Month: November 2016
‘Saturday Night Live,’ Kate McKinnon and Dave Chappelle offer the post-election catharsis we needed
Saturday Night Live
Dave Chappelle & A Tribe Called Quest
November 12, 2016
~deep cleansing breath~
‘American Horror Story’: Confessional
American Horror Story
“Chapter 8”
November 2, 2016
Sorry this entry is so late, I’ve been a little distracted by our real American Horror Story, AMIRITE?
~weeping~
Leslie Knope is the hero we need right now.
This is just life now, so we might give the late night hosts a shot at trying to make us laugh about it, right?
Alright. I’ve had a day to deal with my feelings and we can’t avoid this mess any longer, so let’s talk about the election of our first reality television president.
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I don’t know how to process anything right now so let’s talk about TV news and pretend that everything is OK.
‘The Walking Dead’: In which we all get that damn ‘Easy Street’ song stuck in our heads.
The Walking Dead
“The Cell”
November 6, 2016
Welcome to the Sanctuary! We have Who’s the Boss reruns, air hockey, whittling, and as long as you are one of Negan’s top men, you can cut the food lines and help yourself to all the purloined mustard and pickles you need for your egg sandwiches.
It’s Election Day. We can get through this. It might require a comic amount of alcohol, but we can get through this.
‘Supernatural’: I have to go
Supernatural
“The Foundry”
October 27, 2016
THEN: “You were good at this, weren’t you?”
NOW
Two hipsters who should spend more time studying horror movies and less time on their Yelp reviews and man buns walk into an abandoned house. Natalie follows the sound of a crying baby to a back bedroom. A crib sits in the empty room. A bare lightbulb flickers above it. She folds back the blanket but there’s no baby. Just a creepy, horrible doll.
The couple try to flee but the door slams shut, trapping them inside the room.
‘Hawaii Five-0’: A little psychological trauma
Hawaii Five-0
“Ka Hale Ho’Okauweli”
October 28, 2016
Honolulu, 1940. Two officers respond to a noise complaint. The camera lingers on the doll sitting on the home’s front porch. Its eyes may or may not move. Â The woman who answers the door is sporting two black eyes. She cowers as they ask if she’s okay and if her husband is home. The lead officer insists on coming in and she reluctantly unchains the door.
The officers walk into a home in shambles. Pictures hang askew. Lamps are knocked over. The radio futzes with static. A little girl sits huddled on the floor. She sing-songs to herself, “Go away. Please, go away.” She tells the officer he needs to leave. He’s going to make “him” angry. The front door flies open. A presence seems to enter the house. The mother cries out a frantic warning in Japanese. The other office translates.
She says the house is haunted.
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