey and Dorothy try to lift our heroes' spirits, with predictable results. Meanwhile, an evil space god (or something) embarks on an adorable reign of terror that only Rouge seems to notice.
Doom Patrol: Orqwith Patrol Season 4, Episode 7
Cliff and Jane go to some weird other dimension I can't remember the backstory about to reclaim Jane's immortality, which was stolen by this Dollar Tree version of Jake Gyllenhall. Rita and Madame Rouge get drunk and Madame Rouge tells a weird gross story that's supposed to be funny but kind of just makes me uncomfortable.
Lessons in Chemistry: Her and Him Show Only Season 1, Episode 2
In pursuit of a prestigious grant, Elizabeth and Calvin join forces in the lab. Their partnership yields unexpected results.
Lessons in Chemistry: Little Miss Hastings Show Only Season 1, Episode 1
Elizabeth, a brilliant but frustrated lab technician in the 1950s, is punished after she's caught conducting her own research after hours.
Loki: Breaking Brad Season 2, Episode 2
With the TVA on the verge of a temporal meltdown, Loki and Mobius will stop at nothing to find Sylvie.
October 12
Movie: Assassination
Assassination is a 2015 South Korean period action spy film co-written and directed by Choi Dong-hoon. The film, mainly set in 1930s Seoul and Shanghai during the Japanese occupation of Korea, depicts a group of Korean resistance fighters' plan to assassinate a highly ranked Japanese officer. (via Wikipedia) [more inside]
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