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05 Jul

The Good Place: Season Two

Max SchindlerNew DVD release,
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or LessThe funniest show about philosophy and ethics on TVReviewer's Bias*Loves: Kristen Bell, high-concept sitcoms, Janet, Maya Rudolph, Jason MantzoukasLikes: Ted DansonDislikes: The pitfalls of a high-concept storylineHates: JianyuThe Story So Far...Quite likely the smartest fictional show to ever air on network television, The Good Place stars Kristen Bell as Eleanor, a woman who recently died and is now in The Good Place, a non-denominational version of heaven created by the otherworldly Michael (Ted Danson), a first-time creator. Unfortunately, things quickly go awry, and Eleanor has an idea what the problem is (as does someone…
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06 Jun

Gunsmoke: The Thirteenth Season, Volume One

Max SchindlerNew DVD release, , ,
Highly Recommended After another excruciatingly long delay for Gunsmoke fans, CBS/Paramount has released in two volumes the long-running Western series' thirteenth of twenty seasons to DVD. Whether they'll ever get around to releasing the final seven is anyone's guess. Despite the best efforts by the big entertainment conglomerates to kill the Golden Goose, hard media dies hard, with collectors, libraries, and a surprisingly robust market in many foreign countries keeping it going, despite the popularity of streaming media. (Here in Japan, for instance, video rental stores are still commonplace. Gasp!)That the DVD market would go into sharp decline neatly midway…
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06 Jun

Gunsmoke: The Thirteenth Season, Volume Two

Max SchindlerNew DVD release, , ,
Highly Recommended After another excruciatingly long delay for Gunsmoke fans, CBS/Paramount has released in two volumes the long-running Western series' thirteenth of twenty seasons to DVD. Whether they'll ever get around to releasing the final seven is anyone's guess. Despite the best efforts by the big entertainment conglomerates to kill the Golden Goose, hard media dies hard, with collectors, libraries, and a surprisingly robust market in many foreign countries keeping it going, despite the popularity of streaming media. (Here in Japan, for instance, video rental stores are still commonplace. Gasp!)That the DVD market would go into sharp decline neatly midway…
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05 May

Americans, The: Season 5

Max SchindlerNew DVD release,
Highly Recommended The Show:One of the things that you may like, or not, about the FX show The Americans is its deliberate nature on addressing what would normally being seismic dramatic events in its mythology. Consider that Philip Jennings (Matthew Rhys, Burnt) and wife Elizabeth (Keri Russell, Waitress) have had to incorporate their increasingly curious daughter Paige (Holly Taylor) into the mix, something that could significantly change the dynamic of most every other show irrevocably for a show where all three characters are spying for the Russian government in the early and mid-1980s.So what do Philip and Elizabeth do in…
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22 Apr

Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In: The Complete Third Season

Max SchindlerNew DVD release, , , , ,
Rent It Time-Life releases the seven discs comprising the 1969-1970 season of "Laugh-In" from the complete series set put out last summer separately here. I hadn't seen much of the show aside from a few brief clips and had always wanted to see more of it; I'd even contemplated springing for the big set myself but got a chance to review this individual volume. Unfortunately there's a serious flaw with the picture quality that now makes me glad I didn't buy the whole set, which I'll discuss in the details below, but first some words about the show itself:"The Brady…
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20 Apr

Archer Season 8 Dreamland

Max SchindlerNew DVD release, ,
Recommended In 10 Words or LessA new, art-deco wrinkle in the Archer storylineReviewer's Bias*Loves: Sealab 2021, most of the castLikes: creative change-upsDislikes: Hates: dream excuse plotsThe Story So Far...Airing on FX (and then FXX), Archer is an animated sitcom (of sorts) which follows Sterling Archer (H. Jon Benjamin), an international spy who works for his mother and is surrounded by similarly flawed teammates, though over the years the dynamic has morphed through a number of permutations. The show has aired for eight seasons to date, and has been picked up to run through 10 in total. Fox has put out…
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17 Apr

The Good Fight: Season One

Max SchindlerNew DVD release,
Highly Recommended Some explanation required here. My wife, Yukiyo, was a binge-watching fan of The Good Wife, the 2009-2016 legal-political drama series starring Julianna Margulies. On her days off from work her eyes would be glued to her laptop for hours, watching five or six episodes, one after the other. I only caught bits and pieces of that show, but when the spin-off The Good Fight (2017-present) fell into our unloved DVD screener pool I knew I had to review it, if only so that Yukiyo could see it. And yet, despite never having watched a single entire episode of…
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09 Apr

Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In: The Complete Second Season

Max SchindlerNew DVD release, , , , ,
Recommended The Show: Last year, Time-Life released a complete series box set of the classic neo-vaudeville comedy series, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (DVD Talk has a review right here). Now, Time-Life is breaking down the big box into season sets; seasons 1 through 3 are currently available, with season four due in May. Up for discussion currently is the show's second season, which originally ran from September 16, 1968, to March 31, 1969.Hosted by nightclub comics Dan Rowan and Dick Martin, Laugh-In is an unusual hybrid of old-style showbiz and (then-)modern sensibilities. Sort of a sketch show, sort of a…
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05 Apr

The Miracle Season

Max SchindlerMovie reviews,
Based on the inspiring true story of West High School girls' volleyball team. After the loss of the school's star player, Caroline "Line" Found, in an accident, the remaining team players must band together under the guidance of their tough-love coach in hope of winning the state championship.Rated: PGRelease Date: Apr 06, 2018
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29 Mar

Steven Universe: The Complete First Season

Max SchindlerNew DVD release, , , ,
Highly Recommended In the town of Beach City, life is pretty quiet, except for the adventures of Steven Universe (Zach Callison) and a band of warriors known as the Crystal Gems -- Garnet (Estelle), Amethyst (Michaela Dietz), and Pearl (Deedee Magno). With the support of Steven's concerned father Greg (Tom Scharpling), who keeps an eye out from his home/van, Steven goes on adventures with the Crystal Gems to help protect Earth from mysterious forces from out in the deeper reaches of the galaxy. Between missions, Steven also finds time to befriend a local girl, Connie (Grace Rolek), and get into…
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24 Feb

Ray Donovan: The Fifth Season

Max SchindlerNew DVD release, ,
Highly Recommended Ray Donovan is one of those shows that has always been good, but has never quite been good enough to be mentioned alongside the best shows on television. All that changes with Season Five, in which the showrunners make a bold decision to off one of the lead characters - resulting in the kind of drama and emotional impact that most TV series only dream about having.The character who says goodbye isn't a spoiler, as it's revealed in the Season Five premiere: it's Abby Donovan (Paula Malcomson), the wife of Ray (Liev Schreiber), who had a breast cancer…
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18 Jan

The Simpsons – The Eighteenth Season

Max SchindlerNew DVD release, ,
Recommended Like Old Man River, The Simpsons just keeps rollin' along. Recently renewed for two more seasons of 22 episodes each, by 2019 The Simpsons will have been on the air for 30 years with 600-plus episodes, making it the longest-running American sitcom and the longest-running animated series. (However, Japan's Sunday night staple Sazae-san, has it beaten by a mile: 48 seasons and around 7,500 episodes.) Like the 20-year run of Gunsmoke, which produced about as many shows, the cast of The Simpsons has remained remarkably, virtually unchanged. Fans and critics generally agree that The Simpsons has been in steady…
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31 Dec

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: The Complete Second Season

Max SchindlerNew DVD release, , , ,
Recommended In 10 Words or LessRebecca got Josh--now what?Reviewer's Bias*Loves: musicals, surreal comedyLikes: Rachel BloomDislikes: girl dramaHates: How awful Rebecca is to her friendsThe Story So Far...Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom) saw her camp crush Josh Chan (Vincent Rodriguez III) on the streets of New York one day, and it was enough to prompt her to ditch her high-paying job as an attorney and fly across the country to re-settle in West Covina, California...which just so happened to be where Josh lives--with his yoga-teaching girlfriend Valencia (Gabrielle Ruiz.) Rebecca set down roots in this small city--much to the chagrin of her…
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27 Dec

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: The Complete First Season

Max SchindlerNetflix, New DVD release, , , , ,
The ShowRebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom) saw her camp crush Josh Chen (Vincent Rodriguez III) on the streets of New York one day, and it was enough to prompt her to ditch her high-paying job as an attorney and fly across the country to re-settle in West Covina, California...which just so happens to be where Josh lives--with his yoga-teaching girlfriend Valencia (Gabrielle Ruiz.) Rebecca set down roots in this small city--much to the chagrin of her domineering mother--getting a new job and new friends, bu...Read the entire review Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is a country wide treasure, and so is its superstar and…
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20 Oct

Criminal Minds: The Twelfth Season

Max SchindlerNew DVD release, , ,
Highly Recommended Note:The latest of a continuing series, where my wife Nicole steps up to offer her thoughts.By Nicole RizzoIn 10 Words or LessThe more crimes committed, the harder the BAU works.Reviewer's Bias*Loves: Criminal dramas, Joe Mantegna, Aisha Tyler, Damon GuptonLikes: Spencer Reid, Penelope Garcia, Jane Lynch, guest starsDislikes: Mr. ScratchHates: The question of "why" people do horrible thingsThe ShowMy eagerness and anticipation of every new fall television season starts around mid-August when stations start giving out teasers of what to expect for our beloved prime-time shows. I wait each summer to see which shows are returning and which have…
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