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Person of Interest: Root Cause  Season 1, Ep 13

A seemingly happy family man, Scott Powell, is the latest POI. But not everything is as idyllic as it appears. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Nov 24, 2024 - 4 comments

Person of Interest: Legacy  Season 1, Ep 12

Carter and Reese finally meet to talk about what Reese is doing. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Nov 24, 2024 - 4 comments

Person of Interest: The Fix  Season 1, Ep 6

Reese poses as a private driver for this week's POI, Zoe Morgan. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Nov 22, 2024 - 1 comment

Person of Interest: Judgement  Season 1, Ep 5

When the Machine produces the social security number of a judge renowned for his tough sentencing, Reese and Finch have the added challenge of investigating a POI who wants nothing to do with their brand of vigilante justice. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Nov 21, 2024 - 3 comments

Person of Interest: Cura Te Ipsum  Season 1, Ep 4

Reese and Finch follow their latest POI, Dr. Megan Tillman, while she's on call and after hours to unravel the threat surrounding the promising young physician. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Nov 21, 2024 - 4 comments

Person of Interest: Mission Creep  Season 1, Ep 3

When the Machine directs Reese and Finch to a former soldier connections to a crime ring, Reese must infiltrate the gang, taking part in their heist. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Nov 21, 2024 - 2 comments

Person of Interest: Ghosts  Season 1, Ep 2

When they are given the Social Security number of a teenager who was killed two years ago, Reese and Finch begin to question the infallibility of The Machine. Meanwhile, Finch flashes back to The Machine's origin and how it was developed. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Nov 20, 2024 - 0 comments

Person of Interest: Pilot  Season 1, Ep 1

When a drunk vagrant is attacked by a group of youths, he reveals impressive fighting skills. Back at the police station after the fight, they realize the man in question is connected to several crimes. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Nov 20, 2024 - 1 comment

Person of Interest: Super  Season 1, Ep 11

Reese works the computer while Finch does the legwork with their latest POI, a building super who keeps too close an eye on his tenants. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Nov 19, 2024 - 5 comments

Person of Interest: Number Crunch  Season 1, Ep 10

As Detective Carter deals with the fallout from her recent encounter with Reese, The Machine ups the ante for the duo by giving them four Social Security numbers instead of one. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Nov 19, 2024 - 4 comments

Person of Interest: Get Carter  Season 1, Ep 9

The Machine identifies Detective Carter as a POI. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Nov 17, 2024 - 5 comments

Person of Interest: Foe  Season 1, Ep 8

Reese and Finch hunt an escaped East German spy who is eliminating his former Cold War colleagues in retribution for betraying him and causing his wife's death. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Nov 17, 2024 - 3 comments

Person of Interest: Witness  Season 1, Ep 7

The Machine identifies a teacher living in Brighton Beach as the next POI. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Nov 17, 2024 - 12 comments

Person of Interest: Full 1st Season  Season 1, Ep 0

When a homeless alcoholic is attacked on a subway train, he reveals he has a surprising set of skills. Skills that attracted the interest of reclusive billionaire Harold Finch. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Nov 15, 2024 - 24 comments

Movie: Cloverfield

Not your average kaiju film. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on May 15, 2023 - 18 comments

Lost: Pilot  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 1

A plane crashes on a remote island. Mysteries ensue. [more inside]
posted by We had a deal, Kyle on Mar 19, 2023 - 22 comments

Movie: Super 8

During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town. [more inside]
posted by skycrashesdown on Feb 11, 2023 - 4 comments

Movie: Star Trek

The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before. The human adventure has begun again. [more inside]
posted by hanov3r on Nov 30, 2022 - 36 comments

Movie: Lou

Thinking she'd put her dangerous past behind her, Lou (Allison Janney) finds her quiet life interrupted when a desperate mother (Jurnee Smollett) begs her to save her kidnapped daughter. As a massive storm rages, the two women risk their lives on a rescue mission that will test their limits and expose dark and shocking secrets from their pasts. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Sep 26, 2022 - 6 comments

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]
posted by KTamas on Dec 18, 2019 - 630 comments

Fringe: Through the Looking Glass and What Walter Found Ther  Rewatch   Season 5, Ep 6

Walter sidesteps the Observers. The team watches a tape. Olivia has a firearms malfunction. Peter makes a grave mistake.
posted by the man of twists and turns on Jul 30, 2016 - 1 comment

11.22.63: The Day in Question  Season 1, Ep 8

The past pulls out every weapon it has to keep Jake from reaching Dealey Plaza in time to save Kennedy. [more inside]
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich on Apr 5, 2016 - 17 comments

11.22.63: Soldier Boy  Season 1, Ep 7

The end is near, and Jake is not up to the task. Sadie scrambles to pick up the pieces, but no one knows the mission as well as Jake. Kennedy and the assassin are on a collision path - but has Jake changed things enough in the past to alter the course of events? The days are counting down as 11.22.63 draws near.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich on Mar 30, 2016 - 6 comments

11.22.63: Happy Birthday, Lee Harvey Oswald  Season 1, Ep 6

It's October 1962, and the gathering storm of threats in Dallas continues to build. Jake must take drastic action to establish the full dimensions of the threat to Kennedy. And amidst it all, he's hit with an unexpected death and a bitter betrayal from one of those closest to him.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich on Mar 22, 2016 - 6 comments

11.22.63: The Truth  Season 1, Ep 5

Everything begins to fall apart as Jake struggles to live two lives: teacher and time traveler. When Sadie's life is threatened, Jake has to make a terrible choice, leaving Bill to his own devices. Lee Harvey Oswald takes steps that will lead him into a date with destiny.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich on Mar 14, 2016 - 9 comments

11.22.63: The Eyes of Texas  Season 1, Ep 4

Jake and Bill's partnership starts to struggle as they discover more secrets surrounding the unpredictable Lee Harvey Oswald. The conspiracy involving Oswald deepens, while romance blooms for Jake and Sadie. But by becoming involved with an innocent bystander, has Jake placed his new love in danger?
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich on Mar 8, 2016 - 5 comments

11.22.63: Other Voices, Other Rooms  Season 1, Ep 3

Jake finds an unlikely ally in his quest. [more inside]
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich on Feb 29, 2016 - 14 comments

11.22.63: The Kill Floor  Season 1, Ep 2

Thrown by the enormity of his goal, Jake decides the one thing he can do to make a real difference is save the family of his friend Harry Dunning. Harry's family was murdered in a small Kentucky town by Harry's father, Frank. But does Jake have what it takes to kill a man and what are the consequences of violence?
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich on Feb 23, 2016 - 23 comments

11.22.63: The Rabbit Hole  Season 1, Ep 1

High school teacher Jake Epping discovers why the burgers served by his friend Al at his charming diner are so darned cheap and tasty.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich on Feb 16, 2016 - 35 comments

Movie: Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

A continuation of the saga created by George Lucas and set thirty years after Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983).
posted by EndsOfInvention on Dec 16, 2015 - 3085 comments

Fringe: Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11  Rewatch   Season 5, Ep 1

In the year 2036, Peter, Astrid, Walter, and Etta set out to find Olivia and free her from amber. Once they do, they discover she holds the key to finding the plans for a weapon to defeat the Observers... but Walter is captured and interrogated for the same information.
posted by the man of twists and turns on Nov 29, 2015 - 1 comment

Fringe: Brave New World  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 21

People in an office complex begin to spontaneously combust. Walter identifies nanites as the culprit, and a familiar face as the source. The last few moves of the game are becoming clear as patterns collapse and pieces must be sacrificed.
posted by the man of twists and turns on Nov 11, 2015 - 0 comments

Fringe: Letters of Transit  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 19

It's 2036, and things are different. [more inside]
posted by the man of twists and turns on Nov 4, 2015 - 2 comments

Fringe: The Consultant  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 18

People are dying simultaneously in both universes from the same cause. Walter crosses over to help Fringe Division - Fauxlivia, BBroyles, Agent Lee and Astrid2 - catch whoever is experimenting with the Universes. And Walter references Sherlock Holmes (who?) to help them find the mole.
posted by the man of twists and turns on Nov 2, 2015 - 1 comment

Fringe: Everything In Its Right Place  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 17

Agent Lee feels out-of-sorts with all the changes going on around him, and decides to take a working vacation on the Other Side. There, he faces an existential dilemma: is it your environment, your upbringing, or your decisions that make you who you are?
posted by the man of twists and turns on Oct 26, 2015 - 1 comment

Fringe: A Short Story About Love  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 15

Love! Love Will Keep Us Together (Unless It Kills Us First) - Olivia hunts a perfumed pervert while Peter finds a beacon that guides him to romantic enlightenment
posted by the man of twists and turns on Oct 14, 2015 - 1 comment

Fringe: Welcome to Westfield  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 12

Peter, Olivia and Walter come face to face with a mysterious and terrifying Fringe event as they get trapped in a town that there's no escaping.
posted by the man of twists and turns on Sep 30, 2015 - 0 comments

Fringe: Making Angels  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 11

Our Astrid gets an unexpected visit from her Alternate, while Peter and Olivia track a killer using a toxin that has yet to be invented. Both universes collide in a case that pushes the boundaries of what is possible.
posted by the man of twists and turns on Sep 24, 2015 - 3 comments

Fringe: Forced Perspective  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 10

A girl with the ability to predict the deaths of those around her pops up on the Fringe team's radar. Olivia wants to know if what the bald man said would happen, while Peter has to help Walter get his confidence back.
posted by the man of twists and turns on Sep 20, 2015 - 0 comments

Fringe: Wallflower  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 7

The team hunts a .... ghost? No, not a ghost, as ghosts don't bleed. Massive Dynamic is implicated in some ethically-challenged medical testing, and swears it's all in the past.
posted by the man of twists and turns on Sep 9, 2015 - 1 comment

Fringe: And Those We've Left Behind  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 6

The Fringe team, with the help of Peter, investigate a series of time-loop anomalies. The patter leads them to an electrical engineer married to a theoretical physicist.
posted by the man of twists and turns on Sep 6, 2015 - 1 comment

Fringe: Novation  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 5

Peter gets interviewed and does some hobby electronics work. Nina Sharp shares childhood memories with her foster daughter. Olivia and the team chase down a new kind of shapeshifter.
posted by the man of twists and turns on Sep 2, 2015 - 0 comments

Fringe: Alone in the World  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 3

A boy makes a friend.
posted by the man of twists and turns on Aug 28, 2015 - 2 comments

Fringe: One Night In October  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 2

When the Other Side is stymied while hunting a serial killer, they recruit his counterpart to profile him.
posted by the man of twists and turns on Aug 13, 2015 - 4 comments

Movie: Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate - an International rogue organization as highly skilled as they are, committed to destroying the IMF.
posted by jbickers on Aug 2, 2015 - 34 comments

Fringe: Neither Here Nor There  Rewatch   Season 4, Ep 1

Agent Lincoln Lee is introduced to the team via the unnerving death of his partner. Olivia and Fauxlivia snipe at each other while trading secrets. Walter is (justifiably?) paranoid about Walternate. And the Observers discuss Mr. Not-Appearing-In-This-Episode. Redverse? Blueverse? Welcome to the Amberverse.
posted by the man of twists and turns on Aug 2, 2015 - 1 comment

Fringe: Os  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 16

The Fringe team attempts to find out what process enables people to become lighter than air and float. Peter and Olivia deal with trust issues in their relationship, while Walter becomes increasingly obsessed with retrieving William Bell's consciousness from beyond the grave - and repairing the damage he's done.
posted by the man of twists and turns on Jun 12, 2015 - 5 comments

Fringe: Over There: Part 2  Season 2, Ep 22

Peter takes a helicopter tour of New York and visits Liberty Island, Olivia proves herself, and William Bell talks shop with the Fringe Division in this, the Science Fiction Double Feature season-ender. [more inside]
posted by the man of twists and turns on Dec 17, 2014 - 4 comments

Fringe: Over There: Part 1  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 21

There's no rest for the wicked as Charlie, Liv, Lincoln Lee and the rest of the Fringe team goes on alert to contain a class 3 breach. [more inside]
posted by the man of twists and turns on Dec 10, 2014 - 5 comments

Fringe: Northwest Passage  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 20

Peter is from ... "Boston," and passing through to somewhere (Mars?), but he's not quite sure. He ends up helping out with an investigation - with someone who 'want[s] to believe.' A couple of disappeared bodies later, and things get weird in the deep green woods... [more inside]
posted by the man of twists and turns on Dec 7, 2014 - 4 comments

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