Alan Rapp

Transformers #17

/ / Comics

Transformers #17 jumps around quite a bit to storylines both on Earth and on Cybertron. We see Thundercracker discovering the fate of Skywarp (but being unable to offer his friend any peace). We get Arcee and Beachcomber, along with the humans, searching for Ultra Magnus. We get the continuation of the Decepticon factions fighting each other spilling into the nearest human city forcing the Autobots to get involved, rescuing as many humans as they can. And, on Cybertron, we see the Autobots making a run at the Decepticons and the Hall of Sparks.

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The White Lotus – Same Spirits, New Forms

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: The White Lotus – Same Spirits, New Forms
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Mike White‘s HBO anthology returns for a Third Season relocated events in the exclusive White Lotus resort chain’s Thailand location. After opening the episode with a tease of things to come at the end of one week, “Same Spirits, New Forms” focuses on the arrival of the spoiled guests to the resort. Social satire mixed with psychological drama, one thing I say for the premiere, White has me rooting for the death of nearly every member of this group as soon as possible.

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Pretty Little Liars – Spirit Week

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  • Title: Pretty Little Liars (Original Sin) – Chapter One: Spirit Week
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Starting out with two suicides in the first 5 minutes and closing the episode with a grizzly murder, the first thing you notice about Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin is how strongly it leans into the freedoms offered on HBO attempting to be a bit more bloody and bold than the original. However, I find the set up for the episode a bit confusing. We get a young girl, ignored at a school dance by a group of popular girls, committing suicide in 1999. Flash-forward 22 years at that appears to be the catalyst for the mayhem that will occur, although our new “A” targets only one of the women from that party (our second suicide) and instead targets the rest of their daughters for reasons yet to be revealed.

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We Beat the Dream Team

/ / Home Video
  • Title: We Beat the Dream Team
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Headlined by Grant Hill, with interviews from both the Select Team and the 1992 USA Olympic Team, We Beat the Dream Team chronicles the only loss of the greatest basketball team ever assembled in the team’s first informal scrimmage with a group of young college kids, who if not for the Dream Team would have all likely been chose for the Olympics that year, giving them everything the team with 11 Hall of Fame players could handle.

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