Television Reviews

Covert Affairs – Glass Spider

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When Annie (Piper Perabo) and Auggie (Christopher Gorham) discover Jai’s (Sendhil Ramamurthy) safe house they also learn that Simon (Richard Coyle) and his group was the subject of the investigation that likely got Jai killed. This forces Annie and Lena (Sarah Clarke) to come clean about Annie’s relationship to the spy to both Arthur (Peter Gallagher) and Joan (Kari Matchett). Not wanting to be part of a CIA laid trap to bring down a man who is in love with her, Annie makes a bold proposal that she be allowed to make the pitch to Simon and bring him in willingly.

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Perception – Kilimanjaro

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When a college student is murdered in his dorm room Dr. Pierce (Eric McCormack) is forced to get closer to his students than he would like in order to help Kate (Rachael Leigh Cook) and the FBI, who agree to investigate the case as a favor for Dean Haley (LeVar Burton). Pierce also has to deal with a football star (Aaron Hill) displaying symptoms of subdural hematoma who turned in a paper he bought online and bright but disinterested student (Shane Coffey) who seems to be doing everything in his power to flunk out of college.

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Leverage – The Real Fake Car Job

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To take down a Wall Street swindler (Matthew Lillard) who avoided prosecution for his crime by agreeing to testify in a mob trial and is now witness protection, the Leverage team sells the man on his dream vintage car – Benito Mussolini’s lost Packard 1934 1101 Roadster Coupe in an attempt to track his offshore funds back to the source and redistribute them amongst his victims.

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Doctor Who – Asylum of the Daleks

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“Don’t be fair to the Daleks when they’re firing me at a planet!”

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When the Daleks need assistance they turn to their greatest enemy, “the predator of the Daleks,” and separately kidnap The Doctor (Matt Smith), Amy (Karen Gillan), and Rory (Arthur Darvill), whisking off the threesome to the Asylum – a planetary prison even the Daleks are too afraid to enter because it contains the most unstable and terrifying Daleks ever created. And somewhere, admist all that insanity, is a single ship, with a single human crew member who has managed to survive and cause no end of trouble to the Daleks for the better part of a year. Ladies and gentlemen, Doctor Who introduces you to its newest companion – Clara Oswin (Jenna-Louise Coleman).

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XIII – Hunting Party

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The search for the third and final watch (holding the last piece of the mysterious code) takes XIII (Stuart Townsend) and Agent Jones (Aisha Tyler) to Philadelphia where they barely survive a death trap set up by Max Serle (Matthew Bennett). Laying  the groundwork for Sheridan’s (Ted Atherton) plan to remove Giordino (Paulino Nunes) from the board, XIII is contacted by Irina (Virginie Ledoyen) who wants the information in the second watch and is willing to trade the information of the person responsible for Sam’s (Caterina Murino) death, who, of course was Irina herself.

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