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The Handmaid's Tale: Night  Season 1, Ep 10

Season 1 Finale. Moira continues to fight her way to the border. Offred and the other handmaids are confronted with an impossible choice. [more inside]
posted by Karmakaze on Jun 14, 2017 - 65 comments

The Handmaid's Tale: The Other Side  Season 1, Ep 7

The story going into flashback and out of Gilead to check in on a familiar face [more inside]
posted by Karmakaze on May 24, 2017 - 43 comments

Elementary: Over a Barrel  Season 5, Ep 13

A man takes hostages, including Joan, and threatens to execute them unless Holmes finds the person responsible for the death of his son. [more inside]
posted by CMcG on Feb 2, 2017 - 2 comments

Travelers: Grace  Season 1, Ep 12

An assassin traveler arrives in the present, exposing the truth about a disturbing schism between warring factions that is unfolding in the future. (Season finale) [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Dec 27, 2016 - 20 comments

Travelers: Marcy  Season 1, Ep 11

Marcy's condition deteriorates, requiring two new travelers to attempt an experimental procedure that could keep her alive, but at a high cost. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Dec 27, 2016 - 6 comments

Travelers: Kathryn  Season 1, Ep 10

Surgeons work to save MacLaren as he hovers between life and death. The team tries to cover up the situation as suspicions grow at work and home. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Dec 27, 2016 - 6 comments

Travelers: Bishop  Season 1, Ep 9

Circumstances force MacLaren to go off-mission during an unusual solo assignment involving his wife, politics, and a catastrophic air disaster. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Dec 27, 2016 - 12 comments

Travelers: Donner  Season 1, Ep 8

MacLaren handles a misfired traveler while Trevor and Carly deal with personal issues, and Philip notices a minor change to the timeline. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Dec 26, 2016 - 3 comments

Travelers: Protocol 5  Season 1, Ep 7

Unsure if their mission succeeded, the travelers face the prospect of living out the rest of their lives in their challenging 21st century personas. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Dec 26, 2016 - 5 comments

Travelers: Helios 685  Season 1, Ep 6

The team prepares to fulfill its primary mission, which will save millions of lives but could possibly spell disaster for their own futures. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Dec 26, 2016 - 9 comments

Travelers: Room 101  Season 1, Ep 5

Kidnapped by a faceless nemesis who seems to know their secret, MacLaren's team is held captive and interrogated while he scrambles to find them. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Dec 26, 2016 - 4 comments

Travelers: Hall  Season 1, Ep 4

After rescuing a more experienced team, MacLaren and the others discover that not everyone from the future is playing by the same rules. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Dec 26, 2016 - 9 comments

Travelers: Aleksander  Season 1, Ep 3

Wracked with guilt, Philip defies the rules in an unauthorized attempt to alter the future, resulting in violence and the exposure of his secret. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Dec 25, 2016 - 9 comments

Travelers: Protocol 6  Season 1, Ep 2

MacLaren and the team adjust to unexpected challenges in their new lives while trying to prevent an antimatter detonation that could kill thousands. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Dec 25, 2016 - 9 comments

Travelers: Pilot  Season 1, Ep 1

When several random citizens are possessed by people from the future, FBI agent Grant MacLaren discovers their critically important mission.
posted by oh yeah! on Dec 23, 2016 - 19 comments

The Hip

Is anyone considering putting up a post for the final Tragically Hip show? I'm still trying to figure out how to watch from the US and potentially mid-trip or I would volunteer.
posted by hydrobatidae on Aug 18, 2016 - 1 comment

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: U.S. PRIMARIES AND CAUCUSES  Season 3, Ep 13

This week....
  • Protests rock Venezuela as their economy continues to deteriorate due to low oil prices.
  • Canada Prime Ministar Justin Trudeau hits a very minor scandal, "Elbowgate," due to his pushing his way through a crowd of people in the House of Commons.
  • And Now: John McLaughlin Angrily Introduces Discussion Topics.
  • Main story: Primaries and Caucuses, the means by which the Democratic and Republican candidates get chosen, which is far from proportional to public will.
  • And Now: Increasingly Weird Bell Ringers at the New York Stock Exchange
  • Chechnya leader Ramzan Kadyrov, widely considered to be a brutal strongman and who idolizes Putin, has completely lost his cat. LWT launches a campaign to find Kadyrov's cat before anyone suffers for it. Follow-up on Huffington Post.
[more inside]
posted by JHarris on May 26, 2016 - 8 comments

The NBA on TNT: NBA Playoffs: MIA vs TOR  Season 27, Ep 3

The Toronto Raptors, a young unproven team with a rabid fan base trying to get further than they have in recent memory, are tied with a Miami Heat team plagued by injury and age, who nevertheless have played with great guile and ferocity. The Severe North vs the Lackadaisical South. Lannisters vs Starks. And so forth. Meanwhile, Lebron is chilling in an ice bath with the dragons. Game 5 is tonight, 5/11/16.
posted by Potomac Avenue on May 11, 2016 - 5 comments

Letterkenny: Season One  Season 1, Ep 0

Streaming on CraveTV (Canadian on demand video service), Letterkenny is a small show about a small town in rural Ontario (here is a taste). It is based on a web series Letterkenny Problems, available on YouTube. [more inside]
posted by ODiV on Apr 3, 2016 - 22 comments

Steven Universe: Log Date 7 15 2  Season 2, Ep 29

Steven listens to Peridot's audio diary.
posted by Small Dollar on Jan 8, 2016 - 53 comments

Book: The Blind Assassin

If The Blind Assassin was a layer cake, the layers would be the impossibility of true love, the inexorable destructive force of time, and chocolate. The frosting is pulp and newspaper. It's a remarkable novel, if only for the way Margaret Atwood weaves together three wildly different genres into a whole. There's the gentle comedy of old age about an old woman living a rather solitary existence in a small Southern Ontario town. There are her reminiscences of her life and family, an old-fashioned bildungsroman or family saga. Then there's a story about a doomed romance and pulp science fiction. Each on their own a very good book, but together form a great one. [more inside]
posted by Kattullus on Dec 1, 2015 - 2 comments

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Canada's Election, Misattributed Quotations  Season 2, Ep 31

This week.... New Zealand Prime Minister John Key answers surprisingly candid questions on radio. Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, unpopular for his reforms, courts controversy with an insensitive TV commercial. A Copenhagen zoo's decision to kill a healthy two-year-old giraffe and feed it to the lions is followed up by the decision to kill two lions and their cubs, and another zoo in Denmark dissected a lion in front of a crowd. LWT helpfully produced an honest commercial for Denmark's zoos. Main story: Canada has an election tomorrow (er, by now, two days ago -- Justin Trudeau won). Cameo appearance by Mike Myers! YouTube (15m) And Now: A Student Passes Out Listening To Steven Harper Speak. (Two students, actually.) Finally, in response to the epidemic of quote misattribution by political figures and generally on the internet, LWT created a website to generate random misquotes from historical figures, definitelyrealquotes.com. [more inside]
posted by JHarris on Oct 21, 2015 - 2 comments

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Mandatory minmum sentencing in the US  Season 2, Ep 22

This week.... The Obama administration reaches a historic deal with Iran, but has difficulty selling it to Congress. FIFA president Sepp Blatter is in Russia to kick off preparations for the 2018 World Cup. Ashley Madison, a website that encourages and helps set up affairs between married people, was hacked and the responsible parties threaten to release records on their userbase. LWT produced a short message exhorting married citizens of Ottawa not to have affairs. Main story: The absurdity of mandatory minimum sentencing laws in the US. YouTube (15m) And Now: Unnecessary Full Disclosure. Ukraine threatens to blacklist Gérard Depardieu as a threat to their national security (Guardian) for a statement made last year at a film festival. Over the closing credits, LWT provides a brief slideshow of photos of Depardieu set to "cartoonishly French music." [more inside]
posted by JHarris on Jul 27, 2015 - 6 comments

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: US torturing of detainees, upping the stakes against Jack Warner  Season 2, Ep 17

This week: Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko warns Vladimir Putin likely to invade soon. Azerbaijan prepares to host the European Games, a new Olympics-style sporting festival, drawing closer scrutiny for their terrible human rights record. Canadian senators discovered to have spent over a million dollars of the government's money for things like golf and fishing trips, hockey tickets and holidays -- but spent $24 million to discover it. And Now: Newscasters Trying Not To Swear. The main story is on torture, American's attitudes and misconceptions regarding it, and how little has changed since we learned the CIA engaged in it, how it doesn't work, and why we seem to think that it does. LWT got Dame Helen Mirram to read key excerpts from it. YouTube (15m) And Now: Newscasters Not Trying Not TO Swear. And finally, an update on former FIFA vice president Jack Warner, who responded (3m) to Oliver's Trinidad TV response (4m) to his video (7m). The "epic and dramatic music" in Warner's is Ash (3m), by The Secession.
posted by JHarris on Jun 15, 2015 - 5 comments

The Book of Negroes: Episode 1   Season 1, Ep 1

CBC's production of Lawrence Hill's acclaimed epic novel begins by introducing 11-year old Aminata Diallo, just as she is stolen from her home in West Africa and forced into slavery. [more inside]
posted by chapps on Jan 25, 2015 - 4 comments

Anyone else (in Canada) watching Book of Negroes on CBC

Lawrence Hill's Book of Negroes has been made into a miniseries on CBC. [more inside]
posted by chapps on Jan 16, 2015 - 8 comments

Podcast: Song Exploder: Stars - No One Is Lost

Stars is a band from Toronto, who have been making music together since 2000. Their seventh album was released in October 2014. In this episode, they talk about the inspiration for the phrase No One Is Lost, which is the title of this song as well as the album. And you’ll hear the original version of the chorus: one that they wrote, recorded, mixed, and finished but then, ended up changing completely. [more inside]
posted by Potomac Avenue on Dec 5, 2014 - 7 comments

Strange Empire: The Hunting Party  Season 1, Ep 1

A group of women heading for the Canadian border find themselves bereft of their menfolk and installed in Janestown, a prostitute settlement.  [more inside]
posted by Ik ben afgesneden on Oct 19, 2014 - 3 comments

Strange Empire: Calling All Canadians

Any interest in Strange Empire from the CBC? [more inside]
posted by Ik ben afgesneden on Oct 8, 2014 - 8 comments

Orphan Black: Conditions of Existence  First Watch   Season 1, Ep 5

The women learn that they have monitors - people in their lives whose purpose it is to observe them. They then try to discover who the monitors are.
posted by Pendragon on Sep 28, 2014 - 4 comments

Orphan Black: Effects of External Conditions  First Watch   Season 1, Ep 4

Alison impersonates Sarah to help her with Kira while Sarah encounters the person responsible for the deaths of other clones.
posted by Pendragon on Sep 16, 2014 - 6 comments

Orphan Black: Variation Under Nature  First Watch   Season 1, Ep 3

Sarah meets Cosima, another lookalike. Cosima and Alison reveal to Sarah all that they know about what is happening with the lookalikes including that they are clones. As Beth, Sarah must investigate the death of the body she buried.
posted by Pendragon on Aug 13, 2014 - 4 comments

Orphan Black: Instinct  First Watch   Season 1, Ep 2

Sarah must pose as Katja to find a mysterious suitcase. As Sarah delves further into the mystery of her lookalikes, she meets Alison - another lookalike who may provide her with the answers she needs.
posted by mathowie on Aug 1, 2014 - 12 comments

Orphan Black: Natural Selection  First Watch   Season 1, Ep 1

When Sarah Manning witnesses the suicide of Elizabeth Childs, a woman who looks just like her, Sarah arranges for Beth's body to be misidentified by her foster brother, Felix, as Sarah assumes Beth's identity. The plan is to clear out Beth's bank accounts, get her daughter Kira back, and run away to start a new life, but Sarah gets caught in a conspiracy about why she and Beth look alike and what led Beth to kill herself.
posted by mathowie on Jul 30, 2014 - 13 comments

Continuum: The Dying Minutes  Season 3, Ep 12

John Doe's revelations force Liber8 to regroup and its members to reconsider their mission. A new character, The Traveller, is introduced. Carlos pulls himself together. The Freelancers face a familiar enemy.
posted by zarq on Jun 17, 2014 - 5 comments

Continuum: 3 Minutes to Midnight  Season 3, Ep 11

The pieces begin to come together: A direct attack from Liber8 puts John Doe and Kiera in danger. But now that John Doe has learned more about his past and future, his revelations could change everything.
posted by zarq on Jun 17, 2014 - 4 comments

Continuum: Revolutions Per Minute  Season 3, Ep 10

A shocking discovery is made by Kiera, whose connection with the mysterious John Doe grows deeper. At the same time, her relationship with the Freelancers becomes more strained. Meanwhile, Alec crosses the Rubicon to protect his legacy.
posted by zarq on Jun 17, 2014 - 1 comment

Continuum: Minute of Silence  Season 3, Ep 9

Someone is stealing cutting-edge technology and using it to commit crimes. A man wakes up in a Vancouver hospital with amnesia. The only name he remembers: "Kiera Cameron." [more inside]
posted by zarq on Jun 6, 2014 - 3 comments

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