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{4/5} “The weakest point in the gulag is over there, by the fourth wall.” Muppets Most Wanted, released in 2014 Dominic Badguy offers to be the Muppets’ agent and suggests they do a world tour. Badguy is actually working with Constantine, the world’s most dangerous frog. Constantine arranges to have Kermit arrested and then impersonates […]
{4.5/5} “Eventually things get tragic enough and then they circle around to comedy.” Wish I Was Here, released in 2014 Aidan is an actor who hasn’t been getting work lately. His wife Sarah isn’t particularly happy at work but feels she has to bring home the bacon. Gabe, Aidan’s father, reveals that his cancer is […]
{4.5/5} “Stars die and reborn… They get so hot that the nuclei of the atoms fuse together deep within them to make the oxygen we breathe, the carbon in our muscles, the calcium in our bones, the iron in our blood. All was cooked in the fiery hearts of long vanished stars… The cosmos is also […]
{5/5} “We will get along just fine, though hopefully not too fine, because I am not looking for any new friends. End speech.” — Ron Parks and Recreation season 7, aired in 2015 Three years in the future the Pawnee parks staff have moved on. Leslie is Midwest Regional Parks Director, Ron has his own […]
{4.5/5} “During mediation my client agreed to give back two of her handguns to her husband, and now she’s decided they were anniversary gifts to her.” Laggies, released in 2014 Meg isn’t sure what she wants to do with her life. She’s working for her dad holding a giant sign on the sidewalk. Her long-term […]
{4.5/5} “I conducted my own investigation because no one listens to me. I got away with it because no one looks at me. Because unless I have your reports, your coffee, or your lunch, I am invisible.” Agent Carter season 1, aired in 2015 It’s 1946 and Captain America is gone. Peggy Carter returns to […]
{4.5/5} “Everything you do, everything you sense and say is experiment. No deduction final. Nothing stops until dead and perhaps not even then, because each life creates endless ripples. Induction bounces within and you sensitize yourself to it. Deduction conveys illusions of absolutes. Kick the truth and shatter it!” Chapterhouse: Dune by Frank Herbert, published […]
{4.5/5} “You’re no actor, you’re a celebrity. Let’s be clear on that. I’m gonna kill your play.” Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), released in 2014 Riggan played a superhero named Birdman in the old days. Now he’s trying to direct and star in a Broadway production of a play he wrote. When he […]
This isn’t about TV main themes — that’s a post for another day. This is about music throughout TV episodes. Most TV shows have incidental music that’s not very distinctive — below are the ones that are. Best of the best 1) Michael Giacchino — Lost Now scoring movies such as Star Trek, Up, and […]
{5/5} “What if I could put him in front of you? The man that ruined your life. If I could guarantee that you’d get away with it, would you kill him?” Predestination, released in 2014 A temporal agent poses as a bartender. After hearing an amazing story from a woman who became a man, he […]