A three-episode arc brings Season Three to a conclusion. Discovery has changed its premise each year, resulting in very distinct seasons. These episodes bring us to a new equilibrium, a new premise, and new uniforms.
Category Archives: TV Series
The Expanse Review: “Tribes”
The show has taken some dark turns, and this week’s episodes handle these with extraordinary acting, writing, and visuals.
Even in the darkest times, people can find hope.
Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2021 January 3
2021 Annual Premier!
The schedule looks different this week, but Discovery has the actual season finale this week, and Expanse keeps us out in space a bit more. If that makes you feel a bit agoraphobic and want to enjoy the cramped, locked up feeling, there’s good news as David Tennant and Michael Sheen return for season 2 of Staged. If you just have a song in your heart, Zoey also returns. I’m still in hell with Sabrina, and then I intend to get a kick out of Cobra Kai.
Edited to add: The Watch starts, and per visionary_coward‘s recommendation, it is added below.
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The Expanse Review: “Down and Out”
Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2020 December 27
2020 Annual Finale!
The year is going out with a different looking line up, first, we have our regular series, with Pennyworth giving us a double helping of magic and Stormclouds. The Expense gives no description, but if you’ve been watching, you know which disaster is going to be foremost on their minds. Additionally, Discovery rounds out their third season, having discovered the future’s inciting incident cause, then losing everything.
We have two specials to start the new year, one as The Doctor saves earth from The Daleks, and one from Mrs Brown’s flashbacks. If that’s not enough, we also have the next big episode dumps of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina to finish out the chilling 2020, and Cobra Kai to kick off 2021!
Hoping 2020 didn’t destroy anything you love, and hoping that 2021 is better for all of us, Happy New Year!
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The Expanse Review: “Mother” and “Gaugamela”
The developments in these episodes pervade all aspects of the show, such that a spoiler-free review that discusses anything becomes more-or-less impossible.
The following review therefore assumes you have either watched the episodes or, alternatively, that you don’t care if you know about major, earth-shattering plot developments.
Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2020 December 20
Penultimate Update for the year!
With the big holiday happening this week, you’d expect there would be less shows to watch, but the sparse releases to because of the pandemic means there are actually more shows to watch thanks to a Holiday Special from two non-genre shows, Call the Midwife and Mrs. Brown’s Boys. The one you probably are waiting on will be here next week, but The Fifth Doctor will be visiting the Midwives for their holiday special if you can’t wait. As for our normal shows, Lyra and Will have their season finale on His Dark Materials as the complete cast converges at Cittàgazze. On Pennyworth, our butler’s trip to America finds a magical delay. The Expanse doesn’t tell us what’s happening, and neither does Star Trek, but we know Mrs. Brown’s Boys are going to be discussing the 2020 lockdown.
From everyone at the Bureau, we want to wish everyone a happy Life Day and every other holiday you celebrate!
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The Expanse Review: “Exodus” and “Churn”
JAMES HOLDEN: There was a button. I pushed it.
FRED JOHNSON: That’s really how you go through life?
The best SF space series currently running returns for season five, and the promise of at least one more season that will follow after a hiatus.
We’re reviewing the first two episodes today. Reviews will follow at intervals, typically of two-three episodes, as they drop. The show’s story-arc based nature problematizes individual episode reviews.
Disney Investor Day 2020 Announcements and Discussion
While I am not thrilled that a huge mega-corporation like Disney is announcing all of the news I am interested in as a way to reassure their benefactors that they will be making lots of money, I have chosen to view this as a wealthy patron of the arts talking about where they have spread their wealth rather than a greedy factory foreman talking about the products that they are churning out. That said, if you are a fan of the Disney owned properties like Marvel and Star Wars, there was a lot of announcements, and here is a list of what you can anticipate for the next few years, not just the previously covered Fantastic news. I hadn’t found a nice, easy to read list, so I figured I’d compile one, and throw in my own commentary. Also, there’s a 90 second clip of Wonder Woman’s directory Patty Jenkins announcing one of the projects that I felt was best enjoyed without a setup, so watch that before reading more. Please feel free to comment and add any more details, refute my statements, and/or join in my speculations.
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Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2020 December 13
Our patience is rewarded! This week, we get the return of Pennyworth with his second season to watch the Wayne’s butler learn the benefits of being stately. Also, the Belters return for (possibly?) their penultimate season, as the Belt goes to war with the Inners. The Expanse, which might be some of the best true Sci-Fi on TV joins the other two finest space shows, with the Discovery giving us the second half of a romp into the Mirror universe, and the season finale of The Mandalorian, as he, Boba Fett, and Agent May attempt to retrieve The Child. Before all that, however, X-23 Lyra and Will ramps up towards its finale.
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