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Delicious in Dungeon – Court Cuisine/Boiled in Salt Water

Alan Rapp / February 20, 2024 / Television Reviews

Title: Delicious in Dungeon – Court Cuisine/Boiled in Salt Water
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“Court Cuisine/Boiled in Salt Water” continues the show’s theme of finding food in usual places. The first-half of the episode deals with Laios (Damien C. Haas) and his failed attempts to find sustenance within Living Paintings where he struggles to find a meal, and even when finally doing so, returns only to discover the food has no substance in his world. Jumping through several paintings all within the same part of the dungeon, Laios begins to visit the same people at different times in their lives and draws the attention of an elf who begins to suspect Laois may be responsible for the kingdom’s troubles. I’ll be curious to see if the show picks up this thread later on in the series.

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Death and Other Details – Tragic

Alan Rapp / February 19, 2024 / Television Reviews

Title: Death and Other Details – Tragic
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After her short romantic bliss with Jules (Hugo Diego Garcia), Imogene (Violett Beane) reality crashes back down to earth once she learns Rufus (Mandy Patinkin) has connected her new beau to Victor Sams who also claims a new victim on the ship preventing Alexandra (Tamberla Perry) for divulging any of dirty little secrets to Interpol. “Tragic” fills in Jules’ backstory as well as providing another confession by Rufus (which is the shakiest sequence of the the entire episode as the episode flipflops again on just how good a detective Rufus really is). Heading into the final two episodes, next week will put the focus back on the murder of Imogene’s mother with the finale bringing all events to a head and revealing a murderer.

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The Irrational – Bombshell

Alan Rapp / February 19, 2024 / Television Reviews

Title: The Irrational – Bombshell
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My biggest complaint with “Bombshell” is how obvious the resolution of the episode is in not furthering the series-long story in any meaningful way. After escaping prison, Wes Banning (Ben Cotton) builds a bomb vest and shows up at the university to hold Alec (Jesse L. Martin), Phoebe (Molly Kunz), and Owen (Arash DeMaxi) hostage. During the episode, Alec earns the man’s trust and discovers the motivations behind the bomb that sent Banning to prison. Agreeing to help save Banning’s daughter (Siana Bajwa), Alec saves himself and his assistants, but because Banning dies at the end of the episode he never lives up to his end of the bargain and dies without revealing any new information about the man responsible thus keeping the status quo of the series intact.

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Adventures of Superman – The Haunted Lighthouse

Alan Rapp / February 18, 2024 / Television Reviews

Title: Adventures of Superman – The Haunted Lighthouse
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Superman Sunday takes us back to the 1950s and a strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. In the show’s second episode, Jim Olson (Jack Larson), noticeably never called Jimmy, visits some family on Moose Island only to become increasingly concerned with their behavior and odd occurrences on the otherwise empty island including an abandoned lighthouse which appears to be back in operation. The first-half of the episode is built entirely around Jim, who finally contacts Clark Kent (George Reeves) at The Daily Planet for assistance bringing both Clark and Superman to the island to investigate the odd occurrences.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – A Scandal in Bohemia

Alan Rapp / February 17, 2024 / Television Reviews

Title: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – A Scandal in Bohemia
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“There was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.”

Sherlock Saturday takes us back to 221 B Baker Street and the Granada Television’s faithful adaptations of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The first episode of the series introduces us to Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) and Dr. John Watson (David Burke) in one of the detective’s most famous cases: “A Scandal in Bohemia.” Hired by the King of Bohemia (Wolf Kahler), Holmes takes on the case to retrieve a compromising photograph from the home of Irene Adler (Gayle Hunnicutt) who the king is certain plans to use the photo to ruin his upcoming nuptials.

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