Alan Rapp

The Brothers Sun – Favor for a Favor

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  • Title: The Brothers Sun – Favor for a Favor
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The Brothers Sun - Favor for a Favor

The struggle for The Brothers Sun is finding the balance between the more dangerous and bloody aspect of the show’s premise and the wackier over-the-top humor leads to some hit-and-miss scenes. There’s a segment in “Favor for a Favor” that hits that sweet spot perfectly. While searching for answers about the hitman sent after them, and getting dragged into delivering a Komodo Dragon to a kid’s birthday party, Charles (Justin Chien) and Bruce (Sam Song Li) fight for their lives against a group of killers all dressed up in inflatable dinosaur costumes brandishing machetes (which somehow goes completely unnoticed by the guests).

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Transformers #4

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Transformers #4

Reimaging the timeline of the Transformers arrival on Earth, the war between the Decepticons and Autobots has found a new home. With just a handful of warriors on both sides, and many more in need of repair and energon, the Decepticons led by Starscream attempt to wipe out the Autobots once and for all. 

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Reacher – The Man Goes Through

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  • Title: Reacher – The Man Goes Through
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Reacher - The Man Goes Through

The penultimate episode of Reacher’s Second Season sets up the show’s finale by Reacher choosing at the end to turn himself over to Langston (Robert Patrick) to save O’Donnell (Shaun Sipos) and Dixon (Serinda Swan). While ready to make a sacrifice, Reacher doesn’t do so with a few contingencies. Before that, however, we’ll get plenty of action including Reacher and Neagley (Maria Sten) getting into action at the hospital, first in questioning a witness (through Reacher’s own special method) and later in a shoot-out and a confrontation with mysterious A.M. (Ferdinand Kingsley) as well.

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Death and Other Details – Rare

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Death and Other Details - Rare

There are quite a few moving pieces in the opening episode of Hulu’s Death and Other Details, one could argue too many (but that doesn’t stop it from being a darn good time). As our narrator, detective Rufus Cotesworth (Mandy Patinkin), points out, we need to keep our eyes on the details. Our story opens aboard a luxury cruise ship owned by a banker turned entrepreneur (Rahul Kohli) whose maiden voyage is hired for the retirement celebration of CEO Lawrence Collier (David Marshall Grant). Among the guests is Imogene Scott (Violett Beane) who grew up in the Collier household following the death of her mother in the one case Rufus was never able to solve (for which the young Imogene, played flashbacks by Sophia Reid-Gantzert, never forgave him).

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