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April 7

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]
posted by oh yeah! at 5:06 PM - 1 comment

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]
posted by flabdablet at 4:38 AM - 1 comment

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]
posted by signal at 5:30 PM - 9 comments

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...
posted by nubs at 12:18 PM - 12 comments

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]
posted by hanov3r at 11:25 AM - 28 comments

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]
posted by cortex at 9:17 AM - 11 comments

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]
posted by JHarris at 1:20 AM - 9 comments

April 4

Saturday Night Live: Daniel Kaluuya / St. Vincent  Season 46, Episode 16

Cut for time: [more inside]
posted by rhizome at 11:43 AM - 31 comments

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]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 8:20 AM - 7 comments

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.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 8:10 AM - 4 comments

Better Off Ted: Season One  Season 1 (Full Season)

The satirical office comedy about successful good guy, Ted, who runs research and development at the morally questionable Veridian Dynamics. No achievement is too far-fetched and no invention too unorthodox for Veridian. Ted's a single dad to a seven-year-old girl, and he loves his job, but he's starting to take a closer look at the company's extremely dubious practices.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 8:03 AM - 10 comments

Taskmaster: Series 6  Season 6 (Full Season)

Greg Davies is the Taskmaster. "Little" Alex Horne is the Taskmaster's assistant. Alice Levine, Asim Chaudhry, Liza Tarbuck, Russell Howard and Tim Vine are the contestants. Episodes are available on YouTube in the USA, and on the Channel 4 website in the UK. [more inside]
posted by Huffy Puffy at 7:50 AM - 14 comments

April 2

Invincible: Neil Armstrong, Eat Your Heart Out  Season 1, Episode 4

While tensions mount at home, Mark goes on a long trip. [more inside]
posted by Fleebnork at 6:25 PM - 6 comments

For All Mankind: Don’t be Cruel  Season 2, Episode 7

Ellen is challenged by her new role; Margo's alliances are put to the test; Karen explores new opportunities -- personally and professionally. [more inside]
posted by cardboard at 4:45 PM - 8 comments

Station 19: Full Season 4  Season 4 (Full Season)

This spinoff of the critically acclaimed show Grey's Anatomy follows the lives of the men and women of firehouse station 19 in Seattle, Washington.
posted by ellieBOA at 8:42 AM - 3 comments

Book: Tales from Earthsea

The tales of this book explore and extend the world established by the Earthsea novels—yet each stands on its own. It contains the novella “The Finder”, and the short stories “The Bones of the Earth”, “Darkrose and Diamond”, “On the High Marsh”, and “Dragonfly”. (Book 5 of the Earthsea cycle) [more inside]
posted by Cash4Lead at 6:36 AM - 5 comments

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: Power Broker  Season 1, Episode 3

Sam and Bucky go to a criminal safe haven to find information about the Super Soldier serum. [more inside]
posted by Pronoiac at 1:58 AM - 72 comments

Movie: The Letter

The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense, but a letter in her own hand may prove her undoing. [more inside]
posted by Carillon at 1:23 AM - 1 comment

April 1

Manifest: Tailfin  Season 3, Episode 1

Ben heads on an international mission with Vance to seek a clue in hopes of finally unlocking the mystery of Flight 828. An intense calling leads newlyweds Michaela and Zeke on an adventure of their own. A guilt-ridden Saanvi attempts to forget her past sins by starting a new chapter. Jared's interest is piqued by an intriguing stranger. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! at 6:24 PM - 4 comments

Podcast: Friends at the Table: Sangfielle 03: The Curse of Eastern Folly Pts. 1-3

The tablefriends play The Ground Itself and create a Haven to be a base in their upcoming weird/gothic western season, Sangfielle. [more inside]
posted by Maecenas at 8:48 AM - 5 comments

The Alienist: Better Angels  Season 2, Episode 8

The case is brought to a close, and Sara, John, and Laszlo struggle with decisions about their future paths.
posted by orange swan at 3:57 AM - 4 comments

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Disaster  Rewatch   Season 5, Episode 5

Each senior officer gets trapped in an uncomfortable social, biological, and/or respiratory situation when a quantum filament disables the Enterprise, stranding the crew in various parts of the ship. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil at 3:38 AM - 12 comments

Resident Alien: Heroes of Patience (Season Finale)  Season 1, Episode 10

D'arcy gets blindsided, Deputy Liv gets suspicious, the kids know everything.
posted by porpoise at 2:28 AM - 14 comments

March 31

Mystery Science Theater 3000: RADAR SECRET SERVICE  Rewatch   Season 5, Episode 20

Rewatch! The new space-age miracle science of RADAR will solve all problems, including that of catching criminals. The movie is a drag, but riffing on the short, Last Clear Chance, about a policeman who ominously shows up at a family home to issue dire warnings about traffic safety around railroad tracks, is terrific. Previously.
posted by JHarris at 10:08 PM - 2 comments

Supergirl: Rebirth  Season 6, Episode 1

As Brainiac lays close to death after trying to stop Lex, Supergirl and team soar in to save him, engaging in an epic battle with Gamenmae. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! at 6:54 PM - 1 comment

The Flash: Fear Me  Season 7, Episode 5

A powerful new villain channels and amplifies everyone's fears to wreak havoc on Central City. To take down this new threat, Barry must face his own worst fear. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! at 6:24 PM - 1 comment

Movie: Godzilla vs. Kong

Monke fite nucular dinasour!
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 4:35 PM - 37 comments

The Alienist: Last Exit to Brooklyn  Season 2, Episode 7

Sara, Laszlo, and John travel to Brooklyn to investigate the killer's dark past.
posted by orange swan at 4:31 PM - 1 comment

American Gods: Season 3  Books Included   Season 3 (Full Season)

Shadow Moon moves to Lakeside, Wisconsin under a new name to hide.
posted by porpoise at 2:56 PM - 8 comments

The One: Full Season 1  Season 1 (Full Season)

Love -- and lies -- spiral when a DNA researcher helps discover a way to find the perfect partner, and creates a bold new matchmaking service.
posted by ellieBOA at 9:21 AM - 5 comments

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for SU2C: Stacey Dooley, Jade Thirlwall, KSI, Katherine Ryan  Season 4, Episode 4

Stacey Dooley, Jade Thirlwall, KSI, and Katherine Ryan make cocktail-flavoured fondant fancies and have their pastry skills tested, before creating a showstopping biscuit and meringue scene.
posted by ellieBOA at 6:42 AM - 4 comments

March 30

Movie: The Terminal

Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks) is a man without a country; his plane took off just as a coup d'etat exploded in his homeland, leaving it in shambles, and now he's stranded at Kennedy Airport, where he's holding a passport that nobody recognizes. While quarantined in the transit lounge until authorities can figure out what to do with him, Viktor simply goes on living... and courts romance with a beautiful flight attendant (Catherine Zeta Jones). [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 5:48 PM - 3 comments

The Alienist: Momento Mori  Season 2, Episode 6

Sara and John continue to search for information about Libby. Laszlo is barred from practicing after a tragic accident. Sara and the team are compelled to work with Thomas Byrnes after another baby is abducted.
posted by orange swan at 7:27 AM - 2 comments

March 29

The Alienist: Belly of the Beast  Season 2, Episode 5

The team discover the fate of the matron of the Lying-In Hospital, and now that they know whom they are looking for, they work to find the killer and save the Linares baby. [more inside]
posted by orange swan at 4:24 PM - 0 comments

Movie: X: The Unheard Music

This film is a documentary about the personalities in, and the music of, the early 1980's Los Angeles punk band X. - IMDB
posted by The corpse in the library at 1:44 PM - 1 comment

Critical Role: Into the Eye  Season 2, Episode 131

After wrapping up with family and steeling their nerves, the Mighty Nein return to the frozen peaks and valleys of Eiselcross to weigh allies and plot their next course of action...
posted by nubs at 12:09 PM - 8 comments

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Silicon Avatar  Rewatch   Season 5, Episode 4

The Enterprise gives chase to the Crystalline Entity after it destroys a Federation colony. A xenologist, who has a motivation all her own with respect to the Crystalline Entity, is assigned to the Enterprise to assist in the investigations. [more inside]
posted by hanov3r at 9:01 AM - 14 comments

March 28

Grey's Anatomy: Season 17  Season 17 (Full Season)

Grey's Anatomy continues to produce new episodes of television.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 7:27 PM - 20 comments

Book: The Devil You Know

Writes Blow: "The proposition is simple. As many Black descendants of the Great Migration as possible should return to the South from which their ancestors fled." By concentrating their political power in key Southern cities, Blow posits, Black Americans will be able to effect actual social change. "The mission begins with the states, which are the true centers of power in this country, and as such control the lion's share of the issues that bedevil Black lives: criminal justice, judicial processes, education, health care, economic opportunity and assistance." - - Hope Wabuke
posted by The corpse in the library at 5:46 PM - 1 comment

The Alienist: Gilded Cage  Season 2, Episode 4

Señora Linares works with Laszlo to put her finger on exactly what troubled her during her visit to the park on the day of her daughter's abduction, and Bitsy Sussman, whom Sara has assigned to work undercover at the Lying-In Hospital, tries to find out what is going on there. William Randolph Hearst hosts a lavish ball celebrating his goddaughter Violet's engagement to John.
posted by orange swan at 3:51 PM - 1 comment

Line of Duty: Episode 2  Season 6, Episode 2

As with all things Line of Duty nothing is clear, anything could be possible (apart from Steve wearing waistcoats). [more inside]
posted by I shot a fox in Skyrim and it made me sad at 2:03 PM - 1 comment

Saturday Night Live: Maya Rudolph / Jack Harlow  Season 46, Episode 15

First non-political cold open in a long time! [more inside]
posted by rhizome at 1:25 AM - 28 comments

March 27

Movie: His Girl Friday

A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying. [more inside]
posted by Carillon at 6:58 PM - 13 comments

Invincible: Who You Calling Ugly?  Season 1, Episode 3

Cecil directs Robot to choose a new Guardians of the Globe. Mark has a study date with Amber. The Mauler Twins are on the loose. Damien Darkblood asks Debbie a few questions. [more inside]
posted by Fleebnork at 3:08 PM - 4 comments

Invincible: Here Goes Nothing  Season 1, Episode 2

While Omni-Man is indisposed, Invincible helps the Teen Team fend off an extradimensional invasion by the Flaxans. [more inside]
posted by Fleebnork at 3:03 PM - 6 comments

Solar Opposites: Full Season 2  Season 2 (Full Season)

A family of aliens move to middle America, where they debate whether life is better there or on their home planet.
posted by ellieBOA at 1:38 PM - 1 comment

Book: Hench

Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a job. Working for a monster lurking beneath the surface of the world isn’t glamorous. But is it really worse than working for an oil conglomerate or an insurance company? In this economy? [more inside]
posted by DowBits at 1:29 PM - 3 comments

The Alienist: Labyrinth  Season 2, Episode 3

Sara probes into the doings of the Lying-In Hospital and tries to persuade a young nurse to disclose what happens behind closed doors. Laszlo is convinced that hypnosis might help Señora Linares to access memories that be useful to the case. John has his bachelor party.
posted by orange swan at 10:38 AM - 1 comment

For All Mankind: Best-Laid Plans  Season 2, Episode 6

American astronauts and NASA leadership prepare for a new mission with unlikely partners; Ellen gets in touch with an old friend. [more inside]
posted by cardboard at 4:35 AM - 6 comments

March 26

Invincible: It’s About Time  Season 1, Episode 1

Mark Grayson has been waiting his entire life to gain super powers, like his dad, Omni-Man. Today, his life changes in more ways than one. [more inside]
posted by Fleebnork at 8:45 PM - 12 comments

The Amber Ruffin Show: March 26, 2021  Season 1, Episode 21

A funny late night TV show exists and entirely too few people are watching. You say you want better representation and here is a black woman as transcendently silly as Conan, as cutting and issue-focused as John Oliver, and you still don't watch. And you say that's because she's on Peacock? Okay... fair hit. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 7:31 PM - 8 comments

The Alienist: Something Wicked  Season 2, Episode 2

Sara uncovers a clue at the Siegel Cooper Department Store that leads her and John into dangerous territory. Laszlo suspects dark goings-on at the Lying-In Hospital, while former Police Chief Thomas Byrnes plots against their investigations.
posted by orange swan at 3:55 PM - 1 comment

Taskmaster: Champion of Champions  Season 5 (Specials)

The Champions! THE CHAAAAMPIOOONS!! The champions of series 1 to 5 compete in a 2-episode special to crown the Champion of Champions. (Note: post and links contains list of previous-season champions.) Episodes are available on the Taskmaster YouTube channel in the USA, and on Channel 4's website in the UK. [more inside]
posted by Huffy Puffy at 3:06 PM - 4 comments

Superstore: All Sales Final  Season 6, Episode 15

The employees celebrate the past, present and future of Cloud 9. [more inside]
posted by tonycpsu at 12:21 PM - 5 comments

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: The Star-Spangled Man  Season 1, Episode 2

John Walker is named Captain America, and Sam and Bucky team up against a rebel group.
posted by Pronoiac at 2:30 AM - 73 comments

March 25

The Alienist: Ex Ore Infantium  Season 2, Episode 1

One year after the events of the first season, Sara Howard, John Moore, and Dr. Laszlo Kreizler try to prevent the execution of a mother accused of murdering her missing newborn daughter, and then, along with city detectives Lucius and Marcus Isaacson, become involved in the search for the abducted infant daughter of a visiting Spanish dignitary.
posted by orange swan at 7:52 PM - 1 comment

Movie: Attack the Block

A teen gang in South London defend their block from an alien invasion. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 6:41 PM - 12 comments

Book: Leave the World Behind

Anyone else in the mood for a tightly-written disaster novel that's more interested in people's responses to an emergency than in the emergency itself? Rumaan Alam's Leave the World Behind is a dread-packed piece about two families forced to hunker down together during an uncertain, unsettling period of world-altering events. It was a finalist in the National Book Awards 2020 for Fiction, and is Alam's third novel. [more inside]
posted by MonkeyToes at 4:15 PM - 11 comments

Resident Alien: Welcome Aliens  Season 1, Episode 9

Harry and Asta attend an alien convention, MiBs visit with the Hawthornes, Liv is vindicated.
posted by porpoise at 3:44 PM - 10 comments

Podcast: The Adventure Zone: Graduation Ep. 36: Reunions

With all the hustle and bustle of life, it's so easy to lose touch. That's why it's nice when there's an important life event (two gods trying to open a rift to hell) to bring us all together! So, let's get connected! Send a g-mail! Visit someone's house! Tear down these walls!
posted by Tevin at 1:51 PM - 20 comments