Episode 67. This week on The Review Show we watched Sweetness & Lightning, a 12 episode anime all about good food. Kohei's wife has recently passed away and he isn't much of a cook. He doesn't have much time either being a full time teacher and having to care for his daughter. His daughter, Tsumugi, is in kindergarten and is just starting to tire of frozen and boxed meals. When one of his students offers them a meal at her family restaurant, Kohei ends up learning some of the recipes and techniques so he can feed his daughter well.

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Episode 66. We watched Metropolis, a 2001 anime film based on a manga by Osamu Tezuka, written by Katsuhiro Otomo and directed by Rintaro. Metropolis is a city full of robot workers who are mistrusted by their human neighbors, and the top industrialist has secretly commissioned a highly advanced robot duplicate of his deceased daughter. He plans for her to be a leader of the city, but his adopted human son wants to destroy her, even if the girl has no idea of her true nature of purpose. It's a gorgeous sci-fi story with a lot of heart!

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Episode 65. This week we listened to season one of the audio show Hadron Gospel Hour, a combination of sci-fi adventure and sketch comedy, from writer/producers/stars Richard Wentworth and Michael McQuilkin. Mike is a normal IT guy until obsessed scientist Dr. Oppenheimer steals him away to an interdimensional bunker, telling him his timeline is doomed and he needs help. The two of them travel through space and time attempting to heal the multiverse-wide rift caused by Oppenheimer's experiment gone wrong, encountering bizarre scenes in one fractured universe after another.

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Episode 64. We read The Wreckers Saga, an arc from the Transformers comics by James Roberts and Nick Roche. The Wreckers are a team of Autobots who fight the most dangerous missions behind enemy lines, trying to stay alive and keep their heads together. The war between them and the Decepticons isn't as black and white as it appears and they uncover terrifying secrets about their leaders, each other, and sometimes their own personal pasts. This complex story definitely has more than meets the eye!

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Episode 63. We watched the 2000 animated sci-fi film Titan AE, from directors Gary Goldman and Don Bluth, with screenplay work from Joss Whedon and Ben Edlund. Earth has been destroyed and the surviving humans live scattered in space among the alien races, missing home and community. Salvage scavenger Cale learns his scientist father was working on a way to resurrect Earth before he died, and now Cale is the only one who can unlock the plans. He joins a ragtag team and sets off in a spaceship to try and save humanity!

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Episode 62. We read the first two volumes of the Valiant Comics superhero buddy comedy Quantum & Woody. Eric and Woody Henderson are estranged adopted brothers, one straightlaced and one disastrous, who reunite when their scientist father dies. They stumble into an experiment in his lab and come out with unstable connected powers. Can they be a superhero team when they're barely ready to be brothers again?

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Episode 61. We watched Serenity, a 2019 film written and directed by Stephen Knight and starring Matthew McConaughey and Ann Hathaway. A fisherman is struggling to keep his business alive as he throws his resources into catching one infamously huge fish. His ex-wife offers him all the money he needs if he takes her new husband out on the boat and pushes him off, saving her and their son from a life of violence. This movie has a wild twist that completely changes the game!

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Episode 60. We watched Flavors of Youth, an animated anthology movie with three stories set in China, produced by Chinese and Japanese studios. Story one features a man reminiscing on how his favorite noodle dish has changed from restaurant to restaurant but was always there for him throughout his life. Story two follows a fashion model who worries about losing her career as her youth fades and the younger sister who is trying to relate to her and take care of her. Story three starts with a man discovering a cassette tape his crush recorded for him when they were teens and he races to find a tape player and reconnect with his lost love.

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Episode 59. We watched the first season of Gravity Falls, a Disney Channel cartoon from 2012. Twin siblings Dipper and Mabel Pines are staying the summer with their great uncle at his sham of a "supernatural museum" in Gravity Falls, Oregon where they find a journal filled with real mysteries and paranormal secrets. Is Gravity Falls more exciting than they thought? It's a funny, heartwarming, and often spooky coming-of-age story.

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Episode 58. We watched the 2011 sci-fi action adventure film Attack the Block. It's Guy Fawkes Night in South London and a gang of teenage hoodlums kill what they think is a strange animal, but discover it's an alien monster that plummeted to Earth. As the rest of the intergalactic creatures congregate around their apartment tower, the kids have to scrounge for weapons and allies to defend their home.

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