The Founder (2016)

The Founder (2016)

starring Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch

directed by John Lee Hancock

115 minutes

Salesman Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton) sees an opportunity in the restaurant run by Dick (Nick Offerman) and Mac McDonald (John Caroll Lynch). He convinces them to let him franchise the business. Kroc starts in Illinois. He runs into some obstacles as he grows the franchises from one to a few to a dozen to hundreds. Some of the obstacles are due to the contract that he signed with the McDonalds brothers. With some help from others he eventually grows much bigger than them and buys them out.

Star Trek: The Next Generation 6.26

Descent

Data rushes from a game of poker with Sir Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Stephen Hawkings on the Holodeck to the bridge after he receives a summons. Commander Riker leads an away team that includes Data and Worf down to Ohniaka III. Everyone there seems to be dead One of the killers, a Borg, is found behind a locked door. 

A fight breaks out between Riker’s team and the Borg. A few more Borg quickly join the one that Data found. Most of the Borg are killed thanks in large part to Data who gets angry in the midst of the fight. The last remaining Borg transports all the neutralized Borg and himself off the planet and back to their ship. The Borg ship evades the Enterprise and quickly departs the star system.

Heist (2001)

Heist (2001)

starring Gene Hackman, Danny DeVito, Delroy Lindo, Sam Rockwell, Rebecca Pidgeon, Ricky Jay

written and directed by David Mamet

107 minutes

Joe (Gene Hackman) and Fran Moore (Rebecca Pidgeon), Bobby Blane (Delroy Lindo), and Pinky (Ricky Jay) rob a jewelry store. Joe's face is caught on camera during the robbery. He and Fran are ready to leave the country, head to Argentina, but Mickey Bergman (Danny DeVito) the fence to whom they turn over the stolen loot has other plans. He wants Joe to do another job for him before he will pay Joe and his crew for the jewelry store heist.

Four Star Playhouse 1.04

Backstage

starring Charles Boyer, Marcia Henderson, Hillary Brooke

directed by Robert Florey

Paul (Charles Boyer) takes a break from directing a play to go for a walk. He spots Amy (Marcia Henderson), a young woman about to commit suicide. He stops her from jumping off a bridge and tries talk some sense into her. He takes her to a hotel and gives her some money so that she can stay there for the night only to later discover that he accidentally gave her some stage money.

Paul returns to the hotel the next morning and discovers that Amy never got a room at the hotel and why. He goes to the police in the hopes that they can find her. Paul is reunited with Amy, after searching for her in vain, and he decides to hire her to be in the play he is directing.

The Station Agent (2003)

The Station Agent (2003)

starring Peter Dinklage, Patricia Clarkson, Bobby Cannavale, Michelle Williams

written and directed by Tom McCarthy

88 minutes

Fin (Peter Dinklage) inherits a railroad station in Newfoundland, NJ. It is a small town, off the beaten path and not on the main railway lines. He doesn't want to talk to anyone but over time he gets to know some of the other residents of the town: Olivia (Patricia Clarkson), an artist who is still in mourning over the son she lost two years earlier; Joe (Bobby Cannavale), the operator of a coffee truck; and Emily (Michelle Williams), the town's librarian.

Orson Welles Great Mysteries 1.01

Captain Rogers

starring Donald Pleasance, Joseph O'Conor

directed by Alan Gibson, Orson Welles

Mullet (Joseph O'Conor), owner of the Golden Key, is recognized by Cawser (Donald Pleasance), a man who once sailed with the innkeeper, when he was known as Captain Rogers. Cawser knows that there's a price on Mullet's head and uses that as leverage to impose his will on the innkeeper. 

Mullet makes it clear that he doesn't want Cawser around. Cawser makes is clear that he will notify the authorities if Mullet doesn't humor him. Mullet bows under the pressure and Cawser makes himself at home at the Golden Key. He pushes the staff around, including Joan, Mullet's daughter. Cawser's attitude changes for the worse when Mullet becomes ill.

Cawser drops his guard and Mullet strikes from his "death bed" and strangles Cawser.

Decision to Leave (2022)

Decision to Leave (2022)

starring Tang Wei, Park Hae-il

directed by Park Chan-wook

139 minutes

in Korean with English subtitles

Detective Jang Hae-jun (Park Hae-il) investigates an apparent suicide to determine if it was in fact murder. Song Seo-rae (Tang Wei), the dead man's wife, is the primary suspect. She emigrated from China years before. She fled China after being accused of murdering her grandmother. Detective Jang can't find enough evidence to press charges against Seo-rae and the death is ruled a suicide.

The Phil Silvers Show 4.26

Guinea Pig Bilko

Colonel Hall is looking for a new way to restrain Bilko when he learns that the army wants to test a treatment for over active soldiers on some of the men at Camp Fremont. Colonel Hall tricks Bilko into becoming one of the test subjects for the new treatment. Bilko is given a new drug that makes him much more passive. Colonel Hall loves it until he discovers that the men in Bilko's platoon are worse than him and out of control without Bilko to keep them on a short leash.

Thoughts

This was a fun one. I enjoyed it very much. It wasn't the very best episode I have seen but it is better than the average episode of this show.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 2.07

Rules of Acquisition

Quark a call from the Grand Nagus while playing cards with Pel (one of his employees), Rom, and Jadzia.

Grand Nagus Zek arrives on Deep Space Nine. He negotiates a deal with Commander Sisko to allow him to hold meetings there. The Geand Nagus also asks Quark to lead the Ferengi negotiations with the Dosi, a group that hails from the Gamma Quadrant. Quark asks Pel, who seems very adept at business, to be by his side during the negotiations.

The Dosi arrive on Deep Space Nine and the negotiations begin. The Dosi are very intimidating and push back on all of Quark’s demands. Quark gets flustered but with some help from Pel he pushes back hard enough to get the Dosi to consider his offer. 

Steven Universe 1.30

Island Adventure

Steven senses that Lars and Sadie need a change of scenery. He takes them through a portal to an island that he visited recently. They wind up trapped there after the portal through which they traveled disappears. Lars and Sadie grow closer but then Lars discovers that Sadie hid the portal. They get attacked by an invisible creature in the middle of a rainstorm. Sadie defeats the creature and then they return to Beach City.

Thoughts

The other Crystal Gems were in this episode but only in the first couple minutes of it.

This was fun. It was good but not great. Sadie did trick Steven and Lars into staying on the island longer than they intended to be there which seems like a big no-no.

Adventure Time 5.04

Up a Tree

Finn throws his flying disc for Jake to catch. It winds up at the top of a really tall tree. Jake offers to stretch up there and retrieve the disc but Finn insists on getting it himself. He meets a porcupine and a squirrel as climbs to the top. The squirrel forces him to take a bite of an apple which shrinks him down to about the same size as the squirrel. He meets some other animals after he gets to the top. The animals imprison Finn but he escapes with some help from the squirrel who claims to be a flying squirrel but really isn't.

Thoughts

This was fun. I like this episode very much.

True Detective 1.02

Seeing Things

The two other detectives continue to interview Cohle and Hart in 2012. Rust and Marty, in 1995, continue to work the case. They interview people the victim knew. They learn from a friend of the victim that she might have moved south, to Spanish Lake. She might have gotten involved with a church down there.

Hart goes to see his girlfriend. Coehle goes and buys some drugs off a prostitute. He learns from her about a place called the Ranch, down near Spanish Lake. Marty and Rust head down that way the next day. They eventually find the place and talk to a couple of the women there. Marty doesn't like it at all. he thinks one of the women is under age. The woman who runs the place tells them that the local sheriff has a stake in the Ranch.

Kraft Television Theater 8.16

Patterns

starring Richard Kiley, Ed Begley, Everett Sloane

directed by Fielder Cook

written by Rod Serling

Mr. Ramsey (Everett Sloane), the president of Ramsey and Company hires Fred Staples (Richard Kiley), a young go getter, to work with Andy Sloan (Ed Begley), the only executive left from when Ramsey started the company 20 years prior. It quickly becomes clear to Staples that Sloan is in poor health and doesn't respond well to the sort of pressure that Ramsey likes to apply to his executive staff. Sloan tells Staples that he can’t afford to quit but that Ramsey won’t fire him. Ramsey just makes Sloan’s life miserable.

Blacula (1972)

Blacula (1972)

starring William Marshall, Vonetta McKee, Denise Nicholas, Thalmus Rasulala

directed by William Crain

93 minutes

Prince Mamuwalde (William Marshall) and Luva (Vonetta McKee), his wife, travel to Transylvania in 1780. They ask Count Dracula for help in stopping the slave trade. He rejects their appeal and bites Mamuwalde and then locks him in a coffin deep in his castle.

Almost two centuries later, in 1972, the coffin is locked up is bought by Billy and Bobby, two interior decorators. They transport the coffin back to Los Angeles. They break it open, thus freeing Blacula who repays them by biting them. The investigation into the deaths of Billy and Bobby by Dr. Gordon Thomas (Thalmus Rasulala) leads him to believe that the killer might be a vampire.

Star Trek: The Next Generation 6.15

Tapestry

Captain Picard dies and is welcomed into the afterlife by Q. Picard rejects the idea that he is dead. Q explains that it was Picard’s artificial heart that was to blame for his death.

Q gives Picard a chance at redemption. He takes him back to when he was an ensign, two days before he got into the fight in which he was so badly injured that he had to have his heart replaced with an artificial one. If Picard can avoid the fight then Q will restore him to life, otherwise he will be doomed to spend eternity with Q.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1.11

Guilty Witness

starring Judith Evelyn, Kathleen Maguire, Joe Mantell

directed by Robert Stevens

Stanley (Joe Mantell) and Dorothy Crane (Kathleen Maguire) wonder about their upstairs neighbors, Ben and Amelia Verber (Judith Evelyn), who always seem to be fighting. The Cranes start to wonder even more after the Verbers stop fighting and Ben is nowhere to be found. Sgt. Halloran, a homicide detective, comes around asking questions but in the end it is Stanley who solves the mystery and finds Ben Verber, by accident.

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

starring Jimmy Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore

produced and directed by Frank Capra

130 minutes

Angel Second Class Clarence Oddbody learns about the life of George Bailey (James Stewart). He sees George's progression from a young boy of about 10 to a man in his 30s. George always wanted to leave his hometown of Bedford Falls but circumstances conspire to keep him there. George becomes the president of the Bedford Falls' Savings and Loan which stands in direct opposition to the owner of the bank, Henry Potter (Lionel Barrymore).

Moonlighting 3.08

It’s a Wonderful Job

Maddie has a bad day. No one in at the Blue Moon Agency is happy because she has insisted that they work the week of Christmas. David tries to talk her into changing her mind but she won’t.

Maddie was planning to visit her Aunt Ruth in the hospital later that day but then she finds out that her aunt died. Maddie leaves the office and goes to a bar for a drink. A man named Albert approaches her. He offers to listen to her talk about whatever is bothering her, but she’s not interested in his offer. She wishes that she had just sold the Blue Moin Detective Agency instead of keeping it.

Tales of the Unexpected 1.09

The Way Up to Heaven

starring Julie Harris, Roland Culver

directed by Simon Langton

Alice Foster worries a great deal about timeliness. Her husband doesn't care so much about it. She is getting ready to fly from London to New York to visit their daughter and granddaughter, without him. Mr. Foster takes his time getting ready for the drive to Heathrow which causes Alice a great deal of anxiety until she decides she's had enough of waiting and tells the taxi driver to take her to the airport without her husband, even though she can hear him calling her name.

Alice returns six weeks later only to find her husband dead in the elevator in their home.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

starring George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas

directed by Peter R. Hunt

142 minutes

James Bond (George Lazenby) rescues Tracy Di Vicenzo (Diana Rigg) from men whom he thinks are trying to harm her only to later learn that they are bodyguards supplied by Draco, her father. Tracy is a bit wild. Draco, who is also the head of a large crime family, thinks that what she needs is to get married. He suggests that James would make a good husband for her.

The Fantastic 4: First Steps (2025)

The Fantastic 4: First Steps (2025)

starring Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon-Moss Bachrach, Joseph Quinn

directed by Matt Shakman

115 minutes

The world is threatened by a galactic level threat, the Devourer of Worlds, Galactus. The Silver Surfer, the herald of Galactus comes to Earth, well in advance of her employer. She warns the people of Earth. The Fantastic Four (Mister Fantastic, the Invisible Woman, The Thing, and the Human Torch) and decide that something must be done. They follow the trail of the Silver Surfer to another star system where Galactus is in the process of devouring a planet.

Steven Universe 1.29

Secret Team

Steve, Amethyst, and Pearl form a secret team in order to recover the shards that were dispersed when they accidentally popped the bubble in which the shards were floating. The key to their mission is that they can't let Garnet know about Secret Team or their mission. They all stick to the plan until Steven tries to push the other team members to go on a second mission.

Thoughts

This was okay but nothing too special. 

Adventure Time 5.03

Five Short Graybles

Finn and Jake, after reading Little Jack Horner, which they believe to be a spell, go around sticking their thumbs in various things. Marceline goes looking for a music shop where she can get a new guitar. Tree Trunks organizes a posse after she gets intimidated by what turns out to be a statue. Ice King marries a face drawn on his left foot. BMO tries to teach football, her reflection, how to drink tea.

Thoughts

There is a theme that runs through these five Graybles but I wasn't able to figure what it was.

Despite consisting of five different stories this one was just 12 minutes long. I chuckled a few times but I didn't find this episode to be terribly memorable.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 2.06

Melora

Ensign Melora Pazlar joins the crew of the space station. She comes from Elaysia, a world with considerably lower gravity than that on Deep Space Nine. She is forced to get around in a motorized wheelchair. She takes great offense when anyone tries to preemptively step in and help her or treat her as different.

Ensign Pazlar is scheduled to do some survey work in the Gamma Quadrant. She wants to go alone but Commander Sisko insists that Lieutenant Dax go with her. 

Doctor Bashir takes Ensign Pazlar out for dinner at a Klingon restaurant. She demonstrates her command of Klingon and appreciation for Klingon cuisine. 

True Detective 1.01

The Long Bright Dark

Detectives Marty Hart (Woody Harrelson) and Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) of the Louisiana State Police investigate the murder of a woman in her late 20s. Her body is found bound and there are a deer's antlers attached to her head. There are symbols painted on her body. There are odd looking objects placed near her body.

Hart and Cohle have a tenuous relationship. They have only been partners for a few weeks when the woman is murdered. Hart has a wife and two young daughters. Cohle was once married but his marriage fell apart after his daughter died.

The two detective's investigation leads them to look into the case of Marie Fontenot, a young girl who went missing years ago.

A Man on the Inside 1.08

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Charles leads Julie and Didi to the thief, Gladys. She is now in memory care. He talks Gladys into handing over the missing necklace. They find several other stolen items among her possessions.

Charles leaves Pacific View. He goes home and with a lot of help from Emily he cleans out the storage space in house of all sorts of old stuff, including most of his wife's things. Didi goes from being angry with Charles to defending him when she has to deal with the questions and anger she gets from the residents.

Charles and Julie step in when they learn that Didi has quit her job. They talk her into staying.

The Outer Limits (1963) 1.08

The Human Factor

starring Gary Merrill, Harry Guardino, Sally Kellerman, Ivan Dixon

directed by Abner Biberman

Colonel Campbell, commander of a US military base in Greenland nicknamed Point TABU, asks Doctor Hamilton (Gary Merrill) to examine Major Brothers (Harry Guardino) who has been acting erratic and seems to think that they are all in danger from some unknown creature in the Hekla Isthmus.

Bleach 32 / 2.12

The Star and the Stray Dog

Renji kicks himself for losing to Ichigo and flashes back to his memories of Rukia. They met about 10 years before when they both lived in one of the poorer neighborhoods surrounding the Seireitei. They were part of a gang of friends that hung out together and scavenged for food together. Things stayed that way but eventually their friends were killed.

Rukia and Renji decided at that point to enter the Soul Reaper Academy. They were accepted and remained friends but there was some tension between them. Things changed for them once again when Rukia was adopted by the Kuchiki family.

The Last Viking (2025)

The Last Viking (2025)

starring Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas

directed by Anders Thomas Jensen

116 minutes

in Danish with English subtitles

Anker (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) gets out of prison after 15 years desperate to find the stolen loot that got him sent to prison. He left the loot with his brother Manfred (Mads Mikkelsen) who insists that everyone call him John because he believes he is John Lennon. Anker told Manfred to bury the money near the home where they grew up so that's where they head.

They are joined by Lothar, a doctor who encourages Anker to humor Manfred by calling him John. Lothar brings with him two musicians one of whom thinks he is Ringo Starr and another who sometimes thinks he is Paul McCartney and sometimes thinks he is George Harrison. The attempt to "reunite" the Beatles is somewhat successful but Anker still needs to find the money in part because another criminal is threatening to kill him if he doesn't hand it over.

Four Star Playhouse 1.03

The Lost Silk Hat

starring Ronald Colman

directed by Robert Florey

A well dressed man (Ronald Colman) tries to convince first a laborer, then a clerk, and finally a poet to go into the house he just left to retrieve his silk hat. He offers to pay them to get his hat back for them. He suggests ruses they could use to gain admittance to the house such as saying that they are there to wind the clocks or tune the piano. Each of the three men he asks to help him out turns him down. He finally goes back into the house to retrieve the hat himself.

Doctor Who (2005) 1.01

Rose

Creepy looking plastic men attack Rose Tyler in the basement of the department store where she works. A stranger, identifying himself only as the Doctor, saves her from the creepy plastic men and helps her get out of the building.

The building blows up, minutes after Rose parts ways with the Doctor. She goes home and sleeps in the next morning. Soon after she gets up she finds the Doctor at the front door of the apartment where she lives with her mum. 

He is looking for something related to the creepy plastic men and didn’t expect to meet Rose again. The Doctor finds what he’s looking for, a plastic arm. It attacks first him and then Rose but he manages to deactivate it. 

Star Trek (1966) 1.24

This Side of Paradise

The Enterprise arrives at Omicron Ceti III hoping to find a colony of 150 humans but knowing that the radioactive Bertold Rays bombarding the planet have likely killed everyone. A landing party that includes Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Sulu beams down and is surprised to find the colonists still alive.

Dr McCoy examines the colonists including Elias Sandoval, its leader. Everyone he examines is in perfect health, better than their medical records indicated that they were before leaving Earth.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1.10

The Case of Mr. Pelham

starring Tom Ewell, Raymond Bailey

directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Albert Pelham (Tom Ewell) tells Dr. Harley (Raymond Bailey), an acquaintance, about how someone has been impersonating him. Pelham only knows that there's someone out there impersonating him because people keep telling him about encounters they have had that he cannot recall. After several near misses Pelham finally catches up to his double, who looks just like him. 

Peterson, Pelham's valet, sees them both together but assumes that the second one to show up, the original, must be the fake because he is acting strange.

The Phil Silvers Show 4.25

Bilko's Godson

Bilko is thinking of changing his name, to help him avoid bill collectors, when he learns that an old friend wants him to be his newborn son's godfather. Bilko tries to enroll his new godson at Stanford only to learn that he can only enroll his godson early if he is an alum or a current student.

Bilko has to take the entrance exam but he winds up hiring other guys (who know considerably more than him) to take the three parts of the exam.

Thoughts

Colonel Hall is not in this episode.

Ashes and Diamonds (1958)

Ashes and Diamonds (1958)

starring Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyżewska, Wacław Zastrzeżyński

directed by Andrzej Wajda

103 minutes

in Polish with English subtitles

Maciek (Zbigniew Cybulski) is part of a team of three men sent to kill Szczuka (Wacław Zastrzeżyński), a corrupt politician, just as World War 2 is coming to an end. The team kills the wrong man. They are given orders to correct their mistake but Maciek starts to have second thoughts after he meets and falls in love with Krystyna (Ewa Krzyżewska).

Steven Universe 1.28

Space Race

Steven decides to build a spaceship after he overhears Pearl talking wistfully about what it was like to travel to and live on other planets. Steven's father lends a hand. Their first effort falls apart fairly quickly. Pearl gets involved in the construction of their next spaceship. It gets them up high above the Earth but falls short of getting them to other planets.

Thoughts

Garnet and Amethyst are only in the opening scene.

Pearl and the others must be thousands of years old, according to some of the things she said. She also indicated that she, Amethyst, and Garnet aren't from Earth originally. Both of these bits of information are news to me.

This was a fun episode. It really had me wondering how far they would get.

The Twilight Zone (1959) 1.07

The Lonely

starring Jack Warden, Jean Marsh

directed by Jack Smight

Corry (Jack Warden) lives alone on asteroid. He was sent there because he killed someone’s back on Earth. He was convicted of murder even though he claimed it was self defense. He is 4 years into a 50 year sentence. A supply ship stops every 3 months to bring him supplies. 

Corry is lonely. He can’t stand living there by himself with only a few minutes of human contact every few months. 

The next time the supply ship comes it brings him a special package, a robot named Alicia (Jean Marsh) that looks and acts just like a woman. Corry rejects Alicia at first but over time he mellows and grows to love her and having her there. 

Better Call Saul 6.07

Plan and Execution

Lalo keeps an eye on the building above the future meth lab. Jimmy, Kim, the actor, and the camera crew work double time to redo the work they did before but this time with the actor with his arm in a sling just like the real judge.

Jimmy gives the photographs, of what looks like the judge accepting a payoff from Jimmy, to Howard’s private investigator. The P.I. gives the pictures to Howard who doesn’t recognize the judge but asks the P.I. to figure out who it is.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 2.05

Cardassians

Garak interrupts his conversation with Doctor Bashir to try and talk to a Cardassian teen who is traveling with a Bajoran man. The teen bites Garak’s hand when he touches him on the shoulder. 

Doctor Bashir reports the incident to Commander Sisko. It quickly becomes clear that Rugal, the teenage Cardassian, is a war orphan who was left behind on Bajor when the Cardassians cleared out. The Bajoran with whom he is traveling is his adoptive father. Sisko sends Rugal to live with Chief O’Brien and Keiko, his wife, after Gul Dukat calls Sisko and expresses an interest in having Rugal repatriated to Cardassia.

Doctor Bashir questions Gul Dukat’s sincerity when it comes to the repatriation of Cardassian war orphans. Chief O’Brien is forced to interact with Rugal while he is quartered with himself and Keiko.

A Man on the Inside 1.07

From Russian Hill with Love

The client pulls the plug on the investigation. He's frustrated that it's been a month and that they have yet to find anything substantial. Julie (aka Fake Emily) let's Charles know and then goes in to talk to Didi and let her know that Charles will be moving out.

Charles spends the day with Calbert. They travel all around San Francisco. They go to a baseball game, the Golden Gate Bridge, and out for dinner.

Fake Emily starts to wonder if Didi is the thief. Didi suspects that Fake Emily is up to something. Neither can prove anything but Fake Emily decides that Didi isn't the thief. Didi does not abandon her suspicions of Fake Emily.

Tales of the Unexpected 1.08

A Dip in the Pool

starring Jack Weston

directed by Michael Ruchner

William Botibol (Jack Weston), a passenger on a cruise ship, spends his last $1000 on what he thinks he is a sure bet. He bets that the ship will travel less than 505 miles over the course of 24 hours, from noon one day to noon the next day. He thinks it is a sure bet because of the stormy weather early in the 24 hour window of time.

Botibol wakes up the next morning and quickly notices that the sea is calm. Worried that he will lose the bet he comes up with a plan to slow the ship down. He jumps over board with the expectation that someone will see him and that the ship will have to turn around to pick him up.

Bleach 31 / 2.11

The Resolution to Kill

The fight between Ichigo and Renji continues. Ichigo remembers something he learned from Urahara and thinks he has spotted a weakness in Renji's style. It turns out that Ichigo's assessment of the situation is incorrect. Renji gets the upper hand. Ichigo seems to be on the verge of losing and maybe getting killed when he remembers something else from one of his training sessions with Urahara. Ichigo gets reinvigorated by the memory and disarms Renji by breaking his sword.

Star Trek: The Next Generation 4.02

Family

The Enterprise remains in orbit around Earth while it undergoes repairs. Captain Picard prepares for a trip to his home village. Worf learns that his adoptive parents will be visiting him aboard the Enterprise. 

Worf’s parents beam aboard the Enterprise and waste no time in embarrassing him. Jean-Luc meets his nephew Rene and sister-in-law Marie for the first time. His brother Robert isn’t as welcoming as his wife and son are.

Worf takes his parents to Engineering where Geordi gives them a tour. They embarrass him by telling stories about what he was like as a child. Old arguments emerge at dinner between Jean-Luc and Robert.

Dossier 137 (2025)

Dossier 137 (2025)

starring Léa Drucker

directed by Dominik Moll

115 minutes

in French with English subtitles

Internal Affairs police officer Stéphanie Bertrand (Léa Drucker) investigates a complaint against police officers over an incident that occurred during the yellow vest protests in Paris in December 2018. Twenty-year-old yellow vest protestor Guillaume Girard, sustained serious head trauma. It takes some time to figure out who the police officers in question might be. She narrows it down to four officers from an elite unit who were called in to provide support to the rank and file police officers.

The Outer Limits (1963) 1.07

O.B.I.T.

starring Peter Breck, Jeff Corey

directed by Gerd Oswald

US Senator Orville (Peter Breck) conducts an inquiry into the death of US Army Captain James Harrison, who was strangled to death while on duty at the Cypress Hills Research Center. A number of witnesses are called upon to testify at the hearing.

Only Yesterday (1991)

Only Yesterday (1991)

starring Miki Imai, Toshirō Yanagiba, Yōko Honna

directed by Isao Takahata

118 minutes

in Japanese with English subtitles

Twenty-seven year-old Taeko Okajima (Miki Imai) takes time off from her job to travel to the countryside and visit with some of her eldest sister's in-laws. She helps them to harvest to harvest safflower. She reflects several times to when she was just ten.

The memories begin as she leaves her job in Tokyo and travels to the farm. She continues to think back to her life at ten over the course of the ten days she spends on the farm. She hangs out with Toshio (Toshirō Yanagiba), a cousin of her sister's husband. Toshio's grandmother can see that Taeko loves it there. She tries to convince Taeko to stay and marry Toshio. Taeko is taken aback by the suggestion which is delivered just as she is less than 24 hours from returning to her life in Tokyo.

Adventure Time 5.02

Jake the Dog

The version of Jake that watched as Finn made his wish, watches as everything goes nuts for Finn after he puts on the Ice King's crown. Prismo encourages Jake to make a wish. Jake wishes for a sandwich. Prismo encourages Jake to pick something else like something that might help Finn. They watch on a big screen TV and lounge in a tub as Finn deals with the world he is in going nuts.

Prismo warns Jake that there will be a monkey's paw like twist to whatever he wishes. Jake is frozen by the possible choices. Prismo guides him to the best choice. Finn and Jake are returned to the land of Ooo from where they came. The magic jewels are returned to their owners.

A Man on the Inside 1.06

Our Man in Sacramento

Florence dies. Everyone at Pacific View is in mourning. Charles goes to see Emily and her family, in Sacramento, but he doesn't tell her about Florence. She eventually finds out from one of her sons. She drives him back to San Francisco, even though he only wanted a drive to the train station.

Didi gets deluged with a number of problems. Mixed in with the problems is an offer from the corporate office to leave Pacific View and come to work at the corporate HQ.

Better Call Saul 6.06

Axe and Grind

The episode opens with a flashback to Kim when she was about thirteen. She shoplifted. Her mother is called in and is very stern with her but in the end she seems proud of Kim, once they have gotten away from the store manager.

Howard talks to his wife; at home, in the morning, before he goes into the office. Jimmy and Kim go to see the vet. He gets an injection that makes his eyes dilate. The vet tells them that he will be shutting down his operation soon. He lets them take a look at his client book but it’s in code.

Doctor Who 12.05.X

The Making of Revenge of the Cybermen (2018)

People interviewed included 

• Barry Letts, producer (1969-1974)
• Michael E. Briant, director
• Philip Hinchcliffe, producer (1974-1977)
• Roger Murray-Leach, designer
• Tom Baker, Doctor Who (1974-1981)
• Christopher Robbie, Cyber Leader

Topics discussed included

• Handoff from Barry Letts to Philip Hinchcliffe
• Writing and rewriting the script
• Designing and reusing the sets
• Working in Wookey Hole cave system
• Updating the Cybermen
• Tom Baker and Liz Sladen’s chemistry