Speech & Debate
{4/5} “Getting people to listen to you is the opposite of getting people to like you.” Speech & Debate, released in 2017 Diwata fails to get cast in a major role in the school musical. Solomon isn’t allowed to write about what he wants to write about in the school paper. And Howie’s request to […]
Gotham (season 3)
{5/5} “I was alive. Then I was dead. Then I was alive. Things are looking up.” — Fish Gotham season 3, aired in 2016-17 Jim Gordon tracked down Lee but she’s now with another man. Back in Gotham Jim is a bounty hunter. Fish Mooney is back in town, and she now has a special […]
Split
{4.5/5} “An individual with multiple personalities can change their body chemistry with their thoughts.” Split, released in 2016 Kevin has 23 different identities that each take over his body from time to time. He sees a psychologist, and has been able to hold down a job for 10 years. So he seems to be doing […]
Supergirl (season 2)
{4.5/5} “Kara, you just missed Supergirl.” Supergirl season 2, aired in 2016-17 When a new spaceship explodes soon after launching, Supergirl and Superman work together to bring it down safely — then Superman sticks around to help figure out what happened, and listen to Kara’s stories from Krypton. Kat is going on a leave of […]
KW Symphony’s “Edwin’s Grand Finale”
I went to the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony’s concert titled “Edwin’s Grand Finale.” This was Edwin Outwater’s last concert as director of the symphony. The program started out with a short piece written especially for this concert, “Fanfare” by Richard Reed Parry. It reminded me a bit of Dennis McCarthy. The next piece was “Harmonium” by John […]
Elementary (season 5)
{5/5} “I now value the work that we do, first and foremost because I do it with you.” — Sherlock, to Joan Elementary season 5, aired in 2016-17 Sherlock agrees to solve a murder for a drug dealer — and then finds out that a vanished metal box contains a priceless Chinese antiquity. Sherlock and […]
Children of Time
{5/5} “It should have seemed just days before, according to his personal waking history but, as he had noticed last time, there was clearly something imperfect about suspension. Certainly, Holstein could not feel the centuries that had passed since they abandoned Earth, but something in his mind acknowledged that lost time: the sense of a […]
Agents of SHIELD (season 4)
{5/5} “I know no one wants to hear they’re just an avatar in a digital prison, but sometimes that happens and here we are.” Agents of SHIELD season 4, aired in 2016-17 SHIELD has a new director, and the old team has been broken up. Coulson and Mack are field agents, and May is training […]
Modern Family (season 8)
{5/5} “Luke somehow beat me in the election for president, and I still can’t get over it. Not to be hyperbolic, but humans are a decade away from fighting apes on horseback.” — Manny Modern Family season 8, aired in 2016-17 Phil and Claire secretly stay in New York instead of going to a closet […]
Once Upon a Time (season 6)
{4/5} “Love is the most powerful magic of all.” Once Upon a Time season 6, aired in 2016-17 Emma is having visions of the future, Hyde thinks Storybrooke is his, and Gold goes inside Belle’s dreams to wake her up. The Evil Queen is back — she and Regina have separate bodies now. Hyde brought […]