Friday, July 31, 2020

Better Call Saul 1.10

Marco

Jimmy says goodbye to Marco in 1992. He's getting ready to move to Albuquerque. Marco wants him to stay and hang out. He's very disappointed when he learns the Jimmy is going to work for Chuck. He doesn't understand. Jimmy can't be swayed. He says goodbye and leaves.

Jimmy goes to see Howard in 2002. He talks with Kim before he sees Howard. Jimmy gives Howard a list of all the things that Chuck will need. His shopping list, more or less. Jimmy and Howard seem to be on better terms. He even apologizes to Howard for calling him a pig-fucker.

Thursday, July 30, 2020

Fleabag 2.02

Episode 2

Fleabag goes to Mass. She's there because the priest is there. She flirts with. He catches her smelling the bible. She wants to pay him for dinner the other night but he refuses. He offers her a cup of tea. They winds up drinking canned G&T in the rectory.

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

UFO Robo Grendizer 1.21

Day of the Break of Dawn

The Vegans come up with a plan to melt the polar ice cap of the North Pole. They hope that this will cause great harm to the Earth and make it easier to conquer. Blaki is put in charge of dealing with Grendizer. 

Danbei is trying to contact aliens, once again, when Taro, one of the horses, gets very sick. They need penicillin. Daisuke rushes to the city to get the medicine. He is on his way back with the medicine when his vehicle crashes because of an avalanche. The vial containing the penicillin is broken. Daisuke is ready to head back to the city for more but then he gets a call from Dr. Umon.

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Dear White People 2.10

Chapter X

Rikki Carter is coming to Winchester. Her imminent arrival is causing quite a stir. CORE, under Coco's leadership, is planning to do something about it. She cuts a deal with the devil, Kurt, to help CORE achieve their goal.

Monday, July 27, 2020

Justice League 2.02.B

Tabula Rasa - Part 2

Superman proves to be no match for Amazo. Batman joins the fight. Amazo analyzes him and detects that he doesn't have any superpowers. Batman pulls out a piece of Kryptonite. Amazo inherited Superman's weaknesses as well as his powers. Batman forces him back until he dives off the roof into a river of sewage.

Saturday, July 25, 2020

Better Call Saul 1.09

Pimento

No flashbacks.

Sandpiper Crossing's attorneys get serious. They try to get Jimmy barred from stepping foot in the assisted living facility. He fights that and wins but they don't stop there. They start issuing all sorts of legal documents to try and block the case from moving forward. Jimmy is ready to take on the fight but Chuck thinks that it is too much for the two of them. They need help. They need HHM. Jimmy is resistant but eventually he capitulates.

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Justice League 2.02.A

Tabula Rasa - Part 1

Lex Luthor gets into a fight with Hawkgirl and Superman. He's wearing his power armor but they are too much for him. He escapes after he distracts them by tearing a hole in the side of a ship with lots of rich people on board. They stay to help the people on the ship.

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Palm Springs (2020)

starring Andy Samberg, Cristin Milioti
directed by Max Barbakow

Nyles is stuck at a wedding in Palm Springs. He's stuck in the sense that the day keeps repeating itself. Every day he wakes up and can't leave. He doesn't understand exactly how it happened but it has something to do with a cave near the site of the wedding.

One night, after the wedding, Nyles flirts with Sarah, the maid of honor. She's the bride's older sister. They leave the party and head out in to the desert. They are starting to get intimate when Roy (J. K. Simmons) shows up. He's trying to kill Nyles. He shoots him with arrows and then runs into the cave. Nyles is wounded but follows Roy into the cave.

Monday, July 20, 2020

Fleabag 2.01

Episode 1

It has been just over a year since the end of season 1. Fleabag's father and her godmother are getting married soon. They're having dinner with Claire, Martin, the priest who is going to marry them and Fleabag, at a nice restaurant. The waitress is kind of pushy. The priest is very low key. The godmother dominates the conversation.

Sunday, July 19, 2020

UFO Robo Grendizer 1.20

Escape from the Snow Covered Mountain

The Vegans launch yet another plan to wreck havoc on Earth. This time they use the combination of gravity devices and a total lunar eclipse to their advantage. Twenty-four gravity devices are built on the moon. Twenty-four more devices are built on Earth, inside Mt. Kirifoki. Their plan is to use the devices to pull the moon significantly closer to the Earth during a total lunar eclipse. Their presence in the vicinity of the Japanese mountain went undetected until some mountain climbers saw their big spaceship and took a picture of it.

Saturday, July 18, 2020

Better Call Saul 1.08

RICO

The bad blood between Jimmy and Howard goes way back, back to when Jimmy passed the bar exam. He was working in the mail room of HHM at the time. He wanted to be hired as an attorney. Chuck said he would have to talk to the other partners. Howard came to talk to Jimmy while he was celebrating with the rest of the mailroom staff. The upshot of their conversation was that HHM was not going to hire him as an attorney.

Friday, July 17, 2020

Men at Work (1990)

starring Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez
directed by Emilio Estevez

James (Estevez), Carl (Sheen), and their supervisor (Keith David) find the body of city councilman Jack Berger while they are doing their job, picking up trash. They suspect that Susan, their neighbor and Berger's campaign manager, might have something to do with it. They are pursued by the real assassins who have come back to get something they missed. They run into a couple of inept police officers, play practical jokes on a couple of their coworkers, kidnap a pizza delivery person, and lug Berger's body around with them. They eventually cross paths with Maxwell Potterdam III, who had Berger killed when he threatened to blow the whistle on Potterdam's illegal hazardous waste disposal company.

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Dear White People 2.09

Chapter IX

Sam goes home for her father's funeral. Coco and Joelle go with her. Sam has some trouble coming to terms with the way she finds things when she gets there. She gets angry when she finds out that her mother didn't tell her that her father was in the hospital for a second time. Sam isn't sure what to say at her father's funeral until she finds a letter he left her in the pages of The Godfather. She also finds a book on secret societies on her father's desk.

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Superman: The Animated Series 4.03

Legacy - Part 2

Superman regains his memories just as he is getting locked up by General Hardcastle in a super secret military base in the mountains. They also take away Supergirl and lock her up too. Luthor makes sure that Hardcastle has all he needs to keep Superman and Supergirl under control. They lock them up in cells that are lit by red sun lamps. Superman insists that it is all a mistake. Darkseid made him do it.

Monday, July 13, 2020

Angie Tribeca 1.10

The One with the Bomb

Tribeca and Geils come closer together. They start making out while he is helping her out on the shooting range but she tells him that she can't start something with him. She changes her mind later on but then he gets kidnapped.

Sunday, July 12, 2020

UFO Robo Grendizer 1.19

The Frightening Meteors

The Vegans use missiles to break up an asteroid that is headed on a collision course with their base on the moon. The meteors that are created from the breakup of the asteroid head for Earth.

Daisuke befriends Makichi, a boy who doesn't want to play with the others. Maikichi tells him about his village. Daisuke senses a kindred spirit in Makichi who has also lost loved ones.

Duke Fleed learns from Professor Umon about the meteors that are headed for Earth. He goes out to try and break them up. He breaks them up but the debris from them continues to head for Earth. Makichi's home village has to be evacuated because the meteorites look like they will hit it.

Saturday, July 11, 2020

Better Call Saul 1.07

Bingo

Jimmy helps Mike deal with the homicide detectives from Philadelphia. He returns the stolen notebook to them and claims that they found it in the parking lot. The younger detective is livid but the older one gets him to back off. Mike has a private chat with the older detective once his partner and Jimmy have left the room. The older detective agrees that the dead cops got what they deserved and has hope that the department will improve. Jimmy tries grilling Mike afterwords but Mike refuses to tell him what was said.

Friday, July 10, 2020

Dear White People 2.08

Chapter VIII

Gabe interviews Sam for his documentary. The interview takes place in the sound booth from which Sam usually broadcasts her radio program, Dear White People. She turns on the recording equipment in the studio so that she will have a copy of everything that is said, in case he quotes her out of context.

Thursday, July 9, 2020

Superman: The Animated Series 4.02

Legacy - Part 1

Superman has gone over the dark side and now works for Darkseid. He has been brainwashed by Granny Goodness and believes that Darkseid is his adoptive father. The brainwashing isn't complete. He still has occasional dreams about Earth, the planet that Darkseid wants him to conquer next.

Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Angie Tribeca 1.09

Inside Man

Tribeca and Geils go undercover to infiltrate a gang of chimney sweeps who robbed a bank. The most valuable item they took was a flash drive. The gang gets arrested before Tribeca and Geils can figure out where the flash drive is stashed. They have to follow the gang into prison. Everything goes smoothly until the warden accidentally reveals that Tribeca and Geils are really LAPD.

Saturday, July 4, 2020

Better Call Saul 1.06

Five-O

A heavy portion of this episode is devoted to flashbacks to Mike's past. Jimmy is in this one but Mike is the central character. Kim and Chuck are not in this episode.

In the past, Mike arrives in Albuquerque for the first time. Stacey, his daughter-in-law, picks him up at the train station. Mike doesn't let on but he has a gunshot wound in his left shoulder. He dresses it as best he can in the bathroom before he gets in the car with her. He visits with her and his granddaughter. She asks him about a phone call that Matty, her husband, received the night before he was killed. She thinks he was talking to Mike but Mike claims he doesn't remember such a call.

Friday, July 3, 2020

Dear White People 2.07

Chapter VII

Troy goes on a quest to figure out who he is. He has spent his life trying to please his father, until he got arrested. Since then he has been wandering a bit, without purpose. He tries stand up comedy at the beginning of this episode without much success. He asks Kurt about his performance on stage. Kurt turns around and asks him about his inner self, his comedy self.

Thursday, July 2, 2020

Knights of Sidonia 1.08

Immortality

The first half of this episode focuses on the battle with Gauna 489, 490. and 491, all of which resemble Garde 702, Hoshijiro's ship. The second half is mostly devoted to a look back at the past.

The three squads split up and each take on one of the Gaunas: Samari Squad 489, Nakazono Squad 490, and Kunato Squad 491. The Gauna not only look like Garde 702 but they also communicate with the Gardes pursuing them using a voice that sounds like a distroted version of Hoshijiro. Kunato is unnerved by the communication with the Gauna.

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Angie Tribeca 1.08

Murder in the First Class

Tribeca and Geiles investigate a murder that took place on an airplane while it was in the air. No one on the plane seems to know what happened. Dr. Edelweiss deduces that the victim was smothered with a pillow, possibly by someone that uses an inhaler.