DCFanDome - Day 1 Highlights

Originally this was going to be a one day event but due to the demand and the fact that the DCFanDome site kept crashing, the wise decision was made to push the majority of the TV segment to a second day - September 12th.

In this blog alone, my coverage will focus on the movie side of things, but note that there also trailers for the games Gotham Knights (due in 2021) and Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League (due in 2022) that were also interesting as well as a trailer for the seventh season of The Flash CW show and spoilers for Titans upcoming third season. These will be looked at in the next blog.

Here, the focus is on upcoming movies and without further ado, here we go ....

Wonder Woman 1984 kicked off things in style with writer/producer Patty Jenkins and her cast of Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig and Pedro Pascal all joining in to hype up the movie, due for theatre only release from October 2nd. The cast were also joined by Lynda Carter herself and it was an added bonus to an already lovely opening panel. The second trailer was also released with a proper look at Kristen Wiig in action as Cheetah and we can all breathe a sigh of relief that it's not a Cats style misfire. After waiting so long for this movie, it's nice to know we're closer to witnessing Diana's second big screen solo adventure. 

WW84 Final Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OASpkr_ljhw

The Flash then also made a splash, albeit a shorter one as of yet, filming for this movie will not commence until early next year in order to meet it's June 3rd 2022 date. We had director Andy Muschietti, writer Christina Hodson and lead actor Ezra Miller talk about some plot point and it continues to be clear that this will be a variation on the classic Flashpoint comic. Also revealed a few days before the event was that both Michael Keaton and Ben Affleck will be returning to the movie as their respective versions of Batman while some concept photos show that Barry will also get a brand new suit made for him. You can also expect more casting to be confirmed over the next several months as the film gears up for production.

A little closer of course would be The Suicide Squad, still slated for August 6th 2021 and James Gunn made one hell of a splash here with the reveals. The new characters in this movie will be Peacemaker (John Cena), Bloodsport (Idris Elba), Ratcatcher 2 (Daniela Melchior), Thinker (Peter Capaldi), Polka Dot Man (David Dastmalchian), Weasel (Sean Gunn), Blackguard (Pete Davidson), Savant (Michael Rooker), King Shark (Steve Agee), Sol Soria (Alice Braga), TDK (Nathan Fillion), Javellin (Flula Borg), Tyla DuBois (Storm Reid), Flo Crawley (Tinashe Kajese), Mongal (Mayling Ng), Presidente General Silvio Luna (Juan Diego Botto), Emilia Harcourt (Jennifer Holland), Major General Mateo Suarez (Joaquin Cosio) while Taika Waititi and Julio Riuz's roles have yet to be disclosed. Appearing from the previous film are Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), Amanda Waller (Viola Davis), Captain Boomerang (Jai Courtney) and Rick Flag (Joel Kinnanman). The roll card was a great way to hype up this movie and the behind the scenes look gave us a good taster of the chaos coming our way with this motley crew.

TSS Trailer 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8tWKJwyG6Y

Three months since HBO Max made a lot of fans happy and following his own fan panel a month before, this was the place where Zack Snyder could reunite with his JL members (minus Jason Momoa) and unveil the trailer for Zack Snyder's Justice League. I'll admit aside from a rather bland song choice, the trailer sold this pretty well and it's clear as day that we're going to be seeing something completely different to the theatrical release. This will now be a four episode series to be released on HBO Max in 2021 with deals for international airings to be sorted in the next few months. There will also be an option to watch this as a movie as well. Expect to see several characters that you didn't back in 2017 in this miniseries as well as expanded scenes for others too. 

ZSJL Trailer 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6512XKKNkU

As for Dwayne Johnson - you gotta admire the guy. He's a one man promotion machine and while I've had my reservations for Black Adam (due December 22nd 2021), this panel did give us some things to mull over. First of all, we had Noah Centineo's casting as Atom Smasher confirmed as well as the JSA members  Hawkman, Doctor Fate and Cyclone being confirmed for the movie with casting soon to come. We also got some concept art of the characters and concept trailers explaining Black Adam's backstory. 

Black Adam Trailer 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N73oTiIIJe0

And then we got the panel with the least amount of information and absence of it's leading star. We did however have director James Wan and Orm himself, Patrick Wilson but seeing as the sequel to Aquaman is the furthest away (December 16th 2022), I'm not surprised that not too much was revealed. We did learn the sequel will be a little more serious and relevant along with the promise of new worlds being explored but we're a while off before we get anything really juicy to go over.

Then there was Shazam! The cast were joined by comedian Sinbad and while we're also another while off from the sequel (November 4th 2022), we did learn that it will be called Shazam!: Fury Of The Gods and with filming due to begin in early 2021, casting information will probably start leaking towards the end of the year. Again, a rather short but decent enough panel. Of course the best was clearly being saved until last.

The Batman of course being the best and in news that will shock absolutely no one whatsoever, the most trending topic of the night with the  trailer trending on every platform. Let's talk about the trailer: it was incredible. Robert Pattinson is going to be a definitive take on the Dark Knight and Paul Dano's Zodiac Killer esque take on the Riddler is genuinely chilling to watch. Colin Farrell looks unrecognisable as the Penguin, Jeffrey Wright looks great as Jim Gordon and while I'm not keen on Catwoman's makeshift look, Zoe Kravitz seems to have the character's mannerisms down perfectly. It's also been revealed that Rupert Penry Jones will play a corrupt mayor in the movie and one of the Riddler's first victims while Barry Keoghan will also play Officer Stanley Merkel. The movie itself certainly has captured the moodiness and Gothic quality of the comics, with a bit of Gotham and Batman: The Animated Series added into the mix. Meanwhile the upcoming HBO Max series focusing on the GCPD will be set during Batman's first year while the movie itself will be based in his second year. So far, only 30 per cent of the movie has been filmed with production resuming next week but it's really looking amazing so far. October 1st 2021 cannot come fast enough.

The Batman Trailer 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g59rUQbVlIw

Those were the highlights of the first day of DCFanDome. Servers crashing and trailer leakage to one side, I think it was a bloody success. Day 2 - September 12th will have a lot to live up to, but I'll cover the highlights. 

My Review of Happy Death Day (2017)

 

Written by Scott Lobdell

Directed by Christopher Landon

Lori: "What I really want to know is, how did you figure it out?"

Tree: "Because you've killed me before."

Lori: "Then I guess I'm just gonna have to do it again."

Anyone want a female led horror version of Groundhog Day? Even if you didn't, that's exactly what you'll get when watching this movie and truthfully, it's a lot of fun to watch with an unusually named protagonist Tree Gelbman (Jessica Rothe).

The movie starts off with a surprise birthday party for Tree, which involves her ignoring her father, David (Jason Bayle), blowing off a date with closeted gay guy Tim (Caleb Spillyards) as well as a previous hook up with fellow college student, Carter Davis (Israel Broussard), who also becomes her love interest as the movie progresses.

Each time throughout the movie, Tree relieves the same events on her birthday with each time altering the outcome but the result also being the same - getting killed by a mystery stranger wearing a creepy looking baby mask. Each and every time.

Of course while we're going through the movie, it's fun watching events getting rewritten and it's also fun seeing the blossoming relationship between Tree and Carter develop as the latter finds himself becoming aware of the antics in a way or at the very least believing that Tree is telling the truth about her would be killer.

As for the killer in question - it turns out the supposedly nice roommate Lori Spengler (Ruby Modine) turned out to have it for Tree, due to the fact that both women were sleeping with their college professor, Dr Butler (Charles Aitken) and the would be method of murder came in the sweet variety that I definitely would've succumbed to had I been in this movie.

Jessica Rothe is quite a find and when it comes to horror, I can't think of the last time we've had a really interesting final girl. I'm not saying that Tree Gelbman would give the likes of Laurie Strode, Nancy Thompson or Sidney Prescott a run for their money, but she certainly has similar qualities to those particular final girls.

Also Ruby Modine is definitely no slouch as Lori, adding a quite menace to the character during the big reveal while at the same time remaining quietly in the background until the big reveal. Israel Broussard makes for a charming love interest in Carter and the most of the supporting characters are decent enough to watch as well. I haven't seen the sequel yet but I'm also hoping that Tim followed Tree's advice. 

- The killer is called Babyface. Tree's proper name is Teresa but she's largely referred to as Tree throughout the movie.

- This film holds a record of being the third movie after both Prom Night (2008 version) and The Final Girls to have a PG-13 rating. That rating doesn't hurt the overall content of the movie.

- The original title for this movie was going to be Half to Death.

- Chronology:Tree's birthday is September 18th so you have the idea as to when this movie is set during.

Happy Death Day is definitely one of those horror films that blends a sci-fi element, riffs off a classic movie from a different genre and absolutely delivers on it's premise. I had so much fun watching this movie and from what I've read about the sequel, there's more fun to be had and with a final girl like Tree Gelbman, that's a good thing.

Rating: 8 out of 10

My Review of Get Out (2017)

 

Written & Directed by Jordan Peele

Chris: "Yeah, so this is uncharted territory for them. You know, I don't want to get chased off the lawn with a shotgun."

Rose: "You're not going to. First of all, my Dad would have voted for Obama a third time if he could've. Like, the love is so real."

It's been interesting in the last three years to see the career trajectory that Jordan Peele has had, all due to the success of this movie and I have to admit it's taken me this long to finally have actually seen this horror number to get why so many have become enamoured with Peele's general appeal in the genre.

I'm not going to cite this movie as an outright classic because while I definitely think it adds a conversation into the genre that's been needed for a while, it's somewhat not without it's flaws and that's mainly how one dimensional (although creepy) the main antagonists of the film actually are. There's little in the way of nuance with them.

However every horror film needs a strong protagonist and given that this is a genre where the male protagonists are often few and far between, my favourite thing about this particular film would be lead actor Daniel Kaluuya. Over the years, he's gone from a bit player and co-writer on a show like Skins for UK audiences to a bonafide leading man in Hollywood and it's easy to see how this movie essentially catapulted his fame.

Kaluuya's role is that of Chris Washington, who for the first time is finally meeting the parents of his white girlfriend, Rose Armitage (Girls actor, Allison Williams) and the issue of Chris being a black man is raised earlier into the movie with Rose reassuring him that her parents are not racist. The fact that Rose seemingly insisted on that already set up where things were going to go in this movie.

Once we meet Rose's family - Dean (Bradley Whitford) and Missy Armitage (Catherine Keener) as well as her brother, Jeremy (Caleb Landry Jones) and housemaid Georgina (Betty Gabriel) it soon becomes pretty clear that all isn't what it seems with the Armitages andChris finds himself plunged into a nightmare he won't forget anytime soon.

While the Armitages themselves feel a bit too one dimensional as baddies, I will admit that aside from Kaluuya himself, Allison Williams does a brilliant job switching from a seemingly nice girlfriend in Rose to a full blown psychopath and the more sci-fi elements of the Armitages true schemes really does help to elevate the movie a little beyond being a typical horror fest. I think it's probably that element that later saw Peele getting The Twilight Zone gig for CBS Access.

- Peele did a voice cameo for the injured deer and a commercial in the movie. This is also the first horror movie from an African American director to make over 100 million in the box office.

- I was pretty much relieved that no harm came to Chris's dog in this movie because that happens far too often in horror films. The deer on the other hand wasn't as fortunate.

- Another standout performance in this movie was also Lakeith Stanfield as both Andre Hayworth and Logan King.

- Standout music: Childish Gambino's Redbone at the beginning of this movie.

Get Out was an impressive debut for Jordan Peele and while the baddies of the piece could've been fleshed out far better, there's no denying that both Daniel Kaluuya and Allison Williams excel in the lead roles, there's plenty of nice subversion from some usual horror tropes and it definitely delivered the right amount of scares.

Rating: 7 out of 10

My Review of Professor Marston And The Wonder Women (2017)

 

Written & Directed by Angela Robinson

Marston (to an audience): "To you Wonder Woman is just a comic but she's my life. She's my love."

The timing of this film could not have been more perfect. Released nearly four months after Gal Gadot herself dominated the big screen in her first solo outing as the legendary Amazon, this biopic concerning her creator felt like a smart move and one that could add a bit more insight into the most influential female superhero of all time.

Of course, as this is a biopic, while Wonder Woman and the initial controversy that the content of her comics often generated (somewhat described as sadomasochist), the real focus here is William Moulton Marston (Luke Evans), his wife Elizabeth (Rebecca Hall) and their lover, Olive Byrne (Bella Heathcote) and while this movie takes a lot of creative liberties, it's a fascinating look at all three people here.

The Marstons themselves were known in the academic community especially for their work with the lie detector test (or were they?) and this gets covered as student Olive finds herself getting immersed with the pair, to the point of leaving her former life behind and having William's children as well as becoming a lover with Elizabeth.

This unconventional relationship isn't shown without it's controversy and backlash from respective communities as all three have their professional lives put at jeopardy as they delve into the world of BDSM while developing a certain heroine, whose adventures are scrutinised by children's literature expert Josette Frank (Connie Britton) much to William's derision.

All three leads do an excellent job in bringing the characters to life and while I definitely would've liked to have seen more of Marston's creation here, the focus on his lifestyle definitely gave a fascinating into the man as well as the lives of both Elizabeth and Olive, especially as the former herself often had difficulty in submitting but did when the threat of losing Olive came to be a reality.

There's a far more insightful and accurate commentary on the nature of BDSM and it's correlation to basic human nature than a certain franchise that shall be named with Marston putting a heavy emphasis  on the D.I.S.C. model of behavioral styles throughout the entire movie as he put this in practice with his relationships with Elizabeth and Olive.

The movie also covers the final days of Marston with Elizabeth and Olive coping with his loss as well as remaining with one another until their own dying days. At times, I did find myself more invested with them as a pairing as I did with William, but as I mentioned earlier in the review all three actors play their parts well and have the right spark with each other.

- Marston's granddaughter Christie Marston publicly stated that the family rejected the movie and it's depiction of their grandparents.

- Nice performances as well from JJ Field as fetishist Charles Guyette and Oliver Platt as comic book pioneer, Max Gaines.

- At one point we did Olive donning the very costume that would be seen on Wonder Woman during the Marstons first session with BDSM.

- Chronology: This takes place during the years of 1928 to 1947 with some focus on the 1945 testimonials.

Professor Marston And The Wonder Women might not be a strictly authentic look into the fascinating life that Marston, Elizabeth and Olive lived but it's definitely an engrossing depiction that succeeds in keeping you gripped from start to finish. I also came away from this movie hoping that all three of these leads at some point wind up in the DCEU.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Doctor Who: Christopher Eccleston Returns - For Big Finish

Yeah, had to make sure the title was clear as other publications deliberately fudged that one but if 2020 wasn't crazy enough, this has actually happened.

Fifteen years since his departure in the first series finale of the 2005 series of Doctor Who, Christopher Eccleston is finally reprising the role of the Ninth Doctor and it's courtesy of Big Finish, who have recorded 12 new stories with Eccleston, due for release next year, with Eccleston commenting on his much hyped return.

“After 15 years it will be exciting to revisit the Ninth Doctor's world, bringing back to life a character I love playing.” 

While details about other cast and stories are yet to be revealed, the Ninth Doctor will have a four boxset situation with each set containing three stories and a behind the scenes feature disc, titled Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Adventures, which can be preordered from the Big Finish site. 

I have to say, I'm genuinely shocked by this. I know it took a while for Big Finish to get Tom Baker into the audio, but I didn't believe they would be able to persuade Christopher Eccleston. It's Fantastic (as the 9th Doctor would say) that they have. However on that note and sorry, but this bit is going to be rant at the actual series itself. Bear with me.

It's brilliant that over the last few months both Big Finish and Emily Cook through the watchalongs have managed to keep Doctor Who somewhat in the public eye but if anything, it's also highlighted that the BBC and Chris Chibnall themselves are failing to do this and that's somewhat a worrying thing to see.

Before anyone comes at me about COVID or the NMD crowd, it has been five months since The Timeless Children has aired and while we know that Chibnall and lead actor Jodie Whittaker are back for Series 13, we don't however know when filming is slated to begin or have any clue as to when it may actually air and given that other major productions have either restarted filming or are about to begin again, surely the BBC should be making some kind of announcement concerning one of their biggest shows?

We also still don't know if the upcoming Revolution Of The Daleks will air either at Christmas or New Year and while it's been rumoured that both Bradley Walsh and Tosin Cole are departing in the special along with Mandip Gill continuing into next series, it's still not confirmed.

I've seen some people online tangentially connected with the show defend Chibnall's overt secretiveness but for me, I genuinely think it's slowly killing the hype for the series and we're at a point where some new information concerning the series should be starting to be officially announced, if anything to at least curtail other 'sources' from spreading misinformation about the series.

I've already voiced enough of my own personal criticisms I have with the current era, but that doesn't mean I don't love the show or that I want it to do badly. I just want better storytelling and some proper marketing and excitement and right now, both the BBC and Chris Chibnall really need to pull their finger out on both counts. Hopefully something genuinely exciting concerning the show (perhaps some new companion casting) will emerge soon.

Big Finish News: https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/christopher-eccleston-returns-to-doctor-who

Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Adventures will be released from May 2021. Revolution Of The Daleks airdate is yet to be confirmed for BBC1 and BBCAmerica as well as filming for Series 13.

We Ended The World Again

It's been a while since I've done this and well, a few news shows have emerged and I've dropped at least one as well. 

911: This season really has been hitting it's stride and with five episodes left to go, the ending of episode 13 with the 911 building being taken hostage was a pretty impressive cliffhanger. I also liked that it tied back into Maddie's co-worker who had been attacked in the previous episode. Speaking of Maddie, it's nice to see the show progressing her relationship with Howie (who's also reconnecting with his half brother) while Bobby, Athena and Hen have all had roles in the storyline with Michael (is the show going to kill him off?) while Buck and Eddie could do with a little more, storyline wise.

Love, Victor: I have really enjoyed this lovely, feel good series and given the cliffhanger where Victor finally came out to his parents, I am so glad that it's been renewed for a second season. The build towards Victor accepting himself along with that wonderful episode that actually featured Simon and Bram has been gripping to watch. I love Benji as well as a love interest for Victor and the show's supporting cast really do compliment the series. I'll definitely be watching next season.

The Good Place: Okay, I'm not sure what's going on with E4 because for the last two weeks there has been no new episodes airing. I'm unsure if they've dropped the series, and if they have, I'll have to watch the rest of it online. Anyways, the episodes I had seen though largely involved Trevor doing his best to sabotage Michael's work getting the group to work together as well as some brilliant scenes with Janet and Gen. This season has been good so far and I definitely want to see how the rest of it plays out.

The Politician: Going into the second season of this show, there are two sadly alarming things I've noticed about this one. There's the fact that this seems to be the least hyped Ryan Murphy show probably since The New Normal and that the LGBT content is probably the worst since arguably Nip/Tuck. Other than that, the second season has been mostly entertaining, even if Dede is a far more sympathetic political candidate than Payton has been during the course of this whole series. As for the double pregnancy story with Astrid and Alice - yeah, we could've done without that. 

The Umbrella Academy: The second season launched on Netflix less than a fortnight ago and it's been quite a wild ride so far. The first four episodes separated the siblings into the 1960's, they all built new lives and then Five had to go and spoil it all because there's another apocalypse. On the other hand, the new setting has worked a treat and all the new characters like Lila, Sissy, Ray and Elliot have all added well to the series. As for the romance with Vanya and Sissy, didn't we all see that one coming?

• Although The Flight Attendant has yet to debut on HBO Max, lead actor Kaley Cuoco has hinted that the show will get a second season. 
• Will Smith will have a producer on an upcoming gritty reboot of Fresh Prince Of Bel Air.
• Sirens has been cancelled after three seasons on Freeform.
• Shows like The Good Doctor and Grey's Anatomy will tackle the coronavirus in upcoming episodes.
• High Fidelity has been cancelled after a season on Hulu.
• CSI: Vegas - a continuation of the original series has been ordered for CBS.
• Adria Adjona has joined the cast of the upcoming Rogue One TV series for Disney+
• Shawn Ashmore will be playing Lamplighter in the upcoming second season of The Boys. The show has also been renewed for a third season.
• Olivia Swann will return as a regular for the sixth season of Legends Of Tomorrow.
• Sarah Paulson will direct for the upcoming American Horror Stories spin off. American Horror Story itself is set to film it's tenth season (theme to be revealed) towards the end of the year.

My Review of Doom Patrol's 2x09: "Wax Patrol"

 

Written by Chris Dingess & Tanya Steele

Directed by Christopher Manley

Candlemaker (to Dorothy): "Come girl and meet your fate."

And we have a cliffhanger on our hands. Given that we're down an episode, I guess it was to be expected and this episode definitely had enough to wax lyrical over considering that all our main characters were left in quite the position.

First of all, there's Dorothy. She's been fighting all season to keep the Candlemaker at bay and the events of a carnival saw the latter wreck the most havoc as he managed to take out Willoughby and the majority of the gang before grabbing Dorothy and disappearing by the end of this one.

As usual, Niles seemed torn between wanting to protect his daughter but still failing as a father with Slava turning up at the last minute to try and help Dorothy against the Candlemaker. Ultimately it's Dorothy who will have to take out the Candlemaker and quick before the latter completely destroys the world.

As for the gang themselves - Rita, Cliff and Victor all had confrontations with their imaginary friends before succumbing to the wax. Even having an imaginary friend didn't stop Larry from also sharing the same fate and Kay herself looked she was about to be in the same predicament too, considering the Candlemaker took over Miranda.

Speaking of Miranda, the flashbacks focused on her working as a waitress before meeting a busker who seemed nice at first before being revealed as a toxic asshole. The flashbacks were pretty strong and they did a good job of explaining Miranda's current mentality while Jane herself managed to pull herself out of the well. It'll be Jane who end up helping Dorothy with the Candlemaker. 

- The imaginary friends included Imaginary Jesus (for Cliff), Roxy (Rita), Doctor Cowboy (Victor) and a Punch & Judy doll (for Willoughby).

- How come Niles wasn't turned into wax? Surely the Candlemaker would've done it to him before going after the other members first?

-  Standout music: King Harvest's Dancing In The Moonlight and The Cure's Picture Of You.

- Chronology: 1969 Milwaukee during the Miranda flashbacks and the present day for everything else.

Wax Patrol definitely ended on a solid cliffhanger for next season (and given that it's doing well for HBO Max, this should be coming back). I do feel they'll use next season's premiere/the intended finale to quick wrap this up ala Titans before moving on to the next story. 

Rating: 8 out of 10 

My Review of Doom Patrol's 2x08: "Dad Patrol"

Written by Tom Farrell & April Fitzsimmons

Directed by Amanda Row

Candlemaker: "It's time, Dorothy."

No kidding, eh? All season long we've been building towards the inevitable with Dorothy and now it's here. All season long this show has done a great job with developing Dorothy and making her as sympathetic as possibly with Abigail Shapiro putting in a fantastic performance but with one episode to go, it was time for the Candlemaker to finally come out and properly play.

Niles will never win father of the year but in this episode he attempted to give Dorothy one last nice day before he'd have to do something to prevent her from maturing. However fate got in the way as Dorothy did mature and the end showed that the world might be doomed as a result.

It's hard not to be sympathetic to Dorothy's plight as all she's wanted is to be a normal girl and loved. Niles has repeatedly failed her as a parent and while the others have done their best to try and help, the most helpful adult in Dorothy's life was the woman in the bathroom who explained to the girl that she was getting her periods. 

With Dorothy's tale playing out in the present, the episode delved more into the past to examine the abuse that Kay/Miranda had to suffer at the hands of Kay's father. The show hasn't been shy in highlighting how awful Kay's father has been but in case any of us had forgotten, we really got another painful reminder of what a truly evil human being he was to his daughter.

Jane wonderfully stepped up with a little help from Larry by going down the well to retrieve Kay's stuffed teddy Harry before Miranda revealed her true colours and shoved Jane down another well where the likes of Scarlett and Lucy were also floating in. I know Miranda was too good to be true and we've got an interesting battle for Primary on our hands with her and Jane in the finale.

As for Rita and Victor - they made a lovely team up this week as they went looking for Roni, who killed someone from her past and admitted to stealing the Uma Jelly. Things did not end well between Victor and Roni in this episode but here's hoping those two can work it out. I really like Roni and I'm hoping the show can keep her around for a bit longer.

Elsewhere Cliff was also kept out of the main events this week but on the plus side, he got to reconnect with Clara and it was rather nice to see the two of them getting along. More interesting was the fact that Cliff seemed to have a reaction when cooking breakfast. Is he starting to regain some feeling?

- If you liked the idea of Steele & Stone a few episodes ago, how does Borg & Beekeeper sound? It could be the modern version of The Avengers.

- Larry had some flashbacks to spending time with his son, Paul while Willoughby was consulting with a white guinea pig named Burbunny over the Dorothy situation.

- By the looks of this episode, I'm thinking that Niles will not make it into next season. 

- Chronology: 1954 and 1961 for scenes with Kay/Miranda and Larry/Paul as well as the present day for the bulk of the episode.

Dad Patrol took the theme of fathers and daughters with varying results but each look was either compelling, heartfelt, horrifying or a mixture of the three elements. I know we're one episode short on what we should be but I do hope the finale does resolve the main story with Dorothy well but even if it doesn't, the numbers on HBO Max would imply that we'll be seeing more of this show for the time being.

Rating: 8 out of 10