We reviewed the first two episodes of The Terror: Infamy and then left it. The story-arc structure works against stand-alone episode reviews. Here we consider the final eight episodes together.
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Batwoman Review – S01E02 “The Rabbit Hole”
October 15, 2019 by `Lex Pendragon Batwoman 1 Comment
Batwoman gives us our second episode, still trying to fill the Bat shaped hole caused by the character’s inspiration’s lack of television show, and also trying to prepare to fill the Arrow shaped hole that we will get later this season. It’s early in its run, so I can’t say if they are doing it, yet. I will need to see More…
Batwoman Review: “Pilot”
October 7, 2019 by JD DeLuzio TV Series 3 Comments
With the show that created the CWTVDCU flying off the screens for good this year and a TV version of Crisis happening later on (with appearances by characters from Superman Returns and Smallville announced), we have a new DC super-series, this one featuring the twenty-first century version of Batwoman.
Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 22 September 2019
September 22, 2019 by `Lex Pendragon TV Series
Even with the official start to fall this week with the equinox, the late-late-late-not-quite-fall-season television offerings are still sparse. We go get the return of The Good Doctor where Murphy goes on a date. Alfred plots assassination, and on Preacher there is a theater event to end all theater events1. Meanwhile2, at camp in in 1984, American Horror Story brights out an evil monster. While we don’t get a proper description of what happens on Titans, the name “Aqualad” probably tells us all we need to know.
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The Terror: Infamy—”All the Demons Are Still in Hell” Review
August 20, 2019 by JD DeLuzio TV Series
The second series of The Terror continues in its uneven manner, with government-ordered oppression in the foreground and a supernatural mystery lurking in the background.
The Handmaid’s Tale: “Under His Eye,” “Unfit,” “Heroic,” “Witness,” “Liars,” “Sacrifice,” “Mayday.”
August 19, 2019 by JD DeLuzio TV Series
June completes her journey to Handmaid with a Handgun, as she organizes a risky, major strike against Gilead. Meanwhile….
The Terror: Infamy– “A Sparrow in a Swallow’s Nest”
August 13, 2019 by JD DeLuzio TV Series
No reasonable sequel could exist to AMC’s The Terror, a brilliant series crafted from Dan Simmons’s supernatural take on historical events. However, its success means The Terror is now an ongoing anthology series. This season, “Infamy,” switches location to Los Angeles, 1941, and makes its supernatural shadings clear from the opening.
Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2019 July 21
July 21, 2019 by `Lex Pendragon Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Elementary, Handmaid's Tale, Legion, Superman/Smallville, Swamp Thing, TV Series
The heat of summer hasn’t slowed the few programs down at all. Legion reminds us how strong he is as he goes to war. Supergrandad continues his war against Zod as the God/Zod puns continue. Sherlock Holmes faces, or possibly works with, a god. The Swamp Thing is anatomically correct. The SHIELD Agents revisit their past.
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Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2019 July 14
July 14, 2019 by `Lex Pendragon Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Elementary, Handmaid's Tale, Legion, Superman/Smallville, Swamp Thing, TV Series
Summer continues to stretch on, hopefully allowing you plenty of time to enjoy the small tidbits of genre television we are getting. Legion continues to try to cause some paradoxes, while Supergrandad fights the paradox he’s been trapped in all season. Elementary further explores the Joan/Sarek connection. Swamp Thing reveals his heroism. At S.H.I.E.L.D., their victory party winds down when they realize they still have a lot to clean up.
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Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 20 October 2019
October 20, 2019 by `Lex Pendragon Arrow, Batwoman, Black Lightning, Riverdale, Superman/Smallville, The Flash, Titans, TV Series 2 Comments
I hope you didn’t have any other plans, as there is plenty of television to keep those of us unpopular enough not to have Halloween party invites busy. If the Dire Crisis of Batwoman, Supergirl, Arrow, Flash, and maybe Black Lightning and the Titans coupled with the horror of 1984, Riverdale, the return of Castle Rock and watching The Good Doctor try to get to second base is took much, Will and Grace also will return to lighten the mood. Personally, The Blacklist cheers me up pretty well, too.
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