The Twilight Zone (1959) 1.21

Mirror Image

starring Vera Miles, Martin Milner

written by Rod Serling

directed by John Brahm

Millicent Barnes (Vera Miles) is waiting for a bus to Buffalo, NY. She doesn't understand why everyone keeps telling her that they just saw her a minute ago when she is meeting them for the first time. Twice sees she sees herself. Once in a bathroom mirror and then again in on a bus that she is about to board. Paul Grinstead (Martin Milner), who is waiting for the same bus tries to help her but he ultimately decides to call the police and let them deal with the matter. That gets her out of his hair but then he starts seeing someone who looks just like himself. 

Bosch: Legacy 3.10

Dig Down

Detective Harry Bosch works with LAPD Detective Renee Bosch to solve a case. It looks like the case is linked to an unsolved serial killer case that has been haunting Bosch for more than a dozen years. Bosch and Ballard clash. He uses unorthodox methods. She tries to play it straight but she also puts a tracking device on his car without getting permission to do so. She learns to accept his tactics and together, along with some help from some of his friends, they find and capture the killer.

Thoughts

I started to watch the first episode of Ballard. I paused it when I was about halfway through the episode. I did a little research and discovered that Renee Ballard appeared in the last episode of Bosch: Legacy. I decided to give it a watch before finishing the first episode of Ballard. I thought it might explain some things as to where things begin in the first episode of Ballard but so far I don't think watching this episode yielded any nuggets of useful information.

I haven't watched Bosch or any other episodes of Bosch: Legacy. I read the first five Bosch novels, before Bosch was a TV show. I enjoyed them but eventually I felt like I had read enough and stopped. 

I tried watching Bosch once before. There was something about the portrayal of the main character that rubbed me wrong. It was different enough from what I recalled from the books that it didn't feel right to me. I can see how some people might like or love it but it isn't my cup of tea. I feel no compulsion to go back and start watching Bosch from the beginning. I do still plan to finish watching the first episode of Ballard and maybe more than just the first episode.

This was an okay episode. It was a little too text book for me. Everything moved a little too quickly and smoothly. Ballard is more or less the co-star of this episode. It is as much her episode as it is Bosch's.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 2.16

Shadowplay

Dax and Odo investigate a planet in the Delta Quadrant where they discover omicron particles. The particles interfere with their scanning devices aboard the runabout. They beam down to the planet and discover a town of people living there. The people at first suspect that Dax and Odo have something to do with the recent disappearance of some of the people of the village. Dax and Odo convince the villagers that they are not responsible for the disappearances and then start to work on trying to figure out what happened to the missing people.

Benjamin Sisko insists that Jake get a job. He assigns him to be Chief O'Brien's assistant. Benjamin expects that Jake will one day join Starfleet. Jake isn't so sure about that but he doesn't say anything to his father about his feelings about joining Starfleet.

Four Star Playhouse 1.17

Ladies on His Mind

starring Ronald Colman

written by Milton Merlin

directed by Robert Florey

Dr. Matthew Bosanquent (Ronald Colman) listens to the troubles of his patents (all women) and imagines himself caught up in their troubles. He reminds himself on several occasions that he much remain a dispassionate observer.

Thoughts

I didn't feel as though this episode went anywhere at all.

A Taxi Driver (2017)

A Taxi Driver (2017)

starring Song Kang-Ho, Thomas Kretschmann

directed by Jang Hoon

138 minutes

A German journalist Jürgen Hinzpeter (Thomas Kretschmann) hired South Korean taxi driver Kim Man-seob (Dong Kang-ho) in May 1980 to drive him to Gwangju where peaceful protests against the repressive South Korean government were brutally being repressed by the police and the army. Hinzpeter documented what he saw with a film camera. and stayed in Gwangju for over 24 hours before he left with Kim Man-seob who drove him back to Seoul.

Teen Titans 5.01

Homecoming - Part 1

Beast Boy receives a distress call from Mento, one of his former teammates in the Doom Patrol. The Teen Titans accompany Beast Boy as he searches for the Doom Patrol. The search leans them to a forest where first they find Robot Man and then the rest of the Doom Patrol (Negative Man, Elasti-Girl, Mento). Robot Man was left for dead but the other three are the prisoners Of the Brain and Monsieur Mallah. The Titans rescue them but the Brain and Monsieur Mallah escape with their latest weapon, a quantum generator.

The Set-Up (1949)

The Set-Up (1949)

starring Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter

directed by Robert Wise

73 minutes

Boxer Bill "Stoker" Thompson (Robert Ryan) shows up for a fight in Paradise City unaware that Tiny, his manager, has taken money to ensure that Stoker only makes it through the first two rounds before getting knocked out. Tiny figures that with Stoker's history he will probably lose anyway and doesn't tell him about the money.

Julie (Audrey Totter), Stoker's wife, is so sick of watching him get beaten up that she walks around town rather than go to see him fight. Stoker, feeling like he's got something to prove, gives it his all and wins the fight in the fourth round. He knows by then about the fix but he doesn't care, until Little Boy, the gangster who paid for it, comes to pay him back for not sticking with the plan.