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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Food Delivery Apps  Season 11, Episode 6

This week (aired on March 31, 2024).... The Murrieta Police Department has agreed to stop altering their mugshot photos with Lego heads. Trump's legal issues cost a lot, which might be paid for by Truth Social's company TMTG's IPO. (The show aired in the narrow period when it looked like it might be worth $5 billion for Trump.) And Now: Garth Brooks' Facebook Videos Are A Portrait Of A Very Strange Man. Main story: Food Delivery Apps, how the squeeze restaurants and drivers while even now not being profitable for their companies. On Youtube (26 minutes) And Now: Stuart Varney's Favorite Person Is Exactly Who You Think It Is. (Margaret Thatcher, somehow) [more inside]
posted by JHarris on Apr 14 at 4:23 AM - 2 comments

Ripley: A Hard Man To Find  Show Only   Season 1, Episode 1

A grifter named Ripley (Andrew Scott) living in 1960s New York is hired by a wealthy man to visit Italy and convince his son to come home. (8-episode mini-series, Netflix, 2024) [more inside]
posted by sylvanshine on Apr 7 at 9:16 AM - 4 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Prime Factors  Rewatch   Season 1, Episode 10

Please, come to our planet of pleasure. We ask nothing at all in return. To give you pleasure gives us pleasure. I assure you, ours is a world where nothing can possi-blie go wrong. …PossiBLY go wrong. …That's the first thing that's…ever gone wrong. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Feb 2 at 3:23 AM - 18 comments

Delicious in Dungeon: Sea Serpent  Season 1, Episode 14

With the intensity of the past few episodes, it's perhaps a good pallette cleanser to go back and see how the comic relief is doing, and...did Kabru just outright murk that guy... [more inside]
posted by NoxAeternum on Apr 15 at 1:20 PM - 3 comments

Movie: Hell or High Water

Two brothers (Chris Pine, Ben Foster) rob small-town banks in Texas. Two Rangers (Jeff Bridges, Gil Birmingham) pursue them. [more inside]
posted by Wordshore on Sep 14 at 5:10 AM - 14 comments

Movie: Civil War

A journey across a dystopian future America, following a team of military-embedded journalists as they race against time to reach DC before rebel factions descend upon the White House.
posted by kokaku on Apr 12 at 11:18 AM - 16 comments

Ripley: Narcissus  Show Only   Season 1, Episode 8

Tom reinvents himself again, creating an enviable life in Venice—as long as his lies hold. Special guest: Caravaggio! [more inside]
posted by sylvanshine on Apr 12 at 10:58 AM - 3 comments

X-Men '97: Remember It  Season 1, Episode 5

Team members hit Genosha as UN honorees while a press event risks exposing the team’s dirty laundry.
posted by 1970s Antihero on Apr 10 at 4:09 PM - 13 comments

Bluey: The Sign  Season 3, Episode 49

A special Bluey episode that is 28 minutes.
posted by m@f on Apr 14 at 9:25 PM - 6 comments

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End: First-Class Mage Exam  Season 1, Episode 18

Finally, Frieren and party have reached Äußerst, the Northern Lands' center of magical research and study - and the site of the examination to earn the rank of first class mage. But it's not just Frieren and Fern who seek the title, as a number of mages from around the lands converge on the city of magic... [more inside]
posted by NoxAeternum on Apr 14 at 4:09 AM - 2 comments

Fallout: The Head  Season 1, Episode 3

The Wasteland's got its own Golden Rule. [more inside]
posted by drewbage1847 on Apr 14 at 7:33 PM - 10 comments

Ripley: VII Macabre Entertainment  Show Only   Season 1, Episode 7

As Inspector Ravini expands his murder investigation, an elusive Tom plots his next moves from Sicily.
posted by chavenet on Apr 15 at 3:27 PM - 1 comment

Fallout: The Target  Season 1, Episode 2

I know life can't have been easy up here. [more inside]
posted by drewbage1847 on Apr 12 at 9:46 PM - 19 comments

The Gentlemen: Refined Aggression  Season 1, Episode 1

When the Duke of Halstead dies, his second son inherits everything, including the title, house and grounds — plus a whole heap of trouble. Co-written and directed by Guy Ritchie. [more inside]
posted by 1970s Antihero on Mar 18 at 5:15 AM - 10 comments

Fallout: The End  Season 1, Episode 1

Okey dokey.. [more inside]
posted by drewbage1847 on Apr 11 at 12:30 PM - 46 comments

Movie: Late Night with the Devil

[TRAILER] Johnny Carson rival Jack Delroy (David Dastmalchian) hosts a syndicated talk show Night Owls whose ratings have plummeted since the tragic death of his beloved wife. Desperate to turn his fortunes around, on October 31st, 1977, Jack plans a Halloween special like no other... unaware he is about to unleash evil into the living rooms of America. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 21 at 8:58 AM - 12 comments

Shogun: The Abyss of Life  Show Only   Season 1, Episode 8

Toranaga's defeated clan moves to Edo; Blackthorne must decide who he fights for. [more inside]
posted by Molesome on Apr 9 at 7:41 AM - 22 comments

Sugar: Olivia  Season 1, Episode 1

After solving a case in Japan, private eye John Sugar returns to LA to help find a missing woman with ties to a Hollywood legend. Streaming on Apple TV [more inside]
posted by Molesome on Apr 6 at 12:25 PM - 8 comments

Movie: Role Models

Wild behavior forces a pair of energy drink reps to enroll in a Big Brother program. [more inside]
posted by Carillon on Apr 14 at 11:33 PM - 3 comments

Star Trek: Enterprise: Singularity  Rewatch   Season 2, Episode 9

Archer turns down an opportunity to add a cupholder to the captain’s chair. [more inside]
posted by mordax on Mar 25 at 1:24 AM - 18 comments

Special Event: Coachella - First weekend April 12-14

Coachella's 6 stages are streaming on YouTube (most countries?). Let's watch some live music. [more inside]
posted by fiercekitten on Apr 12 at 9:29 PM - 3 comments

Ripley: VI - Some Heavy Instrument  Season 1, Episode 6

A ghastly discovery leads Rome police to Tom's doorstep, beginning a game of cat and mouse with its lead investigator. [more inside]
posted by chavenet on Apr 15 at 9:17 AM - 1 comment

Taskmaster: Season 17 (Full Season)  Season 17 (Full Season)

Flanked by his efficient assistant Alex Horne, Greg Davies returns to remorselessly judge five quaking comics desperate to get their hands on his fabled golden head trophy. [more inside]
posted by merriment on Mar 30 at 7:39 AM - 30 comments

Movie: The First Omen

[TRAILER] When a young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, she encounters a darkness that causes her to question her own faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that hopes to bring about the birth of evil incarnate. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 14 at 10:00 AM - 7 comments

Star Wars: The Bad Batch: Juggernaut  Season 3, Episode 12

While seeking an unexpected source, the Batch must make a daring escape.
posted by 1970s Antihero on Apr 10 at 4:34 AM - 10 comments

Movie: Harakiri

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshiro enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grace in his suicide ritual. The senior counselor for the Iyi clan questions the ronin's resolve and integrity, suspecting Hanshiro of seeking charity rather than an honorable end. What follows is a pair of interlocking stories which lay bare the difference between honor and respect, and promises to examine the legendary foundations of the Samurai code. [more inside]
posted by pwnguin on Apr 14 at 4:44 PM - 3 comments

Movie: Argylle

A reclusive author who writes espionage novels about a secret agent and a global spy syndicate realizes the plot of the new book she's writing starts to mirror real-world events, in real time. [more inside]
posted by jenfullmoon on Apr 13 at 5:21 PM - 9 comments

Star Trek: Discovery: Jinaal  Season 5, Episode 3

Burnham and Co. take a trip to Trill to find the next piece of the puzzle. Rayner is ordered to bond with the crew. [more inside]
posted by hanov3r on Apr 11 at 9:58 PM - 13 comments

Movie: The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Coriolanus Snow mentors and develops feelings for the female District 12 tribute during the 10th Hunger Games.
posted by cozenedindigo on Nov 19 at 4:31 PM - 5 comments

The Way Home: The Way Home, season 2 (all episodes)  Season 2, Episode 1

The continuing saga of the Landry family and their magical time-traveling pond. [more inside]
posted by jenfullmoon on Feb 9 at 11:36 AM - 4 comments

Hazbin Hotel: The Show Must Go On  Season 1, Episode 8

Adam and the other Exorcists arrive for Extermination Day. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Apr 8 at 5:21 PM - 4 comments

3 Body Problem: Judgment Day  Books Included   Season 1, Episode 5

As threat levels rise, a secret mission to retrieve enemy intel ventures into dangerous territory. An ominous message reaches Earth. [more inside]
posted by ActingTheGoat on Mar 28 at 10:03 PM - 23 comments

Movie: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Whether you love it or hate it or are simply confused by the fact that anybody ever made it, it's hard to be completely indifferent to this one-of-a-kind product of seventies excess, in which Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees are cast as a small town band trying to follow the example of hometown hero Sgt. Pepper to save their beloved Heartland, USA from the sinister Future Villain Band and its brainwashed minions. [more inside]
posted by Nerd of the North on Apr 24 at 11:25 AM - 37 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Ex Post Facto  Rewatch   Season 1, Episode 8

It was a cold night in the bad quadrant. I was playing flyboy for the kid, Kim. Hired hand, that's all. The skies were black with rain on the way down. Nothing I couldn't handle. I brought the kid dirtside to meet some physicist. They got to talking, and before too long, I'm the third nacelle. Get two science guys together? Forget it. I'd just about checked out altogether…when she walked in. Legs like the Pleasure Goddess of Rixx, forehead like a Terran horny toad. It figured. Next thing I know, she's on me like a Denevan neural parasite. And me without an ultraviolet light source. Some luck. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jan 26 at 3:40 AM - 14 comments

Welcome to Wrexham: Up the Town?  Season 2, Episode 15

Season finale. Review here.
posted by jenfullmoon on Nov 15 at 4:41 PM - 8 comments

Movie: The Omen

[TRAILER] A new age of evil threatens to arise when an American diplomat (Liev Schreiber) and his wife (Julia Stiles) learn that the child (Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick) they adopted may be the son of Satan. Mystical signs point to the Antichrist's coming battle for dominion over heaven and Earth. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 13 at 3:29 PM - 4 comments

Movie: Le Samourai

After killing a night-club owner, professional hitman Jef Costello is seen by witnesses. His efforts to provide himself with an alibi fail and more and more he gets driven into a corner. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on May 27 at 7:36 PM - 1 comment

Damien: Complete Series  All Seasons

[TRAILER] After discovering his origins, Damien Thorn must cope with life as the Anti-Christ. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 11 at 1:24 PM - 5 comments

Movie: Arcadian

[TRAILER] In a near future, life on Earth has been decimated. Paul (Nicolas Cage) and his twin teenage sons (Jaeden Martell, Maxwell Jenkins) find tranquility by day but terror by night when ferocious creatures awaken and consume all living souls in their path. Faced with an impossible situation, the boys come up with a desperate plan for survival, using everything their father taught them to keep him alive. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 14 at 8:16 AM - 1 comment

Movie: The Greatest Hits

[TRAILER] Harriet (Lucy Boynton) discovers certain songs can transport her back in time. While she relives the past through romantic memories with her former boyfriend (David Corenswet), her time travelling interferes with a burgeoning new love interest (Justin H. Min) in the present. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 12 at 12:13 PM - 3 comments

Gyeongseong Creature: Season 1  Season 1 (Full Season)

In the Spring 1945 in Gyeongseong, during the Japanese rule of Korea, a resourceful young Korean man accidentally discovers the local military hospital has created a monster through human experimentation. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Jan 8 at 9:35 PM - 9 comments

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Student Loan Debt  Season 11, Episode 5

This week (aired on Marth 17, 2024).... Congress considers banning TikTok unless it breaks ties with its parent company. Colorado congressman Ken Buck announces his resignation. And Now: Coming Up On Inside Edition. Main story: student loan debt and the horrible situation borrowers are in. On Youtube (30 minutes) And Now: Coming Up On Inside Edition, Just Taylor Swift Stories.
posted by JHarris on Apr 14 at 3:35 AM - 1 comment

Movie: Smoking Causes Coughing

A group of vigilantes called the "tobacco-forces" is falling apart. To rebuild team spirit, their leader suggests that they meet for a week-long retreat, before returning to save the world. [more inside]
posted by vacapinta on Sep 18 at 8:03 AM - 8 comments

Delicious in Dungeon: Red Dragon III/Good Medicine  Season 1, Episode 13

The Mad Mage makes his presence known, and his magic seems to have the power to control Falin, as Team Touden challenges the elven master of the dungeon. And when things go awry, the party is found by an orc warband - whose captain finds the halffoot's seeming cowardice distasteful... [more inside]
posted by NoxAeternum on Apr 13 at 12:53 AM - 7 comments

Movie: Monkey Man

An anonymous young man unleashes a campaign of vengeance against the corrupt leaders who murdered his mother and continue to systemically victimize the poor and powerless.
posted by TheophileEscargot on Apr 11 at 1:14 PM - 4 comments

Star Trek: Discovery: Under the Twin Moons  Season 5, Episode 2

Burnham and Co. race to follow the Romulan diary to the next clue before Moll and L'ak. [more inside]
posted by hanov3r on Apr 4 at 10:22 PM - 10 comments

Movie: Rear Window

A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Jul 13 at 7:07 PM - 9 comments

Movie: Messiah of Evil

[TRAILER] A young woman (Mariana Hill) searching for her missing artist father finds herself in the strange seaside town of Point Dune, which seems to be under the influence of a mysterious undead cult. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 21 at 9:49 AM - 1 comment

Parasyte: The Grey: Season 1 (all episodes)  Season 1 (Full Season)

Parasyte: The Grey is a 2024 South Korean sci-fi horror television series directed and co-written by Yeon Sang-ho (Train to Busan, Hellbound). The series is a live-action spin-off of the manga series Parasyte by Hitoshi Iwaaki and depicts a confrontation with unidentified parasitic creatures that live on humans and have the urge to kill humans. The series currently has a 100% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
posted by vverse23 on Apr 10 at 7:59 PM - 1 comment

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End: Take Care  Season 1, Episode 17

With the knowledge of his friend traveling to Tur, Sein now has a decision to make - though the weather gives him a chance to further reflect - and to bond with his comrades. And then when Fern falls ill, a journey to find medicinal ingredients gives Frieren and Stark a chance to bond... [more inside]
posted by NoxAeternum on Apr 12 at 1:01 AM - 9 comments

Sugar: Shibuya Crossing  Season 1, Episode 3

Melanie and Sugar get caught in a dicey situation - and make a new enemy. Sugar reunites with old friends, but he senses some are keeping secrets. [more inside]
posted by Molesome on Apr 12 at 8:39 AM - 3 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Old Friends, New Planets  Season 4, Episode 10

That's not how I would have called that match. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Nov 2 at 8:50 AM - 26 comments

Movie: The Omen

Epidemiologist Dr. Linus (William Sadler), AP photojournalist Jack (Brett Cullen) and E.R. nurse Annalisse (Chelsea Field) try to stop a demonic entity from unleashing a biological weapon during the Saint Patrick's Day parade. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 10 at 10:46 PM - 2 comments

Top Chef: The Wright Way  Season 21, Episode 4

With no Quickfire this week, the chefs hit the road and take the Frank Lloyd Wright trail to Madison, touring a few of the Wisconsin native’s notable sites, including Burnham Block, Monona Terrace and Taliesin. For the elimination challenge, the chefs are tasked with creating dishes in teams of two that feature duality and celebrate Frank Lloyd Wright’s legacy as “America’s Architect.” These dishes are more important than ever because this week is a double elimination. Kristen, Tom and Gail are joined by last season’s winner, Buddha Lo, and French chef Dominique Crenn at the judges’ table.
posted by Frayed Knot on Apr 12 at 7:07 AM - 8 comments

Mr. & Mrs. Smith: Full Season  Season 1 (Full Season)

The Smiths, John and Jane, are strangers who have given up their identities to be paired off by a secretive organization, both in espionage and marriage, like two peas stuck in one pod. [more inside]
posted by Carillon on Feb 6 at 11:12 PM - 37 comments

Ripley: Sommerso  Show Only   Season 1, Episode 3

When Dickie and his father start seeing through his ruse, Tom resorts to drastic methods. [more inside]
posted by sylvanshine on Apr 8 at 10:11 AM - 4 comments

Movie: Omen IV: The Awakening

[TRAILER] A Virginia congressman (Michael Woods) and his wife (Faye Grant) see signs of the devil in their adopted daughter, Delia (Asia Vieira). [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 4 at 1:10 PM - 6 comments

Shogun: A Stick of Time  Show Only   Season 1, Episode 7

Outplayed by new alliances in Osaka, Toranaga is forced to carve out a new deal with a long lost family member. [more inside]
posted by Molesome on Apr 2 at 6:41 AM - 19 comments

Elsbeth: Pilot  Season 1, Episode 1

When a college theater student is mysteriously found dead in her high-rise New York City apartment, Elsbeth immediately suspects foul play and enters a game of wits against the victim's popular theater director Alex Modarian, who she believes is involved. [more inside]
posted by Garm on Mar 4 at 6:01 PM - 9 comments