What Happened This Week? Who better to deliver The Orville 105’s lesson, “Trust your First Officer”, than Jonathan Frakes? Our beloved Commander Riker guided “Pria” into our coveted favorite episode spot this week. Main Plot The Orville crew narrowly saved the Captain (Charlize Theron) of a doomed ship in a high stakes game of comet-stranded […]
The Last Ship Season 4 Finale – 3 Burning Questions
3 Big Questions… That lead to more questions. Does America have any true allies in this new world? The virus that nearly destroyed humanity took a second swipe at us this season by trying to kill all of our food. Although American efforts (I know Dr. Scott was not American, but her labs and supplies […]
The Last Ship 408 – 3 Burning Questions
3 Big Questions… That lead to more questions. Who Will We Lose? Normally, producers and writers assemble television seasons as complete story arcs unto themselves. Yes, they can still link from one season to the next in very cohesive ways, but each season will have it’s own beginning middle and end. Even in LOST, with […]
The Orville 104 – If the Stars Should Appear – Review
What Happened This Week? After last week’s “message-episode” morality play, the crew of the Orville return to more conventional explorations in The Orville 104. James Conway, a directing veteran of all four post-Star Trek TOS series helms this episode which borrows plots from STTOS, but looks a lot like a Star Trek TNG episode. The writers named […]
This Is Us – Season 2 Premiere Podcast
The season 2 premiere of broadcast television’s favorite drama picked up this week and we thought we should get into the middle of it. After several science fiction and genre shows, we’ve decided to cover a regular old drama. Here’s the setup: Paul only watched a couple episodes of the first season while Caroline watched […]