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007: For King and Country #2

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007: For King and Country #2 begins with the end of James Bond and Gwendolyn Gann’s respite as the first 00 catches up with them bearing bad tidings for the duo that Fromm and Myrmidon have their claws deep within MI6 and the British Government to the point that England, in many ways, is now working for Fromm while unaware of the negative effects of his technology or how it can be turned against both friend and foe.

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The Blacklist – Blair Foster

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  • Title: The Blacklist – Blair Foster
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Two stories driving “Blair Foster” as the Task Force continues to try and avoid Senator Clayton Dorf (Wayne Duvall) and Congressman Arthur Hudson (Toby Leonard Moore) who go to a judge (Tonye Patano) in order to find more information about their budget, and aren’t stymied by her refusal. The team also looks into lawyer and fixer Blair Foster (Francie Swift) who uses both legal and illegal methods to keep her clients safe from prosecution, including the attack on a whistleblower (J.W. Cortes) that opens the episode.

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Green Arrow #2

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The second issue doesn’t attempt to make sense or shed light on events of the first issue. However, we do see what Oliver Queen has been up to since being stranded on an alien world (his basic street-level heroics taking on space mobsters and the like) and Cheshire Cat joins in on his latest run-in with a paid enforcer to take Ollie down. Our hero remains cryptic about what exactly is pulling his family apart as well as his unwillingness to try and fight his way back to them. This unnecessarily enforced enigmatic view on his existence could get old quick.

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The Rising – Episode 1

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  • Title: The Rising – Episode 1
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The opening episode of The Rising introduces us to the recently deceased Neve Kelly (Clara Rugaard) who awakes in a lake only dimly aware of the previous night’s events. While her parents grow increasingly concerned over her absence, Neve continues to make her way home only to arrive and find she cannot interact with her mother (Emily Taaffe). Slowly realizing that she’s a ghost, Neve eventually uses the methods available she has to interact with the living world to lead the search party to her body. The show’s frantic emotional core and cinematic style make for a hell of an introduction, although I do wonder where things go from here.

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