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The Handmaid’s Tale continues, with society under pressure in the wake of recent events. The country remains a place run by hypocrites who insist they’re acting in the name of God and national interest, who preach a pro-family message while separating children from parents, exalting men who commit sexual assault, and denouncing the supposed falseness of reports against them while spouting blatant lies and obvious propaganda.

The cracks and contradictions in this society grow more apparent, and some of its most devout citizens begin to tremble at the monster they’ve helped create.

As a bonus, we get to see a little of life beyond Gilead. We make several trips to Canada, and we begin to feel the presence of the United States of America—that is, the parts that have neither been destroyed nor become a part of Gilead.¹

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The Dwindling Chapters leave us with two specials for Lucifer, (which is still canceled as far as I can find).  Otherwise, Supergirl is surprised to see that Krypton was renewed.  On the other side of the aisle, Legion…  He’s still beautiful and crazy.

[All synopses (and titles) from Trakt.tv below the cut.  (If a show’s synopsis is a spoiler to you, do not click More…)]

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We are nearing the season’s end, or are at the end, and for at least one show, the return is Debatably Canceled.  Lucifer ends, but there are two more episodes hiding somewhere that were originally moved to Season 4, but now may be part of a home video release.  Supergirl deals with family members to fight the season’s big bad.  The Flash races his big bad to build a machine.  Supergranddad has to decide if he wants to save a city in a bottle.  Arrow advertises an Epic Final Battle, but still has two more episodes for the season.

Meanwhile Legion makes you question all of the ideas you’ve ever had including the sanity in trying to follow the show (but stays a beautiful high-budget art project) and the Agents wrap up their season, though they are renewed for an abbreviated sixth season.  Then the “teens” of Riverdale wrap their season with an election.

[All synopses (and titles) from Trakt.tv below the cut.  (If a show’s synopsis is a spoiler to you, do not click More…)]

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The new series, based on Dan Simmons’s historical horror novel, blew onto AMC last week, and continues Monday. The Terror presents a fictionalized dramatization of the Franklin Expedition’s final months, and includes an element not found in any history book….

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Kiernan Shipka who grew up on Mad Men playing Sally Draper, will star in the forthcoming Netflix adaptation of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. This is the adult-oriented Archie occult comic that presents Sabrina as a genuinely horrifying witch-child coming of age in the 1960s (though the TV show may be set in the present).

Continuing with the somewhat belated horror manga with Volume 2 of Nightmare Inspector. More…

This time I’m returning to Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys with volume 12. More…

When I started podcasting, I was single and living alone. That is no longer true. My amazing fiancee and her kids now live with me, schedules have changed at work, and I ultimately have less time to create and consume podcasts than I used to. What exactly this means is described in this announcement podcast, and in the text below.

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Douglas Adams’ influential The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy started its long life as a radio show, before becoming a series of novels, graphic novels, a TV series, a movie, and the inspiration behind a nerdy website’s name. Now Eoin Colfer’s continuation of Adams’ series, And Another Thing will be adapted as a British radio show, bringing things full circle. Adams’ widow approves. What does everyone else think?