Classic Coverage looks back on the episodes of past shows from a modern perspective.
Well, we couldn’t maintain a high forever. Colin Jacobson of DVD Movie Guide said episodes from the end of a season tended to be a little more tired and strained because they came at the end of a production cycle … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Three, Episode Twenty-Two, “The Otto Show”
Paranoia Agent, Season 1 Episode 7 MHz Grade: A- Someone, in a computer terminal-lit room, is listening to MHz signals (well, someone had better be connecting the dots, because the series has been getting increasingly metaphysical of late). Makoto cuts … Continue reading “MHz” Paranoia Agent S1E7
Paranoia Agent, Season 1 Episode 6 Fear of a Direct Hit Grade: A Detective Ikari is starting to his cool, constantly on the verge of starting smoking again (something related, by the transitive properties of the show’s metaphor to him losing … Continue reading “Fear of a Direct Hit” Paranoia Agent S1E6
Paranoia Agent, Season 1 Episode 5 The Holy Warrior Grade: A- The show’s rotating narrative focus finally turns its attention to the source of all the attacks linking the main characters to day, and it’s nothing like what the viewer … Continue reading “Holy Warrior” Paranoia Agent S1E5
Paranoia Agent, Season 1 Episode 4 A Man’s Path Grade: A Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault The dark sarcasm drips off the title of Episode 4. There’s no letup in the increasingly dark themes of the previous episode as the show continues … Continue reading “A Man’s Path” Paranoia Agent S1E4
Paranoia Agent, Season 1 Episode 3 Double Lips Grade: A- Episode 3 pulls no punches. The cold open of Maria’s housecall and its immediate aftermath serves to immediately bleed the romanticism out of Maria’s life as an escort. Or, rather, … Continue reading “Double Lips” Paranoia Agent S1E3
Paranoia Agent, Season 1 Episode 2 The Golden Shoes Grade: B+ Of course Icchi did it. If Lil’ Slugger is real, Icchi fits the bill. He’s got the skates, he’s got the hat, he’s got the egomania, and the secret … Continue reading “The Golden Shoes” Paranoia Agent S1E2
Paranoia Agent, Season 1 Episode 1 Enter Lil’ Slugger Grade: B- Straight from the opening credits, with its montage of nuclear war superimposed by images of its main characters in hysterical laughter while a giddy theme song plays, Paranoia Agent … Continue reading “Enter Lil’ Slugger” Paranoia Agent S1E1
Directed by Gordon Flemyng Written by Milton Subotsky Following up Dr. Who and the Daleks, Amicus released its second and final color film based on Doctor Who with Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.. While the first film was based … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.
Hell yeah, the first return of Sideshow Bob! After season two, the Sideshow Bob episode would become a beloved tradition, shifting the show’s genre to Murder She Wrote-style mystery. As much as I missed him during season two, this was a … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Three, Episode Twenty-One, “Black Widower”
In which our heroes go on holiday and come back to a finale. Original air date: 4/5/2002 And here we are at the finale of series 2. Black Books would not return for series 3 until March of 2004. While … Continue reading Black Books: Series 2, Episode 6 “A Nice Change”
Hi (for the final time?), and welcome back to The Carousel: Revisiting Mad Men. Miss Rim did a beautiful job bidding farewell to Betty with her writeup of “The Milk and Honey Route” last week, and for a while I … Continue reading The Carousel: Revisiting Mad Men: “Person to Person” (S7E14)
Directed by Gordon Flemyng Written by Milton Subotsky I’ve talked plenty in the past about just how big the Daleks were for a period in Britain (not from first-hand experience obviously as my dad was actually born during the period … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): Dr. Who and the Daleks
Hello everyone! Miss Rim here, welcome back to The Carousel: An Increasingly Sporadic Revisitation of Mad Men! I’d love to tell you all that the irregularity of these reviews of late is because we lost the Secor Laxative account, or that … Continue reading The Carousel: Revisiting Mad Men: “The Runaways” (S7E5) and “Waterloo” (S7E7)
After having a few breezy episodes in a row, it’s nice to get back to something a bit heavier, and the fact that we’re dealing with Homer’s most sympathetic aspect is the icing on the cake. The overall effect we’re … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Three, Episode Twenty, “Colonel Homer”
Hi, all! Miss Rim here. I got sick and Spiny got busy at work, so sorry about the delay. No matter what your particular favorite episode / season of Mad Men may be, I think most of us will agree … Continue reading The Carousel: Revisiting Mad Men: “At the Codfish Ball” / “Lady Lazarus” (S5E7, S5E8)
In which Manny and Bernard’s relationship turns Freudian and Fran tries the clean life. Original Air Date: 3/29/2002 Let’s talk about Manny and Bernard. I mean, yeah, we’d be doing that anyway but my goodness there’s a lot to unpack … Continue reading Black Books: Series 2, Episode 5 “Hello Sun”
Apologies for the delay (not posting this on the usual Tuesday or Wednesday), there was chewing gum on my pubis. Hi! It’s “Signal 30”! Our first-place winner in the Season 5 poll, though since we’re doing the season chronologically this … Continue reading The Carousel: Revisiting Mad Men: “Signal 30” (S5E5)
Hi everyone, and welcome back to The Carousel! I’m excited to talk about this episode, but orders of business: 1) While Miss Rim and I adopted the common 12-episode numbering of this season in our synopses for the poll last … Continue reading The Carousel: Revisiting Mad Men: Season 5, Episode 4: “Mystery Date”
I may not be very far into Taxi, but it’s clear the show is fashioned as a dramedy, where tugging heartstrings is as much a priority as tickling funny bones. There are a lot of ways to balance comedy and … Continue reading Taxi: Season 1, Episode 4 – “Bobby’s Acting Career”
Hi again, and welcome back to Revisiting Mad Men as we enter what many (most?) would consider Mad Men‘s peak. What makes it so, aside from a series of astonishing, cohesive standalone episodes like “Signal 30”, “Far Away Places”, “The Other … Continue reading The Carousel: Revisiting Mad Men: Season 5 Poll / General Discussion
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