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I almost forgot about watching Skeleton Crew on New Years Day. It was a thirty minute episode that didn't seem to cover much ground. It was the second written by newcomer Myung Joh Wesner but it was directed by Bryce Dallas Howard. People seem to think she's a good director for these shows but I continue to find her work unremarkable.

I think the heart of the episode is meant to be KB whose LaForge visor suffers a malfunction, allowing us a rare glimpse of her eyes. She walks Wim through fixing it and despite Wim having established himself as a butterfingers she doesn't seem very worried. Maybe that's why there wasn't a lot of tension in the episode overall.

There was also a big crab monster in the episode that looked like the one from Moana. Somehow he wasn't very threatening. I never got a sense of the crab and the children existing in the same reality.

Skeleton Crew is available on Disney+.