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Based on How Many Times I Said “Oh Fuck Off” While Watching We return to our article in progress. We already talked about the movie-within-a-movie episode, the baseball alien episode, the Bermuda Triangle episode, the giving-the-aliens-the-flag episode, even the Brady Bunch episode. How much stupider can this show get? #5.
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Based on How Many Times I Said “Oh Fuck Off” While Watching There are so many episodes of The X-Files. There are so many episodes of The X-Files and so many of them are bad. Yet I love this show. I love this show and it keeps me awake at
Literature
John Galsworthy Should Be Turning in His Grave The Brits dropped a new TV adaptation of The Forsyte Saga so of course I rushed to PBS to watch it. My mother and I discovered the early 2000s adaptation but a year or two ago, and since then every time we
Review
Rectify 2x04 "Donald The Normal" We open, unexpectedly, to Daniel on a bus. We’ve seen Daniel in so many prison-coded places--in particular, prison--but now he’s going somewhere. That somewhere is soon revealed to be Atlanta. Daniel being Daniel, dumbphone owner before it was cool(?), he arrives
Farscape
Farscape 2x05 & 2x06 The Way We Weren’t What do you call a grey version of sepia? Greepia? Okay, greepia it is. We open to a greepia view of Peacekeeper marines, led by a hot guy scientist, marching down the halls of Moya to Pilot’s lair. But it’
Farscape
Today we see one of the worst episodes and one of my favorites. Truly, Farscape taketh and she giveth away. She’s vers like that. Taking the Stone We open to Chiana having a mental breakdown which causes her to do surgery on herself and pull a giant red cough
Farscape
Farscape Episodes 2x01 & 2x02 Oh my god, who is that at the door? It’s my special friend Farscape, back from the war! Please make her feel at home. She’s going to be here a while. Mind the Baby In the break since last season, three or four
Television
Back in the day, I believed in television as a breakthrough medium. During my youth, it shed its goo-goo ga-ga machine reputation to become the unifying fascination of the very online cultural critics of my formative years. I wrote my undergraduate thesis about television. One could say it was something
Farscape
What Was Farscape Season One? It was 22 episodes of science fiction television, each about 48 minutes long. It was not that remarkable. If Farscape had been cancelled at the end of season one, we would have no cause to discourse here, because Farscape would be another Earth-2 or Space:
Farscape
Farscape 1x21 & 22 Bone to Be Wild We have a light episode now. Moya and her baby hide together in an asteroid field, trying to avoid detection by Crais’ Command Carrier. Stark’s fucked off somewhere (though he’ll be back) so we’ve returned to Moya crew equilibrium.
Farscape
Farscape 1x19 & 1x20 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!! It’s like Christmas, but better: Scorpius is finally here. Nerve Aeryn is training hardcore, and John points out that maybe she shouldn’t be training so hard with a recent abdominal wound. She aggros him, then she vomits blood. Then she collapses. John tries
Farscape
Farscape 1x17 & 1x18 Through the Looking Glass The crew gathers in the dining room for dinnertime discourse (triggering to the recent Thanksgiving attendees among us): Zhaan, Rygel, and D’Argo want to abandon Moya because her pregnancy continues to interfere with her ability to starburst and thus escape pursuers.