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January 5
Movie: Swing Kids (2018)
In this swinging musical drama set during the Korean War, the soldiers at the Geoje prison camp plan a tap show to distract both themselves and the prisoners from the hardships of war. Led by a former Broadway dancer and a rebellious North Korean soldier, the band of prisoners find a new sense of freedom in dancing. Based on Korean musical "Rho Ki-Soo," written by Jang Woo-Sung and directed by Kim Tae Hyung.
Runaways: Last Rites Season 2, Episode 7
I don't think anyone expected what happened in this episode. [more inside]
Runaways: Bury Another Season 2, Episode 6
Gert finally gets medical treatment, but at the cost of her relationship. Nico and Carolina are also having issues. The Runaways carry out a rescue mission. [more inside]
January 4
Runaways: Rock Bottom Season 2, Episode 5
Topher has a mental breakdown and Gert's not feeling so hot herself. People underestimate Robert and maybe they shouldn't. Karolina finds out about her father's people's origins a bit. [more inside]
RuPaul's All Stars Drag Race: Jersey Justice Season 4, Episode 4
The queens improv cases on “Jersey Justice”, a courtroom show with judge Michelle Visage.
The Masked Singer: Mask On Face Off Season 1, Episode 1
Per the official description: "Six undercover celebrity singers don animal masks to conceal their identity as they perform before host Nick Cannon and panelists Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger, and Robin Thicke, who try to guess the identity of the singer." [more inside]
Star Trek: Short Treks: The Escape Artist Season 1, Episode 4
Harcourt Fenton Mudd tries to talk his way out of a tight spot with an angry Tellarite. [more inside]
The Orville: Primal Urges Season 2, Episode 2
The Orville crew observes a planet being consumed by its star, Bortus is distracted. [more inside]
January 3
Tidying Up with Marie Kondo: Spark joy! Season 1 (Full Season)
As Netflix continues to try to dominate more and more TV, it is coming for HGTV with a series of inspiring home makeovers, world-renowned tidying expert Marie Kondo helps clients clear out the clutter -- and choose joy.
Movie: Bad Times at the El Royale
Circa 1969, several strangers, most with a secret to bury, meet by chance at Lake Tahoe's El Royale, a rundown hotel with a dark past. Over the course of one night, everyone will show their true colors - before everything goes to hell.
January 2
La Trêve (The Break) Full Season Season 1 (Full Season)
The body of 19 year old Driss Assani, a footballer with Heiderfeld football club is pulled out of the river Semois, a stones throw from Heiderfeld, a small town of a few thousand inhabitants in the Belgian Ardennes. The investigation is led by Inspector Yoann Peeters, who has recently moved there after a domestic tragedy, accompanied by Sebastian Drummer, an idealistic and inexperienced young police officer.
Mystery Science Theater 3000: THE DAY TIME ENDED Season 12, Episode 4
"The World Became a Living Hell... When Past, Present and Future Collided...." It certainly did. I'm not even sure what's going on here. Some supernovas happen, and then a family sensibly living in the middle of the desert have crazy encounters with aliens, there's some kind of time-space shenanigans, and by the end you're not sure if they're all in the afterlife or on a journey to an alien city. Solar power may have had something to do with it. Kicking off the second half of (Kinga hand gesture) The Gauntlet, this may be the most challenging film of the sextet. The highlight is a surprise host segment visit from an old friend who, after over 200 episodes, is no longer "missing".... [more inside]
Book: There There
Tommy Orange’s There There is the story of twelve unforgettable characters, Urban Indians living in Oakland, California, who converge and collide on one fateful day. As we learn the reasons that each person is attending the Big Oakland Powwow—some generous, some fearful, some joyful, some violent—momentum builds toward a shocking yet inevitable conclusion that changes everything. [more inside]
Book: The Parking Lot Attendant
"A mesmerizing, indelible coming-of-age story about a girl in Boston's tightly-knit Ethiopian community who falls under the spell of a charismatic hustler out to change the world."
Movie: Body Heat
In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman (Kathleen Turner) convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer (William Hurt), to murder her rich husband (Richard Crenna).
Book: Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube
A young woman confronting her fears and finding home in the North. Blair Braverman fell in love with the North at an early age: By the time she was nineteen, she had left her home in California, moved to Norway to learn how to drive sled dogs, and worked as a tour guide on a glacier in Alaska.
January 1
The Gifted: Enemy of My Enemy Season 2, Episode 10
The Mutant Underground wrestles with the idea of recruiting the Inner Circle to assist them. Andy considers reconnecting with his family when he learns about his father's powers, but Lauren may not be as willing to have him back as her parents. [more inside]
A Series of Unfortunate Events: Season 3 Books Included Season 3 (Full Season)
A bookish brother. An inventive sister. A baby with a wicked bite. This villain picked a fight with the wrong orphans. [more inside]
Doctor Who: Resolution Season 11, Episode 11
As the new year begins, a terrifying evil from across the centuries of Earth's history is stirring [more inside]
Counterpart: Point of Departure Season 2, Episode 4
Howard Prime, Quayle and Clare must unite against a common enemy. Emily Prime turns her investigation towards her other. Yanek probes Howard's past. [more inside]
December 31
Steven Universe: Together Alone Season 5, Episode 26
Steven throws a party to bring his family together.
The Orville: Ja'loga Season 2, Episode 1
The Orville diverts course to the planet Moclus and the crew scrambles to find dates for the social event of the year. [more inside]
Outlander: The Birds & the Bees Books Included Season 4, Episode 9
As Brianna struggles to compartmentalize the trauma she suffered in the wake of the tragedy that befell her in Wilmington, she refocuses on finding her parents. [more inside]
Movie: Goodnight Mommy (Ich Seh Ich Seh)
Twin boys move to a new home with their mother after she has face changing cosmetic surgery, but under her bandages is someone the children don't recognize.
Movie: Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski
This documentary chronicles the life of Polish-American artist Stanislav Szukalski (1893-1987) from his early years in Chicago, to his time in Poland and Los Angeles, and his artistic and political contributions to the world.
Book: Blue at the Mizzen
In the final book of the twenty-book series: peace has erupted again, and the Surprises are rich and rudderless: doomed to be blind drunk, poxed, and stripped before Sunday, with dangerous notions that there ain't no martial law and they ain't slaves. However, there is work to be done. The disgusting British Empire's business in Chile is unfinished, now even more complicated by a rift within the juntas and the addition of a freelance meddler, Sir David Lindsay, with his uniform like that of the Royal Navy but with rather more lace, and with his rebuilt Asp and her long brass chasers. A thorny situation to resolve – if the Surprise can ever find a shipyard to heal her mangled shattered foreparts and go from all ahoo to all a-tanto – with no hope of a prize or distinction at the end of it. Is it Jack's implacable fate to be yellowed? Be astonished by the answer within Blue at the Mizzen. Meanwhile, Stephen courts the potto lady. [more inside]
December 30
Movie: Bumblebee
On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie, on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. When Charlie revives him, she quickly learns this is no ordinary yellow VW bug.
Star Trek: Enterprise: Vox Sola Season 1, Episode 22
Archer, Tucker and some redshirts are stuck together awhile. [more inside]
Book: Thick
One of Book Riot's “The Best Books We Read in October 2018” “To say this collection is transgressive, provocative, and brilliant is simply to tell you the truth.” —Roxane Gay, author of Hunger and Bad Feminist Smart, humorous, and strikingly original essays by one of “America’s most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time” (Rebecca Traister) In these eight piercing explorations on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom—award-winning professor and...
December 29
Protector: The Protector, Season 1 Season 1 (Full Season)
Discovering his ties to a secret ancient order, a young man living in modern Istanbul embarks on a quest to save the city from an immortal enemy.
Runaways: Old School Season 2, Episode 4
The team must figure out how to handle Topher. PRIDE gets some clues to find their kids as Geoffrey confronts Catherine about her actions. Jonah reaches out to Karolina as his body deteriorates. [more inside]
Runaways: Double Zeros Season 2, Episode 3
The Runaways practice fighting as a team. Alex gets closer to Livvie, but trouble is coming. Janet gets closer in PRIDE's efforts against Jonah. [more inside]
Babylon 5: Walkabout Season 3, Episode 18
Kosh arrives at Babylon 5. Lyta returns. Sheridan tests a plan for taking on the Shadows. Franklin, now a civilian, meets a lounge singer on his "walkabout." "The theory is: if you are separated from yourself, you start walking... and you keep walking until you meet yourself. Then you sit down and have a long talk. You talk about everything that you've learned, everything that you... felt. And you talk until you run out of words. Now, that's vital, because the real important things can't be said. And then, if you are lucky, you look up and there's just you, and you can go home." [more inside]
Top Chef: Kentucky: Surprise...It's Restaurant Wars Season 16, Episode 4
In a massive twist, Padma's favorite challenge Restaurant Wars comes early this year, but before the chefs gear up for battle, they must first duke it out in an amuse bouche-based Quickfire for Top Chef alum turned James Beard Award winning chefs: Karen Akunowicz and Nina Compton. Then, the gauntlet has been thrown and with twelve chefs remaining, three restaurants will be battling for victory. James Beard Award winning restaurateur Caroline Styne joins as the guest judge along with Nilou Motamed. And if this unexpected chaos isn't enough, Tom leaves the Chefs breathless with an announcement that will change the course of the competition.
Book: Sunshine
A small-town baker uses her magic to confront a post–vampire apocalypse world in this award-winning urban fantasy Neil Gaiman called “pretty much perfect.” Although it had been mostly deserted since the Voodoo Wars, there hadn’t been any trouble out at the lake for years. Rae Seddon, nicknamed Sunshine, head baker at her family’s busy and popular café in downtown New Arcadia, needed a place to get away from all the noise and confusion—of the clientele and her family. Just for a few hours. Just...
Movie: After The Screaming Stops
In the 1980s, "Bros" were one of the biggest bands in the world - for 15 minutes. [more inside]
Movie: If Beale Street Could Talk
A woman in Harlem desperately scrambles to prove her fiance innocent of a crime while carrying their first child. [more inside]
December 28
RuPaul's All Stars Drag Race: Snatch Game of Love Season 4, Episode 3
It’s Snatch Game with a Dating Game twist!
Book: The Immortalists
From Amazon’s description: “If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life? It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. In search of one thing they can know for sure, the Gold children -- four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness -- sneak out to hear their fortunes.”
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Season 4, Episode 7
In 1984, a young man throws himself (perhaps bodily, if that's your thing) into the construction of a video game based on a novel by a deeply troubled author. "Bandersnatch" is an interactive presentation.
Runaways: Radio On Season 2, Episode 2
Karolina, Nico, and Molly try to retrieve the Staff of One while Chase and Gert tries to fix up the hideout. Alex has a new crush. [more inside]
Runaways: Gimmie Shelter Season 2, Episode 1
The kids struggle with their new lives as Runaways and Alex returns to Darius for help. PRIDE handles the fallout of their kids leaving and plan what to do about Johan. Meanwhile Jonah initiates a plan to build a new Dematerialization Box. [more inside]
December 27
Tidelands: Home Season 1, Episode 1
After a 10-year prison sentence, Calliope "Cat" McTeer returns home to Orphelin Bay, where her brother Augie is dealing with a fisherman's murder. [more inside]
Protector: Episode 1 Season 1, Episode 1
While desperately seeking opportunities to fund his next business venture, Hakan comes across a talismanic shirt potentially worth a lot of money. [more inside]
Podcast: Making Obama: All Episodes
Former President Barack Obama — along with key advisers, mentors, and rivals — tells the story of his climb from Chicago to the national stage. A six-part podcast from WBEZ. [more inside]
Movie: Vice
Vice explores how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly became the most powerful man in the world as Vice-President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways still felt today.
December 26
Podcast: Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine: A Sawbones Special Presentation: A Medicine Called Christmas
Live from Candlenights 2018, we're so proud to present a staged reading of the new Hallmark Christmas movie written by Justin and Sydnee McElroy: A Medicine Called Christmas. Music: Adam Sakiyama CAST: Narrator: Rachel McElroy Daniel: Tommy Smirl Tabitha: Sydnee McElroy Phil: Griffin McElroy Chris: Justin McElroy Ms. Crimble: Teresa McElroy Mr. Frankson: Dwight Slappe Mr. Cameron: Travis McElroy Beth: Teylor Smirl Mandy: Rileigh Smirl Mr. Golfberg: Michael Meadows Santa: Clint McElroy
Movie: Relatable
Comedian Ellen Degeneres performs a live stand-up comedy set in Seattle. [more inside]
Book: Alice Isn't Dead
Keisha's wife is dead. Or she's supposed to be. One day, Alice shows up in the background of a TV news story, staring directly at the camera. And then again. And again. Already riddled with anxiety, Keisha abandons her old life to become a truck driver, looking for the wife she no longer believes is dead and investigating the clues she left behind that may point to a larger, more sinister mystery. Based on the podcast of the same name by Joseph Fink (Welcome to Night Vale).
Runaways: Season Two Season 2 (Full Season)
PRIDE and the Runaways each in their own way try to Jonah's underground secret from droppping California into the ocean and each in their own way achieved mixed results. The Runaways continue to struggle with the consequences of parents' actions, the decision to forgive or to punish, and homesickness. [more inside]
Schitt's Creek: Season 2 Season 2 (Full Season)
After a failed attempt to sell the town, the once rich and powerful Rose Family come to the depressing realization that their stay may be longer than they originally hoped. But the Roses will bloom again – even if it’s in Schitt’s Creek. [more inside]
December 25
Movie: Bird Box
A woman and a pair of children are blindfolded and make their way through a post-apocalyptic setting along a river.
Movie: Mary Poppins Returns
Decades after her original visit, the magical nanny returns to help the Banks siblings and Michael's children through a difficult time in their lives. [more inside]
Movie: Tombstone
Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc Holliday when a gang of renegade brigands and rustlers begins terrorizing the town.
Outlander: Wilmington Books Included Season 4, Episode 8
Roger's diligent search for Brianna pays off when he finds her in Wilmington, but their romantic reunion comes to an abrupt halt when she discovers pertinent information that he intentionally kept from her. [more inside]
Steven Universe: Familiar Season 5, Episode 25
With many changes going on in his life, Steven tries to find his place in the world.
December 24
Vanderpump Rules: Lisa's Dilemma Season 7, Episode 4
Katie's ultimatum forces Lisa Vanderpump to reconsider employing James at SUR; Tom Schwartz and Tom Sandoval display different methods of interviewing staff members for TomTom; Jax and Brittany host a dinner party to debut their beer cheese.
Movie: Santa Jaws
Trying to survive the family Christmas, Cody makes a wish to be alone, which ends up backfiring when a shark manifests and kills his entire family.
Star Trek: Enterprise: Detained Season 1, Episode 21
Captain Archer and Mayweather meet some other victims of the Temporal Cold War. [more inside]
Counterpart: Something Borrowed Season 2, Episode 3
Howard Alpha is transferred to a mysterious prison called Echo; an unexpected visit gives Emily Alpha a connection to her old life; and Emily Prime and Shaw's investigation is met with resistance. [more inside]
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