Slouch. Submit.
Sam lures Debbie back to the ring. She wasn't interested in coming but he convinces her to give it a chance. She sits on the sidelines and watches while Sam has Ruth and Melanie act out a skit. He has Ruth play the part of the Homewrecker. He might think it is a good part but it seems to me that he is doing it in part to placate Debbie.
Ruth doesn't like being the villain. She wants people to be liked, not hated. She can't grok that the villains get the best lines, as Sam tells her toward the end of the episode.
None of the characters get backstory spotlights like on Orange Is the New Black but there is a little more revealed about Melanie and Cherry. Melanie drives a limo, which I assume is a paying gig and not just her car but there is no evidence, so far, to back up my assumption.
Cherry once had a threesome, years ago, with Sam and her husband, Keith. She also had a miscarriage a few years ago. Melanie overhears Sam and Cherry talking about it and shares this information with everyone.
So far the group has yet to do more than just practice. I'm starting to wonder if they are going to get to a real match before the end of the season.
It looks like I was wrong about Maron only being in two episodes. Now IMDB has him listed as being in all 10 episodes.
So far I'm liking but not loving this show. I like what I'm seeing but I wish that there were more character moments. I guess the show is growing. Hopefully one day it will be a show that I love. Before that day comes the characters need to become a little more three dimensional.
Friday, June 30, 2017
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Taxi 1.06
The Great Line
John proposes to Suzanne, a woman he just met one night at Mario's. They end up driving to Maryland to getting married. The next day he has some regrets (as does she) but in the end they decide to stay married.
There is a running gag with a guy who drinks beer extremely quickly, so quickly that I am sure there must a trick to it but I'm not sure what it is.
Not a great episode. It is mostly John and Alex. There is very little chemistry between them. Suzanne's father is played by Dolph Sweet who would later be known as Chief Kanisky on Gimme a Break!
John proposes to Suzanne, a woman he just met one night at Mario's. They end up driving to Maryland to getting married. The next day he has some regrets (as does she) but in the end they decide to stay married.
There is a running gag with a guy who drinks beer extremely quickly, so quickly that I am sure there must a trick to it but I'm not sure what it is.
Not a great episode. It is mostly John and Alex. There is very little chemistry between them. Suzanne's father is played by Dolph Sweet who would later be known as Chief Kanisky on Gimme a Break!
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Teen Titans 2.01
How Long Is Forever
Starfire chases Warp, a villain from the future, through a wormhole. She exits the wormhole 20 years in the future. Everything changed after she entered the wormhole. The other Titans are older and have split up. The implication is that after losing Starfire they drifted apart and have lives separate lives ever since.
This is my favorite part of the episode, seeing how the other Titans aged. Cyborg's power battery no longer functions and he is stuck in Titans Tower. Beast Boy is balding and a side show freak: the one man zoo. Raven just wants to be left alone. Robin has become Nightwing and has a secret lair similar to the Bat Cave, or maybe it is the Bat Cave.
Starfire's return helps to rally the Titans. They encounter and battle Warp, although it is a little murky if this Warp is the same age as the one that the younger Titans encountered at the beginning of the episode. He seems older but how he got there and what he is doing there is unclear.
They defeat Warp. Cyborg is able to quickly modify some of his time traveling technology and create a wormhole to the past. Starfire goes through the wormhole and returns seconds after she left. She tells them about what happened and insists that they all celebrate Blorthog with her, a Tamaranian celebration of friendship.
Not a bad episode, but not a great one either. There was no real character moment that moved me. I don't recall any stories of this sort from the New Teen Titans comic book. If anything it resembled Days of Future, an X-Men story.
Starfire chases Warp, a villain from the future, through a wormhole. She exits the wormhole 20 years in the future. Everything changed after she entered the wormhole. The other Titans are older and have split up. The implication is that after losing Starfire they drifted apart and have lives separate lives ever since.
This is my favorite part of the episode, seeing how the other Titans aged. Cyborg's power battery no longer functions and he is stuck in Titans Tower. Beast Boy is balding and a side show freak: the one man zoo. Raven just wants to be left alone. Robin has become Nightwing and has a secret lair similar to the Bat Cave, or maybe it is the Bat Cave.
Starfire's return helps to rally the Titans. They encounter and battle Warp, although it is a little murky if this Warp is the same age as the one that the younger Titans encountered at the beginning of the episode. He seems older but how he got there and what he is doing there is unclear.
They defeat Warp. Cyborg is able to quickly modify some of his time traveling technology and create a wormhole to the past. Starfire goes through the wormhole and returns seconds after she left. She tells them about what happened and insists that they all celebrate Blorthog with her, a Tamaranian celebration of friendship.
Not a bad episode, but not a great one either. There was no real character moment that moved me. I don't recall any stories of this sort from the New Teen Titans comic book. If anything it resembled Days of Future, an X-Men story.
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Master of None 1.04
Indians on TV
Dev confronts a network executive after he accidentally is sent an e-mail with a racist joke about Indians. It isn't so much the joke that bothers Dev as much as it is the fact that the executive balked at the idea of casting two Indian men on one show.
Danielle Brooks makes an appearance playing Shannon, Dev's agent. I know her from Orange is the New Black, where she plays Taystee. According to IMDB this is her only appearance in this season but she will be back in the second season. It took me a minute to figure out where I knew her from.
This is my favorite episode so far. It did a great job of addressing a serious issue and mixing in some humor, Loved the little incidental humor, especially Asush earnestly working out in the background while Dev and Ravi were trying to decide what to do next.
Dev confronts a network executive after he accidentally is sent an e-mail with a racist joke about Indians. It isn't so much the joke that bothers Dev as much as it is the fact that the executive balked at the idea of casting two Indian men on one show.
Danielle Brooks makes an appearance playing Shannon, Dev's agent. I know her from Orange is the New Black, where she plays Taystee. According to IMDB this is her only appearance in this season but she will be back in the second season. It took me a minute to figure out where I knew her from.
This is my favorite episode so far. It did a great job of addressing a serious issue and mixing in some humor, Loved the little incidental humor, especially Asush earnestly working out in the background while Dev and Ravi were trying to decide what to do next.
Monday, June 26, 2017
Casual 3.04
The Sprout
Alex finds out that Emmy is pregnant and wonders if he's the one who made it happen. In between dealing with AirBnB guests, whose food he keeps eating, he invites Emmy over. She has moved on but still comes over to visit him. The sprout is how she refers to the baby inside her.
Val ignores Leon's messages for the most part. She starts taking a creative writing class. She gets some new clothes. She has sex one of her classmates, who is much younger than her. It doesn't seem like she feels like she is making progress.
Laura doesn't have much luck getting signatures. She hangs with one of the guys from the store where she tries to get signature. Everything goes great until she gets caught trying to steal something from his house. I had a feeling she was going to get caught. I was really hoping she wouldn't do it but I also wasn't surprised when she did try to steal.
The funniest moments by far were Alex' interactions with the AirBnB guests.
Alex finds out that Emmy is pregnant and wonders if he's the one who made it happen. In between dealing with AirBnB guests, whose food he keeps eating, he invites Emmy over. She has moved on but still comes over to visit him. The sprout is how she refers to the baby inside her.
Val ignores Leon's messages for the most part. She starts taking a creative writing class. She gets some new clothes. She has sex one of her classmates, who is much younger than her. It doesn't seem like she feels like she is making progress.
Laura doesn't have much luck getting signatures. She hangs with one of the guys from the store where she tries to get signature. Everything goes great until she gets caught trying to steal something from his house. I had a feeling she was going to get caught. I was really hoping she wouldn't do it but I also wasn't surprised when she did try to steal.
The funniest moments by far were Alex' interactions with the AirBnB guests.
Sunday, June 25, 2017
Wonder Woman (2017)
Princess Diana, daughter of Queen Hippolyta, lives on the island of Themyscira until one day in 1917 an American, piloting a small plane, crashes into the sea just off the coast of the island. Diana saves him but he is soon followed by other soldiers who want to either capture or kill him. Diana and her sisters fight back and kill the enemy soldiers. A number of the Amazons are killed in the battle even though they are victorious in the end.
Diana, against her mother's wishes, leaves Themyscira with Steve Trevor, the man she saved. They travel to London where Steve reports to his superiors on what the Germans have planned. Steve plans a raid to locate and destroy the a stockpile of poisonous gas that Germans are planning to use in the war. Diana insists on going along with him. She is convinced that the war is caused by Ares, the god of War, and that once she kills Ares the war will end.
After gathering a few people to help them, Diana and Steve travel to Belgium and locate the stockpile and destroy it, but not without suffering some personal consequences.
This movie both lived up to my expectations and did not do so. I liked the characters and the character interactions, especially between Diana and Steve. I liked the opening act of the movie on Themyscira. I liked the part of the movie that was set in London and the culture clash that occurred as Diana experienced things for the first time. I liked the battle scenes in Belgium, how they were filmed, portrayed, and how they played out. I wasn't so crazy about the big bad guy and the confrontation with him.
Ares did not seem like a god of war to me. The way he disappeared and reappeared reminded me of something that Loki or a trickster god would do. The fight with Ares relied much too much on the use of CGI. The best fight scenes in the movie were the ones where Wonder Woman took on the Germans, charging their trenches, fighting hand-to-hand, and taking down the sniper in the church tower.
All in all the movie was less than perfect but it was much better than any other DC Comics movies I have seen in quite some time. It has flaws but I think it was worth my time.
Diana, against her mother's wishes, leaves Themyscira with Steve Trevor, the man she saved. They travel to London where Steve reports to his superiors on what the Germans have planned. Steve plans a raid to locate and destroy the a stockpile of poisonous gas that Germans are planning to use in the war. Diana insists on going along with him. She is convinced that the war is caused by Ares, the god of War, and that once she kills Ares the war will end.
After gathering a few people to help them, Diana and Steve travel to Belgium and locate the stockpile and destroy it, but not without suffering some personal consequences.
This movie both lived up to my expectations and did not do so. I liked the characters and the character interactions, especially between Diana and Steve. I liked the opening act of the movie on Themyscira. I liked the part of the movie that was set in London and the culture clash that occurred as Diana experienced things for the first time. I liked the battle scenes in Belgium, how they were filmed, portrayed, and how they played out. I wasn't so crazy about the big bad guy and the confrontation with him.
Ares did not seem like a god of war to me. The way he disappeared and reappeared reminded me of something that Loki or a trickster god would do. The fight with Ares relied much too much on the use of CGI. The best fight scenes in the movie were the ones where Wonder Woman took on the Germans, charging their trenches, fighting hand-to-hand, and taking down the sniper in the church tower.
All in all the movie was less than perfect but it was much better than any other DC Comics movies I have seen in quite some time. It has flaws but I think it was worth my time.
Saturday, June 24, 2017
Star Wars: Clone Wars 3.05
Corruption
Senator Padme Amidala pays an official visit to the planet Mandalor and Duchess Satine. Senator Amidala helps Duchess Satine investigate the source of an epidemic that has the hospitals overloaded with sick children.
Not an awful episode but not a very engaging one either. There was a little too much talk of trade negotiations, not enough action, and nothing in the way of character moments.
Senator Padme Amidala pays an official visit to the planet Mandalor and Duchess Satine. Senator Amidala helps Duchess Satine investigate the source of an epidemic that has the hospitals overloaded with sick children.
Not an awful episode but not a very engaging one either. There was a little too much talk of trade negotiations, not enough action, and nothing in the way of character moments.
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