Raised by Wolves continues, with past influencing the present, shifts to relationships and characters’ allegiances, and clear evidence that the human survivors are not alone.
Big Dumb Object and unsolved mysteries ahead.
Category Archives: TV Series
Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2020 September 6
So, did you enjoy The Boys first three episodes? Are the Lower Deck ensigns making you laugh? If not, there is bad news; that’s all this week. Anyone watching anything else?
[Edit to add:] Raised by Wolves was added.
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Raised by Wolves Review: “Raised by Wolves,” “Pentagram,” “Virtual Faith”
HBOMax’s new SF series (available in Canada on Space the Sci-Fi Channel) takes us to Kepler 22-B, where Terran survivors and some androids try to keep humanity alive. The planet isn’t overly hospitable– but our own demons may doom us a good deal faster.
TV Discussion: Away, “Go”
Hilary Swank, Vivian Wu, and Mark Ivanir head the cast of Netflix’s new foray into space, Away. The series depicts the drama surrounding a first crewed mission to Mars. Is anyone watching? Here’s a place to comment.
Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2020 August 30
It’s the big season finale for Star Trek’s Lower Decks, as well as for The Muppets. If kid friendly (or at least, animated) isn’t your bag, The Boys are back in town for their second season. Otherwise, it’s a quiet week for the Breakroom television, to help us all focus on the new school year starting back up, since odds are good it is happening at home.
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Review: Tales from the Loop (Season One)
Possibly the best successor to The Twilight Zone dropped its first season on Amazon Prime back in April. We’re finally getting around to reviewing that season. Taking its inspirations from paintings by Simon Stålenhag, the show gives us T-Zone plots with a modern sensibility, a recurring cast, and a world where one bizarre occurrence remains in continuity when the next one occurs.
It’s a brilliantly-made, thought-provoking depiction of an alternate reality where, one suspects, insurance premiums must be terrifically high.
Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2020 August 23
So, this week, there is a new Trek and Mor– err.. Star Trek: Lower Decks and some more Muppets. Presumably nobody wanted to compete with last week’s Lucifer drop, so nothing was coming out this week.
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Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2020 August 16
It’s a good thing all of those shows ended last week, it saves room for some animated offerings, as Spider-Man goes up against Rhino, the Lower Decks crew gets into some time travel hijinks, and the Muppets oversleep. If you are looking for something a bit more traditional on the Breakroom Television, be sure to catch part one of Lucifer’s fifth season, as his brother shows up to wreck everything Lucifer has enjoyed.
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Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2020 August 9
Was last week’s premier of Star Trek: Lower Decks just too much for you? Do you need some endings to balance out the new series? Well, there is some good news for you! Stargirl finishes her season battle the Injustice Society of America, Perry Mason closes the case on his season, and the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. wrap up seven seasons of Marvel Cinematic action on television. What does that leave? Well, you can watch some more animated Trek comedy as Lower Decks fight some Klingons and the Muppets contend with one of the most powerful forces on earth: Disney Legal.
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Doom Patrol Review: Final Three Episodes, Season Two
CYBORG: Hey, Larry! You okay?
LARRY: Not since the early 60s, no.
CYBORG: *heh* This is Ronnie
LARRY: Hey.
RONNIE: Hello.
CYBORG: Well, just keep doing… whatever. We’re looking for Niles. Know where he is?
LARRY: Space.
RONNIE: As in, outer?
LARRY: Mmm hmm.CYBORG: Any idea when he’ll be back?
Doom Patrol’s second season comes to a premature ending, as the strangest show on television continues to prove it’s also one of the best.
But keep the kids away. Far away.