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No one expects Dan Shea to return to Frame Work! One of his chief weapons is surprise, surprise and fear, surprise and fear and an almost fanatical devotion to examining the filmography of Terry Gilliam...

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Things get messy when Noah Hawley adapts ALIEN while getting more excited about PETER PAN, and accidentally getting sidetracked into WESTWORLD.

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We talk about people biting James Cameron's style...which basically means a Michael Bay episode. With enough BATTLESHIP to shake a stick at. You know, for kids!

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We continue looking at the people and projects that have offered our auteurs the most sincere flattery. What makes a movie "Nolanesque"? Does he have an heir apparanent, and why did that not become Duncan Jones? Let's find out!

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We finally reach the (fairly abrupt) end of INQUISITION, and the extensive DLC expansions.

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We continue to examine the influence and imitations of our anointed directors' signature styles. In Fincher's case, this mainly takes the form of examining the attempts of his various collaborators to recreate the magic without him.

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In which we offer very tepid defenses of Ethan Coen's tepid new lesbian detective yarn

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Chris Prentice drops in to talk about the cottage industry of Tarantino knock-offs that arose in the 1990s (and beyond). Why do they have long, tortured titles full of numbers and locations? Why do they all end on the same boat? These questions and more will be answered in digressive, non-linear fashion on this week's Frame Work.