This Week: Archie Just Got Mauled by a Bear

An Honest Fangirl: These last few weeks have been very hectic for me, and I’m behind on a lot of my shows. I did manage to see Ready or Not 2, though, and it was a ton of fun. It was great to see Sarah Michelle Gellar in something again.

What’s everyone else watching/reading/playing?

Billions: The Good Life

"Don’t tell him part of the story until you know the whole story."

Chuck and his team draw in the net around Dollar Bill in the hopes of getting him to flip on Axe.

Axe, however, isn't terribly bothered, as he's currently either having a massive existential crisis or orchestrating an incredibly complicated power play for shadowy reasons of his own. Could go either way.

Outlander: Send for the Devil

(Apologies for the late post. I plan to have my review of this week's episode up shortly.)

"I think it will be an evil night."

Well, it was a dark and stormy night, at the very least. They don't usually go for such obvious symbolism, but this time they really went for it. There were also many references to prayer, good and evil, God and the Devil. Everyone thinks God is on their side in a battle, don't they?

Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars

Scorpius: "This is insane, Crichton."
John: "Four years on and you're finally gettin' that?"

While filming of this two-part finale began in December of 2003, just nine months after the show was cancelled (March 10, 2003), we didn’t find out about Peacekeeper Wars until the following May and had to wait another five months (October 17, 2004) for it to premiere. We had to stew with nothing but rumors for over a year that we wouldn’t be left with that miserable ending.

Fallout: The Other Player

“I’ve been Wastelandin’ 200 years. Whatever it is I got to do, I do it alone…”

The last episode was very well-done, but didn’t feel like it had a lot of forward momentum. There’s a bit more going on in this one, narratively speaking.

Outlander: Muskets, Liberty, and Sauerkraut

"Monsieur Beauchamp told me what every orphan wants to hear, that I'm the son of a great man. But I'm already the son of a great man."

That is one of my favorite lines from the books. Can we all go "awwwwww" together?

Resident Alien: Ties That Bind

Asta: Harry, tell her she can't go.
Harry: You can go.
D’arcy: Uh?
Harry: Because you are courageous, and you are not afraid to die.

Episode description: “Harry and D'arcy travel to an unexpected place to recover an alien device left behind by his people.”

Peaky Blinders Movie: The Immortal Man

“Once I got nearly everything. It wasn’t enough.”

As a reviewer, I try to avoid going easy on myself when I call a movie bad. Is it so bad that we can enjoy its terribleness? Is it just not doing what I wanted it to do? Is it failing to live up to previous iterations? Or is there truly something here that isn’t working? To duck that question, I’ll just repeat what I emailed Billie after I watched this: The Immortal Man is so bad that it’s weird. Let’s examine why.

A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett (Discworld 32)

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”

The thirty-second Discworld book is also the second Tiffany Aching book. She’s a bit older now; eleven instead of nine, but she still has a lot to learn as an aspiring witch, so Miss Tick arranges for her be trained by another of their number outside of the chalk where Tiffany lives.

The Pitt: 5:00 P. M.

“Did you just curse?”
“It’s how I feel.”

Yeah. That’s how I feel, too. The Pitt never has shied away from politics, and it didn’t here, either.

Outlander: Abies Fraseri

"If honesty turns out to be a double-edged sword, well, I think the wounds tend to be worth it."

The opening scene showed us that Fanny Pocock is smart, observant, strong-willed, and stands up for herself. Who does that sound like?

Resident Alien: The Lonely Man

Asta: We are not getting married, okay? Because we were never a thing. We were just two people who sometimes had sex.
Joseph: I'm sorry, that means something where I come from.

Episode description: “Harry and Asta work together to try and get something.”