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Taika Waititi, Jermaine Clement and Iain Morris take on Terry Gilliam's 1981 film in a 10-episode show in which an 11-year-old history nerd falls into cahoots with a band of inept thieves in possession of the Supreme Being's map of all of space and time. [more inside]
posted by Shepherd on Sep 17, 2024 - 12 comments

Here we have the 'missing' episode from season 1 that was the source of the Gamora we met in What If…The Watcher Broke His Oath? [more inside]
posted by Karmakaze on Dec 25, 2023 - 9 comments

Uncles Brownie, Bucky and Big take Cheese on a trip to the woods.
posted by mediareport on Aug 30, 2023 - 8 comments

It's 1976 on the last day of the school year with high school versions of some elders we know from previous episodes - particularly Maximus (the "star people" elder Bear met on his walkabout), and also Irene, Mabel, Brownie, Bucky and medicine man Fixico. The kids get high, trip, talk politics, dream, fight and philosophize. [more inside]
posted by mediareport on Aug 24, 2023 - 11 comments

The rez dogs take their punishment for the California trip, Cheese gets a facelift of sorts and Elora and Willie Jack consider their futures.
posted by mediareport on Aug 17, 2023 - 8 comments

Thor enlists the help of Valkyrie, Korg and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster to fight Gorr the God Butcher, who intends to make the gods extinct. [more inside]
posted by chavenet on Jul 6, 2022 - 82 comments

Stede Bonnet left his large sugar plantation in Barbados, abandoned his wife, children, land and fortune; bought a ship; and turned to piracy on the high seas. Taika Waititi, David Jenkins, and Rhys Darby find the comedy in Bonnet's piratical career. [more inside]
posted by gladly on Mar 20, 2022 - 65 comments

For centuries, a small but powerful force of warriors called the Green Lantern Corps has sworn to keep intergalactic order. Each Green Lantern wears a ring that grants him superpowers. But when a new enemy called Parallax threatens to destroy the balance of power in the Universe, their fate and the fate of Earth lie in the hands of the first human ever recruited. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Oct 15, 2021 - 23 comments

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]
posted by kaiseki on Sep 7, 2021 - 9 comments

Bear's dad, a rapper, is hired to perform at the Clinic's Diabetes Awareness Frybread Feast. Bear spends the California fund buying him a gift - a beaded medallion that is supposed to resemble a microphone. [more inside]
posted by kaiseki on Aug 25, 2021 - 5 comments

A bank teller called Guy realizes he is a background character in an open world video game called Free City that will soon go offline.
posted by McSly on Aug 15, 2021 - 15 comments

The vampires must defend themselves as an international vampire tribunal gathers to judge them for their transgressions. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on May 9, 2019 - 17 comments

The vampires get embroiled in local Staten Island politics as their first step to world domination. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Apr 3, 2019 - 10 comments

The vampires try to plan a lavish blood feast in honor of a visit by their ancient master from the Old Country. (FX Channel series) [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Mar 27, 2019 - 13 comments

Boy (James Rolleston) is an 11-year old growing up on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984 who loves Michael Jackson, helps take care of his large family, has a crush on Chardonnay (RickyLee Waipuka-Russell), hangs out with his friends, and fantasizes about when his Alamein, his father (Taika Waititi) will get home from prison. Alamein looms large in Boy’s imagination as a heroic figure, and his surprise return forces Boy to square his imaginings with a less-appetizing reality.
posted by Going To Maine on Feb 16, 2017 - 3 comments