Weekend #9 of 52 (2/25 – 2/28/2021) for 2021 Picks By Streaming Service
The final weekend of February 2021 is upon us. Streaming channels are showing no sign of slowing down releasing new movies and TV shows while the theater scene continues to be in a state of paralysis of new titles. It’s like one here, two there and just ghost town movie theaters. We were saddened this week to see a beautiful IMAX screening of a film that had three people in attendance at a 7pm showing of Nomadland, two of which were us. The theater probably seated close to 200 people. Theaters are doing great business in China and some other countries.
Have been saying all along that theaters need to get more new movies showing in them, but for whatever reason that’s not happening. Probably to blame is the severe lack of moviegoers attending them. As mentioned previously, this is a slow time anyway for theaters, the first quarter of the year. This year is a bit unique because the academy extended the award eligibility window into early 2021 (see: Oscars 2021 Still On As Planned As In-Person Event, Not Zoom or Virtual)
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NOTE: If you’re coming to these posts weeks or months later, some and/or all of the picks listed below may no longer be on the streaming services indicated. Anything marked as “Original” typically doesn’t expire on the streaming services.
NETFLIX Movies
Blue, Painful and Brittle – 2020 (Feb 24)
*Bigfoot Family – animated – 2020 (Feb 26)
*Call Me Crazy – 2021
Captain Fantastic – 2016
*The Girl On The Train – 2021
NETFLIX TV
*Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan – Season 1 (Feb 24)
*Canine Intervention Documentary series
*Ginny & Georgia – Season 1
*Two Sentence Horror Stories – Season 2
*High Rise Invasion – Season 1 (Feb 25) Anime
Disney+
Flicka 2 (Feb 26)
Ice Age: Collision Course
HBO Max TV
*Tom and Jerry – also in theaters (Feb 26)
Blade Runner 2049
Amazon Prime TV
*The Informer (Feb 26)
Hulu
*The United States vs. Billie Holiday – 2021 Hulu Original (Feb 26)
Florence Foster Jenkins – 2016
Apple TV+
*Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry (Feb 26)
The major sports leagues like to push the envelope, that’s for sure. We’re in pandemic times and the NFL reportedly wants to double, yes, double their asking price per year for rights to show their games.
Do they really think television rights are worth that much? Or rather, that much more during these times? It seems more than eyebrow raising and Disney is calling them out.
Disney agreed to pay $1.9 billion annually for Monday Night Football in 2011 — a deal that runs through 2021. That dwarfed the average $1.1 billion annual cost for Fox, $1 billion annual price tag for CBS and $960 million for NBC’s Sunday Night Football.
Disney has already rejected paying anywhere close to $3.8 billion per year for its new deal, said two of the people. Disney CEO Bob Chapek alluded to pushing back on the NFL’s asking price during his company’s earnings conference call last week.
We are fair season fans, admittedly. I will watch live sports when my favorite team, or home team, rather, is doing well. The Seahawks choked down the stretch. The Mariners haven’t been good since Ichiro was on his epic hitting streak and we don’t even have an NBA team in the Seattle area.
Agree with Disney on this one. Ask for a discount on pricing. Less people are watching live TV these days. Less people have cable or satellite and are using streaming. Sure, those streaming rights are part of what the NFL wants to negotiate with Disney — so they can stream on Hulu TV presumably — but still not anywhere close to $1.9 billion, much less $3.8 billion.
This is one of those circumstances where we can blame the NFL for asking. What do you think? Is the NFL worth all this cheddar? I get you might like your favorite NFL team and the ability to watch them on your favorite channel but …. for this much, really?
There is such a thing as action and reaction. Everything we say and do will have some sort of reaction from somebody else. In the case of the saga involving Gina Carano and her choice to use her social media platforms to speak her mind (see: Disney Has Had Enough – Gina Carino Out From The Mandalorian over Social Media Activity), I’m curious how this becomes bullying?
Sure, Disney is this mega large corporation and small minor role in Mandalorian Gina Carano is s tiny fish in their great lakes of entertainment. That paints Disney as the bad guy for firing her … or rather not inviting her to star in any more episodes of The Mandalorian.
We have questioned before if actors are ever really fired when they aren’t offered future or returning roles. It’s not like Carano didn’t get paid for the work she already did. $25,000-50,000 per episode, reportedly. That’s a darn good paycheck for a limited amount of work. Most people reading this would be happy to accept that job. Give me some armor and put me in, coach, I’ll take that and you won’t hear a blip from me on social media about bullying, Nazis or jews (unless the story involves that and it’s purely promotional/marketing).
Will admit it seems like they’re going a bit too far making Hasbro stop making popular Cara Dune action figures, but this is likely because they contain Carano’s likeness don’t want to see her make any more $$ from The Mandalorian. They want to terminate all business dealings with her so as not to be seen as hypocritical over condemning her social media activity.
But is this bullying or a business decision?
Sunday night in an interview with Ben Shapiro, she’ll tell her side of the story. How she found out she was fired from The Mandalorian via the same social media she weaponized with her counter-opinions.
“I was prepared at any point to be let go, because I’ve seen this happen to so many people. I’ve seen the looks on their faces. I’ve seen the bullying that takes place, and so when this started, they point their guns at you, and you know it’s only a matter of time. I’ve seen it happen to so many people, and I just thought to myself (…) ‘you’re coming for me, I know you are.’ ” They’re making it very obvious through their employees who were coming for me, and so I was like, ‘I’m going to go down swinging and I’m going to stay true to myself.’ “
Again, especially for those not familiar with our prior posts on this matter, we support free speech and Gina Carano can say whatever she wants on social media. Am not sure, however, she can claim she was bullied by Disney and/or the sycophants who blindly worship the house of mouse and its sometimes extreme left-leaning support structure.
Carano is right leaning, clearly, which puts her on the opposite political side. This is a conflict before any words are uttered on Twitter, Facebook, Insta, etc.
Two subjects we try and steer clear of at this site are politics and religion. That’s not to say we don’t post on either subjects, but usually only when they involve movie and TV entertainment. Live TV debates, for example, would be one area we’ve touched on (see: The Shocking, Viral Star of Last Night’s Vice Presidential Debate? The Fly!)
Not telling anybody else what they should or shouldn’t say online or elsewhere, but will state from experience being on the internet, having websites, blogs, etc, for the better part of 25+ years now, these are two red, red, red hot topics that divide people very fast. In the United States, this country politically is divided with most on either side and then there’s some folks in the middle that tend to decide elections. You have both sides trying to encourage these people at election time that their way is the best.
The problem with Gina Carano isn’t that she has opinions and her right to share them, it’s where she’s voicing them and when. There isn’t any need to voice these opinions on her social media. She’s an actor and former fighter. That’s her business. Focus on being the best at that and let the people who want to talk about politics ramble on. When she’s done in business, retired and doesn’t work any more for others, that’s the time to light up the world with her politics, if she wants. Or, hey, just become a politician and that becomes your job. Then you can go all Trump on Twitter if you want.
Look at Stephen King. Man is still working, but doesn’t need to. He got flamed pretty hard for his comments on the Texas power outages this past week. Will it cost him some readers? Probably a few, but he writes so darn good that nobody really cares if his political views are extreme. It’s not going to cost him movies being adapted, because Hollywood ultimately only sees one thing: the all mighty green.
Gina Carano was expendable in her minor role on The Mandalorian. She might be a martyr now, which could be worse publicity-wise for Disney in the long run, but I doubt this will lead anywhere except to Carano being unable to secure that much work in the business for awhile. That’s too bad if she would have been a great fit for casting. We might never know.
Then again, some studio might cast her because of all this negative light and promotion. Hard to say how this will work. I’m sticking by my former statements that she doesn’t need to make extreme comparisons involving Nazis and Jews, that’s just a landmine not worth stepping anywhere near, unless she’s in some film project involving this era.
Look at what Vince Vaughn, the Van Halen brothers and others have chosen to do. You can be plenty successful in life and business and avoid getting entrenched in social media controversy. Life might literally be too short to bother.
Weekend #8 of 52 (2/18 – 2/21/2021) for 2021 Picks By Streaming Service
As we push toward the end of February, the streaming channels continue to be the place to go for new movie releases.
Day and date releases are becoming the norm and not the exception during the pandemic. Case in point, Nomadland, both in theaters and streaming on Hulu. Last week was Warner Bros. Judas and the Black Messiah.
Was planning to watch Nomadand in theaters, but being this is our weekend spending with our grandchildren, it will likely be more convenient watching on Hulu. A similar convenience happened with Judas and the Black Messiah.
This has us thinking that convenience could also be working against theaters, also. We’ve seen six new movies in theaters since theaters reopened on February 5, so thinking we’re very much supporting the cinematic experience. In addition to the elephant in the room that nobody wants to hear about any more, convenience just might be the other c-word enemy of box office sales.
Or maybe it’s all the movies that are c-grade. There haven’t been an influx of awesome movies for people to want to go out to theaters — and there rarely are in the first quarter of the year — so that’s worth keeping in perspective. .
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NOTE: If you’re coming to these posts weeks or months later, some and/or all of the picks listed below may no longer be on the streaming services indicated. Anything marked as “Original” typically doesn’t expire on the streaming services.
NETFLIX Movies
*No Escape Room (Feb 18)
*I Care A Lot (Feb 19) Peter Dinklage, Rosamund Pike
Operation Finale (Feb 20)
The Conjuring (Feb 21)
The Conjuring 2
NETFLIX TV
*Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan – Season 1 (Feb 18) Anime
*Tribes of Europa – Season 1 (Feb 19)
Disney+
*Flora & Ulysses (Feb 19)
*The Muppet Show – Season 1-5 Seasons 4 & 5 have never aired on home entertainment before
Weekend #7 of 52 (2/11 – 2/14/2021) for 2021 Picks By Streaming Service
A cliched week for rom-coms, but with Valentine’s Day coming up over the weekend, might as well get ready for it, and if you’re a fan of the genre, celebrate.
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NOTE: If you’re coming to these posts weeks or months later, some and/or all of the picks listed below may no longer be on the streaming services indicated. Anything marked as “Original” typically doesn’t expire on the streaming services.
NETFLIX Movies
*Red Dot (Feb 11)
*Squared Love
*Middle of Nowhere
*Buried By The Bernards (Feb 12)
*To All The Boys: Always and Forever
*Xico’s Journey
*Hate by Dani Rovira
*Monsoon (Feb 13)
*The Crew (Feb 15)
Disney+
*Life Below Zero: The Next Generation (Feb 12)
*Marvel Battleworld: Mystery of the Thanostones – Season 1
*Marvel’s Behind the Mask – Documentary
HBO Max Movies
*There Is No “I” in Threesome – Documentary (Feb 11)
*Judas and the Black Messiah (Feb 12)
Dunkirk
The Book of Eli (Feb 13)
HBO Max TV
*Very Scary People – Season 2
*The Lady and The Dale – Documentary Finale (Feb 14)
Amazon Prime
*The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (Feb 12)
Clifford
Hulu
*2067 (Feb 12)
You’re Next
Hulu TV
Into the Dark: Tentacles: New Episode Premiere (Feb 12)
Hip Hop Uncovered: Documentary Series Premiere (Feb 13)
Shudder
*Joe Bob Put A Spell On You – Valentine’s Day (Feb 12) Double-feature movies To Be Announced live OnDemand stream will be available Feb 14, even is LIVE on Feb 12
Weekend #6 of 52 (2/4 – 2/7/2021) for 2021 Picks By Streaming Service
First weekend of the month means a slew of new movies rotated in and out across the various streaming services. Those lists are included below making it convenient to add to your watchlists for the month.
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NOTE: If you’re coming to these posts weeks or months later, some and/or all of the picks listed below may no longer be on the streaming services indicated. Anything marked as “Original” typically doesn’t expire on the streaming services.
NETFLIX Movies
*Malcolm & Marie (Feb 5)
*Comedy from Insanity
*Little Big Women
*Space Sweepers
*Strip Down, Rise Up
*The Ying-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity
Movies rotating into NETFLIX as of February 1
The Bank Job (2008) Beverly Hills Ninja (1997) Eat Pray Love (2010) Inception (2010) Love Daily: Season 1 My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997) My Dead Ex: Season 1 National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989) The Patriot (2000) Rocks (2019) Shutter Island (2010)
NETFLIX TV
*Firefly Lane – Season 1 (Feb 3) Katherine Heigl, based on a novel
*Invisible City – Season 1 (Feb 5)
Hache – Season 2
*The Sinner – Season 3 (Feb 6)
Disney+
*Disney My Music Story: Yoshiki (Feb 5)
Disney Upside-Down Magic
Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks (s7)
HBO Max Movies
*Earwig and the Witch (Feb 5)
*In Other Words
Vengeance: Killer Coworkers
Vengeance: Killer Lovers
Vengeance: Killer Neighbors
*Irresistible (Feb 6)
We Bare Bears: The Movie (Feb 7)
Movies rotating into HBO MAX as of February 1
All Good Things, 2010 (HBO) The Amityville Horror, 1979 (HBO) The Amityville Horror, 2005 (HBO) American Style The Apparition, 2012 (HBO) Austin Powers in Goldmember, 2002 Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery, 1997 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, 1999 Backdraft, 1991 (HBO) Batman & Robin, 1997 Batman Forever, 1995 Batman Returns, 1992 Batman, 1989 Batman: The Brave and the Bold Be Cool, 2005 (HBO) Blade Runner: The Final Cut, 2007 Butter, 2012 (HBO) Captain Blood, 1935 Chewing Gum Death Row Stories, Season 5 Deep Down, 2021 (HBO) Drumline, 2002 (Extended Version) (HBO) The Four Feathers, 2002 (HBO) Get A Job, 2016 (HBO) Get Shorty, 1995 (HBO) Getting Even With Dad, 1994 (HBO) Ghoulies II, 1987 (HBO) Ghoulies, 1985 (HBO) Giant, 1956 The Graduate, 1967 Growing Up Milwaukee, 2020 Head of the Class The Investigation, Limited Series Premiere (HBO) Jacob’s Ladder, 1990 (HBO) Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday, 1993 (HBO) Justice League Justice League Unlimited La Deuda, 2021 (HBO) Lars And The Real Girl, 2007 (HBO) The Last Exorcism, 2010 (Extended Version) (HBO) Lay The Favorite, 2012 (HBO) Life Of Pi, 2012 (HBO) Love & Basketball, 2000 The Lucky One, 2012 (HBO) Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, 1983 Man of Steel, 2013 The Matrix, 1999 The Matrix Reloaded, 2003 The Matrix Revolutions, 2003 Monkey Shines, 1988 (HBO) Murder On The Orient Express, 1974 (HBO) My Bloody Valentine 3-D, 2009 (HBO) The Neverending Story II The Next Chapter, 1991 (HBO) Outbreak, 1995 Pathfinder, 2007 (Director’s Cut) (HBO) Presumed Innocent, 1990 Raw Deal, 1986 (HBO) Robot Chicken, Season 10B Safe House, 2012 (HBO) Saw II, 2005 (Director’s Cut) (HBO) Saw III, 2006 (Director’s Cut) (HBO) Saw IV, 2007 (Director’s Cut) (HBO) Saw V, 2008 (Director’s Cut) (HBO) Saw VI, 2009 (Director’s Cut) (HBO) Saw, 2004 (Extended Version) (HBO) Saw: The Final Chapter, 2010 (Director’s Cut) (HBO) Selena, 1997 The Shadow, 1994 (HBO) Sling Blade, 1996 (HBO) Stop-Loss, 2008 (HBO) Sunshine Cleaning, 2009 (HBO) The Goonies, 1985 The Tank, 2017 (HBO) This Must Be The Place, 2012 (HBO) Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, 2011 (HBO) Training Day, 2001 Unforgiven, 1992 United Shades of America, Season 5 Up In The Air, 2009 (HBO) Wildcats, 1986 (HBO) Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, 1971
HBO Max TV
*Chewing Gum – Season 1 Premiere (Feb 1)
Amazon Prime
*Bliss (Feb 5)
Movies rotating into AMAZON PRIME VIDEO as of February 1
Antz (1998) Australia (2008) Be My Valentine (2013) (Hallmark Movies Now) Burn Motherf**ker, Burn! (2017) (Showtime) Coming To America (1988) Courageous (2011) Dazed And Confused (1993) Down To Earth (2001) Hitsville: The Making of Motown (2019) (Showtime) How She Move (2008) Imagine That (2009) Just Wright (2010) Kiki (2017) (IFC Films Unlimited) Love by Accident (2020) (UP Faith & Family) Love by the 10th Date (2017) (Lifetime Movie Club) Moulin Rouge (2001) Notes On A Scandal (2006) Shanghai Noon (2000) SMOOCH (2011) (Hallmark Movies Now) Spy Next Door (2010) The Haunting In Connecticut (2009) The Ides Of March (2011) The Last Appeal (2016) (UP Faith & Family) The Prestige (2006) There’s Something About Mary (1998) The Village (2004)
Hulu
*Possessor (Feb 1)
12 Hour Shift (Feb 4)
*Antebellum (Feb 5
Movies rotating into HULU as of February 1
9 to 5 (1980) Affliction (1998) American Psycho (2000) American Psycho 2 (2002) The Bellboy (1960) Bug (1975) Cinderfella (1960) Crimes Of The Heart (1987) Did You Hear About The Morgans? (2009) District 9 (2009) Downhill Racer (1969) Employee of the Month (2006) Everything Must Go (2011) From Hell (2001) G.I. Jane (1997) Garfield (2004) Gargoyles: Wings of Darkness (2004) Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962) Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) Happy Tears (2010) Haunting In Connecticut 2: Ghosts Of Georgia (2013) Hello, My Name is Doris (2016) Hitman’s Run (1999) Jane Austen’s Mafia! (1998) Jennifer 8 (1992) John Grisham’s The Rainmaker (1997) The Juror (1996) Mars Attacks! (1996) Me, Myself And Irene (2000) Ninja Assassin (2009) The Omen (1976) (1976) Damien – Omen II (1978) Only God Forgives (2013) The Patsy (1964) Phase IV (1974) Possessor (2020) The Prince Of Tides (1991) Shirley Valentine (1989) The Shootist (1976) Sideways (2004) Some Kind of Wonderful (1987) Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) The Tenant (1976) Teresa’s Tattoo (1994) Turbulence (1997) Van Wilder: Party Liaison (2002) Waking Ned Devine (1998) Witness (1985) X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) You Laugh But It’s True (2011) You’ve Got Mail (1998)
Weekend #5 of 52 (1/28 – 1/31/2021) for 2021 Picks By Streaming Service
The last weekend of the month is upon us.
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NOTE: If you’re coming to these posts weeks or months later, some and/or all of the picks listed below may no longer be on the streaming services indicated. Anything marked as “Original” typically doesn’t expire on the streaming services.
NETFLIX Movies
*Accomplice – Documentary (Jan 27)
*Penguin Bloom
*June & Kopi (Jan 28)
*Below Zero (Jan 29)
*Finding O’Hana
*The Dig
*Fatima (Jan 31)
NETFLIX TV
*50M 2 – Season 1 (Jan 27)
*We Are The Brooklyn Saints – Season 1 (Jan 29)
Disney+
*Epic (Jan 29)
*The Incredible Dr. Pol
*Ramona & Beezus
*Texas Storm Squad
Disney+ TV
Dinosaurs – Seasons 1-4 (Jan 29)
HBO Max Movies
*The Little Things (Jan 29) Also available in theaters, #2 of 17 movies in 2021 day and date released by Warner Bros.
Haven’t heard much about cruises during the pandemic, until recently coming across these December Disney Antarctica cruises costing — ouch — about $1,000 per day, per person.
Prices for the December Antarctica cruise start around $11,500 for children and $12,800 for adults for a 200-square-foot “deluxe stateroom” with a private deck. Prices more than double to stay in the “owner’s suite,” which is nearly $27,500 per adult. Airfare to and from Buenos Aires is not included in the price.
A second cruise, departing on Jan. 30, 2022, is slightly cheaper with rates starting at $11,200
For a family of four, you can buy a brand new car, perhaps a smaller truck for the cost of this 12-day crew. $50,000+ is nothing to sneeze at — for entertainment. This isn’t discretionary income for most people, let’s face it. This is safe up for one big gigantic family trip for a lifetime money for most people. Heck, get yourself a trailer and truck (used, but in good condition) and take the family on multiple trips for maybe even less money.
It would be exciting to book a cruise like this, but I think our cruise-related price range is more like $5,000, which is still a lot of cheddar. And we have only been on one cruise in our lives to date: a Carnival cruise from Los Angeles to Mexico, with a stop at Catalina Island.
It was fun, but that trip was won in a sales contest and still cost us around $1,000 for charges aboard the ship (drinks and some other things weren’t free aboard that ship). That was in the 90s, so like 25+ years ago. Probably be 2-3 grand today, if they do the same “sail and sign” charge cards when you board the ships. All the food you can eat was free — and they had some amazing food on the ship, but if you weren’t drinking water, you had to pony up for beverages.
We’ve talked about an Alaskan cruise, because those leave out of Seattle and some are more reasonably priced, but in all honesty, we have visions of people trapped aboard the ship at the start of the pandemic. It’s not the place we would feel safe going to any time soon.
What about movie theaters aboard ships? Good question. They do show movies on ships and have Wi-Fi, although that can be an additional charge scenario. I did some digging to see if this $12,000 price tag includes free wi-fi.
The answer is, see (bolding is mine):
Through Connect@Sea, Disney Cruise Line offers a variety of on board Internet packages to suit your needs. Depending on how much you use your wireless devices, you can choose from a variety of plans.
Once you’ve boarded, access our DCL-GUEST Wi-Fi network to learn about the different offerings and specific pricing for your cruise. You can use your data plan on as many devices as you want. Your Wi-Fi plan will be charged to your stateroom folio.
So, you pay almost $50,000 for a family of 4 vacation and still have to pay for Wi-Fi aboard the ship? Sigh. This is the kind of thing that just rubs me all kinds of wrong ways. This is 2021, wi-fi should not be charged anywhere in travel services. I’m talking airplanes, trains, boats, whatever. Include that cost in your freaking $1,000/day boarding pass. Make it $1,010/day if that includes Wi-Fi.
And then there’s mandatory tipping
Don’t even get me started on the whole business of mandatory gratuities. Tipping should never be mandatory. Pay your help better. If the help does a great job, we’ll tip them directly, but don’t put it on the bill at the end of the cruise, slip it under our door and tell us we are forced to tip various workers. I realize if you don’t do that, some people (maybe a lot of people, I don’t know) won’t tip, and those people are idiots. Should always, always, always tip good service. Bad service? You either tip lower or not at all. I’m OK with that practice. I guess maybe the people who don’t tip ever are the same people who have never worked a minimum wage job plus tips.
Back to the wi-fi and other unnecessary extra fees and charges/
This is the type of cruise fees nonsense that has kept us away from booking more cruises since the one we went on in our life. We still might do an Alaskan one, but this Disney cruise probably never happens for us. And I don’t like saying never because watching the video it looks like all kinds of fun … just not $50,000 for 12 days fun. Again, if you’re Bill Gates family or Jeff Bezos or win the lottery (or hit some mega huge multi-million jackpot), $50,000 is like pennies between seat cushions. These cruises are for the wealthy and super wealthy, I guess, not for middle income America, maybe not even for upper middle income — unless they win them in contests or are gifted some other way.
Do you enjoy taking cruises? Tell us about your experience in the comments below.
Weekend #4 of 52 (1/21 – 1/24/2021) for 2021 Picks By Streaming Service
Back for more streaming action!
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NOTE: If you’re coming to these posts weeks or months later, some and/or all of the picks listed below may no longer be on the streaming services indicated. Anything marked as “Original” typically doesn’t expire on the streaming services.
NETFLIX Movies
*Sightless (Jan 20)
The White Tiger (Jan 22)
NETFLIX TV
*Spycraft – Season 1 – (Jan 20) Miniseries
*Call My Agent – Season 4 – (Jan 21)
*Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba – Season 1 – (Jan 22)
Season 2 – Episode 8 of 8 Disney+ Air date: December 18, 2020 Run time: 46 minutes Directed by Peyton Reed
Chapter 16 – “The Rescue”
Boba Fett, Cara Dune and Mando intercept and disable the imperial ship carrying the clone engineer featured in an earlier episode. They stop by and pick up Bo-KaTan to join in the fight to take Moff Gideon’s ship and reclaim Grogu. Alas, the Dark Troopers are standing guard as well as a battle to reclaim the Darksaber which carries a secret of its own. Pinned down a ship arrives carrying a stunning visitor ready for battle.
Will Grogu be saved? Will Moff Gideon fall at the hands of Mando and his team or live to further build his evil Imperial forces? Who will control the power of the Darksaber? Who is the mysterious visitor that arrives?
Everything builds to an epic battle aboard Moff Gideon’s ship.
Summary
Did not see the ending coming, nor especially the arrival of that familiar Star Wars visitor. The Dark Trooper battling Mando on the ship was one of many entertaining scenes. This episode is pure Star Wars gold, the best of any so far in this series. Do not miss the end credits either, as a surprise awaits there as well.
We’ll be back in a future post to cover spoilers and more, but this episode is too good to ruin that this soon. I can’t wait to see where this series takes us next. Season 3 is totally primed. In the meantime, we’ll just have to speculate about how awesome Disney+ will be with more of this quality and type of Star Wars. Great work all around from Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni and their team. They should have been given the keys to the Star Wars kingdom as soon as Disney purchased from Lucasfilms.
Oh, and one more time Mando takes off his helmet. Can we stop having articles saying Pedro Pascal is complaining about not being able to take off his helmet? His helmet has come off multiple times in season two. We know his face. We know that perfectly manicured mustache. If Pascal ever did complain, it might be that it was about how hot it was having his head inside the mask so much. That part is believable anyway. This is a huge role for him. What actor wouldn’t want to be Mando?
S2:E8 Chapter 16 “The Rescue” rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
What did you think of Chapter 16: “The Rescue”? We welcome your comments — good, bad or indifferent — below.
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