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Movie: The 39 Steps

A Canadian man in London finds himself pulled into a chain of events in which he must go on the run in order to save himself. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Sep 5, 2015 - 6 comments

Wayward Pines: A Reckoning  Season 1, Ep 9

Theresa gets a hand from Nurse Pam. Ethan is pressured to execute Kate. Harold and the bomb plot conspirators get a visitor bearing gifts. [more inside]
posted by lmfsilva on Jul 17, 2015 - 10 comments

True Detective: Down Will Come  Season 2, Ep 4

Ani and Ray find another connection that leads through Ani's family. Frank tries to reclaim his old life in crime. Paul makes a major breakthrough in the case. All the while Ani gets some bad news, Ray tries to reconnect, and Paul sees a new opportunity. The task force closes in on a suspect, but it doesn't quite go as planned. [more inside]
posted by codacorolla on Jul 13, 2015 - 86 comments

Wayward Pines: Betrayal  Season 1, Ep 7

After learning what's at stake, Ethan returns to Wayward Pines, but those he confided the truth are less than receptive to it. Meanwhile, he also discovers the fifth column threat is bigger, more aggressive and better equipped than he thought. Theresa discovers Plot 33 might be more than an empty plot of land. A biology class gets from awkward to creepy in a second.
posted by lmfsilva on Jul 3, 2015 - 9 comments

Wayward Pines: Choices  Season 1, Ep 6

Ethan learns more about Pilcher's grand design. Kate and Theresa have coffee. Kate and her husband hatch a plan.
posted by trunk muffins on Jun 25, 2015 - 8 comments

Wayward Pines: Do Not Discuss Your Life Before  Season 1, Ep 2

After receiving some seriously sub-par medical care for wounds sustained in a car accident outside the eerily bucolic Idaho town Wayward Pines, Secret Service Agent Ethan Burke (Matt Dillon) pairs up with resident Beverly Short (Juliette Lewis) to figure out why it's so darn hard to leave. [more inside]
posted by trunk muffins on May 21, 2015 - 13 comments

The Bletchley Circle: Uncustomed Goods, Part 1  Season 2, Ep 3

Alice contacts her former Bletchley colleagues when Millie is kidnapped, as she suspects it is linked to black market deals and does not want to involve the police.
posted by isthmus on Mar 16, 2015 - 2 comments

The Bletchley Circle: Blood On Their Hands, Part 2  Season 2, Ep 2

In the concluding part of this story, the team continues to search for proof that Alice is innocent... [more inside]
posted by isthmus on Mar 12, 2015 - 2 comments

The Bletchley Circle: Blood On Their Hands, Part 1  Season 2, Ep 1

When Alice Merren, a former Bletchley Park colleague, is charged with a distinguished scientist's the murder, Jean reunites the women for their second case.
posted by isthmus on Mar 9, 2015 - 4 comments

The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst: Chapter 1: A Body in the Bay  Season 1, Ep 1

2001: A dismembered corpse is found floating in trash bags near Galveston TX. Police trace the body back to a grisly crime scene in Galveston, and arrest one Robert Durst for the killing of his neighbor, Morris Black. Durst, detectives soon learn, is the scion of one of New York’s wealthiest families. Soon, he makes bail and goes on the run... [more inside]
posted by raysmj on Mar 8, 2015 - 9 comments

The Bletchley Circle: Cracking a Killer's Code, Part 3  Season 1, Ep 3

Thinking she knows the identity of the killer, Susan returns with the police, only to find him gone. [more inside]
posted by isthmus on Feb 27, 2015 - 3 comments

The Bletchley Circle: Cracking a Killer's Code, Part 2  Season 1, Ep 2

When Scotland Yard dismisses the women’s theories, they realize it’s up to them to stop the killer before he takes his next victim. They identify a suspect and use Lucy to lure him into a trap, but their plan goes badly awry and Lucy is assaulted. Shaken, the women take a different approach, contacting former war department members. Susan plans to meet with a psychiatrist whom she believes has helpful information, completely unaware of the danger that awaits her.
posted by isthmus on Feb 26, 2015 - 3 comments

The Bletchley Circle: Cracking a Killer's Code, Part 1  Season 1, Ep 1

It is now seven years after the end of the World War 2 and four women, all ex-codebreakers from Bletchley Park, have got used to their mundane civilian lives. Following a spate of local murders, Susan starts collating information about them to see whether she can use her analysis skills to spot a pattern. Unable to convince the police to take her seriously, she turns to her former colleagues for help.
posted by isthmus on Feb 23, 2015 - 11 comments

The Bletchley Circle

I liked The Bletchley Circle enough to want to talk about it, so I submitted it and it's been approved. I'll be posting the first episode next week unless someone else is really motivated and beats me to the punch.
posted by isthmus on Feb 18, 2015 - 16 comments

Psycho-Pass: Gauging the Soul  Season 2, Ep 10

Kamui and his group try to locate the Sibyl System by overloading the network, by using the stolen Dominators on a group of 500 hostages. Kasei realizes the goal and orders Akane to kill Kamui by setting off a detonation that would kill all the hostages, pushing Akane further by showing her pictures of her grandmother's murder scene (actual scenes not visible in the episode). [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Dec 18, 2014 - 1 comment

Psycho-Pass: Omnipotence Paradox  Season 2, Ep 9

Mika learns the truth of the Sibyl System and her hue is unchanged. Seeing this, Kasei and Togane decide to use Mika to push the ever-calm Akane into darkness. Meanwhile, Akane and the others learn of one of Kamui's school friends, Koichi Kuwashima, who didn't get on the fateful plane. The young man is now an up-and-coming official who seems to be working with Kamui.
posted by filthy light thief on Dec 13, 2014 - 0 comments

Psycho-Pass: Untraceable Children  Season 2, Ep 7

As Mika's group handles the aftermath of the drone incident, Akane tries to determine Kamui's motives behind obtaining Dominators. and confronts Kasei on why she hasn't deactivated Shisui's Dominator privileges. Meanwhile, Mika looks up Togane's background, learning all of the inspectors he had previously worked with became latent criminals, and of his family's medical corporation. As the group examines evidence found in Kamui's hideout, they discover Kamui had used a hologram that was aged up from a child who died in a plane accident 15 years ago. Akane apprehends a surgeon who previously operated on Kamui and has Saiga interrogate him. Pieces start falling together, linking seemingly unrelated events and details together into one complicated web, all connected to Kamui.
posted by filthy light thief on Dec 10, 2014 - 0 comments

Psycho-Pass: Those Who Cast Stones  Season 2, Ep 6

The episode opens with the MSWPB tangled in a battle with civilian-controlled drones, through the "Hungry Chicken" mobile game. Akane figures out Kamui's intention behind this event, while Shion and Sho Hinakawa try to handle the mobile game-controlled drones, further stressing out Mika.
posted by filthy light thief on Dec 8, 2014 - 1 comment

Gravity Falls: Society of the Blind Eye  Season 2, Ep 7

Dipper, Mabel, Soos, Wendy, and Old Man McGucket discover a secret society in Gravity Falls.
posted by Pendragon on Dec 5, 2014 - 1 comment

Movie: Dark City

CRFC6: In a dreary city where the sun never seems to rise, a man named John Murdoch awakens in a seedy hotel room with no memories and a murder rap. As he seeks to uncover the truth, and clear his name, he uncovers a much vaster conspiracy than he could ever have imagined. [more inside]
posted by codacorolla on Dec 2, 2014 - 15 comments

Twin Peaks: Beyond Life and Death  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 22

Cooper and Earle's confrontation reaches its climax, and we enter the Black Lodge. Have we ever truly made it back out? Either way, I'll see you again in 25 years... [more inside]
posted by Strange Interlude on Nov 28, 2014 - 7 comments

Twin Peaks: Miss   Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 21

The Major escapes Earle's clutches, possibly at the cost of his sanity. The final puzzle box is opened, revealing a key. Cooper and Andy manage to crack the secret of the cave painting. Ritual fertility dances are performed, and the queen is crowned. [more inside]
posted by Strange Interlude on Nov 25, 2014 - 6 comments

Twin Peaks: The Path to the Black Lodge  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 20

Windom Earle takes his chess game "off the board", as he kidnaps Maj. Briggs to learn the secrets of the Black Lodge. Audrey follows her heart, but not all the way to Brazil. Cooper and Annie's burgeoning relationship spells certain doom. Something evil breaks through into the woods. [more inside]
posted by Strange Interlude on Nov 20, 2014 - 2 comments

Twin Peaks: Variations on Relations  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 19

Cooper finds Earle's handiwork in Owl Cave, and we hear the story of the White and Black Lodges. A puzzle box is opened, only to reveal an even more puzzling box. Lana and the Mayor conspire to fix the Miss Twin Peaks pageant. Bopper and Snake are reunited at last, and the town's sole heavy metal youth (special guest star Ted Raimi) meets with an untimely fate. [more inside]
posted by Strange Interlude on Nov 18, 2014 - 7 comments

Movie: Paprika

CRFC4: The 2006 film Paprika features a team of psychotherapists who have invented a device that allows them inside the dreams of their patients. When the device is stolen, they attempt to solve a mystery that blends the real world and the dream world. [more inside]
posted by codacorolla on Nov 17, 2014 - 8 comments

Twin Peaks: On the Wings of Love  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 18

Harry narrowly escapes the murderous designs of the enigmatic (yet oddly inconsequential) Miss Jones. Gordon and Cooper find thrilling new connections at the Double R., demonstrating why BREAKFAST IS A REAL GOOD IDEA. Donna's suspicions about her mother and Ben deepen. Cooper and the gang visit an ancient cave and find some surprising secrets. The earth shakes. [more inside]
posted by Strange Interlude on Nov 13, 2014 - 3 comments

Twin Peaks: Wounds and Scars  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 17

Following Josie's unexplained death, Harry disappears into a bottle. Cooper and Earle's chess game escalates, testing the very limits of Pete's skill and the safety of the Hayward home. Wheeler and Audrey begin their romance in earnest, and Cooper has coffee with Norma's sister Annie, sort of. Ben puts on an all-plaid benefit fashion show, and a vicious weasel is released. [more inside]
posted by Strange Interlude on Nov 11, 2014 - 7 comments

Psycho-Pass: The Scales of Justice   Season 2, Ep 1

The MWPSB (Ministry of Welfare's Public Safety Bureau ) is called to investigate a incident involving an explosion at a busy shopping venue despite no casualties. So far, their main suspect is Akira Kitazawa due to his unstable Crime Coefficient and prior knowledge of demolitions. As a part of Division 1 Inspector Akane and her Enforcers are called in to track and arrest the suspect, who flees from the scene with a female hostage by car. [more inside]
posted by chrono_rabbit on Nov 11, 2014 - 2 comments

Psycho-Pass: The Creeping Unknown   Season 2, Ep 2

Inspector Akane and Enforcer Togane start interrogating the suspect Kitazawa who talks about a person who is able to lower crime coefficients and responsible for the fake hostage. After examining the hologram used in the crime they find out it's extremely elaborate and not the regular run of the mill criminal. [more inside]
posted by chrono_rabbit on Nov 11, 2014 - 1 comment

Twin Peaks: The Condemned Woman  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 16

Fresh off his victory at Appomattox, Ben finds a new cause: The Little Pine Weasel. Audrey catches the eye of handsome exec John Justice Wheeler, and Norma lays down the law with Hank. Meanwhile, Windom Earle sends sinister letters to three of Twin Peaks' top beauties, and the noose tightens on Josie. [more inside]
posted by Strange Interlude on Nov 6, 2014 - 7 comments

Psycho-Pass: The Salvation of Job  Season 2, Ep 4

After interrogating the politician Masuda, Inspector Akane finds herself at a dead end about Kamui other than hearing his name tied to clear HUEs. However, Inspector Aoyanagi does gain some new info related to Kamui's motives and ideals for their society from the criminal. [more inside]
posted by chrono_rabbit on Nov 6, 2014 - 4 comments

Psycho-Pass: Unforbidden Games  Season 2, Ep 5

The MSWPB continue to investigate the crime scene from earlier that day at the clinic but don't find anything new other than the same mysterious message "WC?" Meanwhile, Inspector Akane is working with other people to continue checking up on potential suspects tied to Kamui and visit one of his a possible secret bases. All seems normal until halfway there is a sudden incident connected to the drone's controls ends up causing another problem. [more inside]
posted by chrono_rabbit on Nov 6, 2014 - 3 comments

Twin Peaks: Slaves and Masters  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 15

Cooper stumbles upon a clue to the identity of his shooter, and Jacoby and the Hornes find a cure for Ben's Confederate neurosis. Norma and Ed finally get back together after 20 years apart, and Leo finds himself the unwitting prisoner of Windom Earle. Meanwhile, the James/Evelyn Marsh subplot finally concludes, this time for real. [more inside]
posted by Strange Interlude on Nov 4, 2014 - 2 comments

Movie: Zodiac

A San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac killer. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Oct 31, 2014 - 9 comments

Twin Peaks: Double Play  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 14

A de-zombified Leo catches Shelly unawares, Donna follows James' trail to a familiar roadside bar, and the mayor makes his peace with Lana. Meanwhile, Jerry and Jacoby help Ben win the Civil War (for the South?!?), Catherine reveals the shocking truth about Andrew's death to an astounded Pete, and James narrowly escapes the Marsh estate. Finally, the faces of both Thomas Eckhardt and Windom Earle are revealed. [more inside]
posted by Strange Interlude on Oct 30, 2014 - 1 comment

Twin Peaks: Checkmate  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 13

A shaken Major Briggs recounts his otherworldly experiences. Cooper organizes a sting on Jean Renault, Ernie Niles sweats the minor details, Agent Bryson makes a couple of daring costume changes, and Windom Earle knocks another piece off the board. Meanwhile, James gets awfully careless with some probably really expensive champagne. [more inside]
posted by Strange Interlude on Oct 28, 2014 - 4 comments

Movie: Strange Days

CRFC2: At the turn of the millennium the economy is in the dumps, gas is over three dollars a gallon and the police have become a militarized gang. Scraping the bottom of the barrel is Lenny Nero, who deals in "playbacks", virtual reality recordings that transport their audience to the lived experience of another person. When a woman out of Lenny's past comes to him for help he finds himself drawn into a sprawling conspiracy. TW: graphic depictions of sexual violence. [more inside]
posted by codacorolla on Oct 27, 2014 - 12 comments

Psycho-Pass: The Devil's Proof  Season 2, Ep 3

Inspector Akane continues to focus on her investigation of the strange message left at the previous crime scene and by meeting with other characters who may or may not have relevant information to the case. Inspector Aoyanagi meets with Ginoza about what it means to be an Inspector before receiving a surprising phone call. [more inside]
posted by chrono_rabbit on Oct 26, 2014 - 9 comments

Twin Peaks: The Black Widow  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 12

Bobby finally gets a job, and Ben discovers a love of history. The Milford honeymoon is unexpectedly cut short, and James finds himself stuck in a different kind of domestic drama. Meanwhile, Cooper stumbles upon a fortuitous real estate opportunity, and the Briggses bear witness to an astonishing paranormal occurrence. [more inside]
posted by Strange Interlude on Oct 23, 2014 - 4 comments

Twin Peaks: Masked Ball  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 11

The FBI investigation into Cooper's questionable activities continues. The DEA sends a surprising new agent to Twin Peaks. Josie reveals the truth about her troubled past. Windom Earle makes his first move, and a long-missing player re-enters the scene. [more inside]
posted by Strange Interlude on Oct 21, 2014 - 4 comments

Twin Peaks: Dispute Between Brothers  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 10

With another Palmer funeral, Coop prepares to leave Twin Peaks. However, Jean Renault is still nursing a grudge. A wedding is in the works, Nadine returns to high school and Major Briggs goes fishing. [more inside]
posted by codacorolla on Oct 7, 2014 - 7 comments

Gravity Falls: Soos and the Real Girl  Season 2, Ep 5

Soos needs a date and looks into a dating simulator.
posted by Pendragon on Sep 27, 2014 - 8 comments

Twin Peaks: Arbitrary Law  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 9

The mystery of Laura Palmer's death is finally solved. [more inside]
posted by codacorolla on Sep 23, 2014 - 11 comments

Twin Peaks: Drive with a Dead Girl  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 8

Ben is locked away for Laura's murder, and Jerry attempts to take on his legal defense. Although Coop is wary of rushing to judgement, Harry sees Ben as the clear culprit and charges Ben officially. Pete taunts Ben in jail with a message from Catherine, who offers him freedom (but at a price). Meanwhile Leland goes for a drive. At the Double R, Norma's mother comes to town with a new husband, who is a figure out of Hank's past. Andy attempts reconciliation with Lucy. BOB's latest victim is discovered. [more inside]
posted by codacorolla on Sep 18, 2014 - 7 comments

Twin Peaks: Lonely Souls  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 7

After being confronted by Audrey about his involvement with Laura and One Eyed Jack's, Ben is brought in for questioning. Shelly and Bobby begin to face the disappointing reality of life with Leo. Nadine is terrible. The killer strikes again... [more inside]
posted by codacorolla on Sep 16, 2014 - 11 comments

Gravity Falls: Sock Opera  Season 2, Ep 4

Mabel attempts to make the perfect sock puppet show to impress her new crush, meanwhile Dipper tries to find out the password to the laptop in the bunker, while an old friend wants to make a deal with him.
posted by Pendragon on Sep 11, 2014 - 4 comments

Twin Peaks: Demons  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 6

Bobby and Shelly receive some disappointing news, Ben and Josie make a deal, Leland returns to work and the One Armed Man finally speaks. [more inside]
posted by codacorolla on Sep 10, 2014 - 3 comments

Twin Peaks: The Orchid's Curse  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 5

As Coop finds Audrey's long lost secret message, he decides to stage a raid on One-Eyed Jack's. Bobby and Shelly scheme as Leo returns home. The roadhouse becomes an ad-hoc courtroom for Leland's trial. Donna makes a deal with Harold. Nadine experiences a homecoming. [more inside]
posted by codacorolla on Sep 9, 2014 - 10 comments

Twin Peaks: Laura's Secret Diary  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 4

Leland confesses to murdering Jacques Renault. Meanwhile, Ben receives a ransom video for Audrey, specifying that Cooper should be the one to deliver the money. Josie returns, raising Harry's suspicions, and a mysterious Japanese businessman (Mr. Tojimura) comes to the Great Northern. In Donna's investigation, Harold reads from Laura's secret diary. An elusive and influential anonymous food critic is rumored to be coming to town, and Norma takes steps to spruce up The Double R. [more inside]
posted by codacorolla on Sep 4, 2014 - 8 comments

Twin Peaks: The Man Behind Glass  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 3

Donna meets the mysterious Harold Smith, Cooper discovers another secret letter, Leland gives our team a new lead on BOB, Nadine wakes up feeling 20 years younger, the one-armed man forgets to take his medicine, and we learn that Albert's path is a strange and difficult one. [more inside]
posted by Strange Interlude on Sep 2, 2014 - 11 comments

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