Category Archives: TV Series

October Review: The Haunting of Bly Manor

You thought a review of The Magicians was the best we could offer to cap off Spooky Season? No! We have a genuine haunting!

Netflix was happy to supply us with more haunted houses for Halloween.  This year’s Haunting is a follow up from The Haunting of Hill House, this time with The Haunting of Bly Manor.  The series is an anthology style, so if you skipped Hill House, you can still dive in without missing anything.  If you like anxiety, this will make you second guess the noises you hear in your house.  Does it hold up compared to the first season?

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October Review: The Magicians (Season 1, 2, 3, and 4)

While witches have laid claim to Halloween, magicians and magics can be found year round if you know where to look.  The place to look is now Syfy, (or Netflix,) in the simply named The Magicians.

The show is like Harry Potter: The Graduate Years, feeling like the sort of twenty something drama you’d expect from The CW but without pretending like the kids are still in high school.  It feels about as Buffy as you can get without actually having Joss Whedon involved.  Here, we have a review for seasons 1, 2, 3, and 4.  It’s worth noting that I started this review when I was mid season two, and as I finished a season I revised the review, and the score keeps climbing.

 

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Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2020 October 25

So if Star Trek: Discovery was so terrifying, who could possibly show up to give it competition for our screen time? The Mandalorian, of course.  Sure, we have some animation, with Spider-Man and his Big Hero 6 buddies from Marvel, their Disney buddies of DuckTales, and that quiet caveman on Primal, but the big action is obviously in live action (or at least in CGI.)

[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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Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2020 October 18

Star Trek: Discover was clearly too terrifying for all of the other shows to give us any more episodes, so their second episode is the only live action show this week.  Last week we saw where Burnham ended up, this week we can find out where the crew shows up.  DuckTales isn’t afraid of danger and dive into it, as does Primal, but Primal is still so scared it is dumbstruck.

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Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2020 October 11

It looks like the renovations are nearly complete, and the Bureau is looking pretty spiffy, huh?  I hope you’re enjoying the new look, as, unless you are into animation, there isn’t much to look at on the Breakroom Television.  Unless you saved some of Bly Manor from last week, you’ll have to wait 930 years for Discovery to return.

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Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2020 October 4

We have a few less shows to watch, but we have plenty of content themed for the big holiday, October Countdown!  First, some animated Ducks explore a local haunted house, while the bots of Big Hero 6 swap identities and cospay as each other.  The Boys raises the age recommendation for their season finale, and if you didn’t have any weekend plans, The Haunting of Bly Manor (follow up to the Haunting of Hill House) drops as well, bookending your week with some of the worst realty investments, even in this market.

[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 More…)]

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Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2020 September 27

It was debatable whether to include the children’s animated shows in this post, since they aren’t discussed often enough to think any Bureaucrats are watching them, but this table gets very small when they are not included, so they are still included.  Besides Spider-Man, the tales of Ducks, and Big Hero 6, we also get the season finale of Raised by Wolves and the further adventures of the dark side of super powered individuals on The Boys.

[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 More…)]

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Raised by Wolves Review: “Mass” and “Umbilical”

“I’m a doctor, I’m not a mechanic!”

Raised by Wolves serves up two of its strongest episodes this week, though they are not for all tastes. The conflict between and within factions grows as Marcus becomes increasingly unhinged, Mother makes some significant discoveries, and we’re reminded again that all the advanced tech in the universe can be foiled by a weak password.

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Kepler-22B to be born?

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