Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 2.10

Sanctuary

A group of people come through the wormhole in a badly damaged ship. Commander Sisko orders them beamed off their ship and aboard the space station. They are Skrreeans. The universal translator has some trouble with their language. Sisko and Major Kira learn, once the translator issue has been resolved, that the four people they rescued are just the tip of the iceberg. There are another three million Skrreeans hoping to come through the wormhole and get away from something known as the Dominion.

Deep Space Nine helps more Skrreeans make their way through the wormhole. Haneek, the leader of the first small group to come through the wormhole educates Sisko and Kira about their ways. The Skrreeans are farmers. Their society is run by women. They are looking for a new home, a planet that they call Kentanna.

The Good Place 1.02

Flying

Chidi agrees to help Eleanor learn to be a good person. She does something that makes him reconsider his decision but before the episode is over she convinces him (once again) to help her by doing a good deed. The episode ends with Eleanor receiving an anonymous message that reads "You Don't Belong Here".

Thoughts

This episode is peppered with a few flashbacks to Eleanor's life before she died.

The title of the episode is a reference to the activity that almost everyone take part in. Eleanor is one of those people who doesn't get to participate because she is too busy helping Chidi and several other volunteers pick up trash.

This episode was as funny as the first one. It made me laugh several times. I'm eager to see where this goes next.

The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House 1.05

Choice

Yoshino told everyone she was divorced but then her husband comes looking for her. It turns out that she returned to the Maiko House while her husband was away on business. She found living with her mother-in-law unbearable.

Momoko puzzles over whether to stay in Kyoto or follow a man to Tokyo. Some of the Maiko remark on how Kiyo and Sumire seem like an old couple. Sumire learn that she is no longer to be an apprentice but become a Maiko.

Thoughts

There wasn't much in the way of cooking in this episode. I enjoyed it but I'm just past the halfway point and it feels in some ways like things are moving extremely fast for Sumire and Kiyo. Has Momoko come to a decision? I'm not sure.

The Phil Silvers Show 4.31

Bilko's Casino

Bilko finds an exception to the law prohibiting gambling in California. He tries to exploit it but finds out that someone else is going to exploit him if he does. He comes up with a scheme to turn the tables on them and abandons his plan to open a casino.

Thoughts

This episode was okay but the ending did not satisfy me. Bilko turns the tables on the crooks and then abandons his plans. I don't get it.

Notes

Al Lewis played one of the guys trying to strongarm Bilko in this episode. This is the second of three episodes of this show in which he appeared. The first was 4.18 Bilko's Credit Card. I've also seen him recently in The Night Strangler (1973). He is best known to me for playing the part of Grandpa on The Munsters.

Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)

Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)

starring Woody Allen, Martin Landau, Mia Farrow, Alan Alda

written and directed by Woody Allen

104 minutes

Judah Rosenthal (Martin Landau) is petrified because Dolores Paley, with whom he has been having an affair for the past couple years, insists that he end things with his wife. She threatens to tell Judah's wife if he doesn't. Judah tries reasoning with Delores but she insists on getting her way. Judah turns to his brother Jack, who has mob connections, for advice. Jack suggests that he could have Delores killed. Judah refuses to contemplate such a course of action but he later changes his mind.

Clifford Stern (Woody Allen) has fallen out of love with his wife and into it with Halley Reed (Mia Farrow). He meets her while they are collaborating on a documentary that they are making about Lester (Alan Alda), Cliff's brother-in-law. Lester is a successful producer of sitcoms. Cliff is an unsuccessful director of documentaries. Cliff desperately wants Halley and bristles when he sees Lester hitting on her. He allows his feelings to guide his directorial decisions.

Adventure Time 5.15

A Glitch is a Glitch

Ice King unleashes a computer virus that threatens to destroy everyone and everything in the Candy Kingdom except himself and Princess Bubblegum. He does it because she said she would only date him if he was the last person left alive. Finn and Jake go on a quest to find the cure to the virus. It takes them to some very weird places.

Thoughts

This episode is not animated in the traditional style for this show. It has a very pixelated look but not a uniform pixelated look. That's the best way that I can think of to describe it.

At one point Princess Bubblegum starts kissing her own hand, repeatedly. 

Steven Universe 1.41

Horror Club

Steven, Lars, and Sadie hang out with Ronaldo who is having a scary movie party. They start by watching Evil Bear 2 but the power goes out in the middle of the movie. They try to figure out what has happened to the power only to discover that the house is haunted, by a gem that was stuck in the walls of the house.

Thoughts

Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl are not in this episode. 

This story reveals that Lars and Ronaldo used to be friends when they were much younger but they had a falling out.

This episode didn't do much for me. I guess it expanded the backstory of this series a little bit but not enough to satisfy me.