The Review Show

Episode 71. We watched Annhilation, a 2018 sci-fi/horror film from director Alex Garland. A meteor hits a lighthouse on the coast of Florida and the area around the crash site becomes a growing bubble of stunning and strange mutations, known as the Shimmer. Lena's husband went into the Shimmer on a military mission and wandered out a year later with no memories. Lena, with her own history as a solider and doctor, volunteers to go into this dangerous landscape, where the threat is more personal and more invasive than anyone has imagined.

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Episode 70. We read the first two volumes of a manga called I'm in Love and It's the End of the World by Taamo. Mahiru Yanase has always lived in the shadow of her more popular twin sister Mayo and is resigned to being "the other Yanase." She believes that she is destined for disappointment and if anything good happens to her, something bad is sure to follow. It's her first day at a new high school and the charming Aoi Satomi takes a liking to her immediately, and as much as Mahiru likes him back, she's terrified to let herself have something good. Will her heart win out over her superstition?

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Episode 69. There was only one choice for Episode 69: we read the first two volumes of the comic Sex Criminals by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky. Suzie and Jon can both stop time when they orgasm and believed they were the only one with this power -- until they slept with each other. They're young, they're in love, they believe they're unstoppable, and they're going to rob a bank. But where there are sex criminals there are going to be sex police. Our couple has to confront other people with this mysterious ability, both enemies and allies, all while dealing with the normal perils of their new relationship.

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Episode 68. We watched the first season of the DC Universe exclusive show Titans. Dick Grayson is a detective trying to distance himself from the Robin identity, Rachel Roth is a young girl haunted by a demon spirit, Kory Anders has no memories and is trying to piece together her past and her powers, and Gar Logan can turn into a tiger but he has never bitten anybody. Together they need to fight to stop an otherworldly door from opening here on earth!

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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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