Friday, February 6, 2026

True Detective 1.08

Form and Void

Marty interrogates Steve Geraci, after showing him the videotape that he showed Marty in the previous episode. They learn from him that his predecessor, Sheriff Childress, is the one who buried the Fontenot case.

Rust and Marty continue to work the case. Their work leads them to an old house in the middle of nowhere. Marty checks the house. The only person inside is a woman. He wants to use their phone but it doesn't work.

Rust looks around the grounds. He spots the man with the scarred face. The man takes off running. Rust follows him into a building buried by nature. Rust eventually catches up to him but the scarred face man gets the drop on Rust, almost kills him. Marty who by then has gone looking for Rust, shows up, distracts the man with the scarred face. Marty almost gets killed but Rust recovers in time  to shoot the man in the head.

Thursday, February 5, 2026

Heavy Metal (1981)

Heavy Metal (1981)

90 minutes

This animated anthology consists of seven stories. They all have to do with the Loc-Nar, a sentient, glowing, green orb. In the first story a man brings it home with him from a trip in space. He wants to show it to his daughter but when he takes it out of the case it kills him. It then proceeds to tell her stories  about itself.

Harry Canyon - A taxi driver (Harry Canyon) tries to help a woman who is being pursued by gangsters who want the Loc-Nar and know that she is the only one who knows where to find it.

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Star Trek (1966) 1.28

The City on the Edge of Forever

Doctor McCoy accidentally injects himself with a heavy dose of cordrazine. The effects of the drug drive him a little crazy. He starts screaming, accusing those around him of being killers and assassins. He escapes from the bridge of the Enterprise and makes his way to the transporter room. He knocks out the transporter chief and beams himself down to the surface of the planet around which the Enterprise is orbiting.

Kirk, Spock, Scottie, Uhura, and a two man security detail beam down. They find a roundish gateway that calls itself the Guardian of Forever. It shows them scenes from Earth's past. Kirk and Spock's conversation with the Guardian is interrupted by McCoy who is located by a couple members of the landing team. He still has yet to recover from the madness that has gripped him. He continues to scream about killers and assassins and then jumps through the gateway and vanishes.

Schitt's Creek 5.04

The Dress

Moira spends $3,700 on a dress for the red carpet premiere of The Crowening. Johnny is stunned by how much she spent on it. Meanwhile he discovers that the motel needs a new hot water heater and he will have to pay big bucks to get it and get it installed.

David and Stevie go to Elm Valley to visit the botanical gardens but it turns that Stevie had an ulterior motive. She wants to hook up with Emir again. David is hurt.

Alexis makes friends with Shannon, who works with Ted and hooked up with him once after Alexis left him at the altar.

Suspense 3.03

Edge of Panic

starring Louisa Horton, Patrick McVey, Haila Stoddard
directed by Robert Stevens

Alice Martin (Louisa Horton), convinced that her husband Harry (Patrick McVey) has been framed for murder, steps up to prove him innocent. The evidence seems to be pretty convincing until Alice does some sleuthing of her own and discovers that Jean Mulligan (Haila Stoddard), the woman with whom Harry was boozing it up on the night of the murder, isn't the victim but the murderer.

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Bleach 37 / 2.17

Motive of the Fist

Sado squares off against two different Shinigami. The first fight, against Tatsufusa Enjōji of 8th Squad doesn't last very long at all. Sado just slugs him and he goes flying off into the sky. The second fight,  against 8th squad captain Shunsui Kyōraku is a different story. Sado throws quite a bit at him with out much success. The fight goes on long enough that Sado takes a few minutes to recall one of his early adventures with Ichigo, before Rukia entered their lives, and what his life when he was sent to live with his grandfather in Mexico.

Crash Landing on You 1.08

Episode 8

Seo-dan tries talking Jeong-hyuk into forgetting about Se-ri, but he isn't ready to give up on Se-ri. Seo-dan similarly isn't ready to give up on Jeong-hyuk. She winds up talking to Seung-jun and levels with him that she knows who Se-ri really is. Seung-jun tells her he has a plan so that they can both get what they want.

Jeong-hyuk leaves the hospital early. He goes looking for Se-ri. He gets some help from a specialist in power lines who gives him an idea of where to look. He finds the house where Seung-jun and Se-ri are staying.