Cowboy Bebop 1.22

Cowboy Funk

Spike has caught up to Teddy Bomber. He is about to take the guy in for a bounty when Andy the Cowboy shows up. Andy thinks that Spike is Teddy Bomber. Teddy gets away and blows up part of the building that he was intending to destroy while Andy is chasing Spike, on horseback.

Atlanta 2.08

Woods

Alfred goes out shopping with Ciara, his kinda sorta girlfriend. She tries to talk him into getting a new manager. She also talks branding and tries to get him to change his image. He isn't buying it. He wants to keep it real. He gets angry and stomps off when she takes a picture of them together without asking him.

Daredevil 3.01

Resurrection

Matt survived the collapse of the building in The Defenders 1.08. He was taken to the orphanage where he grew up after his father was killed. There he is cared for by Sister Maggie (Joanne Whalley) who remembers him from when he was a boy. She doesn't have much patience for his self pity. He tells her about his sensory abilities but he also lets her know that they don't seem to be working any more.

Haters Back Off 2.01

im gunna be an legend

Amanda is alone. Everyone has left. She struggles to feed herself. She keeps hearing a bell noise outside. It takes her a while to find out that it is Uncle Jim. He is living in his van which is parked in the driveway. He's still angry at her for firing him.

Star Blazers 2199 1.02

Toward a Sea of Stars

The Gamilas attempt to destroy the battleship that Susume Kodai found in the previous episode. He and Daisuke Shima, his co-pilot, watch as a number enemy ships do their best to damage or destroy the ancient battleship. The battleship fights back, knocking out the largest of the enemy ships. The rest are destroyed by Earth's Defense Forces. The battle is not without human casualties as is later revealed in this episode.

Star Trek: Enterprise 3.11

Carpenter Street

Captain Archer gets a visit from Daniels, whom he hasn't seen in quite some time. Daniels wants to send Archer to Detroit, Michigan 150 years into the past. The Xindi have sent three of their agents to Earth in 2004. Daniels isn't sure what they are up to but he's sure that it isn't good. Archer can take one person with him. He chooses T'Pol.

The Phil Silvers Show 1.10

The Centennial

Lt. Parker, the new Special Services officer is tricked into trying to put on a pageant celebrating the 100th anniversary of Fort Baxter. Sgt Bilko puts together the pageant which reveals nothing but bad things about the officers that ran the base in the mid to late 19th century.

This wasn't so great an episode. I could see what they were attempting to do but I don't think it worked or at the very least didn't age well. I think part of my problem with it is that Bilko and company barely seem to break a sweat. I like it better when it feels like there are some real stakes.

NewsRadio 3.16

Kids

Jimmy brings a bunch of young kids to WNYX. Each employee has to look after one of the kids while Jimmy takes their teacher out to lunch.

Someone is leaving porn in the break room. Dave tries to figure out who's doing it. When Lisa finds about the magazines she assumes they belong to Dave.

I might have laughed once. It wasn't awful but I can't say that I felt like I got my money's worth with this one.

Rick and Morty 3.10

The Rickchurian Mortydate

Rick and Morty piss off the President of the United States. Morty asks for a selfie before they go but the President is unwilling to play ball. This leads to a feud between Rick and the President. The leader of the free world isn't quite at the same level as Rick but he is also far from incompetent.

Atlanta 2.07

Champagne Papi

Van goes to a party with three of her friends (Candice, Tami, and Nadine). The party is at Drake's place in Atlanta.

Each of them have their own little arc. Van is obsessed with getting a selfie with Drake. Nadine is the one who brought them to the party but she ditches them pretty quickly for the guy who got them the invites to the party. Tami is obsessed with someone famous who already has a woman, a white woman. Nadine freaks out after eating a gummy until she meets Darius.

Star Trek: Enterprise 3.10

Similitude

Commander Tucker is injured while shutting down the engines. He goes into a coma. Dr. Phlox suggets that he could grow a clone and then harvest the needed parts from the clone. The clone will only live for 15 days. In that time it will grow from an embryo to a full-size human. When it reaches the right age they can harvest the necessary brain matter and fix Commander Tucker. That's the plan which Captain Archer reluctantly agrees to.

UFO Robo Grendizer 1.05

Love in the Evening of Glory

The Vegans attack during an air show at Sosokikahara. Kouji is in a propeller plane, demonstrating his flying skills at the time. The plane is shot out of the sky and crashes to Earth but Kouji (either miraculously or unrealistically) emerges relatively unscathed.

Danbei visits Dr. Umon's HQ. He freaks out when he sees the attack on the air show. He tries heading to Sosokikahara but knocks himself out getting on his horse.

Cast a Deadly Spell (1991)

starring Fred Ward, Julianne Moore, David Warner, Clancy Brown
directed by Martin Campbell
produced by Gale Anne Hurd

Los Angeles, California, 1948. Phil Lovecraft (Ward) is a private investigator who lives in a world where magic is everywhere but he refuses to use it. He is hired by Amos Hacksaw (Warner) to find a missing book, the Necronomicon. Hacksaw's daughter shows an interest in Lovecraft but he still seems to be carrying a torch for Connie Stone (Moore) his ex and a lounge singer. She's with Harry Bordon (Brown) now.

Star Blazers 2199 1.01

Messenger of Iscandar

Act 1

The First Fleet of Earth fights a battle near Pluto with the Gamilas, aliens who have been attacking Earth for past 8 years. The First Fleet's weapons aren't very effective against the alien fleet. The alien fleet inflicts heavy damage on the space ships from Earth. Commander Okita, leader of the fleet, doesn't give the order to retreat until he has retrieved word that Operation M has been a success. The Amaterasu has made it to Mars with its precious cargo.

NewsRadio 3.15

Rose Bowl

Jimmy hires Joe to represent him in court after he discovers that the movie memorabilia that he bought are all fake. This includes a sled with "Rose Bowl" written on it.

Dave takes some advice from Lisa and has the staff of WNYX do peer evaluations. Beth evaluates Lisa. Bill evaluates Catherine. Matthew evaluates Beth. Dave evaluates Bill. Lisa evaluates Dave.

Not my favorite episode but it has its moments.

Orange Is the New Black 2.13

We Have Manners. We're Polite.

This is it, the season finale. There is no backstory spotlight. The focus is entirely on the present. Just about everyone who has played a role in this season makes an appearance or two. The big story revolves around Vee and Red but there are a bunch of other little ones that also get some screen time and some resolution.

Us (2019)

starring Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex
written and directed by Jordan Peele

Adelaide Wilson and her family are on vacation when they get an unexpected visit from a family that looks just like them. It gets weirder, much weirder. I'm not sure that everything was fully resolved to my satisfaction but it was a wild ride. There are some twists in the tale that I wasn't expecting and that weren't spoiled by reviews I had heard. It kept me guessing and asking myself questions right up to the very end.

I thought that the direction and all of the performances were great. I like the score by Michael Abels and the other songs included in the movie. It all seemed very appropriate and added to the movie rather that distract from it.

I had little to nothing spoiled about this movie before I saw it. The first sentence of the first paragraph above is basically all I knew going in.

I will probably want to see this again at some point in the future, just to see how it holds up to repeat viewings. I feel fairly confident that it will.

Rick and Morty 3.09

The ABC's of Beth

Rick takes Beth into an imaginary world where Tommy, a childhood friend of her's, still lives. The imaginary world is not as it once was. Tommy has mated with the imaginary creatures there, which has warped everything. Beth decides that she has to set things straight but what she ultimately discovers is that she's more like her father than she wanted to admit.

Atlanta 2.06

Teddy Perkins

Darius goes to pickup a piano with multi-colored keys that someone offered him. He gets to the house and meets Teddy Perkins. Teddy is strange. The whole episode is strange. It plays like an episode of the Twilight Zone or a horror movie. Things get weirder and weirder as it progresses.

Justice League 1.12

The Savage Time

Part 1

Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkgirl, and Martian Manhunter are returning to the Watchtower from a mission is space. Batman is waiting for them on the satellite headquarters when there is a flash of light and Batman and the satellite disappear.