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The Books of Magic (1993-2019)
The Stop Button Posted by Vernon Wiley on Jul 9, 2020
Books of Magic Original series and recent “Moveable Type” trade paperback Back in 1991, DC decided to let one of their successful new writers, Neil Gaiman, fresh from his success with The Sandman, an opportunity to play in the sandbox with a bevy of their silver age B list characters, weaving read more
Upload (2020) s01e08 – Shopping Other Digital After-Lives
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 9, 2020
The episode opens with Robbie Amell getting Andy Allo in trouble for their relationship. Except she can’t let him know she’s in trouble so when she gets sent home… he assumes she’s still at work. Only it’s her boss, Andrea Rosen, who shuts him down. See, he’s ready to commit to their romance. read more
Doctor Who (2005) s03e03 – Gridlock
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 8, 2020
Really nice direction from Richard Clark this episode; really nice. It’s a strong episode overall, because it’s set out in space in the future, which are usually the best “Who” episodes (so far), but this episode manages to do it with a bunch of regular humans. Well, not regular humans. 5 billion read more
Doctor Who (2005) s03e02 – The Shakespeare Code
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 7, 2020
I was expecting more from The Shakespeare Code. Dean Lennox Kelly’s Shakespeare is rather wanting. The characterization of it all seems more Knight’s Tale than anything historical or original. There are numerous quotations throughout, usually David Tennant making a quip and Kelly saying he’s going read more
Mr. Boop – Volume 1: My Wife is Betty Boop (2020)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 7, 2020
Mr. Boop is about being married to Betty Boop. The protagonist is Boop creator Alec Robbins, who is presumably not actually married to Betty Boop in real life because otherwise it’d be a series of photos not comics. Robbins, the comic protagonist, is very happy to be married to Betty Boop, who’s read more
Upload (2020) s01e07 – Bring Your Dad to Work Day
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 6, 2020
As a streaming sitcom, filler doesn’t feel the same way in “Upload” as it does in a regular sitcom. “Upload” is not chasing that syndication deal, which in theory wouldn’t affect the A plot—dead guy Robbie Amell falling in love with his living virtual—actual—assistant Andy Allo—much read more
Doctor Who (2005) s03e01 – Smith and Jones
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 6, 2020
New only-other-billed actor (but technically not the new companion yet) Freema Agyeman guest starred at the end of last season but is playing a different character here. Thank goodness. Agyeman is a medical resident, so it’s going to be the Doctor and a doctor going forward, which is a lot better read more
Upload (2020) s01e06 – Sleepover
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 5, 2020
Just as Allegra Edwards gets a redemption arc—two of them in fact—dead but living in a virtual reality simulation fiancé Robbie Amell starts getting close to his actual (vs. virtual) virtual assistant Andy Allo. Amell and Allo confide in one another about their suspicions regarding the A plot, read more
Doctor Who (2005) s03e00 – The Runaway Bride
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 5, 2020
How does the Doctor (this time David Tennant) usually respond to his companion leaving the show for, presumably, their own projects? Does it matter if you inherent your companion from the last Doctor? Have English school teachers been reading themes on this subject for decades now? I’m vaguely curi read more
Doctor Who (2005) s02e13 – Doomsday
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 4, 2020
The BBC does market research, don’t they? I’d love to see what their “Doctor Who” market research says as far as target audience. For instance, this episode—the momentous, earth-shattering (literally?) season finale, which will change the Doctor (David Tennant) forever–has the many experience read more
Upload (2020) s01e05 – The Grey Market
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 4, 2020
Does “Upload” have a show bible the writers ignore—in this case Mike Lawrence, who at least writes a funny enough episode even if it completely breaks with the show’s established future logics-or does the show not have a show bible. Because it doesn’t lean heavy enough into the sitcom to not read more
Upload (2020) s01e04 – The Sex Suit
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 3, 2020
Watching “Upload” do sexy is… uncomfortable. And not just because Allegra Edwards is loathsome and the episode frequently promises she’ll not be around then keeps bringing her back around. She and lead Robbie Amell are in therapy now. They still haven’t had sex because Edwards thinks the suit read more
Doctor Who (2005) s02e12 – Army of Ghosts
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 3, 2020
One Earth episode without Camille Coduri was clearly too much so she doesn’t just appear in this one, she also pretends to be daughter Rose (Billie Piper) and play companion to David Tennant. Coduri and Tennant don’t grate as sharply as one might’ve feared (hard to imagine her and Christopher read more
The Cabin in the Woods (2011, Drew Goddard)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 3, 2020
I didn’t have much hope for Cabin in the Woods; though, I mean, director and co-writer Drew Goddard… he’s gone on to stuff. Good stuff. Right? But if I’d known it was written in three days—it shows—and cost $30 million—it actually looks pretty darn good for $30 million, saving the money read more
Cool Hand Luke (1967, Stuart Rosenberg)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 2, 2020
Maybe a third of the way into Cool Hand Luke, the film all of a sudden starts getting really good. It’s when Jo Van Fleet makes her appearance, which provides the film both its single best acting—Newman and Van Fleet are exquisite in the scene—and also director Rosenberg showing he’s actually read more
Doctor Who (2005) s02e11 – Fear Her
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 1, 2020
For an Earth episode, especially one with a strangely disjointed narrative with dueling MacGuffins, Fear Her is okay. There’s not a very high bar for the Earth episodes so getting to see David Tennant and Billie Piper doing an ad for the 2012 Olympics in London. They show up—six years into Piper’s read more
Upload (2020) s01e03 – The Funeral
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 1, 2020
This episode opens with a Rupert “Tilford” (cough, cough, Murdoch)—played by Creed from “The Office”—paying to get his Upload mind put into a clone body. And he dies. More than any episode so far, this episode of “Upload” felt a little like they were trying for Robocop humor. It’s read more
Frasier (1993) s02e13 – Retirement is Murder
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 30, 2020
New writing team (Elias Davis and David Pollock)—albeit one working together since the 1960s—and a new director (Alan Myerson) but it’s a close to quintessential “Frasier.” Though more in the “good jackass Kelsey Grammer” column than the “good exemplar episode” one, even though it’s read more
Doctor Who (2005) s02e10 – Love & Monsters
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 30, 2020
It’s a not bad concept episode (written by Russell T. Davies, which seems weird but whatever) about a regular bloke (Marc Warren) who records a video diary on his digital camcorder to upload at 160×120 to his FTP server to share his story about the Doctor. I mean, it’s a YouTube doc before read more
Upload (2020) s01e02 – Five Stars
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 30, 2020
The best part about “Upload” this episode is Cigarette Smoking Man William B. Davis as one of the “Choak” brothers, who has died and is now living his reward after ruining American society for decades. Because Davis is good. No qualifications, no asterisks, he’s just good. Everything else read more