February 2019

Bull – Prior Bad Acts

  • Title: Bull – Prior Bad Acts
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Bull - Prior Bad Acts television review

The death of Benny’s (Freddy Rodríguez) father complicates matters given Bull’s (Michael Weatherly) feelings for Benny’s sister, and Bull’s ex-wife (Yara Martinez), just when a wealthy client enlists the firm in looking into his brother’s unexpected death due to a nitroglycerin overdose. While initially suspicious of the doctor who prescribed the medication, it quickly becomes obvious the far more alluring suspect is the victim’s widow (Reiko Aylesworth) who has left a string of dead husbands in her wake (yet always seems to profit).

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Danger Man – The Girl Who Liked G.I.’s

  • Title: Danger Man – The Girl Who Liked G.I.’s
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Danger Man - The Girl Who Liked G.I.'s TV review

Our Throwback Tuesday post takes us back into the Cold War spycraft of Danger Man. Drake (Patrick McGoohan) looks into the murder of a U.S. soldier on leave in Munich who had knowledge of a secret missile project. Retracing the dead man’s final day in the city which leads him to assume the role of a soldier himself and get a date with the local woman (Anna Gaylor) who was the last person to see the soldier alive. While initially suspicious of her, especially after he is attacked by two men following their date, Drake soon discovers the woman has nothing to hide (other than a disapproving father and a weakness for American soldiers). It turns out the soldier’s death has nothing to do with the girl, or the soldier’s top secret clearance, but only with a single photograph the man took around the city that someone is willing to kill for.

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Remington Steele – Etched in Steele

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Remington Steele - Etched in Steele television review

Today’s Throwback Tuesday post takes us back to the 80s detective show Remington Steele. While attending a book publisher’s party who is interested in Steele (Pierce Brosnan) writing a book of his most famous cases, the detectives are approached by the husband (Joel Colodner) of a famous author (Shannon Wilcox) who believes his wife plans to murder him. Shortly after talking with Laura (Stephanie Zimbalist) and Steele, the man falls to his death in the exact manner that he described from the manuscript of the latest novel (but which doesn’t appear in the pages following his death). The mystery only deepens when the detectives learn that the dead man was the actual ghostwriter for the tawdry novels.

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