In this installment, exploring “A Life Less Ordinary.” Also, USA Networks turn in a strong psychological drama with “Sinner,” and I revisit a bit of joyous legal nonsense in John Lithgow’s “Trial & Error.”
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Sunday, August 20, 2017
Catalog Post #006
Classic Collection
0289
Agatha Christie Poirot S9x01 “Five Little Pigs”
The Simpsons S19x02 “Homer of Seville”
Desperate Housewives S4x01 “Now You Know”
0290
Brothers & Sisters S2x01 “Home Front”
Chuck S1x02 “Chuck Versus The Helicopter”
Heroes S2x02 “Lizards”
0291
Journeyman S1x02 “Friendly Skies”
Prison Break S3x03 “Call Waiting”
National Geographic Channel presents “Knights Templar”
0292
Pushing Daisies S1x01 “Pie-Lette”
Bones S3x02 “Soccer Mom in the Mini-Van”
0293
Eureka S2x13 “A Night at Global Dynamics”
Reaper S1x02 “Charged”
Damages S1x10 “Sort of Like a Family”
0294
Boston Legal S4x02 “The Innocent Man”
Private Practice S1x02 “In Which Sam Receives an Unexpected Visitor”
Dirty Sexy Money S1x02 “The Lions”
0295
Bionic Woman S1x02 “Paradise Lost”
Life S1x02 “Tear Asunder”
0296
Ugly Betty S2x02 “Family/Affair”
Grey’s Anatomy S4x01 “Love/Addiction”
Mad Men S1x11 “Indian Summer”
0297
Moonlight S1x02 “Out of the Past”
The Simpsons S19x03 “Midnight Towboy”
Desperate Housewives S4x02 “Smiles of a Summer Night”
0298
Brothers & Sisters S2x02 “An American Family”
Chuck S1x03 “Chuck Versus The Tango”
Heroes S2x03 “Kindred”
0299
Journeyman S1x03 “Game Three”
Pushing Daisies S1x02 “Dummy”
Prison Break S3x04 “Good Fences”
0300
Bones S3x03 “Death in the Saddle”
Reaper S1x03 “All Mine”
Damages S1x11 “I Hate These People”
0301
My Name Is Earl S3x04 “The Frank Factor”
Boston Legal S4x03 “The Chicken and the Leg”
Bionic Woman S1x03 “Sisterhood”
0302
Life S1x03 “Let Her Go”
Ugly Betty S2x03 “Betty’s Wait Problem”
Grey’s Anatomy S4x03 “Let the Truth Sting”
0303
Mad Men S1x12 “Nixon vs. Kennedy”
Moonlight S1x03 “Dr. Feelgood”
Blood Ties S2x01 “D.O.A.”
0304
Agatha Christie’s Poirot S8x01 “Evil Under the Sun”
0305
[scrap: Top Gear S8x08 “Man with a Van Challenge”]
Desperate Housewives S4x03 “The Game”
Brothers & Sisters S2x03 “History Repeating”
0306
HBO presents “A Life Less Ordinary” (1997)
Fox Movie Productions: Julian McMahon on “Nip/Tuck” heading into Season 5
0307
Agatha Christie Poirot S10x04 “Taken at the Flood”
Chuck S1x04 “Chuck vs. the Wookiee” [cuts out]
Samantha Who? S1x01 “Pilot”
Heroes S2x04 “The Kindness of Strangers”
Current Collection
X026
Title 1: Doctor Who Christmas Special 2011: “The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe”
Title 2: Supernatural S6x16 “... And Then There Were None”
Title 3: LSSC: Trump staffers distract the president with happy news - “Real News Tonight” on
Obama wiretapping
Title 4: Supernatural S6x17 “My Heart Will Go On”
Title 5: LSSC: Gen. Michael Hayden on allegations of Obama wiretapping of Trump Tower
Title 6: The Magicians S2x07 “Plan B”
Title 7: TCM: [interstitial material]
Title 8: TCM presents “The Taming of the Shrew” (1967)
Title 9: M&M BitesizeBeats commercial
Title 10: Cool Cuervo “It’s Now or Never” commercial
Title 11: LSSC: Dawes “Roll With the Punches”
Title 12: The Simpsons S23x02 “Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts”
Title 13: Powerless S1x05 “Cold Season”
Title 14: Full Frontal S2x02 President’s Speech to Congress – Obama wiretapping – Keeping Trump happy
– Gov. Scott Walker posting his lunch and terrible laws
X027
Title 1: Full Frontal S2x02 Full Frontal visits CPAC – House Trumpcare bill
Title 2: Colony S2x08 “Good Intentions”
Title 3: Doctor Who special: “The Day of the Doctor” 50th Anniversary Special
Title 4: Syfy presents “Oz The Great and Powerful” (2013)
Title 5: Spike presents “R.I.P.D.” (2013)
X028
Title 1: Legion S1x05 “Chapter 5”
Title 2: Supernatural S6x18 “Frontierland”
Title 3: Supernatural S6x19 “Mommy Dearest”
Title 4: Sundance presents “Foxcatcher” (2014)
Title 5: Supernatural S6x20 “The Man Who Would Be King”
Title 6: Supernatural S6x21 “Let It Bleed”
X029
Title 1: Supernatural S6x22 “The Man Who Knew Too Much”
Title 2: Supernatural S7x01 “Meet the New Boss”
Titles 3 & 4: Supernatural S7x02 “Hello, Cruel World”
Title 5: Supernatural S7x03 “The Girl Next Door”
Title 6: Supernatural S7x04 “Defending Your Life”
Title 7: Supernatural S7x05 “Shut Up, Dr. Phil”
Title 8: Supernatural S7x06 “Slash Fiction”
Title 9: Discovery Family presents “Alice in Wonderland” (2010)
X030
Title 1: Discovery Family presents “Alice in Wonderland” (2010)
Title 2: IFC presents “The Coneheads” (1993)
Title 3: Supernatural S7x07 “The Mentalists”
Title 4: Supernatural S7x08 “Season 7, Time for a Wedding!”
Title 5: Supernatural S7x09 “How To Win Friends and Influence Monsters”
Title 6: Supernatural S7x10 “Death’s Door”
Title 7: Supernatural S7x11 “Adventures in Babysitting”
X031
Title 1: LSSC: The Shins “Name For You”
Title 2: Supernatural S7x12 “Time After Time”
Title 3: Supernatural S7x13 “The Slice Girls”
Title 4: Trial & Error S1x01 “Pilot” / S1x02 “A Wrench in the Case”
Title 5: IFC presents “Top Secret!” (1984)
X032
Title 1: AMC presents “Inception” (2010)
Title 2: LSSC: Jessica Lange
Title 3: @Midnight: Hardwick “Double-DUI” joke and victory dance
Title 4: @Midnight: Second-grade poll questions
Title 5: LSSC: Judy Gold
Title 6: Full Frontal S2x03 The “Deep State” – Viva la #Resistance – low voting turnouts –
Bunker Talk: Bassem Youssef
Title 7: Superstore S2x16 “Integrity”
Titles 8 & 9: Feud: B&J S1x02 “The Other Woman”
Title 10: Legion S1x06 “Chapter 6”
Title 11: The Magicians S2x08 “Word as Bond”
Title 12: Colony S2x09 “Tamam Shud” [part 1]
Title 13: funny Progressive “Robot Chicken”-style Claymation commercial
Title 14: @Midnight: ape children vintage PSA: “In a newly discovered corner of Neverland Ranch ...”
Title 15: Colony S2x09 “Tamam Shud” [part 2]
Title 16: Supernatural S7x14 “Plucky Pennywhistle’s Magical Menagerie”
X033
Title 1: Supernatural S7x15 “Repo Man”
Title 2: Supernatural S7x16 “Out With the Old”
Title 3: IFC presents “Idiocracy” (2006)
Title 4: Supernatural S7x17 “The Born-Again Identity”
Title 5: Supernatural S7x18 “Party On, Garth”
Title 6: Supernatural S7x19 “Of Grave Importance”
Title 7: Supernatural S7x20 “The Girl With the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo”
Title 8: Supernatural S7x21 “Reading is Fundamental”
X034
Title 1: Supernatural S7x22 “There Will Be Blood”
Title 2: Freeform presents “How To Train Your Dragon” (2010)
Title 3: Supernatural S7x23 “Survival of the Fittest”
Title 4: Supernatural S8x01 “We Need to Talk About Kevin”
Title 5: Supernatural S8x02 “What’s Up, Tiger Mommy?”
Title 6: Supernatural S8x03 “Heartache”
Titles 7 & 9: Supernatural S8x04 “Bitten”
Title 8: funny 7Up mixed drinks commercial
Title 10: Bob’s Burgers S7x13 “The Grand Mama-Pest Hotel”
Sunday, August 6, 2017
Sonja and Tabitha take on damaged goods
In this installment, talking shop with Sonja and Tabitha while sifting through the 2007 fall premieres in my classic collection, including a little gem called “Reaper.” I’m up to season six in “Supernatural” and the premiere of “Feud: Bette and Joan” in my current collection, and oh wow, the things I’ve been watching. Welcome to the show.
Catalog Post #005
Classic Collection
0281
Agatha Christie’s Poirot S10x01 “The Mystery of the Blue Train”
Family Guy S6x01 “Blue Harvest”
The Simpsons S19x01 “He Loves to Fly and He D’ohs”
Chuck S1x01 “Pilot”
The Business S2x08 “Field Trip to Hollywood pt. 2”
0282
The Business S2x08 “Field Trip to Hollywood pt. 2”
The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman S2x08 “Good Times and Great Oldies”
Journeyman S1x01 “Pilot – A Love of a Lifetime”
Heroes S2x01 “Vol. 2: Generations – Four Months Later ...”
0283
Bones S3x01 “The Widow’s Son in the Windshield”
Bionic Woman S1x01 “Pilot”
Beck “Nausea”
K.T. Tunstall “Hold On”
Maroon 5 “Wake Up Call”
Private Practice S1x01 “In Which We Meet Addison, A Nice Girl From Somewhere Else”
0284
Private Practice S1x01 “In Which We Meet Addison, A Nice Girl From Somewhere Else”
Dirty Sexy Money S1x01 “Pilot”
Moonlight S1x01 “No Such Thing as Vampires”
0285
Prison Break S3x02 “Fire/Water”
Eureka S2x12 “All That Glitters”
Boston Legal S4x01 “Beauty and the Beast”
0286
Damages S1x09 “Do You Regret What We Did?”
Agatha Christie Poirot S8x02 “Murder in Mesopotamia” [cuts in] [cuts out]
Life S1x01 “Merit Badge”
0287
Ugly Betty S2x01 “How Betty Got Her Grieve Back”
Grey’s Anatomy S4x01 “A Change Is Gonna Come”
My Name is Earl S3x01 “My Name Is Inmate 28301-016 (Part 1)”
0288
My Name is Earl S3x02 “My Name Is Inmate 28301-016 (Part 2)”
Reaper S1x01 “Pilot”
Mad Men S1x10 “Long Weekend”
Agatha Christie Poirot S9x01 “Five Little Pigs”
Current Collection
X016
Title 1: The Magicians S2x03 “Divine Elimination”
Title 2: The Magicians S2x04 “The Flying Forest”
Title 3: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: “We Are All Sweden”
Title 4: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: President’s Day “Not My President” rallies; Mike Flynn; McMasters; Florida rally; Trump-alleged terror attack in Sweden
Title 5: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Alison Krause “I Never Cared For You”
Title 6: Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump (2011) [cuts out]
Title 7: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Joe Scarborough covers Elvis Costello’s “What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace, Love and Understanding?”
Title 8: Funny Progressive commercial: Flo’s Social Etiquette in the ‘50s
Title 9: The Magicians S2x05 “Cheat Day”
Title 10: Funny Cigna commercial: TV doctors
Title 11: Legion S1x03 “Chapter 3”
X017
Title 1: TCM presents “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” (1964)
Title 2: Superstore S2x15 “Wellness Fair”
Title 3: Powerless S1x04 “Emily Dates a Henchman”
Title 4: TCM presents “Robin and the 7 Hoods” (1964)
Title 5: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Real News Tonight! Transparency in politics
Title 6: LSSC: Aubrey Plaza interview
Title 7: LSSC: Bradley Whitford interview
Title 8: TCM presents “Some Like It Hot” (1959)
Title 9: TCM presents Laurel & Hardy in “The Music Box” (1932)
X018
Title 1: IFC presents “The Watchmen”
Title 2: Colony S2x07 “Free Radicals”
Title 3: Taboo S1x03 “Episode 3”
Title 4: Supernatural S5x16 “Dark Side of the Moon”
Title 5: Supernatural S5x17 “99 Problems”
X019
Title 1: Emerald City S1x09 “The Villain That’s Become”
Title 2: Sundance TV presents “The Book Thief”
Title 3: Doctor Who S5x10 “Vincent and The Doctor”
Title 4: Doctor Who S6X04 “The Doctor’s Wife”
Title 5: Doctor Who S8x01 “Deep Breath”
X020
Title 1: Doctor Who opening credits circa 1959 [scrap]
Title 2: Doctor Who Christmas Special: “The Return of Doctor Mysterio” (2016)
Title 3: IFC presents “Hannibal”
Title 4: The CW presents “Precious”
Title 5: Supernatural S5x18 “Point of No Return”
Title 6: Supernatural S5x19 “Hammer of the Gods”
X021
Title 1: Supernatural S5x20 “The Devil You Know” / Supernatural S5x21 “Two Minutes to Midnight”
Title 2: Supernatural S5x22 “Swan Song”
Title 3: LSSC: “La La Land”/”Moonlight” mixup
Title 4: LSSC: Jon Stewart on Trump’s media ban, lies: “Believe Me” – wake-up call to the media
Title 5: Supernatural S6x01 “Exile on Main St.”
Title 6: LSSC: “Real News Tonight”: Presidential Address
Title 7: LSSC: “Hey White People!”
Title 8: Legion S1x04 “Chapter 4”
Title 9: “Ghost in the Shell” promo – funny Jack Links commercial: Work’n out with Sasquatch – cool Walking Dead: Road to Survival commercial
Title 10: funny Snickers commercial: surgeon stitches phone into patient
Title 11: KXNews: Towers at International Peace Gardens being demolished
Title 12: KXNews: Bears at the Dakota Zoo: Ted and Callie
Title 13: Emerald City S1x10 “No Place Like Home”
Title 14: Colony S2x08 “Good Intentions”
X022
Title 1: The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon “This Week in Words” (Oscars/Robot/Trump Speech)
Title 2: TCM presents “West Side Story”
Title 3: TCM presents “Victor Victoria”
Title 4: The Magicians S2x06 “Cock Barrens”
X023
Title 1: TBS presents “The Help”
Title 2: Syfy presents “Shutter Island”
Title 3: Sundance presents “Death Becomes Her”
X024
Title 1: Disney presents “Brave” [scrap: Crafty Carver’s cauldron]
Title 2: Supernatural S6x02 “Two and a Half Men”
Title 3: Supernatural S6x03 “The Third Man”
Title 4: Supernatural S6x04 “Weekend at Bobby’s”
Title 5: Supernatural S6x05 “Live Free or Twihard”
Title 6: Supernatural S6x06 “You Can’t Handle the Truth”
Title 7: Supernatural S6x07 “Family Matters”
Title 8: Supernatural S6x08 “All Dogs Go To Heaven”
Title 9: Taboo S1x04 “Episode 4”
X025
Title 1: Supernatural S6x09 “Clap Your Hands If You Believe …”
Title 2: Supernatural S6x10 “Caged Heat”
Title 3: Supernatural S6x11 “Appointment in Samarra”
Title 4: Supernatural S6x12 “Like a Virgin”
Title 5: Supernatural S6x13 “Unforgiven”
Title 6: Bob’s Burgers S7x11 “A Few ‘Gurt Men”
Title 7: Supernatural S6x14 “Mannequin 3: The Reckoning”
Title 8: Supernatural S6x15 “The French Mistake”
Title 9: Feud: Bette and Joan S1x01 “Pilot”
0281
Agatha Christie’s Poirot S10x01 “The Mystery of the Blue Train”
Family Guy S6x01 “Blue Harvest”
The Simpsons S19x01 “He Loves to Fly and He D’ohs”
Chuck S1x01 “Pilot”
The Business S2x08 “Field Trip to Hollywood pt. 2”
0282
The Business S2x08 “Field Trip to Hollywood pt. 2”
The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman S2x08 “Good Times and Great Oldies”
Journeyman S1x01 “Pilot – A Love of a Lifetime”
Heroes S2x01 “Vol. 2: Generations – Four Months Later ...”
0283
Bones S3x01 “The Widow’s Son in the Windshield”
Bionic Woman S1x01 “Pilot”
Beck “Nausea”
K.T. Tunstall “Hold On”
Maroon 5 “Wake Up Call”
Private Practice S1x01 “In Which We Meet Addison, A Nice Girl From Somewhere Else”
0284
Private Practice S1x01 “In Which We Meet Addison, A Nice Girl From Somewhere Else”
Dirty Sexy Money S1x01 “Pilot”
Moonlight S1x01 “No Such Thing as Vampires”
0285
Prison Break S3x02 “Fire/Water”
Eureka S2x12 “All That Glitters”
Boston Legal S4x01 “Beauty and the Beast”
0286
Damages S1x09 “Do You Regret What We Did?”
Agatha Christie Poirot S8x02 “Murder in Mesopotamia” [cuts in] [cuts out]
Life S1x01 “Merit Badge”
0287
Ugly Betty S2x01 “How Betty Got Her Grieve Back”
Grey’s Anatomy S4x01 “A Change Is Gonna Come”
My Name is Earl S3x01 “My Name Is Inmate 28301-016 (Part 1)”
0288
My Name is Earl S3x02 “My Name Is Inmate 28301-016 (Part 2)”
Reaper S1x01 “Pilot”
Mad Men S1x10 “Long Weekend”
Agatha Christie Poirot S9x01 “Five Little Pigs”
Current Collection
X016
Title 1: The Magicians S2x03 “Divine Elimination”
Title 2: The Magicians S2x04 “The Flying Forest”
Title 3: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: “We Are All Sweden”
Title 4: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: President’s Day “Not My President” rallies; Mike Flynn; McMasters; Florida rally; Trump-alleged terror attack in Sweden
Title 5: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Alison Krause “I Never Cared For You”
Title 6: Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump (2011) [cuts out]
Title 7: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Joe Scarborough covers Elvis Costello’s “What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace, Love and Understanding?”
Title 8: Funny Progressive commercial: Flo’s Social Etiquette in the ‘50s
Title 9: The Magicians S2x05 “Cheat Day”
Title 10: Funny Cigna commercial: TV doctors
Title 11: Legion S1x03 “Chapter 3”
X017
Title 1: TCM presents “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” (1964)
Title 2: Superstore S2x15 “Wellness Fair”
Title 3: Powerless S1x04 “Emily Dates a Henchman”
Title 4: TCM presents “Robin and the 7 Hoods” (1964)
Title 5: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Real News Tonight! Transparency in politics
Title 6: LSSC: Aubrey Plaza interview
Title 7: LSSC: Bradley Whitford interview
Title 8: TCM presents “Some Like It Hot” (1959)
Title 9: TCM presents Laurel & Hardy in “The Music Box” (1932)
X018
Title 1: IFC presents “The Watchmen”
Title 2: Colony S2x07 “Free Radicals”
Title 3: Taboo S1x03 “Episode 3”
Title 4: Supernatural S5x16 “Dark Side of the Moon”
Title 5: Supernatural S5x17 “99 Problems”
X019
Title 1: Emerald City S1x09 “The Villain That’s Become”
Title 2: Sundance TV presents “The Book Thief”
Title 3: Doctor Who S5x10 “Vincent and The Doctor”
Title 4: Doctor Who S6X04 “The Doctor’s Wife”
Title 5: Doctor Who S8x01 “Deep Breath”
X020
Title 1: Doctor Who opening credits circa 1959 [scrap]
Title 2: Doctor Who Christmas Special: “The Return of Doctor Mysterio” (2016)
Title 3: IFC presents “Hannibal”
Title 4: The CW presents “Precious”
Title 5: Supernatural S5x18 “Point of No Return”
Title 6: Supernatural S5x19 “Hammer of the Gods”
X021
Title 1: Supernatural S5x20 “The Devil You Know” / Supernatural S5x21 “Two Minutes to Midnight”
Title 2: Supernatural S5x22 “Swan Song”
Title 3: LSSC: “La La Land”/”Moonlight” mixup
Title 4: LSSC: Jon Stewart on Trump’s media ban, lies: “Believe Me” – wake-up call to the media
Title 5: Supernatural S6x01 “Exile on Main St.”
Title 6: LSSC: “Real News Tonight”: Presidential Address
Title 7: LSSC: “Hey White People!”
Title 8: Legion S1x04 “Chapter 4”
Title 9: “Ghost in the Shell” promo – funny Jack Links commercial: Work’n out with Sasquatch – cool Walking Dead: Road to Survival commercial
Title 10: funny Snickers commercial: surgeon stitches phone into patient
Title 11: KXNews: Towers at International Peace Gardens being demolished
Title 12: KXNews: Bears at the Dakota Zoo: Ted and Callie
Title 13: Emerald City S1x10 “No Place Like Home”
Title 14: Colony S2x08 “Good Intentions”
X022
Title 1: The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon “This Week in Words” (Oscars/Robot/Trump Speech)
Title 2: TCM presents “West Side Story”
Title 3: TCM presents “Victor Victoria”
Title 4: The Magicians S2x06 “Cock Barrens”
X023
Title 1: TBS presents “The Help”
Title 2: Syfy presents “Shutter Island”
Title 3: Sundance presents “Death Becomes Her”
X024
Title 1: Disney presents “Brave” [scrap: Crafty Carver’s cauldron]
Title 2: Supernatural S6x02 “Two and a Half Men”
Title 3: Supernatural S6x03 “The Third Man”
Title 4: Supernatural S6x04 “Weekend at Bobby’s”
Title 5: Supernatural S6x05 “Live Free or Twihard”
Title 6: Supernatural S6x06 “You Can’t Handle the Truth”
Title 7: Supernatural S6x07 “Family Matters”
Title 8: Supernatural S6x08 “All Dogs Go To Heaven”
Title 9: Taboo S1x04 “Episode 4”
X025
Title 1: Supernatural S6x09 “Clap Your Hands If You Believe …”
Title 2: Supernatural S6x10 “Caged Heat”
Title 3: Supernatural S6x11 “Appointment in Samarra”
Title 4: Supernatural S6x12 “Like a Virgin”
Title 5: Supernatural S6x13 “Unforgiven”
Title 6: Bob’s Burgers S7x11 “A Few ‘Gurt Men”
Title 7: Supernatural S6x14 “Mannequin 3: The Reckoning”
Title 8: Supernatural S6x15 “The French Mistake”
Title 9: Feud: Bette and Joan S1x01 “Pilot”
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