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TV Season Review: Watchmen (2019)

April 21, 2020 by Watchmen

“I have a secret plan to save humanity and it starts in Oklahoma.”

HBO dropped a limited series1, running from October to December of 2019, which gave us a sequel to Watchmen. The influential 1985 graphic novel did not require a sequel, but this one tries to be true to its source material, and it has received numerous accolades.2

We didn’t review it at the time, but we’re examining and, hopefully, discussing the series here. Who watched the Watchmen?

Expect some spoilers.

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Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2020 April 19

April 19, 2020 by Legends of Tomorrow, Spider-Man, The Flash, TV Series, Westworld

Still inside?  Good news!  The Flash and the Legends have Defeated Corona and returned, with the Flash bringing the creepiest of assassins, Rag Doll back while the Legends seem to be planning a pastiche of Supernatural.  The anti-penultimate episode of Westworld arrives and the episode descriptions are just outright making fun of the people who are looking for individual episode descriptions.  Zoey listens to a SPRQ Point turf war, which probably will give us West Side Story vibes.  Cosmos gives a bright look at the near future.  Saul gives us season five’s finale.  The Blacklist seeks to help Dembe’s buddy.  If you want some animation, Louie turns 11 on DuckTales and Spider-Man gives some some symbiote shenanigans.

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Westworld Review: Season 3, Episodes One – Four

April 14, 2020 by Westworld

“You want to be the dominant species but you built your whole world with things like me.”
–Dolores Abernathy

Westworld dropped episode five this week, which means we’re more than half-way through Season Three. We’ll get to “Genre” in the near future. This week, we’re finally reviewing and discussing the first half of the season.

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Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2020 April 12

April 12, 2020 by Riverdale, TV Series

With everyone telecommuting, the Breakroom’s television seems to be getting a break, also.  Even Westworld is just saying “No.” to our Genre.  Neil and the Scientists on Cosmos are working tirelessly, still giving us two episodes, but otherwise all we have are the villains of Riverdale as they perform a musical episode, Jimmy tries to get back to business as usual (wouldn’t we all?) and Red goes against his own task force on Blacklist.  Anyone binge anything fun lately?

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Battlestar Galactica Streaming For Free

April 3, 2020 by , Battlestar Galactica

If you want to watch something that makes what’s going on in the outside world look cheery and upbeat, you can dive into the BSG reboot for free from SyFy. They’re streaming the Mini-series (pilot), all four seasons and the two movies, The Plan and Razor.

We’ll get through this, gang. So say we all.

Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2020 March 29

March 29, 2020 by TV Series

I hope you weren’t looking for superheros, because they are doing their part to Defeat Corona by staying in.  We do get some villains, as Better Call Saul reduces to initials and the FBI investigates some hackers on Blacklist.  Our AI cowboys spend some time working on their appearance on Westworld.  Cosmos gives us a search for intelligence on earth and then goes to the moon with Cassini.  Good Doctor (not a real one, a fictional hero) ends his season.  If you’re stuck home with kids, Zoey is a glitch, and DuckTales returns with two episodes.  Anything else you are doing while sheltering-in-front-of-the-television?

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Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2020 March 22

March 22, 2020 by Batwoman, Legends of Tomorrow, Star Trek, Superman/Smallville, TV Series

With the Bureau’s physical offices closed down due to the quarantine, we hope that all of you Bureaucrats are staying healthy.  To help you shelter in place, the Breakroom television remains tuned in to avoid the the Disastrous Consequences of cabin fever.  Watch as our characters all take trips, starting as Batwoman decides to travel through the looking glass, while on Supergirl, Alex finds herself in Wonderland, and the Legends split up to let Zari take center stage.  Our only other superhero this week ends his season as Picard deals with the impending arrival of god-like AI-aliens.  (AIliens?)  If god-like artificial intelligences are too OP for you, feel free to scale it back with this week’s Westworld as the AI robots infiltrate the outside world.  If you need even more science, but less fiction, Cosmos gives us two more episodes examining consciousness’s evolution and Carl Sagan’s personal evolution.  The last tenuous link to science fiction we have this week is Zoey, who confesses to Max.  Saul manages to avoid being stopped by Kim and Jimmy, The Good Doctor starts its season finale with an earth shaking first part, and Ultron Spader Red takes an island vacation to enjoy some art on The Blacklist.

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Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2020 March 15

March 15, 2020 by Batwoman, Legends of Tomorrow, Star Trek, Superman/Smallville, The Flash, TV Series

I hope you are all staying healthy.  If you find yourself quarantined or off work or trapped at home with your offspring while schools are closed, at least there is plenty of shows this week.  While you are Disinfecting for Corona, Batwoman will be exploring Alice’s story, Supergirl defends transgender rights, The Flash get some sunshine, and the Legends deal with marriage. Blacklist also returns with a doubleheader to kick off the second half of their season, while Better Call Saul kicks Mike out of town.  If your kids are off of school, you might find yourself watching a lot more of their television, like how my daughter has added the Glee-like Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist to our rotation.  Since it borders on telepathy/empathy/ESP, I was going to include it here to see if anyone else was interested in it.  If you want to keep their brains from atrophying, Neil deGrasse Tyson has you covered with another double helping of Cosmos, to go with your first half of the Picard series finale.  If Picard doesn’t give you enough Artificial Intelligence discussions, Westworld returns this week to help you explore the nature of sentience further.

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Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2020 March 8

March 8, 2020 by Batwoman, Black Lightning, Legends of Tomorrow, Riverdale, Science, Star Trek, Superman/Smallville, The Flash, TV Series

Coming in like a lion, the Deserted Crowd of Disguise and Costume roar back onto the breakroom boobtube, and Batwoman realizes she should smile a bit more, Supergirl will always love you, Black Lightning finishes his season, The Flash finishes off the Speed Force, and The Legends meet up with a non-spider-powered Mr. Parker.  Saul takes up Yoga and finds inner peace.  Things are looking up for Neil deGrasse Tyson, as his second season of Cosmos returns with two episodes.  The other type of Good Doctor takes two recently broken up doctors and makes them work together on a small problem.  Someone does their best to keep the Riverdale “teens” from getting back to the screen.  To round out the week, we also get Picard learning what really caused the demise of the red planet.

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Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2020 February 30

March 1, 2020 by Altered Carbon, Black Lightning, Doctor Who, Riverdale, Star Trek, TV Series

It’s a light week, and it is getting lighter as The Doctor ends her season when she takes on the Cybermen.  On Better Call Saul, Jimmy’s business enters new territory, our post!  Black Lightning goes it alone again as the only show on this week from his Disappearing Compatriots.  Our Good Doctor Shaun also ventures into unknown territory with a new mystery disease.  Riverdale gets an Alice Copper documentary.  Picard works with Soji to let her figure out what she is.  Also, if you didn’t rush through it, Altered Carbon’s second season is still out there.

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