Classic Coverage looks back on the episodes of past shows from a modern perspective.
In 2005, Showtime aired an anthology horror series called Masters of Horror. Famous and well-regarded horror directors were invited to create hour-long short films about anything they wanted. The show ran for three seasons, the third airing on NBC as … Continue reading Masters of Horror: S1E02 “Dreams in the Witch House”
One of the overarching things about this season is seeing different variations on the feeling “bad Simpsons is still better than 99% of TV”. In this case, a genuinely good and thoughtful idea ends up with a payoff that’s uninteresting … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Eight, Episode Twenty-Two, “In Marge We Trust”
Vraiment, mes amis, but this week’s tale of murder is most bittersweet, as it marks the last time we will see Our Man Hastings for a very long while, series-wise. Fraser would return for a couple of episodes in the … Continue reading Poirot (Classic): S08E02 “Murder in Mesopotamia”
In 2005, Showtime released an anthology horror series called Masters of Horror. Each episode was a short film by a respected horror director. The directors were all given an identical budget and free reign to do whatever they wanted with … Continue reading Masters of Horror: S1E01 “Incident On and Off a Mountain Road”
This is another one of those episodes that I remember as feeling like a season nine or ten episode that actually comes earlier, so I had low expectations going in. Aside from remembering the pacing (which, say what you will … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Eight, Episode Twenty-One, “The Old Man And The Lisa”
Been a hot minute since Our Belgian last whisked off to an island resort to get someone killed a little rest and relaxation, so in this week’s installment of Someone Please Stop This Man From Going On Vacation, People Are … Continue reading Poirot (Classic): S08E01 “Evil Under the Sun”
Friends, ‘Cados, Countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Varro, not praise him. Jai Courtney has not gone on to a lot of terrible success. He’s had a string of high profile box office bombs, all of which … Continue reading Spartacus: Blood and Sand: Episode 10: Party Favors
One of the most common observations about The Simpsons is that a bad episode of the show is still better than 90% of the rest of television, and not only does that play out here, I think I’m starting to … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Eight, Episode Twenty, “The Canine Mutiny”
Pour one out for…uh…let me look up her name…Licinia, Crassus’ niece. There was only ever room in this town for one viperous catty female lead, and Illythia ends this episode by literally bashing her rival’s head in against the floor. … Continue reading Spartacus: Blood and Sand: Episode 9: Whore
This is the episode that introduces us to the Krabappel/Skinner pairing! I’ve read criticism of this as artificially putting together two random characters, but it actually really worked for me. Like all good romance stories, it’s a plot that heavily … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Eight, Episode Nineteen, “Grade School Confidential”
Here we are, people. You ask me to pick my favourite episode of The Simpsons ever – not my top five, not my top three, my favourite ever – and I’ll point directly to this one. There are episodes with … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Eight, Episode Eighteen, “Homer VS The Eighteenth Amendment”
GREETING Brothers and sisters and all other beloveds, we come together the Palm Sunday for our final meditation on Moral Orel, a stop motion animated show originally broadcast on Adult Swim from 2005 through 2008. Now there is some controversy … Continue reading Sunday Morning Orel: Season 3b (the final episodes)
Alas, but current events have rendered this week most taxing, n’est ce pas? On the bright side, none of us are Lord Edgware, who really should have been on his guard as soon as he saw the title of the … Continue reading Poirot (Classic): S07E02 “Lord Edgware Dies”
I believe the AV Club’s comments called this Chekov’s cock: what comes out in the first act must go off in the last act. Anyhow, pour one out for Segovax, the Gaul whose major failings were basically Spartacus’ failings—a desire … Continue reading Spartacus: Blood and Sand: Episode 8: Mark of the Brotherhood
Here’s another episode I was looking forward to, not because I think it’s especially great or bad, but because it was one of the ones I found nearly unbearable to watch as a child. One of the many ways I … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Eight, Episode Seventeen, “My Sister, My Sitter”
CW: talk of sexual abuse GREETING Welcome and welcome back, dearly beloved. If anyone is here for the first time, please raise your hand so the rest of you can turn around and stare you. Thank you. Today we will … Continue reading Sunday Morning Orel: season 3a (episodes 31-34) THIS IS THE ONE WITH THAT REALLY DEPRESSING EPISODE
Well, then. Of all the episodes I knew we were going to cover here, this is the one I was dreading the most, because… well… Oof, this is tough. Adaptations, as we all know, are tricky beasts. Stay too faithful … Continue reading Poirot (Classic): S07E01 “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd”
To this point, Spartacus’ plot, in as far as it follows the life of the eponymous character, has been about reuniting with his wife Sura. Everything he’s done, everything he’s sacrificed or debased himself for, it has all been in … Continue reading Spartacus: Blood and Sand: Episode 7: Great and Unfortunate Things
This is the one exception to the general downward spiral of the quality of Sideshow Bob episodes, being a little better than “Sideshow Bob’s Last Gleaming” but not as great as the episodes before. A lot of it comes down … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Eight, Episode Sixteen, “Brother From Another Series”
GREETING Welcome and welcome back, dearly beloved. If anyone is here for the first time, please raise your hand so the rest of you can turn around and stare you. Thank you. Today we will be continuing our Lent season … Continue reading Sunday Morning Orel: Season 2c (episodes 26-30) THIS IS THE ONE WITH THE HUNTING TRIP EPISODE
Coming off the heels of “Shadow Games,” you’d expect some bit of a decrease in quality, and while I don’t think “Delicate Things” matches those highs, I do think it continues the win streak. We pick up immediately after the … Continue reading Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Episode 6: Delicate Things
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