Riverdale: The Riverdale-ian Candidate
It’s party time in Riverdale–political party time, that is. This week’s episode focuses on small town politics, in both mayoral and high school elections. But first, we pick up right where last week’s...
View ArticleHomeland: Busted, or five degrees of congruence
Andante, music played at a slow tempo, is a polite name for the filler-filled seventh episode of the seventh season. Yet, a few things happen to move the story forward: Carrie gets laid. Max gets...
View ArticleThe Americans: Your country or your wife
“Dead Hand”, the perfectly scored final season premiere of The Americans begins with a montage that wordlessly (except for the lyrics) shows us everything we need to know about the state of the...
View ArticleRiverdale: A Blossom Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
If Hiram’s evil plan to build a prison in Riverdale happens, maybe the economic boost to the town will let the Sisters of Quiet Mercy finally get out of the 1950s time warp that...
View ArticleHomeland: Bonnieskaya and Clydeski
What happened after Saul’s team grabbed Dante, and left a terrified Frannie in her mother’s arms? Did Carrie decide she and Frannie might as well squat at Dante’s since he wasn’t going to be...
View ArticleThe Americans: Four wigs and no funerals
Welcome to another week of dread, close calls, and the longest long game on television. Can Elizabeth Jennings, the hardest working spy in Spytown, keep dodging bullets forever, literally? With only...
View ArticleHomeland: Just her 19th nervous breakdown
This week on Homeland: Yvegeny goes rogue, Bill says too much, and Carrie’s seasonal hallucinatory sequence may actually give her the clarity to make a tough decision, god willing. We open with Yvegeny...
View ArticleThe Americans: Who does Elizabeth kill this week?
“Urban Transport Planning”, the third episode of the final season is named for the seminar Oleg Burov is in DC to attend. When Oleg explains his post-KGB duties to Stan, he could be describing the...
View ArticleHomeland: Bye-bye, Frannie-pie
In Clarity, the 10th episode of season 7, Carrie finally realizes what she needs to do to keep Frannie safe. But is it too late for a show that kept the kid around for...
View ArticleStar Trek: Voyager “Favorite Son”
My return to recapping bad Star Trek: Voyager episodes continues with the third season episode “Favorite Son”, which shows Voyager encountering a planet of women who are out to lure unsuspecting men...
View ArticleRiverdale: A Chorus Line Carrie-s on
Turn on the spotlights and raise the curtain, everybody! It’s showtime at Riverdale! If you remember from last episode, the kids are putting on a production of the musical Carrie. Not sure why they...
View ArticleThe Americans: The coldest war is in the bedroom
In “Mr. and Mrs Teacup”, the fourth of the final 8 episodes of The Americans, the distance between Elizabeth and Philip continues to grow. Also growing? The weekly body count, as our death march to...
View ArticleHomeland: Mission to Moscow: Wigstock Edition
Like every season’s penultimate episode of Homeland, “All In” was action-packed and showed Carrie at her most ingenious and determined. Plausibility, however, was lower than on a Saturday morning...
View ArticleThe Americans: Philip acts
Elizabeth’s senseless murder spree continues, but she needs Philip’s help for one final mission. In pushing him beyond where his conscience allows, will she seal both their fates? Episode 5, “The Great...
View ArticleRiverdale: Indecent proposals and truths
Rest in peace, Midge. We hardly knew ye. I really thought Midge was gonna come out of this alive. I mean, the Black Hood once shot her and her boyfriend at point blank range...
View ArticleHomeland: We have met the enemy and he is us
Did they purposely make Carrie unlikable all season—narcissistic, careless with the lives of others (including her kid), recklessly “running around like a crazed vigilante” according to Saul—only to...
View ArticleRiverdale: Innocent Until Proven Guilty?
Last episode, Betty began to suspect that her father, Hal, is the Black Hood. It’s a good thing that she’s keeping this information to herself because Archie is out on his vigilante search for...
View ArticleThe Americans: On my way
“Riffifi”, episode 6 of the final slog toward doom that is The Americans, is named for a film in which most of the protagonists die. This week Elizabeth doesn’t kill anyone, but she comes...
View ArticleThe Americans: Moving parts
In an effort to save his marriage, if not his country, Philip joins Elizabeth’s mission to rescue an illegal who the FBI has codenamed “Harvest”. Henry confides in his “Uncle” Stan, which rhymes with...
View ArticleRiverdale: Not-so-quiet riot
Poor Cheryl has had a rough year. Her twin brother was murdered by her father, her family fortune was temporarily lost when her father was outed as a drug dealer, her mother stuck her...
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