The second half of Chapelwaite leaves the source material far behind as it develops an interesting and disturbing tale, but one that lacks much originality and probably should have been two or three episodes shorter.
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Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2021 October 31
A Joyous Samhain and Happy Halloween 🎃 to all our Bureaucrats! As a long awaited capper to our spooky Season, The Doctor returns for the opening to a new season, Flux, which caps off Jodie and Chris’ tenure on the show. If you’re a fan of endings, Chapelwaite caps the first season, and faces Jakub’s army. Y: The Last Man has the last episode of the first season as Marrisville faces an army from Amazon. The Good Doctor faces racism. In a Distinct Corner, Star Girl ends with a JSA Eclipso showdown. Supergirl faces a town in New Mexico. The Legends faces the mob while trying to enjoy a drink. Batwoman realizes they’ve been keeping things too cool. Star Trek: Prodigy (which I missed alerting everyone to last week) has its second episode, amazing the former captives with the stars. The Blacklist starts into a new case now that the band is back together. Foundation lets the Emperor start out on a new journey.
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Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2021 October 24
As we approach the spookiest of holidays, the shows seem to completely ignore the calendar as none of them have follow that theme. Chapelwaite goes on a recruiting drive to retrieve an overdue book. Y faces threats at the pentagon. The Good Doctor fights internet misinformation. Stargirl spends a bit of time finding extra characters. Supergirl gets emotional over a big-bad-triangle. The Legends gets to troubleshoot. Batwoman gets the cold shoulder. The Blacklist face off with pirates. Foundation get to tour a warship.
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Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2021 October 17
The television table is Dominated Clearly from the comic book giant’s shows, as Y: The Last Man pass their point of no return, Stargirl gets scared to death, Supergirl is welcomed to nightmares, the Legends head to New York City, Batwoman helps a crocodile with a sore tooth, The Titans welcome new member, 
, and Doom Patrol go bird watching. Elsewhere, Chapelwaite spends an emotional night with the Constable and Minister. The future is decided for American Horror Story. The Foundation shows us the empire meeting their rivals. Also, Blacklist comes back for season nine with a two year time jump.
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Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2021 October 10
Don’t Care for the long summer gap between seasons? The pandemic has brought you something good, as Legends and Batwoman’s next seasons are already here, both picking up right where the previous seasons left off. Still in the Arrowverse (is it still the Arrowverse?) Supergirl goes after Nyxly, and Stargirl recovers from Pat’s dark secrets. Elsewhere in that multiverse, the Titans and Doom Patrol give us new episodes, (but no descriptions.) Evil gives you something to chew on to end the season. Chapelwaite sees a vampire future. Y: The Last Man visits a tourist trap. The Good Doctor doesn’t care for the changes at the hospital. Foundation tells us why Gaal has a conflict. American Horror Story and See also give us new episodes, and if you happen to catch the first season of Katee Sackhoff’s Sci-Fi Another Life, season 2 drops this week. [If you didn’t, I’ll warn you it’s less science, more drama.]
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TV Review: Doom Patrol, “Dead Patrol,” “Undead Patrol”
When we last left our heroes, most of them had died.
Fortunately, they appear to be only mostly dead, and help is on its way– not Billy Crystal, but Crystal Palace, and some characters from Sandman.
Click through for an account of the afterlife, zombies, cannibalism, killer buttocks, and a time-lost amnesiac. In short, a couple more episodes of Doom Patrol.
Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2021 October 3
Welcome to “Spooky Season”! As the Bureau begins out October Reviews, our shows do not take any time off, so you’ll have it squeeze those movies in where you can. Evil gets into your brain this week. Chapelwaite is grieving. Per a good suggestion, Y: The Last Man joins the BBTT, but the title informing me that our favorite multi-genre muscian had passed away distracted me from the summary of political intrigue. The Good Doctor plans for a wedding as the hospital staff shakes up. Stargirl takes a regret-filled trip to the past, while Supergirl searches for magical totems as Lena gets witchy. What If will conitue last week’s episode, but gives us not advanced notice. Doom Patrol assists Madame Rouge. The Queen speaks on See. In Foundation, the Empire argues with himself. American Horror Story, Titans, Star Trek: Lower Decks, and the Boys speciall all are also on the table, but didn’t give us any descriptions, so they don’t get mentioned.
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Chapelwaite Review: First Five Episodes
In college, Stephen King wrote possibly the best Lovecraft story not written by Lovecraft, a twisted pastiche with a side of Poe. “Jerusalem’s Lot” would finally be published in his first story collection, Night Shift. Before that happened, he reused the town’s name in the novel Salem’s Lot (a sort of Dracula meets Peyton Place) and the follow-up short story, “One for the Road.” Fans have spent a good deal of time trying to reconcile the largely irreconcilable histories of the early story with the novel and its coda.
This year saw “Jerusalem’s Lot” expanded and adapted into the series, Chapelwaite. The first five of ten episodes have aired, with suspicious townsfolk, creeping madness, the worm that doth corrupt—and, one suspects, an eye towards a possible future season that will bring us to modern-day ‘Salem’s Lot.
Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2021 September 26
The year rolls past the equinox into the last quarter, and we have a fall television season actually give us a premier with The Good Doctor starting its fifth season as our stars get married. Over on Evil, the team does their taxes. Chapelwaite’s children learns disappointment. Stargirl protects Solomon Grundy. Supergirl chases a totem. What If? has a new episode, though it is typically non-descript at this point. Riverdale welcomes us to Alice Cooper’s musical pleasant dream. American Horror Story takes some college students on a camping trip. Doom Patrol faces the undead. Titans go boating. Star Trek’s Lower Decks make an appearance as well. On See, we visit a peace summit. Foundation prepares us for Ascension.
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Doom Patrol Review: “Possibilities Patrol” and “Vacay Patrol”
“Even if he’s a supervillain– which he’s clearly not– he’s on vacation.”
–Cliff Steele
The most brilliant absurdist superhero show ever returns for a third season.