Un Village Français 6.04

Sur le quai

or On the Platform

Anselme, Raymond, and the others find the bodies still hanging in the schoolyard, including Marie's. Antoine goes to take her down but Anselme insists that it's his fault that it came to this and that he should not be the one to do it. Raymond takes Marie's body for burial even though Anselme insists that he shouldn't. Before the are done taking the bodies down they receive word that it was Marchetti who hanged Marie.

Heinrich and Hortense try to get through a German checkpoint but someone spots them. They are pulled aside. Heinrich is made to dig a grave for the two of them. They are about to get executed when some Americans show up and kill the German soldiers. Heinrich, speaking in English, claims that he is with the anti-fascist underground.

Steven Universe 1.49

The Message

Greg helps the Crystal Gems figure out how to decipher a message that is being transmitted by a Wailing Stone. They assume at first that it is an audio message but then it occurs to Steven and Greg that it might be a video message. They are correct. It was sent by Lapis Lazuli who warns them that someone is coming for them. They assume that the someone is Peridot.

Thoughts

The order of the episodes seems to be jumbled on Hulu, according to the Steven Universe Wiki. I just discovered that I skipped over three episodes by mistake.

The Wailing Stone previously appeared in 1.19 Rose's Room but I did not make any mention of it my notes for that episode. I went back and watched that episode. It only appears very briefly in that one.

This was a good episode. I like the humor and the way it expands the world in which the story takes place. Greg and Lapis Lazuli are the only characters to appear in this story other than Steven, Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl. Peridot is mentioned but does not appear.

Adventure Time 5.20

Shh!

Jake and Finn have a contest to see who can go the longest without speaking. They communicate mostly by using signs that they have written. BMO freaks out when Finn and Jake won't speak. BMO assumes that they aren't really Finn and Jake but doppelgangers. They try desperately to convince BMO, without talking, that they are the real thing.

Thoughts

This was a fun episode. I love how BMO immediately assumed the worst.

The Good Place 1.06

What We Owe to Each Other

Eleanor spends the day trying to help Michael figure out what is wrong with the Good Place. She sees that he is unable to relax and suggests that he stop trying to fix things for a day. They sing karaoke, go bowling, and just have fun.

Chidi goes to the spa with Tahani and Jason / Jianyu. Tahani suggested the spa because she wanted some time alone with Jianyu to work on their relationship but instead she discovers that she has more in common with Chidi that she does with Jianyu.

The episode ends with Michael announcing that he is the problem and that he will be leaving them.

One Rainy Afternoon (1936)

One Rainy Afternoon (1936)

starring Francis Lederer, Ida Lupino

directed by Rowland V. Lee

80 minutes

One rainy afternoon in Paris, struggling actor Philippe Martin (Francis Lederer) goes to the theater with Yvonne, his lover. She doesn't want to be seen with him because she is married so he agrees to meet her in the theater after the lights go down. There is a mix up and Phillipe winds up in seat 99 instead of seat 66. He kisses the woman sitting next to him, Monique Pelerin (Ida Lupino), thinking that she is Yvonne. Monique makes enough noise about it that the lights come up in the theater, the movie is stopped, and Philippe gets arrested.

Moonlighting 3.10

Poltergeist III -- DiPesto Nothing

Bert gets on Agnes' nerves. She thinks that he's getting treated better  than she is at the Blue Moon Detective Agency. She decides (without consulting with them) to take a case that Maddy and David reject. Mrs. Renborn, the client, needs someone to prove that her home is haunted. She takes the case despite the fact that the thought of having to track down a ghost gives her the creeps.

Bert shows up while Agnes is trying to solve the case. She resents having him around at first but quickly changes her mind.

Thoughts

This episode was a little too silly for me. David and Maddie are in it but only briefly at the beginning and the end. I think it's great that they tried something different but in my book this is a swing and a miss. I think that the writers and the director are mostly to blame for the quality of this episode.

The Twilight Zone 1.16

The Hitch-Hiker

starring Inger Stevens

written by Rod Serling, Louise Fletcher

directed by Alvin Ganzer

Nan Adans (Inger Stevens) keeps seeing the same hitch-hiker as she drives cross country from New York to Los Angeles. She spots him for the first as she is getting a flat tire repaired in Pennsylvania and then again as she is getting ready to get back on the road.

She drives south from Pennsylvania. Somewhere in Virginia she spots him again. She doesn't understand how he keeps getting ahead of her. She almost gets hit by a train at one point just after seeing him.