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Category: TV Recap

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

Star Trek: Discovery “Battle at the Binary Stars”

Previously on Star Trek: Discovery: We met Michael Burnham, first officer of the USS Shenzhou, and her commanding officer Captain Philippa Georgiou. While investigating damage to subspace relays, the Shenzhou encountered a big-ass Klingon ship populated by some of…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Sep 26, 2017

Star Trek: Discovery "The Vulcan Hello"

Here we are at last: the first new Star Trek TV series in 12 years. The pilot episode, titled “The Vulcan Hello” (which sounds like something Star Trek characters would travel to Risa to have performed upon them) aired last…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Sep 23, 2017

Star Trek: Enterprise “These Are the Voyages...” (part 2 of 2)

Previously on Star Trek: Enterprise: As the Enterprise-D searched diligently for a shipwreck containing a top secret device that could have potential far-reaching consequences for relations between the Federation and the Romulan Empire, Riker was play-acting on the holodeck…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Sep 22, 2017

Star Trek: Enterprise “These Are the Voyages...” (part 1 of 2)

As incredible as it is to believe, it’s now been over 12 years since Star Trek: Enterprise aired its final episode. At the time, ratings for the show were hitting all-time lows, Nemesis had recently bombed in theaters, and there…

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

Star Trek (TAS) “Yesteryear”

We’re coming into the home stretch with our recaps of the animated Star Trek series, with just four episodes left to go. So it should only follow that we’re finally getting around to the episodes we didn’t have much motivation…

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· by Julie Kushner · Aug 28, 2017

Game of Thrones: We’re going to need a bigger wall!

So, overall the season 7 finale episode was kind of an “L” in the Team Good Guys column, what with (1) the Night’s King and Viseri-Zombie completely demolishing the Wall, thereby allowing the Zombie Army to enter Westeros proper; and…

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· by Julie Kushner · Aug 21, 2017

Game of Thrones: Requiem for a Dragon

Now you’ve really done it, Night King! I stuck up for you when people said bad things. I thought you were just “misunderstood.” I was digging your style, your cool hand gestures, the magical charisma you had. Whenever you entered…

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· by Julie Kushner · Aug 14, 2017

Game of Thrones: Breathers unite!

Holy exposition episode, Batman! Let’s see, we got the legitimization of Jon’s Snow’s birth, Cersei’s pregnancy, the triumphant return of That Rowing Guy, and Littlefinger getting exposed for shadiness again (possibly on purpose?). We’ve also got characters moving all across…

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· by Julie Kushner · Aug 6, 2017

Game of Thrones: The Khaleesi strikes back

It is most definitely “No more Ms. Nice Mother of Dragons” this week, as Dany pours a heaping helping of hellfire mixed with Sweet Revenge on an unsuspecting Lannister army. (Meanwhile, somewhere in Heaven, Lady Olenna is performing the Best…

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· by Julie Kushner · Jul 30, 2017

Game of Thrones: Lessons in failure

So, it was not a particularly stellar week for Dany and Team Good Guys in the battle for the Iron Throne. For the second week in a row, the Mother of Dragons has found herself both outsmarted on the…

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· by Julie Kushner · Jul 24, 2017

Game of Thrones: A foreign invasion is underway

After a bit of a slow start, Season 7 picks up the pace considerably in “Stormborn”, its second of seven episodes. The ultimate battle for the Iron Throne finally seems to be taking place in earnest, as allies are gathered,…

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· by Julie Kushner · Jul 16, 2017

Game of Thrones: Shall We Begin? (SEASON PREMIERE RECAP)

It may be 85 degrees and balmy where you live, but over in Westeros, Winter has returned with a vengeance… That’s right, folks. Game of Thrones is back for its penultimate shortened season. And if this premiere is any indication,…

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· by Marion Stein · Jun 3, 2017

The Americans: Not with a boom, but a pfft

Was Season 5 one long con? Not unlike the kind the Jennings are always pulling where the pay off seems pretty meager for all the work that went into it? Hans getting euthanized in the season opener, set the tone.…

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· by Tyler Peterson · May 30, 2017

TV Shows that Predicted Trump: Black Mirror "The Waldo Moment"

On September 13, 2016, Charlie Brooker, creator and showrunner for the hit British sci-fi series Black Mirror, addressed the media with his opinion on the US presidential race, which resounded with the kind of bleak doomsaying that would normally happen…

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· by Marion Stein · May 25, 2017

The Americans: Breathing room

This week’s penultimate episode offers more smiles than have ever been seen before on The Americans. There are even some happy surprises, but it ends with the proverbial ticking time bomb and we won’t know till next week whether there…

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· by Marion Stein · May 19, 2017

The Americans: Your life is a lie

We open this 100% Paige-free episode with Henry, the changeling-childe/early adapter/multi-tasker, listening to his Walkman while doing homework and/or inventing a new digital language. Philip asks if he knows where his mother is. A ruse if ever there was one!…

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· by Susan Velazquez · May 12, 2017

Riverdale: We can be heroes

Why does the Blossom family take their maple syrup so seriously? Why did they have their super elaborate maple tapping ceremony at the beginning of winter when any New Englander knows that maple syrup season begins at the end of…

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· by Marion Stein · May 11, 2017

The Americans: The Monsters Next Door

Ever since The Sopranos, television has been in love with anti-heroes – not bad guys turned heroic (usually due to the transformative power of romantic lurve) but people who do very bad things just because. Who wouldn’t want…

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· by Julie Kushner · May 8, 2017

Once Upon a Time: Swan Song

As a show runner, inevitably, there will come a time in your life when your series is dangling on the precipice of cancellation, your lead actress has just dumped you via Instagram, and seemingly nothing can save it but a…

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· by Susan Velazquez · May 7, 2017

Riverdale: How to get away with murder

I don’t grade episodes that I recap, especially if the season is still airing. I firmly believe that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts and when you only see the parts in weekly doses, your idea…