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June 6
Murderbot: Rogue War Tracker Infinite Books Included Season 1, Episode 5
PresAux goes all out to make progress. Trust issues create friction, while a DeltFall survivor becomes part of the group.
Murderbot: Rogue War Tracker Infinite Show Only Season 1, Episode 5
PresAux goes all out to make progress. Trust issues create friction, while a DeltFall survivor becomes part of the group.
Top Chef: Viva Milano! Season 22, Episode 13
Benvenuto a Milano! For the chefs’ last Quickfire Challenge of the season, they’re tasked with creating a classic Milanese dish and the most feared dish by many “Top Chef” contenders, risotto. Then the chefs compete in a three-part, head-to-head culinary battle while receiving some help from Olympic athletes Elana Meyers Taylor, Red Gerard, and Paralympic athletes Oksana Masters and Declan Farmer. Kristen, Tom and Gail are joined at judges’ table by two-star Michelin chef Andrea Aprea and “Top Chef” World All-Star alum Ali Ghzawi. With four chefs remaining and only three spots in the finale, the stakes have never been higher. [more inside]
Poker Face: One Last Job Season 2, Episode 7
Sam Richardson plays a likable nerd so well, but this guest star appearance on Poker Face goes horribly wrong for his heist movie obsessed big box store clerk Kendall. Meanwhile Charlie gets to play out parts of her own romantic comedy.
June 5
Mystery Science Theater 3000: KTMA episode 15: SUPERDOME Season 1, Episode 28
Tonight we're doing another episode from Mystery Science Theater 3000's shadowly prehistory, the KTMA season. SUPERDOME is generally about the Superbowl in New Orleans, but it's more about trying to catch a murderer at large while that's going on. It has Tom Selleck, and it was made for television. Deal with it. Episode premiered March 12, 1989.
Movie: Highway 61
IMDB: A small-town barber goes on a road trip from Thunder Bay to New Orleans with an unpredictable woman and a coffin.
The spiritual sequel to Roadkill, with the aformentioned barber and his (pre-this-term-being-coined) manic pixie dream friend pursued by the soul-collecting Mr. Skin, and featuring memorable cameos from Jello Biafra and Tav Falco. [more inside]
Book: Have His Carcase
A cut throat, a persistent lover, a distinct lack of telephones along the English seashore are some of the many things that plague mystery author Harriet Vane, who stumbles on a corpse during what is supposed to be a peaceful walking holiday.
The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and the sudden acquisition of wealth. The book can be read for free here.
Movie: RoboCop 2
[TRAILER] Cyborg Detroit policeman Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) is the sole officer on duty after the police force goes on strike against evil conglomerate Omni Consumer Products and its push to foreclose on the city of Detroit. Aside from dealing with the normal level of crime, Murphy must take on crime boss Cain (Tom Noonan), the spread of a dangerous new drug called Nuke and the attempt by psychologist Dr. Juliette Faxx (Belinda Bauer) to create another Robocop using a hardened criminal. [more inside]
Book: Inferno: Canto 02
A kind lady tells Lucy to tell Beatrice to tell Virgil to be Dante's guide. [more inside]
June 4
AEW Collision: June 4, 2025: Fyter Fest, Hours 3 & 4 Season 2, Episode 49
Continuation of the four-hour AEW event that began here.
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: June 4, 2025: Fyter Fest, Hours 1 & 2 Season 6, Episode 36
Because the competition is running two, yes two PPVs on Saturday, Tony Khan made the wise decision to stack all four hours of programming on Wednesday instead. Kenny by-god Omega will defends his International title against three others simultaneously, Mark Briscoe tries to get even with Jon Moxley, THEKLA makes her official debut and lots and lots of tag team action. [more inside]
Stargate SG-1: Into the Fire Rewatch Season 3, Episode 1
Imprisoned on Hathor's planet and with time quickly running out, the team must grasp their only way of escape. [more inside]
June 3
Movie: Suzzanna: The Queen of Black Magic
Long-beloved as the great Scream Queen of Asian cinema, Suzzanna remains virtually unknown to western audiences. Discover the bizarre true story of an enigmatic film star known for portraying vengeful spirits and demons whose supernatural retribution are widely believed to have influenced her controversial life and mysterious death. [more inside]
June 2
Top Chef: Foraged in Fire Season 22, Episode 12
For their last challenge in Canada, Kristen is joined by guest judges Brenda Holder and Tracy Little, who teach the remaining five chefs how to forage the ingredients in the Canmore Forest. To secure their spot in Italy, the chefs will have to impress the judges by utilizing their foraged items in a dish they will cook outside over an open flame. [more inside]
Book: The Five Red Herrings
Artists and murder in Scotland. Sayers tries her hand at the classic time-table style mystery, to varying degrees of success. It can be read for free here.
June 1
AEW Collision: May 31, 2025 Season 2, Episode 48
Basketball pushed this pre-recorded Collision to air after 11PM Eastern. The final two entrants into this Wednesday's four-way match for Kenny Omega’s International title are decided, including a showcase of CMLL talent. Anthony Bowens gets a shot at Okada's Continental Championship, and Mina Shirakawa faces Skye Blue. [more inside]
May 31
Doctor Who: The Reality War Season 2, Episode 8
Battle rages across the skies as the Unholy Trinity unleash their deadly ambition. The Doctor, Belinda and Ruby have to risk everything in the quest to save one innocent life. [more inside]
A Gentleman in Moscow: An Assembly Season 1, Episode 7
Russia is on the brink of another major change, and Alexander is confronted with a difficult choice about the future. [more inside]
Movie: Mountainhead
Jesse Armstrong in his directorial debut, his first effort after 'Succession'. Four megalomaniac tech-bros, including a Musk, a Thiel, and a Zuck gather for a weekend at the Lair. The world is imploding and they react with an unexpected twist.
Special Event: 🚨🗳️🗳️ Joining the MetaFilter Board (FF)🗳️ 🗳️🚨
Hi, all. Metafilter is electing a new Board to run the site and replace its Interim Board.
Currently we have a three member Board, but the new Bylaws being discussed and amended here include a possible range of 3-12 members. While we're figuring exact details (like the process for holding an election being discussed here), it would be helpful to know how many MeFites are interested in running for a seat on this new board. If that interests you, please declare your intentions in this MetaTalk thread. Note: declaring interest is not a commitment to serve on the Board.
Book: Inferno: Canto 01
Dante is lost in a dark wood. [more inside]
May 30
And Just Like That...: Let's talk about the full season on HBO-HBO Max-Max-HBO Season 3 (Full Season)
When last we left our gang, Carrie had agreed to wait 5 years (!!) for Aidan, Miranda was exploring life as a single lesbian, and Charlotte was succeeding as a gallerina. Some new friends had settled into the group, and others faded away (Che, sorry, good riddance). [more inside]
Book: The Incandescent
Dr Walden is the Director of Magic at Chetwood School and one of the most powerful magicians in England. Her days consist of meetings, teaching A-Level Invocation to four talented, chaotic sixth formers, more meetings and securing the school's boundaries from demonic incursions. It's her responsibility to keep her school with its six hundred students and centuries-old legacy safe.
From Hugo and World Fantasy Award winner Emily Tesh, author of Some Desperate Glory. The Incandescent is a modern day magic school novel from a teacher's perspective.
Book: Strong Poison
Salcombe Hardy, lifting his drowned-violet eyes for a moment from his reporter's note-book, scribbled two words on a slip of paper and pushed them over to Waffles Newton. "Judge hostile." Waffles nodded. They were old hounds on this blood-trail.
Author of detective stories Harriet Vane is on trial for her life. Peter Wimsey works frantically to prove she didn't murder her lover to save her from the noose.
Movie: Bring Her Back
[TRAILER] Australian filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou follow up Talk to Me (A24's biggest horror hit) with a new story about a brother and sister uncover a terrifying ritual at the secluded home of their new foster mother. Sally Hawkins, Billy Barrattt, and Sora Wong star. [more inside]
May 29
Murderbot: Escape Velocity Protocol Books Included Season 1, Episode 4
While an enemy targets Murderbot, an ally plans their escape. The team deals with leadership changes and a dire ultimatum.
Murderbot: Escape Velocity Protocol Show Only Season 1, Episode 4
While an enemy targets Murderbot, an ally plans their escape. The team deals with leadership changes and a dire ultimatum.
Poker Face: Sloppy Joseph Season 2, Episode 6
Charlie works as a dinner lady at a fancy school, and ends up with a terrifying new nemesis.
Special Event: Filmroasters: LASER MISSION
MST Club presents.... Before Rifftrax did it, FilmRoasters riffed the 1989 action movie Laser Mission, which has no lasers. It does have Ernest Borgnine though! Despite the ending of the iRiff program, FilmRoaster's riff is still available for sale on the Rifftrax site, if you know where to look. But FilmRoasters also kindly put their riff, pre-mixed and everything, on Youtube, where you should see it now in case some rightholder decides it Must Come Down. I'm not sure of the year, but I think the riff comes from around 2011.
Movie: Nonnas
[TRAILER] When his beloved mother dies, Joe (Vince Vaughn) uses the money she left him (and everything else he can scrape together) to honor her by opening an Italian restaurant with actual nonnas--grandmothers--as the chefs (Lorraine Bracco, Talia Shire, Brenda Vaccaro, Susan Sarandon). [more inside]
May 28
Movie: Home for Rent
The new tenants of a house start terrorizing the owners of the place they rent, looking for their next prey to sacrifice. [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: May 28, 2025 Season 6, Episode 35
RESET THE COUNTER: It has been [0] days since Tony Khan started a tournament, this time to find a challenger for Kenny Omega's title at Fyter Fest. Speaking of titles, the victory of the Don Callis Family over Paragon at Double Or Nothing means Kyle Fletcher gets a crack at the TNT Championship. For the women's roster, Mercedes sits down with Toni Storm, Willow and Marina will be part of a "mixed tag" match and the women's tag match from DON's Buy-In pre-show gets a runback with an added No-DQ stip. [more inside]
Book: The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
Place always reminds me of that old thing in 'Punch,' you know--'Waiter, take away Lord Whatsisname, he's been dead two days.'
An elderly soldier dies quietly in his armchair - or did things happen in a more suspicious way? Lord Peter investigates, and Sayers explores men and women and changing social mores in the wake of the trauma of the Great War.
The book can be read for free here.
A Gentleman in Moscow: The Fall Season 1, Episode 6
When someone close to him suffers a terrible accident, Alexander resolves to save them at any cost. Help comes from an unexpected person. [more inside]
Stargate SG-1: Out of Mind Rewatch Season 2, Episode 22
O'Neill wakes up in the future, discovering he has been frozen for eight decades and that the rest of SG-1 are long dead. [more inside]
Movie: Dorm
[TRAILER] When 12-year-old Ton transfers to an all-boys boarding school, he's taunted by his peers and terrified by their tales about the ghosts that inhabit the school. Ton is utterly miserable until he befriends a mysterious fellow pupil. A nuanced blend of supernatural horror and coming-of-age drama, with a distinctly Thai point-of-view. [more inside]
Culinary Class Wars: Season 1 Season 1 (Full Season)
Culinary Class Wars (Korean: 흑백요리사: 요리 계급 전쟁) is a South Korean cooking competition. It pits 100 renowned chefs and undiscovered talents against each other in a culinary battle. Judged by the esteemed Paik Jong-won and Chef Anh Sung-jae, the show promises to showcase the ultimate clash of culinary skills and creativity. [more inside]
May 27
Movie: Iron Jawed Angels
Young suffragists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, who met in England while working with the Women's Social and Political Union, come to Washington D.C., where they lead other American women through the final decade of the fight to establish women's right to vote in the U.S.. [more inside]
A Gentleman in Moscow: An Arrival Season 1, Episode 5
Alexander adjusts to his new charge, Sophia. [more inside]
Movie: Nang Nak
[TRAILER] In a rural village in Thailand, Mak is sent to fight in a war and leaves his pregnant young wife Nak behind. Mak is injured and barely survives. He returns home to his doting wife and child... or so he thinks. This adaptation of the oft-filmed folk tale was a box office smash in its home country, kicking off a new wave of Thai horror films. [more inside]
May 26
The Handmaid's Tale: The Handmaid's Tale Season 6, Episode 10
June reflects on her experiences in Gilead and decides what to do next.
A Gentleman in Moscow: Good Times Season 1, Episode 4
Alexander no longer just lives at the Metropole, now he works there as well. [more inside]
The Rehearsal: My Controls Season 2, Episode 6
"if you’re here, you must be fine.”
May 25
Pee-wee as Himself Season 1 (Full Season)
Driven by a soul-baring interview with Paul Reubens, the man behind the iconic character Pee-wee Herman, Pee-wee as Himself is a two-part portrait of the comedic performer. Determined to tell the factual story of his life, Reubens discusses his influences, origins in the circus and avant-garde performance theater, iconic career, and decision to sever his beloved alter ego from his authentic self.
The Last of Us: Convergence Books Included Season 2, Episode 7
[Season Finale] [more inside]
The Last of Us: Convergence Show Only Season 2, Episode 7
[Season Finale] [more inside]
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: Double Or Nothing (2025) Season 6 (Specials)
The original Double Or Nothing in 2019 marked the beginning of All Elite Wrestling as an ongoing promotion (2024, 2023, 2022). This seventh iteration is the first to emanate from someplace other than Jacksonville or the MGM Grand in Nevada. Tonight is the return of Anarchy In The Arena as an alliance between the Death Riders and the Young Bucks vs. the babyfaces they've pissed off this year, Toni Storm and Kazuchika Okada defend their titles, AEW originals try to gain tag-team gold from intimidating WWE emigrés, and the Owen Hart Cup Finals will determine the challengers to the company's top belts at July's All In Texas. [more inside]
May 24
Movie: Queen of the Ring
[Trailer] In a time when pro wrestling for women was illegal all over the United States, a small town single mother embraces the danger as she dominates America's most masculine sport and becomes the first million dollar female athlete in history. [more inside]
A Gentleman in Moscow: The Last Rostrov Season 1, Episode 3
Alexander receives devastating news. [more inside]
Movie: Goldengirl
A neo-Nazi doctor tries to make a superwoman of his daughter who has been specially fed, exercised, and conditioned since she was a child in preparation of the Olympics.
Movie: Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Our lives are the sum of our choices. Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning.
AEW Collision: May 22, 2025 Season 2, Episode 47
I should have been prepared for Collision to be time-shifted to Thursday, they had mentioned it during this week's Dynamite and because there's certainly precedent for it, but alas. CMLL's Reyna Isis battled Mercedes Moné for the TBS Championship, FTR and Nigel sign contracts, and“Speedball” Mike Bailey gets inserted into luchador combat. [more inside]
Doctor Who: Wish World Season 2, Episode 7
Traps are sprung and old enemies unite as the Doctor and Belinda finally arrive home to find a very different world. Can the Doctor see the truth before midnight arrives? [more inside]
May 23
Poker Face: Hometown Hero Season 2, Episode 5
While working as a ball girl for a minor league baseball team Charlie suspects foul play after the death of one of the players.
Movie: The Phoenician Scheme
The story of a family and a family business.
Movie: The Tube with a Hat (Lampa cu caciula)
A boy convinces his father to take the long hike into town to try and fix their TV. A 25 minute long short film by Romanian director Radu Jude. [more inside]
Movie: The Jacket
Jamal Hindawi, Palestinian, lives with his family in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, where he makes political theatre. When he starts a journey to find an important lost theatre prop, he is confronted with a city in radical transition [more inside]
Movie: Friendship
IMDB: A suburban dad falls hard for his charismatic new neighbor.
I was worried that this would just be a 90-minute I Think You Should Leave sketch with diminishing returns, but was pleasantly surprised. I mean -- it is, but it's a successful one. [more inside]
Murderbot: Risk Assessment Books Included Season 1, Episode 3
(books included) The PresAux team heads to a new base to search for answers.
Murderbot gets tangled up in a SecUnit showdown.
Murderbot: Risk Assessment Show Only Season 1, Episode 3
(show only) The PresAux team heads to a new base to search for answers.
Murderbot gets tangled up in a SecUnit showdown.
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