Season 3 episode 4 of The Mandalorian, titled "Chapter 20: The Foundling", could just as well be called "Timmy Falls Down a Well". It's like the parody trope of the old Lassie TV show where the dog Lassie whines at a human and the human says, "What's that, girl? Timmy fell down a well?!" and then the whole town rushes to rescue Timmy from a well. ( Read more... )

I binged into episode 4 of The Pacific right after watching episode 3, which was kind of a letdown. My hope was that the action would pick back up in ep. 4 and it'd thus be way better than the dead-end love story that filled most of ep. 3. Alas it was only a little better ( Read more... )

Recently Hawk and I started watching Andor, the latest Star Wars spinoff streaming on Disney+.

"Andor, isn't that the planet with all those stupid CareBears™ from Return of the Jedi?" we asked each other.

No. Andor is the name of the title character in this show. (Actually it's his family name. Cassian is his given name.) Endor is the name of a ( Read more... )

The premier episode of The Book of Boba Fett dropped December 29 on Disney+. We watched it last week, though It's taken me until now to write about it because I've been a bit "backblogged" after Hawaii and New Year retrospectives, and purposefully limited my posting to 3/day. And while I've been curious to watch this new series since it was ( Read more... )

I've finished season 6-B episode 4 of The Sopranos. There are only 5 more episodes left in the series, and I... don't see where it's going. I mean, I know a little bit about how it ends because spoilers have been impossible to avoid 100%, but based on how the story's been developing- or not developing- lately I don't see it moving toward a ( Read more... )

Hawk and I recently finished watching season 5 of The Sopranos. The 11th episode (out of 13), "The Test Dream", left us wondering if the season was going to run off the rails.

"The Test Dream" is dominated by a 20 minute dream sequence. Well, the episode's Wikipedia page says 20 minutes, but to us it felt a lot longer because it was unfocused. Tony ( Read more... )