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Star Trek: Lower Decks: An Embarrassment of Dooplers Season 2, Episode 5
Mariner and Boimler walk into a bar... [more inside]
Ted Lasso: Headspace Season 2, Episode 7
With things turning around for Richmond, it's time for everyone to work on their issues - like Ted's discomfort, Nate's confidence, and Roy's attention.
Supernatural: The French Mistake Season 6, Episode 15
To protect Sam and Dean from a surprise attack from Raphael, Balthazar sends them both into an alternate universe where they are actors playing Sam and Dean Winchester on a TV show called Supernatural. [more inside]
What If...?: What If... Zombies? Season 1, Episode 5
A zombie infestation at the Pacific Northwest before Thanos could even begin his conquest.
Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na!: Keep Your Hands off Eizouken! Season 1 (Full Season)
Three schoolgirls team up to create a film club, though the world does not want it. Nevertheless they cannot be stopped: They are too good at what they do. The goblin-like Asakusa wants to make worlds. The rich and famous Mizusaki wants to make art. The ghoulish Hanamori wants to make money.
An anime about anime, animation, creative passion, compromise, project management, and the sinister uplifting purity of indomitable optimism. It might be edutainment, it might be a love-letter, it might be satire, it might be about beautiful foolishness. [more inside]
Only Murders in the Building: The Sting Season 1, Episode 4
Sting and his dog-hating ways make him a potential suspect. We find out that Charles is haunted by cartoon characters, who "Lucy" was and how that whole dating the bassoonist thing is going. Oliver's son has a key piece of info about Mabel. The podcast gang meets their idol Cinda. [more inside]
Lucifer: Trip to Stabby Town Season 2, Episode 8
When a human steals Azrael's blade, Lucifer links the theft to a rash of violent stabbings that point to a local yoga studio. Meanwhile, Chloe digs into the murders and Lucifer seeks help from Ella in finding the blade and stopping the carnage. [more inside]
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Game of Boyles First Watch Season 8, Episode 7
In an homage to the film Knives Out, Jake investigates possible foul play in the death of the Boyles' patriarch.
Nine Perfect Strangers: Season 1 Season 1 (Full Season)
Nine stressed city dwellers visit a boutique health-and-wellness resort that promises healing and transformation. The resort's director is a woman on a mission to reinvigorate their tired minds and bodies. [more inside]
Lucifer: My Little Monkey Season 2, Episode 7
New evidence reveals that the murder of Chloe's father was not a just a stick-up turned deadly. Meanwhile, Lucifer follows Dan around in an effort to learn how to act "Normal"; Maze goes job-hunting; Dr. Linda tries to hang on to her sanity. [more inside]
Lucifer: Monster Season 2, Episode 6
During an investigation, Lucifer and Chloe clash, so she partners up with Dan instead. Meanwhile, Amenadiel and Charlotte bond, and Maze takes Trixie trick-or-treating for Halloween. [more inside]
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Renewal First Watch Season 8, Episode 8
Rosa and Cheddar have a staredown, Terry and Amy attempt a Billy Joel memorabilia sting, and Jake and Raymond try to infiltrate a basement.
Movie: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Shang-Chi, the master of unarmed weaponry based Kung Fu, is forced to confront his past after being drawn into the Ten Rings organization. [more inside]
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Lights Out Season 7, Episode 13
In the season finale, the entire squad is on alert when a blackout hits Brooklyn. [more inside]
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Ransom Season 7, Episode 12
Holt asks for Jake's help in a case that is exceptionally meaningful to him. Charles and Terry work together on a side business. [more inside]
What We Do in the Shadows: The Prisoner/The Cloak of Duplication Season 3, Episode 1
Episode 1: Guillermo's fate hangs in the balance as the vampires receive a promotion.
Episode 2: A forbidden artifact is used to help Nandor court a health club employee. [more inside]
Critical Role: Malice and Mystery Below Season 2, Episode 119
Deep within the mysterious Aeorian ruin, the Mighty Nein must first face a terrifying abomination before they can venture further into the strange and unknown...
Movie: Aniara
A ship carrying settlers to a new home in Mars after Earth is rendered uninhabitable is knocked off-course, causing the passengers to consider their place in the universe. [more inside]
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Second Chances Rewatch Season 6, Episode 24
The Enterprise finds a second Will Riker on a planet that he helped evacuate eight years ago. [more inside]
Supernatural: Mannequin 3: The Reckoning Season 6, Episode 14
After Sam and Dean begin investigating a case involving killer mannequins, Ben calls Dean and tells him that Lisa is in trouble. Dean leaves Sam to handle the case alone and rushes to the rescue, but neither of the Winchesters have much success in dealing with the issues that face them. [more inside]
Silicon Valley: Initial Coin Offering Season 5, Episode 7
Pied Piper inches towards securing their Series B funding. Gilfoyle suggest a risky proposition. Dinesh gets competitive with a co-worker. Richard receives unsettling news.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Veiled Lady Season 2, Episode 2
Poirot is summoned to the Athena Hotel by a mysterious veiled lady who turns out to be aristocrat Lady Millicent Castle, and claims that she is a blackmail victim.
Jupiter's Legacy: Season One Books Included Season 1 (Full Season)
The super-powered children of superheroes struggle to live up to the legendary feats of their parents. Based on the Image comic book series by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely.
Book: Psion
A.D. 2417. The future of the galaxy is threatened by multiplanetary corporations. To Cat, an illiterate slum kid whose catlike green eyes brand him as half alien, the destiny of humankind is insignificant. But his uniqueness targets him for a government experiment, and he discovers how to use his telepathic powers in terrifying new ways. As Cat's powers grow stronger they lead him toward brutal confrontations with deadly forces. Can Cat seize his enemies' minds before they possess his? [more inside]
What If...?: ... T'Challa Became a Star-Lord? Season 1, Episode 2
Instead of personally abducting Peter Quill for Ego, Yondu farms out the job to Kraglin and Tazer-Face—they pick up the wrong child. [more inside]
Legends of Tomorrow: The Fungus Amongus Season 6, Episode 15
It's 'What Would Sara Never Do Day' on the Legends season finale. [more inside]
Only Murders in the Building: How Well Do You Know Your Neighbors? Season 1, Episode 3
Oliver employs his theater director skills to analyze the case. Charles and Mabel question an obsessive cat lover. [more inside]
Podcast: The Adventure Zone: Ethersea - Episode 7
The Infinite Clam: Part One. The newly employed crew of the Coriolis take on their first official job with the Bluespan Brokerage. Devo confronts his past as he crosses paths with the leaders of the Benevolent Parish.
Reservation Dogs: Hunting Season 1, Episode 6
Continuing to focus on the individual characters in their own episodes. This week we get Willie Jack hunting with her dad, Leon, who has some issues of his own. [more inside]
Mystery Science Theater 3000: RED ZONE CUBA Rewatch Season 6, Episode 19
Re-rewatch! Welcome back to Cuba, for the middle section of the movie that takes place there! Our protagonists are criminal at best, murderous at worst. Written, directed and starring Coleman Francis, whose vision of bleak despair and dark ennui practically sloughs off the screen. With great riffing, but a terrible movie, this is one of those episodes that really puts the show's premise, watching a bad movie but having what fun you can with it, to the ever loving test. There is a short beforehand, Platform Posture and Appearance. Previously and again.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: Weaponized Soul Show Only Season 1, Episode 7
A terrible discovery is made as the duo travel back in time and try to solve the case before the crime ever happens. [more inside]
Book: The Philosophical Strangler
Mighty Greyboar, the world's greatest professional strangler, is dissatisfied with his lot in life. The work is steady and the pay is good, but what, he wonders, is the point of it all
Halt and Catch Fire: NIM Season 3, Episode 9
Donna tries to bring everyone together at Comdex with her vision of the internet's future. Gordon faces a strong-willed Joanie. [more inside]
Movie: CODA
As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents. (Trailer) [more inside]
SurrealEstate: Full Season Season 1 (Full Season)
Realtor Nick Roman and an elite team of specialists handle the cases that no one else can: haunted and possessed houses that literally scare would-be buyers away.
What If...?: What if Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands? Season 1, Episode 4
Doctor Strange tries a new diet.
Supernatural: Unforgiven Season 6, Episode 13
Sam receives some coordinates in an anonymous text message, he and Dean follow them to a town in Rhode Island, and Sam begins having flashbacks of the time he and Samuel worked a case there. [more inside]
What If...?: …the World Lost Its Mightiest Heroes? Season 1, Episode 3
Nick Fury struggles to launch The Avengers when candidates are targeted by a serial killer. [more inside]
What If...?: … Captain Carter Were the First Avenger? Season 1, Episode 1
When Steve Rogers is seriously injured, Peggy Carter becomes the world's first super soldier. [more inside]
Movie: We Need to Do Something
Seeking shelter from a storm, a family finds itself trapped for days with no sign of rescue and untold evils lurking just beyond the walls. [more inside]
Movie: The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf
The world of The Witcher expands in this anime origin story: Before Geralt, there was his mentor, Vesemir, a swashbuckling young witcher who escaped a life of poverty to slay monsters for coin. But when a strange new monster begins terrorizing a politically fraught kingdom, Vesemir finds himself on a frightening adventure that forces him to confront the demons of his past. [Netflix, 83 minutes, animated]
Movie: John Wick: Chapter 2
Just when Keanu Reeves thinks he is back out, after having been pulled back in, after being out of the game, he is pulled back again to the world of sumo assassins, hobos, mute bodyguards, very significant coins, Common, hotels, rockabilly girl murder switchboards, and endless parade of goons with heads woefully lacking bullets. A sequel to John Wick. [more inside]
RuPaul's All Stars Drag Race: This Is Our Country Season 6, Episode 12
[Finale] Who will take home the crown? A spot in the Drag Race Hall of Fame is at stake as the finalists write, record, and perform verses to RuPaul’s new song This is Our Country, featuring country music legend Tanya Tucker. [more inside]
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: Horizons Show Only Season 1, Episode 1
In the series premiere, eccentric self-proclaimed detective Dirk Gently investigates the death of an isolated millionaire and inadvertently teams up with struggling musician Todd Brotzman to do so. [more inside]
Movie: The Hit
Two hit men pick up ex-gangster Willie to escort him back to Paris to face his betrayed colleagues. The road trip suffers from complications. [more inside]
Supernatural: Like a Virgin Season 6, Episode 12
Sam emerges from his coma and remembers nothing of what happened to him since Lucifer first possessed him and he entered the cage in hell with him, Michael, and Adam, and Bobby and Dean are resolved to keep it that way. Dean and Sam head to Oregon to investigate the disappearance of several local female virgins. [more inside]
Kdrama Watchlist
Here's a thread for posting about what kdramas are in your to-be-watched list, or what shows you hope to see posted to Fanfare, or, just, anything to do with kdrama that doesn't already have a spot on the purple.
Silicon Valley: Facial Recognition Season 5, Episode 5
Richard's confidence takes a hit; Gilfoyle worries about an artificial-intelligence partner. [more inside]
Seulgirowun Gamppangsaenghwal: Prison Playbook (aka Smart Prison Living) Season 1 (Full Season)
With his major league baseball debut right around the corner, a star pitcher lands in prison and must learn to navigate his new world. [more inside]
Lucifer: Liar, Liar, Slutty Dress On Fire Season 2, Episode 2
Lucifer's mother shows up at the scene of a gruesome murder and claims she's innocent, but Lucifer is suspicious of her tale and, not wanting to leave her alone, enlists Maze to keep an eye on her while he investigates the case with Chloe. [more inside]
Movie: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once more in the final chapter of the Skywalker saga. [more inside]
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Contagion Rewatch Season 2, Episode 11
Picard is baffled when the sister ship of the Enterprise explodes after its survey of the planet Iconia. Riker is baffled when Picard decides to repeat its every step prior to exploding. [more inside]
Legends of Tomorrow: There will be brood Season 6, Episode 14
Magic mushrooms and bad trips--Legends style. [more inside]
The Great British Sewing Bee: It's the final, and the theme is celebration. Season 7, Episode 10
The three remaining sewers work on a bridesmaid's dress, a festival-themed transformation and a glamorous off-the-shoulder gown. (Contains spoilers) [more inside]
Supernatural: Appointment in Samarra Season 6, Episode 11
Dean accepts a wager from Death in order to get Sam's soul back. Meanwhile, Sam is unwilling to take the risk of getting his damaged soul back, and summons Balthazar, who tells him what he must do to prevent it. [more inside]
Critical Role: Solace Between the Secrets Season 2, Episode 118
The Mighty Nein forge their own way across the tundra to another Aeorian excavation site, but things far more dangerous than frozen relics await them under the snow...
Legends of Tomorrow: Silence of the Sonograms Season 6, Episode 13
While Ava channels her inner Clarice, Mick gives birth to 48 babies and names Gary as godfather. Meanwhile, Sara and Nick chat over chess, John (literally) battles his inner demon, and Zari enlists help from Spooner and Astra to figure out what's going on with her magical boyfriend. [more inside]
Supernatural: Caged Heat Season 6, Episode 10
Meg kidnaps the Winchesters, who offer to help her destroy Crowley, the new lord of Hell. In return, she'll torture Crowley for information on Sam's soul. The brothers turn to Castiel and Samuel for help, but neither is enthused at the plan. [more inside]
Movie: Good on Paper
(Netflix) After years of putting her career first, a stand-up comic meets a guy who seems perfect: smart, nice, successful and possibly too good to be true. Written by and starring standup comic Iliza Shlesinger, in a "mostly" true story from her life. [more inside]
Money Heist: Do as Planned First Watch Season 1, Episode 1
n the aftermath of a failed bank robbery by a woman named "Tokyo," a man called "the Professor" saves her from being caught by the police and proposes her a heist of drastic proportions. After a brief outline of the planned heist, the Professor, artfully guides a group of robbers: Tokyo, Rio, Berlin, Nairobi, Denver, Moscow, Oslo, and Helsinki to invade the Royal Mint of Spain in red jumpsuits and Salvador Dalí masks and take hold of 67 hostages as part of their plan to print and escape with €2.4 billion. The police investigator Raquel Murillo is put in charge of the case, but she remains completely unaware that the mastermind behind the heist is sidling towards her and getting closer than she could ever have imagined.