Television Reviews

Big Hero 6 – Baymax Returns

  • Title: Big Hero 6 – Baymax Returns
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Set after the events of the movie, the two-part opener to the Big Hero 6 series follows Hiro (Ryan Potter) to the San Fransokyo Institute of Technology where he begins re-assembling Baymax (Scott Adsit) which he attempts to hide from Professor Granville (Jenifer Lewis). In an episode full of shenanigans, Hiro must steal from Granville in order to reclaim Betamax’s skeleton from Yama (Paul Briggs) who, of course, quickly betrays them and forces the rest of the team to suit up for a rescue.

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Leverage: Redemption – The Muddy Waters Job / The Harry Wilson Job

  • Title: Leverage: Redemption – The Muddy Waters Job / The Harry Wilson Job
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The final two episodes of the returning and rebranded Leverage: Redemption play on themes introduced over the course of the year including the return of RIZ Security and the redemption of Harry Wilson (Noah Wyle). Harry plays a role in both the final two episodes of the season as his daughter gets him involved in the investigation of an oil company run by his ex-wife’s current husband (John Hans Tester). Ending in pyric victory for the team as RIZ destroys all evidence of wrongdoing takes us into the season finale with Harry working undercover with RIZ with the help of an old friend (Aldis Hodge) while the rest of the team begin to question his loyalty.

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Star Trek – The Corbomite Maneuver

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Today’s Throwback Thursday post takes us boldly back to where no man had gone before and the original five-year mission of the U.S.S. Enterprise. The first episode of Star Trek produced after its two pilot episodes, “The Corbomite Maneuver” was the tenth episode aired due to the number of special effects involved in the episode. It will mark the first, but certainly not the last, time a ship bearing the name Enterprise would come across something unusual in space. In “The Corbomite Maneuver” that turns out to be an unusual cube blocking the ship’s path. Unable to remove the ship from the path of the cube, and being bombarded with radiation, Kirk (William Shatner) orders the destruction of the cube which leads to all new problems for the crew of the Enterprise after they begin to search for the origins of the crew.

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The Old Man – III

  • Title: The Old Man – III
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The biggest piece of the third episode of The Old Man is to confirm the identity of Dan Chase’s (Jeff Bridges) daughter, not only as a living person (and not a hallucination like that of his ex-wife), but also reveal her larger role in the events that are occurring. It’s an interesting choice to make to reveal her identity so early in the series, and I think there was still plenty of mileage to get out of her being more of a nebulous character. That said, her conversation with Zoe (Amy Brenneman), even though it ultimately doesn’t convince her to hit the road with Dan, tells us everything we need to know about the Dan/Zoe relationship.

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Blood & Treasure – The Soul of Genghis Khan

  • Title: Blood & Treasure – The Soul of Genghis Khan
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Blood & Treasure returns for a Second Season with Danny (Matt Barr) and Lexi (Sofia Pernas) being pulled into a search for the the standard/banner which Genghis Khan rode into battle with which became known as the Soul of Genghis Khan. Lost for years, some mysterious group which attacked both the Vatican and killed their old frenemy Jay Reece (John Larroquette) in prison is after the standard for their own twisted needs. And helping them, unknown to Danny or Lexi, is Reece’s daughter (Victoria Diamond).

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