Animal Control Season 5 Review: Workplace Resistance Meets a Missing Mascot
Frank Shaw can persuade his colleagues to stop working. Persuading himself is harder, especially once the missing Seattle Seahawks mascot...
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The impostors in Skeleton Knight in Another World Season 2 have chosen their disguises well. Arc and his companions are recognizable enough for criminals to borrow their identities, and familiar enough for the premiere to rebuild an episode around their established habits. A rescue earns them a feast and a hot-spring visit; the next morning, frightened villagers mistake them for kidnappers. Clearing up the confusion requires another rescue. This returning adaptation makes recognition its organizing pleasure, inviting viewers back through the same combination of righteous intervention, excessive force, and companionable exasperation that carried the first season. The impersonation plot also...

Yuzu comes back expecting trouble. After another encounter with her sister, she returns to Reiya’s house prepared for the anger she has learned to associate with displeasing someone. He embraces her, relieved that she has returned safely. In the second episode of The Ogre’s Bride, a welcome home becomes an event because Yuzu has so little experience of receiving one without a penalty attached. I find that encounter harder to dismiss than the expensive gifts surrounding it. Gifts fit neatly into the fantasy of a wealthy supernatural husband; relief at her return answers a particular fear. Yet the scene also...

Keeping the Linkin Park name becomes a difficult question in the studio discussions captured by Unshatter. After Chester Bennington’s death by suicide in 2017, the surviving musicians have to decide what that name can still describe. It carries friendships and shared work, alongside the memories listeners have attached to a voice they will never hear live again. Continuing under it means entering a relationship whose expectations extend far beyond the rehearsal room. The discussions make that responsibility tangible without assuming that attachment to the past must dictate the musicians’ future. The responses within the band complicate any easy equation between...

Usopp has found an ideal audience: a crewmate who missed the adventures and is delighted to hear about them. In LEGO One Piece, he tells Chopper how the Straw Hats came together, improving his own contribution along the way. The arrangement gives a recap something it often lacks, a reason for someone inside the story to deliver it. Chopper needs the history; Usopp enjoys the opportunity to edit his reputation. Their exchange makes the act of catching up part of the entertainment. The interruptions involving the pair also keep the account attached to its teller. Usopp’s inflated heroism tells us...

Frank Shaw can persuade his colleagues to stop working. Persuading himself is harder, especially once the missing Seattle Seahawks mascot becomes an available assignment. His protest against replacement boss Templeton has a perfectly serviceable principle behind it, right up until the job offers something he wants to do. In “Seahawks and Piglets,” the fifth-season premiere of Animal Control, that reversal gets the crew moving without requiring Frank to become reasonable. Joel McHale makes his enthusiasm a breach in the character’s carefully maintained indifference. Solidarity apparently has a sports exemption. Templeton’s response keeps the dispute productive for the sitcom, if considerably...

I wanted to keep Charlie moving before I cared much about his badges. His little legs work furiously beneath a rounded body, while his eyebrows suggest that the entire household has somehow disappointed him. Left alone after his owner departs, the pug has a house and garden full of things to investigate, carry, and ruin. Doggy Don’t Care gets considerable mileage from that physical presence. Running and jumping are enjoyable partly because Charlie looks so determined doing them. Affection arrives through movement, giving the subsequent destruction a willing accomplice in the player. The house makes misbehavior easy to understand. A...
Frank Shaw can persuade his colleagues to stop working. Persuading himself is harder, especially once the missing Seattle Seahawks mascot...
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The impostors in Skeleton Knight in Another World Season 2 have chosen their disguises well. Arc and his companions are recognizable enough for criminals to borrow their identities, and familiar...
Yuzu comes back expecting trouble. After another encounter with her sister, she returns to Reiya’s house prepared for the anger she has learned to associate with displeasing someone. He embraces...
Keeping the Linkin Park name becomes a difficult question in the studio discussions captured by Unshatter. After Chester Bennington’s death by suicide in 2017, the surviving musicians have to decide...
Usopp has found an ideal audience: a crewmate who missed the adventures and is delighted to hear about them. In LEGO One Piece, he tells Chopper how the Straw Hats...
I wanted to keep Charlie moving before I cared much about his badges. His little legs work furiously beneath a...
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