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THE EPITAPH VOL. 63 - PINT-SIZED SCI-FI AND HORROR TV EDITION!
RICK & MORTY: SEASON 6 (2022) - THE WALKING DEAD - THE COMPLETE ELEVENTH SEASON (2021-2022) - STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS: SEASON ONE (2022) - PRETTY LITTLE LIARS: ORIGINAL SIN - THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON (2022)
Label: WBHE
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: TV MA
Duration: 220 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (1.78:1)
Cast: Justin Roiland, Chris Parnell, Spencer Grammer, Sarah Chalke
It’s season six and Rick and Morty which means another rowdy season of sci-fi shenanigans via this attractive steelbook edition - though not as attractive as the stunning Season 5 steelbook. Despite some behind-the-scenes bad behavior that lead to series creator Justin Roiland, who voices titular Rick & Morty, from being let go by Comedy Central at the end of this season, this was a terrific season for the show IMO. We have the usual cynical weirdness by way of some Beth on Space Beth lesbian love, a terrific horror episode that was actually quite creepy, potential incestual mother love, portal gun troubles, we meet super-villain Pissmaster, a technologically advanced species of dinosaurs arrives in Earth, and we learn why owning a real lightsaber is a really bad idea. The writing on this season is top-notch, they cram so much nerdgasm worthy content into each episode that it's at times whiplash inducing, but it holds up to repeat watches. All ten episodes look fantastic in HD, the extras are terrific, especially the Anatomy of Scene featurettes with the creators and writers of the show. If you're a fan this is must-own obviously, you need this sort of animated diversion in your life.
Special Features:
- Rick and Morty: Inside Season 6 (9 min)
- Anatomy of a Scene: "Bethic Twinstinct" (2 min)
- Anatomy of a Scene: "Night Family" (2 min)
- Anatomy of a Scene: "Analyze Piss" (2 min)
- 10 Inside the Episodes
Label: Lionsgate
Region Code: A
Rating: TV MA
Duration: 16 Hours 45 Minutes
Audio: English 7.1 Dolby TrueHD, French 2.0 Dolby Surround, Spanish 2.0 Dolby Surround with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (1.78:1)
Cast: Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Lauren Cohan, Christian Serratos, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Josh McDermitt, Seth Gilliam
After eleven seasons The Walking Dead has ended, it'd been a good long ride for TWD, a show which changed the face of popular TV, without it I don't think we would have all the horror TV programming we've been enjoying this past decade. It was my water-cooler TV talk of choice for years and I watched it loyally from the beginning right on to the end, I never gave up on even when it waned in a few of the later seasons. The final season story arcs included the reformed Negan (which never sat right with me) and conflicted Maggie (how could she not be?) seeking out a group called the Reapers while the others deal with the Commonwealth, an expansive community with a lot of resources - but as usual when it seems to be good to be true it usually is, especially during the zombie apocalypse. I won't be dishonest about it, coming into this season I was about done with the series, sure, I was still hanging on but my enthusiasm for the past few seasons post Rick's and Michonne's exit had been waning, but this season did perk me up a little bit. It didn't wow me, there were no tears at the end, which is strange for a series I've been following for over a decade, but knowing that there were multiple spin-off series coming probably had something to do with it, as well as that I don't think we'd had a main character I really cared about dying it a long time, the stakes were always low in that regard - and instead of building towards spin-off series they should have taken this series out in a spectacular fashion, but I think it just sort of shambled to it's conclusion. In the end I was just lukewarm on the series finale, and sadly the extras in this Blu-ray set are almost non-existent, with only a pair of deleted scenes, WTF?. With that said, the six-disc set looks and sounds quite good, I just wish they'd packed in a few decent extras for the show's final season. Regardless of how I felt about the more recent seasons the show and the fans who loved it deserved some cool bonus junk.
Special Features:
- Deleted Scene Ep. 1110 "New Haunts"
- Deleted Scene Ep. 1110 "Rogue Element"
STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS: SEASON ONE (4-Disc DVD Set)
Label: CBS Home Video
Region Code: 1
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 524 Minutes
Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 with Optional English Subtitles
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)
Cast: Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, Ethan Peck Jess Bush, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding, Melissa Navia, Babs Olusanmokun
The Paramount+ Original Series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, featuring characters from the original Star Trek incarnation, takes Trek back to an earlier time, when Captain Christopher Pike (Anton Mount) manned the helm of the U.S.S. Enterprise before Captain Kirk, aided by his Number One Rebecca Romijn (X-Men), and Science Officer Spock (Ethan Peck). It's easily one of my favorite Star Trek properties, taking the series back to the one-off adventures, visiting new planets, meeting new people, and typically fucking things up around the uncharted universe the way human are probe to do, but also exploring the our better angels as a species. While I do like Star Trek: Discovery I will admit that show does get bogged down is season arced melodrama ass where this show gets back to the singular episodic storytelling of the original series, it does have a retro feel but it's also quite visually exciting and well-made. If you're a Trekkie I would find it hard to imagine this series is not hitting you in your sweet spot. The second season airs in June, and I am ready for more!
Special Features:
- Pike's Peak
- World Building
- Exploring New Worlds
- Audio Commentary with Anson Mount and Akiva Goldsman on 'Strange New Worlds" Episode
- Star Trek: Original Series Episode - "Balance of Terror"
- Deleted Scenes
- Gag Reel
Label: WBHE
Region Code: 1
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 509 Minutes
Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 with Optional English Subtitles
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)
Cast: Bailee Madison, Chandler Kinney, Zaria, Malia Pyles, Maia Reficco, Mallory Bechte, Sharon Leal, Elena Goode, Eric Johnson, Alex Aiono, Lea Salonga
The Pretty Little Liars is a horror-mystery TV franchise that spans five separate series and 10 seasons, it's been around since 2010, but I never watched it until this latest incarnation Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin and I am sold on it. I'm only half way through this season, but it's a banger so far. In the town of Millwood a group of teenage girls are affected by events that happened 20 years ago, they find themselves tormented by an unknown figure who wants them to pay for the secret sin their parents committed two decades ago, involving the suicide of a teenager, as well as their own dirty deeds. If you dig dark, coming-of-age horror-tinged drama there's a lot here to love; the show is stylish and well-shot, the music is fantastic, and the young cast is terrific. It smacks of Scream, Fear Street and other teen slashers of that teen-slasher pedigree. You can tell the writers are huge horror fans, they can't stop themselves from referencing horror films at nearly every turn, whether its lifting scenes from Carrie or characters debating the films of Ari Astor, Jordan Peele, and Hitchcock, or visual nods like posters on the wall of The Howling, etc., it's chock full of fun genre nods.
Special Features:
- Swagger, Romance and Fear: The Boys of Original Sin
A New Generation of Terror: The Villains of Original Sin
- Inside The Sin
- Character Introductions
- Describe Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin Using Emojis
- A New Generation Of Terror – The Villains of Original Sin
- Character Check-In
