It's dark and unsettling so they go downstairs, build a pillow/blanket fort and watch old Merry Melodies cartoons on VHS.
Things are not right. Fundamental things like doors and then the toilet simply disappear. There are whispers in the dark.
CW: children in peril, constant flickering lights
Unknowingly he takes an ancient amulet of power from a dying Prince and is bound to it and the ongoing battle.
Trying to rid himself of this burden he picks up, literally, the goblin wizard Doodad (Laurie Field/Patton Oswalt) and thief Brisbayne (Christina Orjalo) on the way but can't shake his destiny.
CW: so much cheese it could kill the lactose intolerant
Following the hand drawn map she has, Barb struggles to find her way and stops at a remote cabin to ask for directions. The guy there is defensive but points her in the right direction.
Later while Barb fishes she witnesses something terrible happening and recognises the guy from the cabin as the perpetrator. With no mobile phone signal and now properly snowed in Barb decides to do something about it.
CW: violence and dark melancholic themes
As he and the other Ranger candidates face their final training scenario, which is to destroy a downed experimental weapon, they find an immensely impressive prop slightly away from the expected location.
Placing their demolition charges they think they've had an unexpectedly easy ride. The only problem is: this isn't their objective.
CW: injury detail, so much jingoistic macho hoora I think I made myself dumber just by watching it
Now a Police Officer Daniels (Pat Healy) is on the phone saying one of her counter staff, Becky (Dreama Walker), has stolen from a customer. Officer Daniels asks Sandra to take Becky aside and check her pockets and bag.
No good will come of this.
CW: vile humiliating misogyny throughout, some nudity
Grace is not an astronaut and struggles to work out what is going on, but he knows this much: it must be something to do with the phenomenon dimming Earth's sun and threatening all life. Just recently he'd been failing to come up with the words to explain this sympathetically to the children in his class.
Slowly his recollection improves but Grace has another problem: he realises he is not alone.
His wife is lucky to have work as a hostess in a bar but when their daughter gets sick they simply can't afford the medicine she needs.
After he pleads for his old job back and fails he resolves to audition for one of the many exploitative reality game shows that pass for entertainment. Not "The Running Man" though: that would be simply suicidal.
No good will come of this.
Rudolf's work is stressful: he's a workaholic, occasionally meeting with suppliers and colleagues at the house but when he can he rides his horse and takes the children swimming in the nearby river.
Rudolf is the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
CW: the Holocaust done matter of fact, off screen but constantly within earshot