She-Ra and the Princesses of Power 4.12

Destiny - Part 1

Glimmer finds Scorpia and tells her that she needs to connect with the Black Garnet, her runestone. Scorpia is reluctant. Shadow Weaver disapproves of Glimmer's plan but Glimmer is to determined stick with her own plan. It takes some convincing but she talks Scorpia into going to the Fright Zone with her.

Double Trouble escapes from Bright Moon and returns to the Fright Zone. She tells Catra that She-Ra is gone from Bright Moon. The time to attack is here. Catra starts to make plans. Hordak has his doubts but when Catra tells him the good news he signs on. Things are looking up for Catra until Double Trouble has a chat with Hordak and gives him reasons to doubt Catra. Hordak goes to confront Catra. Double Trouble sends a message to Glimmer letting her know what she's done.

She-Ra, Bow, Swift Wind, Micah, and Entrapta go to the center of Beast Island. Entrapta shows them what she has learned about the Heart of Etheria. She-Ra understands the need to go back. Everyone else is with her except Entrapta. She wants to stay. They finally convince her that it isn't safe to stay and that they really are her friends. Together they leave in the First Ones ship in which they came to Beast Island. They arrive back in Bright Moon just after Glimmer has teleported herself and Scorpia out of there.

The Phil Silvers Show 1.33

War Games

Bilko needs to go to his best friend's wedding. He is supposed to be the best man. Colonel Hall wants Bilko to train a squad of recruits. Bilko tries to take it easy on the recruits but they try very hard to get him to lead them and train them. There are war games coming up.

Thoughts

Where has this best friend been all season? Who even knew that Bilko had a best friend?

This episode was a little all over the place. It wasn't Bilko's best. This strikes me as one of the lesser episodes of the season.

Skyfall (2012)

starring Daniel Craig

directed by Sam Mendes

The movie opens with a chase through Istanbul involving motorcycles and then a train. James Bond is pursuing a man who stole a hard drive with names and pictures of undercover agents. The man gets away and Bond gets shot by one of his fellow agents who was ordered by M to try and take out the thief while he and Bond were fighting. Bond falls from the train into a river. His body isn't found and after a few months he is declared dead.

Bond returns to London, after the funeral. He meets with M (Judi Dench) and then later Q (Ben Whishaw), the quartermaster. He follows a lead to Shanghai. He finds the man who stole the hard drive but the man falls to his death before Bond can find out to whom he gave the drive. Bond follows a lead to a casino in Macao. There he meets Severine, a woman who warns him about the men watching her. They try to stop him from leaving but with some help from the same agent, who first helped and then shot him in Turkey, he escapes.

Quantum of Solace (2008)

starring Daniel Craig

directed by Marc Forster

The movie starts with a car chase, in Italy, very soon after the end of the previous James Bond movie. Bond is in one car being pursued by another car. The road is narrow. There is lots of traffic. The chase moves from paved roads to unpaved roads. They are in the mountains and there are lots of steep drops. Bond eventually evades those pursuing him. He meets up with M (Judy Dench) and some other MI-6 agents. He has Mr. White (Jesper Christensen) in the trunk of the car.

M and Bond try to interrogate Mr. White but it turns out that MI-6 has been infiltrated. Mitchell, M's bodyguard, turns out to be working for the same organization as Mr. White. Mitchell kills one of the other MI-6 agents and then takes off running. Bond goes after him which leads to a long chase through Sienna, Italy. The chase ends with Bond killing Mitchell.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel 1.07

Put that on Your Plate!

Midge's act at the Gaslight seems to be getting stronger. She's just added some material to her act about her parents having sex. Susie thinks that it is time for her to start doing shows at spots other than the Gaslight. Susie talks to Harry Srake, a much bigger agent than her, and gets Midge a gig opening for Sophie Lennon. Susie takes Midge to see Sophie and Harry. Sophie invites Midge to come over for a visit.

Abe overhears Midge and Imogene, her friend, talking about the state of Midge's relationship with Joel. Abe brings home a colleague of his who is also young, handsome, and a divorce lawyer. Midge and Rose don't know how to react. Rose is offended. 

Abe tries to tell Rose about Miriam turning Joel away when he said he wanted to get back together with her. Rose is offended that it took Abe a month to tell her about this and that Miriam didn't say anything to her about it. She goes to the fortuneteller only to discover that the fortuneteller moved on and been replaced by another, younger fortuneteller. 

Joel meets with Abe to tell him about a possible promotion and his plan to take care of Midge and the kids. Abe doesn't want to talk to his son-in-law but he relents after several minutes of Joel talking through the door.

Midge visits Sophie Lennon at her home. Sophie looks nothing in private like she does on stage. She is very well off and has lots of servants. She gives Midge some career advice and gives her a fur coat. Midge is perplexed but accepts the gift. Midge goes from Sophie's place to Shabbos services where she meets up with her parents. Rose gets irate when Miriam won't tell her, in the middle of the service, where she got the fur coat.

Harry comes to the Gaslight to see Midge's act. Midge's head is filled with her encounters with Sophie and Rose. She talks about first Rose and then Sophie, instead of doing her regular act. The crowd seems to love it but Harry feels insulted. He gets up and leaves. Susie tries to talk him into staying but he leaves anyway.

Casino Royale (2006)

starring Daniel Craig

directed by Martin Campbell

James Bond (Craig) works a case that takes him to Madagascar, London, the Bahamas, Miami, Montenegro, and Venice. He spends a lot of time in a casino in Montenegro where he works with Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), another operative but one who is not licensed to kill or even familiar with it. It is at the casino that he meets Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright), a CIA operative, and crosses paths with Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen, a financier of international terror organizations.

My favorite scene in the movie is the chase scene that happens in Madagascar. It doesn't get any better than that. There are some other tense moments but the only other one that really stands out is the scene in the building that is collapsing. The first hour wasn't bad but the movie did seem to drag a bit once they got to the casino.

Sword of Trust (2019)

starring Marc Maron, Jon Bass, Michaela Watkins, Jillian Bell

directed by Lynn Shelton

Cynthia (Bell) and Mary (Watkins) return to Cynthia's hometown of Birmingham, AK. Cynthia's grandfather just died. The only thing he left her was his sword, which turns out to be a relic of the U.S. Civil War. It is proof, according to some, that the South actually won the war. They take it to a pawn shop which is owned and run by Mel (Maron). He offers them money for it but it isn't enough.

Cynthia and Mary walk. Nathaniel (Bass), Mel's assistant, does a quick internet search and discovers that the sword maybe worth as much as $50,000. He finds a potential buyer and then convinces Cynthia and Mary to come back. Mel and Nathaniel team-up with Cynthia and Mary to try and sell the sword.