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Doom Patrol – Puppet Patrol

Alan Rapp / June 23, 2020 / Television Reviews

Title: Doom Patrol – Puppet Patrol
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Ah, the episode with the Nazi puppets! Seriously, you can keep reading, but it that sentence wasn’t enough to get you to watch then I honestly don’t know what to tell you. The search for the missing Chief (Timothy Dalton), who disappeared after a donkey farted and a giant sinkhole swallowed up an entire town, leads the Doom Patrol and Cyborg (Joivan Wade) on a road trip to Paraguay where Cliff (Brendan Fraser), Jane (Diane Guerrero), and Larry (Matt Bomer) find the former Nazi scientist who provided Morden (Alan Tudyk) with his powers. Thanks to a little puppet show detailing the history of Heinrich Von Fuchs, we get some insight into the animosity between Chief and Morden and the villain’s recent kidnapping of the Doom Patrol’s mentor.

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Stargirl – The Justice Society

Alan Rapp / June 23, 2020 / Television Reviews

Title: Stargirl – The Justice Society
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While the road is a bit rocky, by the end of “The Justice Society” Courtney Whitmore (Brec Bassinger) and Pat (Luke Wilson) come to an understanding about her attempt to recreate the Justice Society with her friends from school. Pat is less than pleased to discover his step-daughter is putting together her own crew, a crew that doesn’t have any interest in walking away from what Courtney has given them when Pat demands the return of the artifacts. Perhaps the best aspect of the latest episode of Stargirl is how the show presents the mystical and scientific gadgets which Courtney has given her friends as not toys or weapons but a piece of themselves that each was missing. In the goggles Beth Chapel (Anjelika Washington) finds understanding and connection, in Wildcat’s cowl Yolanda‘s (Yvette Monreal) rediscovers a sense of purpose and belief in herself, and in the hourglass Rick (Cameron Gellman) makes a connection to his father and is given an outlet for his rage.

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Super Dinosaur – Battle Shock

Alan Rapp / June 22, 2020 / Television Reviews

Title: Super Dinosaur – Battle Shock
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Earthcore’s plans on reopening the gate to Inner Earth doesn’t go as planned thanks to General Casey’s (Dean Redman) prankster son Elliot (Tevon Herbert) who sneaks aboard the Dynamo Dome to wreak havoc, not realizing that he’s putting everyone in serious danger. In the kind of coincidence you are likely to find in a 20-minute cartoon, Super Dinosaur’s (Mac Heywood) fear of spiders is introduced and then immediately expanded on when the creature from Inner Earth that sneaks inside the Dome turns out to be a giant spider. The episode does give both Erin (Shannon Chan-Kent) and Erica (Shannon Chan-Kent) larger roles as Erica helps the team keep safe from the security drones Elliot (AKA Battle Shock) unleashes on them, and Erin’s knowledge of spider’s helps get their unwanted guest home without resorting to violence against the scared creature. As for Inner Earth, thanks to Battle Shock’s pranks, any exploration will have to wait.

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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Out of the Past

Alan Rapp / June 22, 2020 / Television Reviews

Title: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Out of the Past
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With the team now in the 1950s, “Out of the Past” takes advantage of damage to Coulson‘s (Clark Gregg) LMD systems to offer a film noir episode. Damage to his optics renders nearly the entire episode in black and white while damage to other systems meas his thoughts will continue to echo around his skull providing narration for the events which follow. As with the other episodes of the season, the mission remains the same: keep history on the right path. This week that means helping Agent Daniel Sousa (Enver Gjokaj) deliver vital technology to S.H.I.E.L.D. before it falls in to the hands of either Hydra or the Chronicoms. As to the fate of Sousa, who history says dies at the end of his successful mission, whether or not to meddle with his fate offers a much harder choice.

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Darkwing Duck – Beauty and the Beet

Alan Rapp / June 18, 2020 / Television Reviews

Title: Darkwing Duck – Beauty and the Beet
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to crime-ridden streets of St. Canard and a hero who flaps in the night. Framed as through the lens of Darkwing Duck (Jim Cummings) digging into his old case files, “Beauty and the Beet” offers the origins of Bushroot (Tino Insana) from scientist to a half-plant hybrid. Fired from St. Canard University, Dr. Bushroot attempts to prove the worth of his research concerning human photosynthesis by experimenting on himself (which turns out to have unexpected consequences).

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