Friday, January 2, 2026

True Detective 1.03

The Locked Room

Rust and Marty track down the preacher who used to lead services in the church near Spanish Lake. They find him with a congregation under a tent. They listen to him for a while and argue about stuff while he is preaching. They talk to him and some of the congregants after the service. A couple women remember the dead woman. They remember seeing her with a tall man with a scarred face.

Marty and Rust argue about stuff. One day Marty comes home and finds Rust there talking to Maggie. Rust returned the lawn mower he borrowed and then mowed the lawn when he saw it needed mowing. Marty gets angry at him for mowing his lawn.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 2.08

Necessary Evil

A Bajoran woman pays Quark to retrieve a box hidden aboard the space station. She says it only has sentimental value.

Quark and Rom retrieve the box. Quark breaks it open and finds a piece of paper inside with eight names on it. He sends Rom to get an imager. A Bajoran man shows up before Rom returns with the imager. The Bajoran shoots Quark and takes the paper.

Odo investigates what looks like murder. He gets some information from Rom. Odo recalls another investigation he conducted when the Cardassians ran the space station. He was pressed into conducting the investigation by Gul Dukat.

Thursday, January 1, 2026

The Love Parade (1929)

The Love Parade (1929)

starring Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald
directed by Ernst Lubitsch

107 minutes

Count Alfred Renard (Maurice Chevalier) is ordered to return from Paris to Sylvania to meet with Queen Louise I (Jeanette MacDonald). He complies with the orders and brings along Jacques, his valet. Queen Louise is single and needs to get married.

The two spend time together, her punishment for the womanizing activities which got him recalled to Sylvania. They fall in love and get married. He is made Prince Consort of Sylvania, but the post does not come with any duties or responsibilities or say so in matters of governing Sylvania.

The Outer Limits 1.09

Corpus Earthling

starring Robert Culp, Salome Jens, Barry Atwater
directed by Gerd Oswald

Paul (Robert Culp) is alone in his wife Laurie’s (Salome Jens) lab when he discovers that he can overhear a conversation between two rocks. He tries to tell Laurie and Jonas (Barry Atwater), her coworker, about the voices he is hearing but they can’t hear them. He doesn't know it but it has something to do with a metal plate in his head. Laurie takes Paul home. One of the rocks grows and attacks Jonas after Paul and Laurie leave.