Television Reviews

AEW Dynamite – Holiday Bash 12/21/2022

Holiday Bash offered another match in the best-of-seven series between The Elite and Death Triangle, a reunion of sorts for Bryan Danielson and an old partner on the mic, a rare appearance on Dynamite for Hook, and a banging women’s main event where Jaime Hayter successfully defended her title against former champion Hikaru Shida.

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Jack Ryan – Falcon

  • Title: Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan – Falcon
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Jack Ryan’s (John Krasinski) big brain gets him into more trouble in the first episode of the show’s Third Season which centers around a defunct Soviet weapons plan to expand the USSR to the Rhine. Part of that plan involved the Sokol Project, an untraceable prototype Soviet nuclear tactical weapon, the manufacturing of was shut down with extreme prejudice decades ago but has been pulled out of mothballs. Heading out into the field with a small unit to find proof of his hunch, Jack will end up running for his life with the realization that the 50 year-old Soviet plan has already been put into motion and he has no idea who he can trust.

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National Treasure: Edge of History – I’m a Ghost

  • Title: National Treasure: Edge of History – I’m a Ghost
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More inspired by than adapted from the National Treasure films, the first episode of National Treasure: Edge of History introduces us to twenty-something puzzle solver Jess Valenzuela (Lisette Olivera) and her group of unimpressive friends. Although Jess has a familial tie to treasure, which we see in the opening scenes taking place two decades earlier, she’s completely unaware of them and lacks decades of yearning to see a quest completed. For her, the adventure begins when her boring day job leads her to cross paths with former FBI Agent Peter Sadusky (Harvey Keitel) who starts her on a quest involving an ancient treasure protected by the Freemasons.

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Batwheels – Secret Origins of the Batwheels

  • Title: Batwheels – Secret Origins of the Batwheels
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Created for preschool viewers, with plenty of merchandise to sell based on its characters, Batwheels brings the Batmobile and several other vehicles to life in an odd Batman meets Cars mashup. The first three episodes of the series give us Batman, Robin, and Batgirl along with several Bat-villains the trio put in jail. However, with the heroes lured away, a break-in at the Batcave calls for unorthodox security procedures by the Bat-Computer which brings the Batmobile to life. Over the course of the episode more Bat-Family vehicles will be brought to life as will the vehicles of the villains we saw in the opening.

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Leverage Redemption – The Date Night Job

  • Title: Leverage Redemption – The Date Night Job
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On the eve of Hardison (Aldis Hodge) going into space, the show’s excuse to write off the character again, both he and Parker (Beth Riesgraf) separately talk to members of the team enlisting their help to break into a tax-free port housing millions in treasures including those of a recently-deceased woman whose collection will be on display at a private party. We get flashbacks filling in the various characters’ roles in setting in the night’s event, before jumping back to the present to deal with an unexpected problem. There’s fun Hardison and Parker back-and-forth leading to the break-in where things take a turn with the arrival of armed robbers at the party below who unintentionally trap the thief and hacker inside the safe.

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