Category Archives: TV Series

Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2020 September 20

Do you like drawing?  We have two more animated shows, but so far, no descriptions for me to comment on.  DuckTales returns, as does the new season of Big Hero 6, and Lower Decks gives us the another voyage into the minutia of Star Trek.  Raised by Wolves gives us two new episodes, the Bureau 42 reviews are your best source for that show’s information.  The Boys can show us the aftermath of a super “throw-down” from last week.

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Raised by Wolves Review: “Lost Paradise” and “Faces”

“Hey, buddy. So we shot your mom and dad, and then we spent 13 years lying to your face about it, but you know what, we sure do love you.”

The power dynamic shifts in Raised by Wolves, while the mystery of the planet deepens, and the show grows increasingly mythic.

In the face of danger and threats to the continued survival of the human race, people continue to act like buttheads. It’s depressing, but entirely plausible.

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Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2020 September 13

The slow summer schedule slides on, offering us Wolves, ensigns of the Lower Decks, and the Boys, but none of which offer us any descriptions.  Got anything you recently binged on you want to share with the Bureau?

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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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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.

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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.

[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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