Television Reviews

AEW Rampage – Slam Dunk 2/17/2023

Taped to air leading into TNT’s coverage of NBA All-Star weekend AEW Rampage kicked off its February 17th edition with a rematch for the AEW Trios titles. Ricky Starks also battled Daniel Garcia, Jade Cargill had a (short) title defense, and Swerve Strickland got a surprise following his match against Dustin Rhodes.

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NCIS: Hawai’i – Silent Invasion

  • Title: NCIS: Hawai’i – Silent Invasion
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A break-in and double murder reminds Jesse (Noah Mills) of an old case closed by a former NCIS agent Tennant (Vanessa Lachey) got fired from NCIS after she took over the assignment at Pearl Harbor. The longer NCIS investigates the case the more Tennant begins to wonder if the person NCIS put in prison years go is actually innocent of his crime and that Carter ignored evidence and witnesses that didn’t fit the confession he coerced from the suspect while in custody. There’s plenty of animosity here, and uncovering of wrongdoing by the former agent, but there’s no payoff or consequences given what is uncovered.

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Not Dead Yet – Pilot

  • Title: Not Dead Yet – Pilot
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Well there’s a half-hour of my life I’ll never get back. Not Dead Yet is a workplace comedy that forgot the comedy. Gina Rodriguez stars as a thirtysomething still acting like a twentysomething who returns home to a career she abandoned years ago for a relationship that eventually went up in flames. Half of the episode shows us examples of how everyone else has grown up in Nell’s absence, leaving her on shaky ground both in her work and social life. The other half deals with dead people.

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The Ark – Everyone Wanted to Be on This Ship

  • Title: The Ark – Everyone Wanted to Be on This Ship
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Syfy’s new series The Ark introduces us to the characters and story in the middle of a crisis when the passengers for a new Earth colony are awakened from hibernation early due to problems on their deep-space ship which have left them without their command crew and damage to several parts of the ship limiting precious necessities to survive. While the CGI effects on the outside of the ship are passable enough, the staging on the inside of the ship isn’t all that interesting forcing you instead to focus solely on the characters, which is a problem if you aren’t given a reason to want any of them to survive.

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AEW Rampage – 2/10/2023

The February 10th edition of AEW Rampage was notable for the opening match featuring the Blackpool Combat Club taking on Kip Sabian and the Butcher & the Blade and the main event of Orange Cassidy defending the All-Atlantic Championship against Lee Moriarty. In between we got a flurry of quick interviews and backstage segments along with some less notable short matches with chaotic post-match scrums.

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