Alan Rapp

The Newsroom – Election Night, Part I

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The Newsroom - Election Night, Part I

With Jerry Dantana (Hamish Linklater) officially filing suit against ACN for his termination the next morning, and Leona Lansing (Jane Fonda) adamantly refusing to accept anyone’s resignations or cut a deal with her former employee, News Night turns its attention to covering the 2012 elections in the first-half of the Second Season finale of The Newsroom. Although the elections, and the impending lawsuit, dominate the episode there’s plenty of room for behind the scenes insanity as Charlie‘s (Sam Waterston) no-mistake tirade version of a pep-talk leads to, you guessed it, an on air mistake and two of the show’s female leads become obsessed with mostly insignificant matters far outside their control.

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Sinbad – The Complete Series

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Sinbad - The Complete SeriesCreated by British Broadcasting’s Sky1 in an attempt to sell the character of Sinbad as a cool new family adventure, Sinbad lasted only a single season. The focus of the twelve episodes was the journey of Sinbad (Elliot Knight) from cursed small time thief into high seas adventurer with a motley crew of friends at his command (Marama Corlett, Elliot Cowan, Dimitri Leonidas, Estella Daniels, Junix Inocian) while also fleeing from the witch Taryn (Orla Brady) and Lord Akbari (Naveen Andrews) who blamed the thief for the death of his son.

Over the course of the season Sinbad and his friends would battle witches, secret sects, various monsters, Sirens, Death itself, water spirits, and even get lost for a time in an otherworldly gambling den.

The production of the show often didn’t  measure up to the vision of the scripts (several episodes looked hastily scraped together most notably “Queen of the Water Thieves“).

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Beware the Batman – Family

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Beware the Batman - Family

The latest episode of Beware the Batman begins with Batman (Anthony Ruivivar) and Tatsu (Sumalee Montano) battling Silver Monkey (James Remar) and an army of ninjas for control of the Soultaker Sword and ends with Katana finally leaning Bruce Wayne’s secret and becoming a proper member of the “Family.”

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Larfleeze #3

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Larfleeze #3Things get even more confusing for Pulsar Stargrave when he meets The Wanderer, the cosmic entity from Laord of the Hunt‘s dimension who has kept him alive and apparently bought Stargrave from Larfleeze before the Orange Lantern was beaten by her brother.

At first Stargrave can’t believe his good fortune as The Wanderer certainly makes for a far less bloodthirsty or insane master compared to his previous employers. Of course when The Wanderer decides the first step in preparing Stargrave for his new role is his castration all bets are off.

Freeing Larfleeze, Stargrave’s former employer sets off to steal all of Laord’s wealth and creates Orange Lantern constructs to deal with The Wanderer and reacquire his property, however things take yet another turn when The Wanderer uses her powers to turn the constructs into flesh and blood Orange Lanterns not too happy with being betrayed and slaughtered by their old pal Larfleeze in another goofy and enjoyable issue from Keith Giffen and J. M. DeMatteis. Worth a look.

[DC, $2.99]

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