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Category: TV

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Jan 23, 2018

Star Trek: Discovery "Vaulting Ambition"

Previously on Star Trek: Discovery: The Discovery crossed over into the Mirror Universe, where Burnham and Lorca went undercover as their Terran counterparts to get info about the Defiant, the last Federation starship to cross over. Tyler realized that…

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· by Susan Velazquez · Jan 18, 2018

Riverdale: South Side Story

We’re finally back to our favorite small town where big, implausible things happen! Welcome back to Riverdale, everyone! The post-Christmas revelry has worn off and now we’re ready to get back to the dark, twisty, angst-y stuff. And who better…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Jan 15, 2018

Star Trek: Discovery "The Wolf Inside"

Previously on Star Trek: Discovery: The whole damn ship ended up in the Mirror Universe, prompting Lorca to transform it into the “ISS Discovery”, under the command of Captain Tilly. Spore-jumping to a parallel universe turned Stamets into a…

· by Rob Kirchgassner · Jan 11, 2018

Top 5 TV sidekicks

For my first article of 2018, I’m taking another look at sidekicks. This time, however, the focus will be on ones on the small screen. 1. Tonto Some have understandably taken issue with the Lone Ranger’s companion, stating that the…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Jan 9, 2018

Star Trek: Discovery “Despite Yourself”

Last half-season on Star Trek: Discovery: The USS Discovery became the Federation’s secret weapon in the war against the Klingons, thanks to a spore-powered drive that allows them to be anywhere in the galaxy in an instant. Captain Lorca…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Dec 28, 2017

Star Trek: Voyager “Alice”

My recaps of bad Star Trek: Voyager episodes continue with season six’s “Alice”, one of those utterly predictable Voyager episodes that foreshadows its plot so heavily that by two minutes in, we already know exactly how the whole damn plot…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Dec 21, 2017

Star Trek "Dagger of the Mind"

In the franchise’s entire 51-year history, there’s only been one Star Trek episode of any of the six series that’s been holiday-themed. That episode was the original series’ “Catspaw”, which was the first episode filmed for the show’s second season,…

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· by Susan Velazquez · Dec 14, 2017

Riverdale: Unwrapping the hood

Despite the Black Hood’s earlier threat that the “reckoning” is upon Riverdale, the town seems to proceeding with the usual amount of holiday drama, specifically surrounding money. Archie and his dad are selling Christmas trees in the parking lot of…

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· by Susan Velazquez · Dec 7, 2017

Riverdale: Stripping it all away

You know what the best thing to do is when there’s a deranged serial killer running loose in your town? Bangin’. Like, lots of it. According to Jughead, Archie and Veronica are engaging in “carnal defiance” and having lots of…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Dec 5, 2017

Star Trek: Voyager "Elogium"

Being in the middle of a long mid-season break before Star Trek: Discovery returns, I figured what better time to recap episodes of previous Star Trek shows to fill the void? Like, say, Voyager? I won’t lie; the news…

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· by Susan Velazquez · Nov 30, 2017

Riverdale: Saints, sinners, and stalkers

This episode breaks from our usual faux-lisophical introductory narrations from Jughead and opens up with a new narrator reading from scroll of text announcing that we will be witness to three “twisted” tales connected to the Black Hood murders. These…

· by Rick Lewis · Nov 28, 2017

Where and when Amazon should set its new Lord of the Rings TV series

Tolkien famously spent a lifetime filling in details of the Lord of the Rings universe all the way back to the birth of the very first angel before time began, so Amazon has no shortage of possibilities. Fortunately, Agony Booth has narrowed down the options to the three absolute best.

· by Shelby Mena · Nov 24, 2017

Your fanfic comes true! Smallville's Chloe now leads sex cult

Knowing what we know now, Ms. Mack’s IMDB page starts to look more than a little like a cry for help.

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· by Susan Velazquez · Nov 15, 2017

Riverdale: Go Greased Lightning!

According to Jughead, everyone is wearing a mask—metaphorically speaking, of course. The Black Hood just happens to wear his literally and he’s pretty happy with it. This stands in sharp contrast with Betty’s metaphorical mask, which is quickly unraveling and…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Nov 14, 2017

Star Trek: Discovery "Into the Forest I Go"

Previously on Star Trek: Discovery: Lt. Stamets is the key to powering the Discovery’s spore drive, but it’s been doing strange things to him, and he’s afraid to tell his boyfriend Dr. Culber. Lt. Tyler was previously held captive…

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· by Susan Velazquez · Nov 8, 2017

Riverdale: Betty's Black Hood Blues

The episode picks up right where we left off, with Betty receiving a call from the Black Hood. He reveals that he was at the town hall meeting, but didn’t hurt anybody… yet. He tells Betty that he wants to…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Nov 8, 2017

Star Trek: Discovery "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"

Previously on Star Trek: Discovery: Mutineer Michael Burnham accepted a bridge post on the USS Discovery, the Federation’s not-so-secret weapon in its war against the Klingons. Captain Lorca and Lt. Ash Tyler pulled of an escape from a Klingon…

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· by Susan Velazquez · Nov 1, 2017

Riverdale: Let's get ready to rumble!

In real life, if a dumb but well-meaning 16 year old kid posed shirtless with a bunch of his friends bragging about how he was going to take down a local murderer, he would have been laughed out town. In…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Oct 31, 2017

Star Trek: Discovery “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad”

Previously on Star Trek: Discovery: The USS Discovery has a super-secret spore drive that gives it the edge over the Klingons, and a crucial element of the spore drive is Lt. Stamets injecting himself with “tardigrade DNA” and strapping…

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· by Susan Velazquez · Oct 26, 2017

Riverdale: Lil' Crime Stoppers

Jughead informs us that every fairy tale has essentially the same warning: don’t go into the woods because there’s nothing but trouble there. Examples include Little Red Riding Hood meeting a hungry wolf and Goldilocks finding the three bears’ house.…