![]() ![]() Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: “Spock Amok” (Paramount+, Season One, Episode Five).These What-If? scenarios are fun on their own, but they combine to paint an interesting portrait of how much the series has evolved over the decades, and how many different paths it could have taken along the way. And somehow, in the middle of this, we see Professor Frink in a parody of The Martian. In one, Lenny is revealed to be a figment of Carl’s imagination in another, Homer wakes up from a long coma he went into after skateboarding into Springfield Gorge way back in Season Two. “Lisa the Boy Scout” mostly has nothing to do with its titular storyline, as the show’s broadcast feed is taken over by hackers who keep showing deleted scenes about storylines The Simpsons producers would rather we never see. But there’s an added spring in the show’s elderly step when it gets to play around with its incredibly familiar formula. Season 33, for instance, concluded with a good one where Bart decides he wants to follow in Homer’s footsteps, only to learn about all the forces that are killing off the middle class. The Simpsons can still pull off mostly-traditional episodes even at this advanced age. ![]() The Kids in the Hall: “Episode Three” (Amazon Prime Video, Season Six, Episode Three).The sheer, violent repetition is mocking the pop cultural need to continually revisit Batman’s origin story, but it’s also a genuinely poignant character study not only of Bruce, but of Harley, who decides she has to put her therapist background to good use and help out her former nemesis. ![]() Harley winds up trapped in Bruce Wayne’s memories as he re-experiences the murder of his parents again and again and again and again and again and again and again. “Batman Begins Forever” is the finest example to date of how the show manages to have it both ways. On the other, the series somehow manages to take Harley’s emotions seriously, even in a season that featured both a long set piece at an Eyes Wide Shut-style orgy, and a running gag where Bane demanded revenge because Poison Ivy wouldn’t return the pasta maker he bought for her aborted wedding to Kite-Man. On the one hand, the animated, adults-only Harley Quinn is a filthy, sacrilegious spoof of the entire DC Universe.
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