Better Call Saul 3.02

Witness

Chuck is nervous. He hires security to guard his home,

Mike follows the guys who changed the tracking device in his car. They lead him to another guy who takes the device he planted in the car. Mike follows that guy around to various locations. This eventually leads him to a fast good joint, Los Pollos Hermanos.

Jimmy and Kim interview Francesca, a potential receptionist. Jimmy offers her a job in the middle of the interview. Kim isn't happy with Jimmy's rush to judgement. It is their first interview. Kim agrees to give Francesca a try.

NewsRadio 5.06

Jail

The FBI arrests Mr. James after accusing him of being D.B. Cooper. Dave takes Lisa off the D.B. Cooper story after she finds evidence that incriminates Mr. James. Dave puts Matthew on the story in Lisa's place. Joe and Beth come up with a plan to break Mr. James out of prison. Max is afraid that the FBI is going to come after him next until Johnny Johnson, an executive from Jimmy's company, flies in to take charge of the situation. Everything is better until Jimmy finds out about Johnny and warns Dave that Johnny is up to no good.

Abbott Elementary 1.06

Gifted Program

Janine talks Ava into starting a gifted program for the more "intelligent" students. Janine gets Jacob to teach the program but everything doesn't go as planned.

Barbara notices that the guy who restocks the vending machine has a crush on Melissa. She encourages Melissa to ask him out on a date.

Thoughts

This was a good one. I liked both storylines. Nothing fell flat.

Russian Doll 2.03

Brain Drain

Nadia decides to stay in 1982 and try to figure out what is going on. She goes to see Ruth who takes her to the hospital for a sonogram. Vera, Nadia's grandmother, is there. They have a chat. Nadia learns that the gold coins were stolen once before, during World War II, by Nazis.

Nadia goes home with Vera. She gets some time alone in Vera's apartment and finds some documents hidden behind photographs. She grabs a bunch of stuff and heads out. She notices that she has some weird insect bite like marks on her arms. 

Nadia goes to the public library. She asks Ethel, a librarian, for help. Nadia leaves her name and number. She takes some slides she finds at the library and goes to Crazy Eddie's. She gets a slide projector and goes back to Nora's apartment. Nora shows up. Nadia and Nora talk, they go out for cigarettes. Other people seem to see Nora but then Nadia gets locked up because a cop says she is crazy.

Nadia escapes with some help from Nora. The doctor can't see Nora. Nadia returns to 2022. She finds a note on her door from Alan. He's been looking for her and wants to talk.

The Addams Family (1991)

The Addams Family (1991)

starring Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd

directed by Barry Sonnenfeld

Fester Addams (Christopher Lloyd) mysteriously returns from the Bermuda Triangle after 30 years. He is accompanied by Dr. Pinder-Schloss, a psychiatrist, but everything is not as it seems. Fester believes he is Dr. Pinder-Schloss's son but he develops a fondness for the Addams family and starts to push back at the doctor's attempts to control him.

Thoughts

This was the first movie that Barry Sonnenfeld directed. He was primarily a cinematographer prior to this movie. He makes a cameo appearance in this movie as the passenger on the train. He also directed the sequel, Addams Family Values.

This is such a fun movie to watch. It isn't great but I really like it. I don't think I saw it in the theater when it first came out but I'm pretty sure I saw it at an outdoor screening the following year. I've probably seen it several times since then but it has been several years since I last saw it. I was a big fan of the 1964 TV show of the same name which I first saw in reruns in the mid-1980s.

Doctor Who (1963) 15.02.X

Dreams and Fantasy: Making the Invisible Enemy (2008)

20 minutes

This short documentary is mostly focused on behind the camera aspects of The Invisible Enemy. There are just two actors interviewed for this short film which is divided into the following chapters:

• Writing the Enemy
• Creating K9
• New Directions
• Nostalgia
• Studio Nightmares
• Inner Space
• Looking Back

You Can't Take It With You (1938)

You Can't Take It With You (1938)

starring Jean Arthur, Jimmy Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, Edward Arnold

directed by Frank Capra

Alice Sycamore (Jean Arthur) and Tony Kirby (Jimmy Stewart) are in love. His parents are rich, hers are not although they are not dirt poor either. The Sycamores are much more care free that the Kirbys. Complicating things is the fact that Tony's father, Anthony Kirby (Edward Arnold), wants to buy the house where Alice lives. The house belongs to Martin Vanderhof (Lionel Barrymore), Alice's grandfather.

Things start to unravel when Tony brings his parents over to meet Alice's family a day earlier than they had arranged. Kirby and Vanderhof get to speak and spend some time together, first in a jail cell and then in court, after they are arrested for distrubing the peace, along with the rest of Vanderhof's family.