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Zorro – The Chosen One / Inheritance

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Zorro - The Chosen One / Inheritance

Filmed in the Spanish Canary Islands, the new Zorro offers a reinterpretation of his character opening with the deaths of both Zorro and Alejandro De La Vega in the opening scenes. Our Zorro is a Native American warrior, the latest to pick up the mantle bestowed on them after being chosen. Both men fall to the corruption of California under the thumb of an unscrupulous Governor (Rodolfo Sancho). After this we meet the clever Diego de la Vega (Miguel Bernardeau) who leaves his schooling and training in Spain after learning of his father’s death to assume control of his lands and learn the truth about his murder (which has been blamed on the now dead Zorro).

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Zorro – Presenting Señor Zorro

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Zorro - Presenting Señor Zorro

As Amazon Prime debuts a new Zorro series, Flashback Friday takes a look back at Walt Disney’s classic series of the late 1950s featuring the adventures of Zorro fighting injustice in the early 19th Century. After three years abroad Don Diego de la Vega (Guy Williams) returns to California from Spain along with his mute man-servant Bernardo (Gene Sheldon). On the ship back, Diego learns the trouble arising in his home comes from the ruthless Commandante Capitán Monastario (Britt Lomond) and chooses to not return as the worldly adventurer and swordfighter but instead a boorish aristocrat who could not possibly be seen as a threat. Don Alejandro de la Vega (George J. Lewis) is disheartened by his son’s disinterest in local troubles, but Diego keeps up the charade for everyone he meets choosing instead to take action later that night while wearing a mask.

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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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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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