Alan Rapp

Beauty and the Beast – The Beast of Wall Street

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Beauty and the Beast - The Beast of Wall Street

I gave up on The CW’s misguided Beauty and the Beast remake early in the show’s First Season. I simply was unable to buy into the idea of Kristin Kreuk as a New York cop or accept a version of Vincent (Jay Ryan) who is closer to a male model than anything resembling a beast. Checking in on the show’s Third Season premiere not much has changed.

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Sense8 – I Am Also a We

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Sense8 - I Am Also a We

“I Am Also a We” continues the show’s glacial pace to make sense of what is happening to the various characters across the globe all dealing with the same phenomenon none of them can explain. The two storylines which stick out in Sense8‘s second episode are the hospitalization of Nomi (Jamie Clayton) whose conservative family and their doctors believe her problems have a definite medical cause which needs immediate surgery (whether she wants it or not) and Lito (Miguel Ángel Silvestre) whose attempts to fend off the advances of his amarous co-star (Eréndira Ibarra) lead to her discovery of the actor’s secret private life.

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Samurai Jack – Episode III: The First Fight

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Samurai Jack- Episode III: The First Fight

Wrapping up the show’s introductory arc, “Episode III” gives fans their first real taste of what will become the show’s trademark action style as more than two-thirds of the episode are devoted to a single battle between Jack (Phil LaMarr) and the beetle robots of Aku (Mako). “The First Fight” also offers another montage featuring Jack and his new canine archeologist friends laying a trap for Aku’s drones that helps weed out their numbers while still leaving a near-unending number of them for the samurai to deal with personally.

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