Paranoia Agent 1.01

Enter Lil' Slugger

Animator Tsukiko Sagi is attacked while walking home at night. Two police officers interrogate Tsukiko about the incident but she doesn't tell them much. All she can remember about the attacker is that he looked like he was in 5th or 6th grade, wielded a bat, and was wearing gold colored rollerblades.

Akio Kawazu, a sleazy gossip magazine writer, finds Tsukiko and tries to get her to tell her story. She isn't anymore forthcoming with him than she was with the policemen. Kawazu thinks the attack didn't really happen. He shows up at her apartment after stopping her on the street, earlier in the day. She tries to run but her injury slows her down. The kid on the rollerblades shows up again but this time he hits Akio with the bat. He stops in front of Tsukiko, tells her he's home, and then skates off.

Broadchurch 1.08

Episode Eight

Tom Miller and his father are brought in for questioning. Alec interviews Tom. He asks him about his computer. Tom lies at first but once he knows that Alec has his computer and some of the messages between Tom and Danny, he opens up. 

The killer gets tired of hiding. He still has Danny's phone. He turns it on. Alec tracks it back to the Miller's residence. Joe Miller, Ellie's husband, is arrested and confesses to killing Danny. He claims that he was in love with Danny but that he did nothing except hold him. He got angry and killed Danny by accident when Danny threatened to to tell about them.

Ellie finds out about it from Alec. She loses it both before and after she talks to Joe. Alec also breaks the news to the Latimer family. Ellie makes an attempt to talk to Beth but Beth doesn't believe that Ellie didn't know anything.

Abbott Elementary 2.05

Juice

Janine gets the school to change the juice that the students are given each day. Barbara warned Janine not to do it. The new juice comes in larger containers with more juice which leads the students to have to use the bathroom more frequently.

Melissa has trouble with Ashley, her new teacher's aide.

Thoughts

They never really explain how it is that Janine got the school to switch juice. She urged the school to change the juice served at the school but how exactly did that translate to the school making the change?

This was a good one. It wasn't the best but it was solidly good.

Bottoms (2023)

Bottoms (2023)

starring Rachel Sennott, Ayo Edebiri

directed by Emma Seligman

92 minutes

PJ (Rachel Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri) lie about having spent time fighting for their lives in juvie, over the summer, and start a fight club for female students at their high school. They are hoping to get a chance to score with a couple of the cheerleaders. They find a teacher who is willing to be the group's faculty advisor and the club takes off.

The club is a success until one of the football players does a little digging and discovers the truth (about juvie and the reasons for starting the club). He shares it with the whole school. This creates a major setback for PJ and Josie.

Un Village Français 4.01

Le Train

or The Train

20 July 1942

A train carrying foreign Jews stops in Villeneuve. Daniel Larcher suggests that they could be housed in the school until another train arrives to take them away. Bériot isn't happy with this plan but Larcher doesn't give him any choice in the matter. Larcher doesn't know about the printing press in the basement of the school that Crémieux is using to print anti-German propaganda.

Raymond Schwartz finds out that Jeanine has helped her father to get a piece of his business. He also starts an affair with the new housekeeper after finding out that Jeanine is having an affair with Chassagne, her lawyer. His leg is damaged and he is an invalid for the present.

Five Came Back 1.03

The Price of Victory

This episode follows the the five directors through the end of their service and into their civilian lives after the war.

Topics discussed include

• the D-Day landing (Stevens, Ford)
• Ford's service in the war comes to an end in disgrace
• the liberation of Paris (Stevens)
• the liberation of Rome (Wyler)
• Wyler's visit to the town where he was born in France
• Wyler's service in the war comes to an end with disability (deafness)
• the liberation of Dachau (Stevens)
• end of the war in Europe
• end of the war in the Pacific
• Liberty Films (Capra, Wyler, Stevens)
• the post war films of George Stevens

Doctor Who (1963) 15.06.01

The Invasion of Time - Part One

The Doctor lands the TARDIS on a Vardan spaceship. He leaves Leela and K-9 in the TARDIS and meets with the Vardans. He makes a deal with them and then returns to the TARDIS. Leela tries to figure out what the Doctor is up to while he is gone but he locked the controls to the TARDIS.

The Doctor takes the TARDIS and his companions to Gallifrey. A troop of guards are waiting for him when he arrives. The Doctor insists on talking to Chancellor Borusa. The Doctor insists that he is the rightful leader of the High Council of Gallifrey. He asks that he be formally recognized as such.

Chancellor Borusa objects but the Doctor points out that while he may only be the President-elect, Borusa is similarly only the Chancellor-elect. Castellan Kelner is considerably more amenable to the Doctor's requests. The ceremony is arranged. The Doctor is invested as President of the High Council. The episode ends with the Doctor falling down in pain at the end of the ceremony as the crown is placed on his head.