Category Archives: TV Series

Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2022 January 2

Happy New Year!  I hope you had fun, and if you had too much fun there is plenty of time to recover this week, as the Table is very light.  Call the Midwife returns for its 11th season.  Boba Fett furthers his attempt to conquer Tatooine’s underworld.  Star Trek: Prodigy returns from its break.  The Blacklist gives us a flashback show telling us what happened after the previous decades star died.  The Expanse takes us for its second to last episode, bringing everyone together.

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The Expanse Review: “Force Projection” and “Redoubt”

…for in such dangerous things as war, the errors which proceed from a spirit of benevolence are just the worst.
–Carl von Clausewitz, On War, Chapter One
(trans. J.J. Graham)

“Here we are, still trying to kill our way to a better tomorrow.”
–James Holden, “Redoubt.”

Earth and Mars take the war to Marco Inaros, Holden makes a controversial decision that stirs dissent among his crew, and Drummer issues a challenge.

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Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2021 December 26

Happy Boxing Day 📦 and welcome to the last update for 2021!  Season four of Cobra Kai drops, which I think makes this show  bigger than the movies that spawned it.  If you didn’t get enough animated magic for the holiday season, Zatanna is getting some more allies on Young Justice.  Mrs. Brown’s Boys continues the holiday specials, continuing Mammy’s holiday special.  Otherwise, The Doctor is our Holiday Special gateway into space, as she gets to face the Daleks again.  Our only two regularly scheduled shows are both taking place in the future, in space.  The Expanse deals with Ceres Station and Discovery also deals with the politics as the galaxy converges to discuss the DMA.

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Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2021 December 18

Happy Holidays!  Our genre show producers, or at least schedulers, have taken their holiday break through Yule, but on Wednesday the finale of Hawkeye drops, hopefully following up on their Studio-spanning surprise guest,  The Wheel of Time also drops a season finale, are the Dragon Reborn listens to Dark reason.  Discovery doesn’t give us a description, but the Rocinate takes to battle with Earth and Mars across the Expanse.  For the other big holiday, Call The Midwife and Mrs. Brown’s Boys drop a special.

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Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2021 December 11

Is it me, or do we have less to watch this week?  It could be because I am so behind I am not noticing the new things that need to be added, so always feel free to suggest something in the comments.  We do have eight new episodes of The Witcher, which my eldest daughter and wife have been eagerly anticipating.  Riverdale will have its 100th episode.  Hawkeye gives us the penultimate episode.  The Wheel of Time’s revolutions gives us revelations.  Young Justice and Star Trek: Discovery are fuzzy on the details, but The Expanse wasn’t this week, telling us about the Rocinante being the linchpin for the war.

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The Expanse Review: “Strange Dogs”

Later for Doctor Who and Star Trek: Discovery.* The great outer space series of this century (so far) has returned for what will be its last season. We get a glimpse of what war looks like– but we’re reminded that the universe holds dangers and wonders greater than any human conflict.

*Literally later. We’re reviewing both of those seasons a pair of eps at a time, so you’ll see the next Who after Sunday’s show and Discovery next week.

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Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2021 December 5

There are a lot of old favorites returning this week, but first Doctor Who’s Season of Flux comes to a close.  The Flash’s event season continues, and I admit I hadn’t quite realized it was an event season until this description, and we get guest stars a plenty.  Guest stars continue to show up, as Riverdale is visited by a fan favorite Netflix witch.  The Wheel of Time has multiple faceoffs.  The Blacklist is the only other show to give us a description, telling us about an old crime family in therapy.  Hawkeye and Discovery also have new episodes, which don’t need descriptions to get me interested in them.  Adding to the list of description-less shows I am thrilled to watch, The Expanse returns for season six.

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Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2021 November 28

I hope everyone has a quiet week with family, regardless of last week’s turkey consumption, because this week is lighter on television.  This week, Lost in Space will drop its third and final season.  The Doctor continues to uncover her past while sorting out The Flux, The Flash visits The Hall of Justice with Black Lightning, Riverdale makes Rivervale make tough choices,  Young Justice gives us some magic, and The Legends give us a Bebbo Christmas special.  Wheel of Time introduce some new faces.  We don’t get synopsis, but I am still most interested in Hawkeye and the crew of Star Trek: Discovery.

[All synopses (and titles) from Trakt.tv below the cut, except when there really aren’t any. (If a show’s synopsis is a spoiler to you, do not click Continue reading →)]

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