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Farscape 1x03 & 1x04 Back and Back and Back to the Future This episode serves as a perfect introduction to the “Aged Poorly” class of Farscape Episodes. Like so many science fiction television episodes, the villain is a sexually indiscrete hot lady alien who makes false assault accusations. It’s
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Farscape 1x01 & 1x02 Have you ever wondered what it would be like if the Mos Eisley Cantina from Star Wars were a sex club? Wonder no longer: Farscape is here to tell you. I love Farscape, but it’s hard to explain why. Farscape is a show about having
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Season 4, Episode 8: “Green”; Episode 9: “Tonnato”; Episode 10: “Goodbye” The thing about a streaming show is that you can be done with it at any time, if you truly want to be done with it. Actually, this is true of almost everything, but most people weirdly don’t
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Season 4, Episode 7: “Bears” This family wedding reception-themed episode was fully one entire hour long, but it felt as long as a family wedding reception actually is. It attempted to repeat the success of Season 2’s “Fishes”, which was one hour long and stuffed with family-playing guest stars.
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Season 4, Episode 6: “Sophie” I know what this show has come to remind me of. I couldn’t think of it for a long time, but now I know. It reminds me of the TV scripts I used to write in 8th grade that were about thinly-veiled versions of
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Season 4, Episode 5: “Replicants” This episode was a collection of random scenes stuffed into a pillowcase. And the pillowcase has insufferable taste in music. I resisted writing this review. I dreaded writing this review. I struggled internally about how to make this review entertaining, let alone informative. I guess
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Season 4, Episode 4: “Worms” And then Bear stocks went back up again! I can’t take this kind of rollercoaster ride; I fully do not like rollercoasters. But I cannot deny that this was a charming episode. Critical to its charm is that it was all about Syd, a
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Season 4 Episode 3: “Scallop” Television giveth, and mercilessly television taketh away. This episode opened with an extended montage of Syd cooking and plating a scallop under soft bisexual lighting while an irritating licensed song played. It continued, ad infinitum, until Carmy tasted the scallop and declared it perfect. This
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Season 4 Episode 2: “Soubise” This episode was markedly better than the premiere. There appeared on the horizon development, conflict, and growth. When Carmy made not one but two forward movements in his self-direction, I gasped aloud. We may still win this one. The core events of this installment surround
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Season 4 Episode 1: “Groundhogs” Unfortunately, since reviewing the 2025 Best Novel Hugo nominees, I’ve become addicted to negativity. For that reason, I’m introducing a new 10-part limited series here on the blog: Mission UnBearable, an episode-by-episode review of the new (final?) season of The Bear. You might
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Back when I had my Cohost blog, I wrote a post about the Babylon 5 episode “Intersections in Real Time”. This is one of my favorite episodes of B5 and, in my opinion, some of B5 creator J. Michael Straczynski’s strongest writing ever. A total format shift and one