It Welcome to Derry: The Pilot

"Well, if normal is what you're after, you two are going to love Derry."

A prequel series to It with a concrete three season plan? Bill Skarsgård returning as Pennywise? And here I thought that spooky season had ended!

Néro the Assassin: The Assassin (Pilot)

"My name is Néro, and I'm the best assassin in Lamartine. Or at least, I was."

Episode description: "When Néro is betrayed by his ruthless master to a mysterious witch, the assassin must reunite with Perla, his long-lost daughter he abandoned at birth 14 years before, whose life is now in jeopardy."

Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space

Up to 75% less screaming involved.

You know our ways.

Season Five, Serial Seven (production code SS)

Starring Patrick Troughton as the Doctor
with Frazer Hines (Jamie) and introducing Wendy Padbury (Zoe)

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)

"Evil, pure and simple from the 8th dimension! Grab 'em! Lectroids! Grab 'em!"

Buckaroo Banzai is a wild and bonkers movie. But is it actually a good one? Difficult to say. This is one those films you don't so much watch and enjoy as vibe to.

From Dusk till Dawn: Pandemonium

"She's real."

Well, this episode certainly lived up to its name, didn't it?

Mini Movie Reviews: Maritime

Today's theme is the high seas featuring films by Renny Harlin, John McTiernan, Takashi Otsuka, Richard Fleischer, Michael Curtiz, Charles Frend, and Frank Lloyd.

Outlander Novella Review: Virgins

Below is (1) a non-spoilery review and (2) a complete synopsis of Virgins, a novella by Diana Gabaldon featuring Jamie Fraser and Ian Murray as young mercenaries in 1740 France.

Virgins is available in the collection of Outlander novellas entitled Seven Stones to Stand or Fall (2012). The synopsis is basically for those of you who aren't reading every word written by Gabaldon and just want to know what happens.

Series Review: Giri/Haji

"We are not bad people, we just did bad things."
"Really, what's the difference?"

This review contains mild spoilers, but they won't really make sense until you've actually watched the show, so I think you should read this, which will convince you to watch it. That's my evil plan for the week.

This Week: Happy Halloween!

Billie Doux: I'm enjoying the third season of The Diplomat and I'm looking forward to the second season of Nobody Wants This. With the final season approaching, I'm rewatching Outlander while still avoiding the spinoff Blood of my Blood. (It's amazing that they call it BOB instead of BomB. They probably don't want it to bomb.) I might be doing some Outlander novella reviews.

What is everyone watching this week?

The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett (Discworld 22)

"People don't live on the Disc any more than, in less hand-crafted parts of the multiverse, they live on balls. Oh, planets may be the place where their body eats its tea, but they live elsewhere, in worlds of their own which orbit very handily around the centre of their heads."

The twenty-second Discworld book focuses on our hapless 'wizzard' Rincewind, the staff at Unseen University, and as the title suggests, a hitherto mostly conjectural land mass, although not to the people that actually live there.

Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep

"Baby baby can't you hear my heartbeat..."

Victoria hates it here so much she could just SCREEEEEAM.

Season Five, Story 6 (Story Code RR)

Starring Patrick Troughton as the Doctor
with Frazer Hines (Jamie) and Deborah Watling (Victoria)

Evil: Let X = 9

"Do you have any idea how weird it is for me to be involved in this? I mean, I go to Whole Foods during the day, and at night I say things like, ‘Would you have told the exorcist?'"

Jeffrey Epstein and vindictive ICE raids. Did this air in 2019 or last Tuesday?