Welcome back to Boomb Tube! Here, we will be catching you up on the week in comics TV, both through micro-reviews, as well as links to our full-length TV reviews. We also tend to review series that are dropped all at once weekly so there are a few ‘older’ shows mixed in for good measure. This is the final edition and we wanted to thank you all for reading and following our coverage. Of course, we still have a couple more reviews for you and a week’s worth of finale pieces. Catch you on the flip side folks.
Dead Boy Detectives – “The Case of the Hungry Snake” (S1E8, Netflix)
Read our full review of the season finale by Christopher Chiu-Tabet.
Star Trek: Discovery “Lagrange Point” (S5E9, Paramount+)
I can’t believe we’re already past the penultimate episode of the final season of Discovery. For a show with some high highs and too many low lows, I find myself already grieving its absence especially when we got so many dynamic moments in this episode. But then, this is probably the time to bow out. Leave the audience loving you rather than feeling the frustrations of seasons past. Trek acting and directing legend Jonathan Frakes returns to spice up this action-packed episode that also packs a punch in both the dramatic and comedic ends of the narrative spectrum.
Oh, hey everybody, Saru’s back! *wedding bells and politicking are heard faintly in the distance* The Disco crew has finally made it. They’ve taken the clues to the coordinates of the Progenitor’s tech, well almost. It was a bit of a bumpy landing as the spore jump was damaged after last week’s battle, but they get there in one piece, so that’s all that matters. And the tech’s hiding spot is smack in the middle of dual black holes. A beautiful sight that of course has all the danger and excitement a viewer would expect from such a setting. I loved this sequence. The camera moves around the bridge as various crew throw out ideas, Tilly is somehow confident and questioning herself all at once. They all team up to get the ship out of certain destruction. It’s all very Star Trek and it warmed my heart.
And just as the Disco crew is Disco-ing all over the place with their thoughts and feelings about the tech and its housing, the Breen ship comes out of warp, snatches it up, and takes off. With Rayner reacting perfectly to it all. The casting of Callum Keith Rennie has really brought some great moments this season and his placement of essentially being annoyed fan dealing with over emotional Disco crew has been spectacularly used.
We get into heist mode as Adira suggests a break-in of the Breen ship. The away team with suit up in Breen gear, infiltrate, and get the tech on board Disco. But, of course, not all goes to plan. The episode ramps up the action as the Breen access the tech using the key formed from all of the previous clues. And it ends with a couple of Breen and Michael going through a portal created by the key’s usage. Ranging somewhere between sci-fi and fantasy this sequence ends as only it could. Burnham essentially sacrificing herself to find the answer. While one would and should doubt that Michael is anything other than alive and well on the other side of the portal, her actions do bring a bit of overwhelming pride as only the best of Starfleet could. It’s a hell of a cliffhanger leading us to next week’s series finale. Which, has to lead into Saru’s wedding, right? – Chris Egan
