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.

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.

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.