Television Reviews

Zorro – The Execution

  • Title: Zorro – The Execution
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Zorro - The Execution

“Execution” offers the chance for a limited alliance between Diego (Miguel Bernardeau) and Nah-Lin (Dalia Xiuhcoatl) who work together to free the Native American captives the Governor (Rodolfo Sancho) is holding before he kills them without a trial. Nah-Lin choosing to return the kidnapped Ramirez (Rubén Darío Gomez), in an effort to save her men, who shows up only a little worse the wear only to not make it out of the Governor’s office alive also clues Monasterio (Emiliano Zurita) further into the kind of man he’s working for leading him to choose to let Zorro escape at the end of the episode.

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The Brothers Sun – Whatever You Want

  • Title: The Brothers Sun – Whatever You Want
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The Brothers Sun - Whatever You Want

Charles (Justin Chien) spends time with his mother (Michelle Yeoh) after Bruce (Sam Song Li) goes missing from school, learning her way of doing things and, thanks to some insight from other women including including Alexis (Highdee Kuan), how to decipher what she wants from him. As for Bruce, despite a bit of torture, he manages to make an ally out of June (Alice Hewkin) convincing her that he and Charles are not responsible for her sister’s death.

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Delicious in Dungeon – Stewed Cabbage/Orcs

  • Title: Delicious in Dungeon – Stewed Cabbage/Orcs
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Delicious in Dungeon - Stewed Cabbage/Orcs

“Stewed Cabbage/Orcs” offers an explanation to where Senshi (SungWon Cho) acquires the vegetables he uses for so many of his recipes in an episode that also offers a nice teaching moment about living harmoniously in the natural world (even if that world is in a dungeon full of monsters). After harvesting his latest supply, the party runs into some of Senshi’s clients: a group of orcs on hard times. In this episode as well, we get a lesson about working together (even with people you might not immeadiately like) in order to produce positive results such as the feast even Marcille (Emily Rudd) can’t complain about.

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Hazbin Hotel – Overture

  • Title: Hazbin Hotel – Overture
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Hazbin Hotel - Overture

What started out as an independent webcomic has now become a full-blown Amazon series. I had a very mixed reaction to the opening episode of the series that centers around Lucifer’s daughter Charlie (Erika Henningsen) and her plan to create a hotel within Hell to redeem sinners allowing them to eventually reach Heaven. I enjoy Charlie, and the look of the episode. The musical numbers were a bit more hit-and-miss for me (although the idea of singing about how glorious Hell is from a certain point of view is humorous).

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Masters of the Universe: Revolution – Ascension

  • Title: Masters of the Universe: Revolution – Ascension
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Masters of the Universe: Revolution - Ascension

The two major threads of “Ascension” focus on Adam (Chris Wood) choosing between the crown and He-Man after the arrival of his uncle Keldor (William Shatner) and Teela (Melissa Benoist) beginning her journey to restore Preternia. An invasion by Skeletor (Mark Hamill) and his Motherboard virus which takes a few new victims before being sent packing thanks in large part to Keldor’s heroics making Adam’s choice easier (albeit also tipping the hand to the audience of the obvious twist far, far too soon).

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