Tread Perilously

Dec 04 2024 100 ep. 111 mins 199
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Watching the worst episodes of popular shows, hosts Erik Amaya and Justin Robinson attempt to determine if they would continue to watch the series based on its most off-key moments. TV shows regularly tread upon include Doctor Who, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and 7th Heaven. From family dramas to well-loved but brief sci-fi series, Tread Perilously examines how a show sustains itself even in its worst moments.

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Tread Perilously -- Doctor Who: The Return Of Doctor Mysterio

Dec 04 2024 101 mins  
Tread Merrily begins with the Doctor Who Christmas special "The Return of Doctor Mysterio." While investigating a potential alien invasion, The Doctor discovers a boy he met years earlier is using his accidental superpowers to become a real-life superhero. But "The Ghost" leads a complicated civilian life that is now intruding on his costumed one as the invasion, The Doctor, and th

Tread Perilously -- Caprica: False Labor

Nov 27 2024 120 mins  
Tread Perilously's Cornucopia of Sci-Fi concludes with a Caprica episode called "False Labor." After each of the main characters has troubled dreams, Joseph Adama awakes to another day of work while his brother, Sam, plots to send guns to Tauron. Daniel Greystone continues to develop Resurrection technology and perfect a simulacrum of his wife, Amanda. She, meanwhile, works to embe

Tread Perilously -- Upload: Strawberry

Nov 20 2024 89 mins  
Tread Perilously's Cornucopia of Sci-Fi continues with an episode of Upload called "Strawberry." Nathan and Nora are still on the road returning consciousnesses of the departed to their families. Their latest stop brings them to a farm where pork and cheese are produced. Note the wording. While the parents of the departed prove folksy and nice, their world is anything but. Back in

Tread Perilously -- Resident Alien: Girls' Night

Nov 13 2024 129 mins  
Tread Perilously's Cornucopia of Sci-Fi continues with an episode of Resident Alien called 'Girls' Night.' While Harry continues to work on the interstellar radio, Asta, D'Arcy, Kate, and Liv get a "GN59" text from Kayla and immediately plan a girls' night at the bar. Kate brings her cousin, Carlyn, while the mayor frets about Kate and D'Arcy becoming better friends. As the evening

Tread Perilously -- Torchwood: Cyberwoman

Nov 06 2024 138 mins  
Tread Perilously begins a cornucopia of sci-fi with the most infamous episode of Torchwood: "Cyberwoman." When Ianto Jones invites a specialist in Cyber tech to Torchwood 3, all hell breaks loose. It turns out he's been keeping his partially Cyber-ized girlfriend on life support since the Battle of Canary Wharf. He's using a Cyber-conversion machine to do it. And none of the others

Tread Perilously -- Supernatural: Shut up, Dr. Phil

Oct 30 2024 119 mins  
Tread Perilously rounds out a witchy October with the annual visit to Supernatural. This year: an episode called "Shut Up, Dr. Phil." To keep his mind off murdering Amy Pond (no, really!), Dean convinces Sam to investigate a spate of murders in Prosperity, Indiana. The victims so far have some ties to real estate in the area. But when a contractor also dies, the signs lead to a wi

Tread Perilously -- The Paul Lynde Halloween Special

Oct 23 2024 117 mins  
Tread Perilously continues a witchy October with The Paul Lynde Halloween Special. When neighborhood kids harass Paul Lynde about his plans to celebrate Halloween, he flees to the home of his housekeeper's sister. But he soon learns both are witches with remarkable resemblances to Witchiepoo and The Wicked Witch of the West. As it turns out, they want him to be a spokesman for wit

Tread Perilously -- Witch's Night Out

Oct 16 2024 104 mins  
Tread Perilously's witchy October continues with the 1978 TV special Witch's Night Out. While the adults in town begin to plan a thoroughly grown-up Halloween party, all youngsters Small and Tender want to do is scare them with their Halloween masks. But when everyone recognizes them during trick-or-treating, they run home dejected. Their cries to become real monsters are heard by

Tread Perilously -- Smallville: Spell

Oct 09 2024 127 mins  
Tread Perilously's month of witches continues with the Smallville episode "Spell." When Lana successfully bids on an old book off eBay, she is quickly possessed by Isabella, her witch-inclined ancestor. Like Lex, she also seeks the Stones of Power and will stop at nothing -- not even death -- to get them. Isabella soon houses the spirits of her coven in the bodies of Chloe and Loi

Tread Perilously -- Bewitched: To Trick-Or-Treat Or Not To Trick-Or-Treat

Oct 02 2024 98 mins  
Halloween season 2024 on Tread Perilously is a celebration of witches, and the magical mischief begins with an episode of Bewitched called "To Trick-or-Treat or Not to Trick-or-Treat." When Endora discovers Sam is participating in a Trick-of-Treat For Unicef event that props up stereotypes about witches, the resulting fight with Darren leads her to transform him into the very trope