The Vampire Lestat: Toronto

“All the light’s gone out of your blue eyes. As if all the summer days are gone.”

Swinging back to an interview style, this episode packs a seriously heavy emotional one-two punch. Yet even with as much as we uncover, bits of the story feel unfinished, or maybe edited, as Lestat dribbles out small snippets of his history.

The Vampire Lestat: Toledo

"If you're still listening after the... Oedipiphany of the last hour, welcome back."

Addressing the big reveal at the end of the first episode, we get some harrowing moments from Lestat's life.

The Last Breath

“Don’t drink and dive, buddy. It’s dangerous.”

Despite the cold open taking place during WWII, we are back to the modern day this week. That was a mistake.

Resident Alien: Mine Town

Mike: Let's just hope the new town motto doesn't become, small town, overcrowded cemetery.
Ben: Well, it wouldn't, because the town slogan is up to me.

With a Mantid on the prowl at the Mining Day festival, our heroes finally start working together.

Sense8: WWN Double-D?

"Hey, look, if you guys are startin' some crimefightin' super-team Charlie's Angels shit, you count me in."

This was primarily a Nomi/Amanita episode with everyone else secondary, although everyone had something major happen.

The fate of Doctor Who is revealed! Sort of...

Well, the BBC has finally released an official statement on the future of Doctor Who, and it's simultaneously a big update and also no news whatsoever.

Fortunately, if there's a fanbase fully prepared for this sort of thing, it's Doctor Who fans.

Sense8: Demons

Episodes five and six feel like one story. While five was about connection and choice, episode six is about the repercussions of those choices.

Beast of War

“If we stay quiet, still, don’t bleed too much, she might leave us alone.”

I did say that I wanted more period piece shark movies, didn’t I? Apparently, they're all Australian.

The Vampire Lestat: Detroit

“I lost myself on stage for a moment.”

As a rebrand and sequel to Interview With The Vampire, this feels like something completely new. Structurally, thematically, atmospherically, sonically, everything about this first episode screams new direction. It is spoken aloud that we’re no longer in Louis’s version of the story. We are now in Lestat’s world and it is already one hell of a ride.

Backrooms

“Is someone there?”

A liminal space is roughly defined as uncanny valley imagery representing “in-betweenness” through the use of mundane yet deceptively unsettling transitional locations that are devoid of people: stairwells, roads, corridors, hotels, office buildings. For a modern audience, Backrooms may be the crowning example of this particular branch of understated horror.

Sense8: Art is Like Religion

“Impossibility is a kiss away from reality.”

While the last episode dealt with reveals and some answers, this episode went right back to questions as each member of the cluster started to realize their little hallucinations are a lot more complicated.

Star Trek Voyager: Nemesis

"Sometimes people say terrible things about their enemies, to make them seem worse than they really are."

Chakotay crashes yet another shuttlecraft and once again gets dragged into an existing conflict on an alien planet.