August 2019

The Boys – Good for the Soul

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The Boys - Good for the Soul TV review

Much of “Good for the Soul” centers around the Believe Festival, where Starlight (Erin Moriarty) continues to chafe under the expectations of what others want her to be and Hughie (Jack Quaid) blackmails a supe to give the Boys dirt on Compound V. Despite having to trade on her fame to further Butcher‘s (Karl Urban) plans, Hughie continues to grow closer to the new woman in his life while she loses her shit a little standing up against the hypocrisy of what her beloved festival has become (or what she had just failed to notice when she was younger and even more naive than she is now). Hughie’s inner conflict and Starlight’s common sense allow the pair to be the only likable characters in a world gone to shit.

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Wu Assassins – Drunken Watermelon

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Wu Assassins - Drunken Watermelon TV review

The opening episode of Netflix’s Wu Assassins offers an interesting premise, with some impressive fight sequences, even if the storytelling is bit less focused than one would hope. At the core of the story is a Chinese-Indonesian chef (Iko Uwais) whose sense of honor and justice gets him in hot water with the Chinese Triad. Luckily for Kai Jin, he’s granted the power to become a Wu Assassin (although he is hesitant to live up to the later-half of that title) and tasked with taking out the heads of five criminal families to the recover supernatural powers before they destroy the world.

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Usagi Yojimbo #3

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Usagi Yojimbo #3 comic reviewUsagi Yojimbo #3 ends the comic’s opening story as Miyamoto Usagi and Sasuké fight for their lives against the demonic puppets and discover that Takagi isn’t the puppet master they believe, but just another puppet being played by the true force behind the scenes.

The action is fast and furious in the final issue of the story as Usagi and the demon hunter bring an end to the madness in the town. And, thanks to Sasuké’s persuasiveness, the pair sidestep any uncomfortable stories about the impossibility of wooden puppets coming to life and draining life force for their master. And it’s a good thing, because I don’t know how exactly the pair would have explained the number of bodies littered across town being mauled by now completely inert wooden puppets.

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Danger Man – Bury the Dead

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Danger Man - Bury the Dead television review

Throwback Tuesday takes us back into the Cold War spycraft of Danger Man.The suspicious death of an agent in a car accident sends John Drake (Patrick McGoohan) to Sicily where he matches wits with a wealthy business owner (Dermot Walsh) using his canning business to smuggle guns. With the help of the victim’s girlfriend (Beverly Garland), while avoiding the tactics of a corrupt police officer (Paul Stassino) and the businessman’s thugs looking for any excuse to lock Drake away until the next shipment is underway, Drake is able to discover the truth including what really happened to his old friend.

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