Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1.15

The Big Switch

starring George Mathews, Beverly Michaels

directed by Don Weis

Sam Dunleavy (George Mathews) makes plans to kill Goldie (Beverly Michaels), his ex-girlfriend. He's sore at her for starting to date another guy while he was out of town, trying to avoid the police. Sam is being watched by the police but he gets some help from Barney, an old friend who owns a nightclub. Barney agrees to be Sam's alibi while he sneaks out of the club and kills Goldie.

Star Trek: Lower Decks 2.07

Where Pleasant Fountains Lie

Mariner and Boimler are sent on a mission to escort AGIMUS, an evil computer, to the Daystrom Institute. On the way there they crash land on a desert planet. AGIMUS tries talking them into letting it help out. Boimler is all for it but Mariner is against it. They fight. Boimler stuns Mariner with a phaser after he learns that he wouldn't even be on this mission if it wasn't for her.

Rutherford goes on a mission with Billups to repair the engines of Hysperian Queen Paolana's starship. Billups, Rutherford's supervisor, is the crown prince of Hysperia. His mother is desperate to have him take her place but as long as he remains a virgin she can't force him to assume the crown.

Def by Temptation (1990)

Def by Temptation (1990)

starring James Bond III, Kadeem Hardison, Bill Nunn

directed by James Bond III

Joel (James Bond III) travels from North Carolina to New York City to visit his friend K (Kadeem Hardison) who moved there years before to pursue an acting career. Joel's straightlaced nature sticks out like a sore thumb in the Big Apple. K does what he can to help his friend fit in to his new surroundings.

A rift develops between Joel and K after a woman (who had previously shown an interest in K) now gives him the cold shoulder in favor of Joel. K starts to suspect that there is something supernaturally evil about the woman. K's worst fears are confirmed by Dougy (Bill Nunn) an undercover cop who clues him in to the fact that any man who goes home with her is never seen again.

Steven Universe 1.38

The Test

Steven, Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl have just finished playing a game of Citchen Calamity, which Steven won, when he finds out that one of their previous missions was a test for him and he failed. Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl come up with another test for Steven. He is close to completing it when he discovers that it was too easy. There's no way he couldn't pass it.

Steven gets angry because he feels like they are going too easy on him but then he softens his stance after he overhears them talking about their own insecurities.

Thoughts

The test from a previous mission that they refer to in this episode occurred in 1.03 Cheeseburger Backpack.

Adventure Time 5.12

Vault of Bones

Finn takes Fire Princess on a dungeon crawl to help ease her anxiety over her father's influence over her. She likes it at first but when she starts to get bored he let's her lead the dungeon crawl. She goes all fiery, which scares him but he plays along, gets captured but then she, using something he taught her, rescues him.

Thoughts

This was a fun episode. Dungeon adventures always make we think of Dungeons and Dragons.

Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier (2007)

Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier (2007)

directed by John Logsdon     

90 minutes

This documentary celebrates the 40th anniversary of Star Trek by looking back the five of the six shows that had aired up to the time this film was made. There is no mention or acknowledgement of the existence of the 1970s Star Trek cartoon. There are lots of clips from the five shows (Star Trek, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise) that did merit recognition.

Several members of the casts of the various Star Trek shows appeared in this documentary

The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House 1.03

Taboo

Yoshino, a former maiko returns to the house. Yoshino's outgoing and rule breaking nature disrupts the household's gentle balance.

Thoughts

Kiyo doesn't play as big a role in this episode as she did in the first two. There doesn't seem to be any more question as to her role in the house. A fair amount of this episode seems to revolve around Yoshino and her antics.

Once again I had to pause the the show a few times to look up words.

I kept waiting for someone to put Yoshino in her place but the maiko were all too polite to say anything.