The Outer Limits (1963) 1.11

It Crawled Out of the Woodwork

starring Scott Marlowe, Kent Smith

directed by Gerd Oswald

Professor Stuart Peters goes to work for NORCO, a west coast research lab. He is killed and then later revived during his first day on the job. The killing is done by an unknown energy source over which the scientists at the lab have some degree of control. He is revived and kept alive with a pacemaker. Everyone else at the lab is in the same condition, alive but only thanks to a pacemaker.

Star Trek: Lower Decks 2.05

An Embarrassment of Dooplers

The Cerritos is tasked with taking a Doopler emissary to Star Base 25. Dooplers have a tendency to duplicate when they get embarrassed. Everything goes fine until Captain Freeman says something negative about the emissary not realizing that he is standing nearby. He starts duplicating and pretty soon there are Doopler emissaries everywhere. The Cerritos is barred from docking at Starbase 25 until the situation with the Dooplers is resolved.

Mariner and Boimler secretly beam over to Starbase 25 in the hopes of sneaking into the legendary Captains After-Party. They get side tracked when Malvus an old acquaintance of Beckett's recognizes her.

Steven Universe 1.36

Warp Tour

Steven thinks he sees comething while he and the other Crystal Gems are warping back to their house in Beach City. They try to convince him that he didn't but he persists. He can't sleep the night after they get back. He fears that whatever he saw is going to come and attack him.

The next night Steven sees an orb crash through the roof of the house. He tries to stop it but it does something to the warp pad and then uses it. Steven and the orb disappear via the warp pad. Steven gets tossed out of the warp stream.

Steven is rescued by the others. They no longer doubt him. They arrive in Galaxy Warp and then hide when they see someone come through the Homeworld Warp, which was broken until the orb and dozens more like it fixed it.

Adventure Time 5.09

All Your Fault

Finn and Jake travel to the Earldom of Lemongrab on behalf of Princess Bubblegum. They find things in disarray as there is no food. Lemongrab and Lemongrab 2 have used some information Princess Bubblegum left behind to make all their food into sentient beings. Finn and Jake give them the seeds that they brought with them but the Lemongrabs mash the seeds together and then turn that into a sentient being.

Thoughts

I enjoyed this episode but it was another weird one. There were all sorts of really strange characters in the Earldom of Lemongrab.

Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)

Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)

starring Charlize Theron, Art Parkinson, Matthew McConaughey

directed by Travis Knight

102 minutes

Kubo (Art Parkinson), a one-eyed, 10-year-old, street performer with magical abilities that are linked to his shamisen (Japanese stringed instrument) goes on a quest with talking monkey (Charlize Theron) and a human-sized samurai beetle (Matthew McConaughey) after his mother is killed by her sisters. He seeks his deceased father's armor, helmet, and sword but his aunts and the Moon King (his maternal grandfather) do everything in their power to stop him.

The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House 1.01

Change

Kiyo and Sumire, friends, both 16 years old, move to Kyoto where they hope to become maiko, apprentice geishas. Sumire takes to the training very well. Kiyo does not. She instead finds herself applying her cooking skills when the middle-aged woman who usually cooks for the house (where they live with several Maiko and Maiko hopefuls) cannot do her job.

Thoughts

This show is based on a manga called Kiyo in Kyoto: From the Maiko House. There was also an anime series based on the manga. The anime series has the same name as the manga and consisted of 12 episodes. This live-action series consists of 9 episodes.

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.