“The name is Dalton.”
I’m in a Road House mood today.
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Scenes That I Love: Sam Elliott and Patrick Swayze in Road House
Today, the Shattered Lens wishes a happy birthday to Sam Elliott. In this scene from the classic film Road House, Sam Elliott and Patrick Swayze have a heart-t0-heart. Swayze’s Dalton has a past that can only be understood by Sam Elliott’s Wade Garrett.
Take it away, mijo.
4 Shots From 4 Films: Special Robert Aldrich Edition
4 Or More Shots From 4 Or More Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking!
On this date, 108 years ago, Robert Aldrich was born in Cranston, Rhode Island. The first cousin of New York Governor and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, Robert Aldrich eschewed business and politics to pursue a career in film. Though his wonderfully melodramatic films were often undervalued when first released, Aldrich is now seen as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time. Tarantino loves him.
In honor of Aldrich’s career and legacy, here are….
4 Shots From 4 Robert Aldrich Films
Kiss Me Deadly (1955, dir by Robert Aldrich, DP: Ernest Laszlo)
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962, dir by Robert Aldrich, DP: Ernest Haller)
The Dirty Dozen (1967, dir by Robert Aldrich, DP: Edward Scaife)
Hustle (1975, dir by Robert Aldrich, DP: Joseph Biroc)
Late Night Retro Television Review: Saved By The Bell 2.13 “From Nurse To Worse”
Welcome to Late Night Retro Television Reviews, a feature where we review some of our favorite and least favorite shows of the past! On Saturdays, I will be reviewing Saved By The Bell, which ran on NBC from 1989 to 1993. The entire show is currently streaming on Tubi!
Kelly wants to go steady but Zack’s fallen in love with the new school nurse.
Episode 2.13 “From Nurse To Worse”
(Dir by Don Barnhart, originally aired on December 15th, 1990)
Zack has asked Kelly to go steady but, when Kelly finally tells him that the answer is yes, Zack smiles stupidly and says, “That’s great, what was the question?” before wandering off. Zack has met the new school nurse, Nurse Jennifer (Nancy Valen), and is so busy imagining a future with her that he’s totally forgotten about the fact that he’s supposedly been in love with Kelly for years.
When people talk about Zack Morris being “trash,” this is the type of episode that they’re thinking about. Zack treats Kelly horribly, all because he’s convinced that new school nurse is going to risk her job by dating a 10th grader. Of course, Nurse Jennifer doesn’t help by telling him that he’s cute. When Jennifer finds out about Zack and Kelly, she helps Kelly out by pretending to be crazy. It perhaps would have been simpler for Jennifer to just tell Zack that it would have been illegal for her to have dated him but then we wouldn’t have gotten the sight of Jennifer pretending to be terrible at her job.
As was typical of Saved By The Bell, Slater’s B-story was actually more interesting than all of Zack’s nonsense. It’s time for everyone’s flu shot and Slater is scared of needles. Mario Lopez always did a good job of portraying Slater’s insecurities and there’s something rather endearing about the look of terror on his face when he’s called to the nurse’s office for his shot.
For those of us who are into continuity, this episode was a weird one. Not only did the new nurse do a lot of stuff that didn’t make sense but the episode itself seems to ignore everything that has happened in Zack and Kelly’s relationship over the past few episodes. Suddenly, Kelly and Zack are back to dating whether or not to be an exclusive couple. I thought that had been settled a while ago. Judging by the episode’s production code, this episode was originally meant to be the second of the season and would have aired right after The Prom episodes. For whatever reason reason, NBC didn’t air it until late in the season, when it no longer made sense.
Technically, this is the end of season 2. Whether or not that means anything is debatable because apparently, way back in 1990, season 3 started the very next week. With Saved By The Bell, one gets the feeling that these things were decided at random. Well, no matter! Next week, we’ve got season 3 and The Fabolous Belding Boys!
Lisa Marie’s Week In Television: 8/2/26 — 8/8/26
America 2100 (YouTube)
Baywatch (Tubi)
Big Brother (24/7, CBS, Paramount+, Pluto TV)
You can read my ongoing review of Big Brother here.
Cheaters (Tubi)
Cheaters is on Tubi! I watched a few episodes on Saturday. This show is a guilty pleasure for me because 1) it was filmed in Dallas and 2) Joey Greco is just so judgmental!
CHiPs (Prime)
You can read my review of CHiPs here.
Crime Story (Tubi)
You can read my review of Crime Story here.
Diff’rent Strokes (Tubi)
After buying their father a birthday present, Arnold and Kimberly decided to hitchhike home. They were picked up by a man who locked Arnold in a room and then threatened to rape Kimberly. This was pretty disturbing for a sitcom! I watched this two-part episode on Thursday and I was relieved when the police finally showed up to rescue them.
Freddy’s Nightmares (Tubi)
I wrote about the series finale here!
Election Coverage (Tuesday Night)
I was pretty depressed going into this week’s primary elections but I have to admit that watching the results in Michigan cheered me up, Even though the latest DSA flavor-of-the month, Abdul El-Sayed, won his primary, it was only by one percentage point as opposed to the election being the blow-out that so many predicted. Not everyone is on board with extremism and I take some hope from that.
On Thursday, I watched as the election results rolled in from Tennessee. Other than that one congressman that lost his primary, the Tennessee results weren’t quite as exciting as the Michigan results. I did find myself amused as I remembered how, way back in 2018, some pundits were convinced that Taylor Swift coming out as a Democrat would somehow turn the state blue.
1st & Ten (Prime)
Flight of the Conchords (HBOMax)
I watched one episode from the first season (Todd joined the band and things quickly fell apart, despite his skill with the bongos) and one episode from the second season. (Bret and Jermaine met Murray’s best friend, Jim.) Both episodes made me laugh. This is definitely a show that I miss, even if it does seem like Bret and Jermaine probably did everything they could with the concept during the first two seasons.
Hunter (Tubi)
The Love Boat (Paramount Plus)
Mad TV (Tubi)
Mad TV’s on Tubi now! I watched two episodes on Thursday and, unfortunately, they were even worse than I remembered.
The Office (Peacock TV)
“THIS WAS THE BEST DUNDIES EVER! WHOOOOO!” As much as I complain about the show’s final two seasons, the first three seasons are about as good as anything that has ever aired on television. On Friday, I watched The Dundies.
Pacific Blue (Tubi)
You can read my review of Pacific Blue here.
Saved By The Bell (Prime)
My review will be dropping shortly.
Saved By The Bell: The New Class (Prime)
St. Elsewhere (YouTube)
You can read my review of St. Elsewhere here!
60 Minutes (CBS, Sunday Night)
I caught the last 30 minutes of 60 Minutes on Sunday night. It’s funny that, for all the acclaim that this show has received and all the current controversy surrounding it, the only time that I have ever watched it has been when I’ve been waiting for something else to start. It seems like I always end up turning on the show whenever Anderson Cooper is doing one of his “look at my exploring the wilderness!” type of stories.
Survivor 50 (CBS, Wednesday Night)
As I watched this week’s rerun of Survivor 50, it occurred to me that the all of the Survivor icons are starting to get really, really old. A better name for Survivor 50 would have been Survivor: Seniors’ Retreat.
Retro Television Review: Baywatch 2.14 “War of Nerves”
Welcome to Retro Television Reviews, a feature where we review some of our favorite and least favorite shows of the past! On Saturdays, I will be reviewing Baywatch, which ran on NBC and then in syndication from 1989 to 2001. The entire show can be viewed on Tubi.
This week, some people stand in the darkness, afraid to move into the light.
Episode 2.14 “War of Nerves”
(Dir by Douglas Schwartz, originally aired on February 3rd, 1992)
Drug lord Mason Sato (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) has just gotten out of prison and he wants revenge of Mitch. For reasons that aren’t really explained beyond a shot of a newspaper headline that reads, “Hero Lifeguard Helps Police Take Down Drug Lord,” Mason blames Mitch for his arrest, Do lifeguards make arrests?
Mason stalks Mitch, Hobie, and Mitch’s girlfriend, Kaye (Pamela Bach). At first, Mitch doesn’t tell either Hobie or Kaye what’s going on. But when Mason asks Hobie to teach him how to use a boogie board, Mitch loses it and punches Mason out. Mason later kidnaps both Hobie and Kaye. This leads to a fight in an abandoned warehouse. Once the fight moves into the ocean, Mason nearly drowns but Mitch saves his life so he can go back to prison.
Meanwhile, Shauni asks Ben to teacher her how to surf. We never actually see Ben teaching her anything but we do get a lengthy montage as Ben remembers his days as a surfing lifeguard. Myself, I’m wondering how Ben, who we’ve been told can no longer swim because of a leg injury, suddenly stops limping in this episode.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa was a magnetic villain but otherwise, this was Baywatch at its cheapest. The plot was by-the-book and it mostly seemed to exist so that Hasselhoff could play the action hero. This episode felt like a dry run for the first, non-supernatural season of Baywatch Nights. How many lifelong enemies has Mitch managed to make?
The life of the lifeguard is a dangerous one.
Scenes That I Love: Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate
Today, the Shattered Lens wishes a happy birthday to the legendary Dustin Hoffman. This scene that I love comes from 1967’s The Graduate and it features Hoffman delivering one of the greatest lines of all time.
Song of the Day: It Don’t Worry Me by Keith Carradine
Today, the Shattered Lens wishes a happy birthday to the actor and musician Keith Carradine. Our song of the day is a song that Carradine wrote for and performed in the 1975 film, Nashville.
4 Shots From 4 Films: Special 1978 Edition
4 Or More Shots From 4 Or More Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking!
Today, we pay tribute to the year 1978! It’s time for….
4 Shots From 4 1978 Films
Halloween (1978, dir by John Carpenter. DP: Dean Cundey)
Starcrash (1978, dir by Luigi Cozzi, DP: Paul Beeson and Roberto D’Ettorre Piazzoli)
Days of Heaven (1978, dir by Terrence Malick, DP: Nestor Almendros)
Hooper (1978, dir by Hal Needham, DP: Bobby Byrne)
Live Tweet Alert: Join #ScarySocial For Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers!
As some of our regular readers undoubtedly know, I am involved in a few weekly live tweets on Twitter and Mastodon. I host #FridayNightFlix every Friday, I co-host #ScarySocial on Saturday, and I am one of the five hosts of #MondayActionMovie! Every week, we get together. We watch a movie. We tweet our way through it.
Tonight, at 10 pm et, #ScarySocial presents Sleepaway Camp 2!
If you want to join us this Saturday, just hop onto twitter, start the movie at 10 pm et, and use the #ScarySocial hashtag! It’s a friendly group and welcoming of newcomers so don’t be shy.
Sleepaway Camp 2 is available on Prime! See you there!
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