The Makani: Cooking for the Maiko House 1.08

Carnival

Riko, a new girl comes to the Maiko House. She wants to become a maiko and she is very enthusiastic and indelicate. Momoko puts together a skit involving the maikos that is modeled after George Romero's zombie films. Yoshino complains about not having a bigger part in the skit. Ryoko goes to see her father and encourages him to be a bigger part of her  mother's life. Kiyo cooks tonjiru, a miso soup with pork.

Thoughts

At first it looked like Riko's story was going to be the core of the episode. I enjoyed watching Momoko's skit develop. 

Doctor Who (1963) 13.01.04

Terror of the Zygons - Part Four

The Zygons lock up the Doctor within their spaceship. They turn off all external communications and jam all radar in the UK. The Skarasen leaves Loch Ness and heads south, to London. The Doctor figures out how (from the room in which he is locked up) to cause the Zygon ship to emit a signal. UNIT picks up the signal and pinpoints the location of the Zygon ship.

The Doctor escapes from the Zygon space ship with the Duke of Forgill, the Caber, and Sister Lamont. Just before he departs the space shup he sets it to self-destruct. The Brigadier, Sarah, Harry, and Sgt Benton show up just in time to see the spaceship explode.

Four Star Playhouse 1.15

The Last Voyage

starring Charles Boyer

written by John Bagni, Gwen Bagni

directed by Robert Florey

The captain (Charles Boyer) of a cargo ship receives two telegrams as the ship is nearing Yokohama. The first informs him that there is a bomb aboard the ship which will explode soon after the ship reaches port. The second informs him that his wife has died. The captain confounds the crew by deciding to take a detour. It will the delay the arrival in port long enough that the bomb will explode before they get there. The crew wants to abandon ship but the captain has a plan to sweat out the man who set the bomb.

Star Trek (1966) 2.05

The Apple

A large team from the Enterprise (Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Chekov, Yeoman Martha Landon, and four security officers) beams down to investigate Gamma Trianguli VI. They quickly discover that despite looking quite beautiful, the flora of the planet can be quite deadly. A flower kills one of the security officers with poisonous darts. Spock accidentally discovers that some of the rocks can be explosive when he tosses a piece of one away after easily breaking it in half.

Scott contacts the away team and lets them know that some force on the planet has locked onto the Enterprise with a tractor beam like effect. The crew of the Enterprise is doing what they can to prevent the ship from being dragged down to the planet but the ship only has enough energy to keep resisting for about 16 hours. Two more of the security officers are killed, one by lighting and another by an exploding rock, while the team from the Enterprise explores the planet.

The Good Place 1.11

What's My Motivation

Eleanor tries to improve her score by doing nice things for people. Her plan doesn't really work out because she does what she does just so she can stay in the Good Place. Michael finds out from Jason that he isn't really Jianyu.

Michael starts to feel worse about the job he's doing. Jason and Janet decide to run away because Michael wants to keep them apart. Eleanor 2 tells Chidi that she loves him and he doesn't know how to respond. A judge shows up to decide Eleanor's fate. He arrives just in time for Janet, Jason, and Eleanor to steal his train.

Thoughts

This episode wasn't bad. It wasn't the best but there were a few good laughs. There were some flashbacks to Jason's past. I think I liked the Janet and Jason parts of the episode best.

My Royal Nemesis 1.02

A Guide to Optimizing Your Fate

Kang Dan-sim talks to Cha Se-gye in his office after the incident outside the building. She tells him about attempts on her own life and how she was able to foresee them. He doubts her and thinks she may have been working with the person who threw the mannequin from the top of the building. He kicks her out but has Son Jae-han, his assistant, drive her home.

When Dan-sim gets to Shin Seo-ri's home she meets Nam Ok-sun, Seo-ri's grandmother, who feeds her, tells her she needs to find a man, and tries to be encouraging before leaving.

Se-gye goes to a small family birthday gathering for Cha Dal-su, his grandfather. Cha Joo-ran and Cha Joo-mi (his aunts) and Mun-Do (cousin) are also present. He doesn't trust any of them. He knows that someone tried to kill him even if he doesn't know who it is that is out to get him.

Steven Universe 1.50

Political Power

Pearl tests a device which she hopes will deactivate robonoids. It doesn't but it does knock out the power all across Beach City. Steven spends the next day going around town with Mayor Dewey trying to reassure people that the power will come back on and that everything will be alright. 

Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl worry about the arrival of Peridot. They try to keep their worrying from Steven but in the end they level with him and tell him the truth.

Thoughts

Most of the previously seen residents of Beach City are in this episode but Connie and her parents are not.