GOOP, Orcas, Pottery, and Pirate's Booty Unhinged

It's a real grab bag this week!

Just to put a button on last week’s escapades: Doctor Odyssey’s “Shark Attack! Part 2: Orcas!” was as infernally subpar as part one, except, as you might have guessed, with fewer sharks (zero) and more orcas (maybe three?) and a whole lot of not much else.

Basically, the furious whales surrounding the cruise ship spend the entirety of this episode being angry… in our minds. We hear a scraping sound that we are told is “an orcas teeth on our rudder,” which leads to a power outage that strands everyone at sea, which of course requires the crew to throw around phrases like “ORCA PROTOCOL.” At one point, a small craft tries to ferry a dying Rumer Willis to land, but some vaguely fish-like objects start chasing them so they have to turn back. Otherwise, the enemy is entirely invisible and not in a cool thriller kind of way; all the intrigue centers on reading the ship’s blueprints in the dark. Nobody we (ostensibly) care about is in medical danger, most of the surgeries happen in the dark,…