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Rick and Morty – Rattlestar Ricklactica

Alan Rapp / December 18, 2019 / Television Reviews

Title: Rick and Morty – Rattlestar Ricklactica
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“Rattlestar Ricklactica” dials up the crazy when events to fix something go horribly wrong. In the main story, Morty (Justin Roiland) is bitten by a space snake when ignoring his grandfather’s orders to stay in the car. Realizing the snake astronaut’s death will have repurcussions on a world of snakes (that produces some pretty good Snake Jazz) leads Morty to dress up an Earth snake and return him to the planet starting a series of events leading to time traveling snakes, snake Terminators, and all kinds of carnage. The episode’s B-story centers around Jerry getting into trouble when Rick (Roiland) decides to help by decreasing Jerry‘s (Chris Parnell) mass so he can put up Christmas lights without killing himself. The result? Jerry almost kills himself.

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Warehouse 13 – Past Imperfect

Alan Rapp / December 17, 2019 / Television Reviews

Title: Warehouse 13 – Past Imperfect
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to a top-secret storage facility in South Dakota known as Warehouse 13. “Past Imperfect” brings back the death of Myka‘s (Joanne Kelly) partner when she catches sight of the shooter while she and Pete (Eddie McClintock) are retrieving an artifact. Making some tweaks to the story we’ve been told in earlier episodes about the circumstances surrounding Sam’s (Gabriel Hogan) death, the episode does account for the noted discrepancy of whether Myka was late on the scene or if her partner went in early. It turns out both are true.

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Hawaii Five-0 – Ka i ka ‘ino, no ka ‘ino

Alan Rapp / December 16, 2019 / Television Reviews

Title: Hawaii Five-0 – Ka i ka ‘ino, no ka ‘ino
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Adam Noshimuri (Ian Anthony Dale) continues his role of stand-in for Chin-Ho as the team member to be attacked and framed for various crimes, repeatedly. Following the events of the previous episode, which involved Tamiko (Brittany Ishibashi) being kidnapped and her father murdered, and those responsible looking to frame him, Adam steps away from Five-0 without explanation looking towards his past to set-up a new future for himself and Tamiko. While not involved in the investigation, both McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) and Danny (Scott Caan) attempt to talk to Adam, but it looks like Adam’s days on the side of angels has come to an end.

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Legacies – This Christmas Was Surprisingly Violent

Alan Rapp / December 16, 2019 / Television Reviews

Title: Legacies – This Christmas Was Surprisingly Violent
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By the end of the show’s mid-season finale things will be pretty much back to normal. Before that, Lizzie (Jenny Boyd) will drag Landon (Aria Shahghasemi) back home, Rafael (Peyton ‘Alex’ Smith) will meet his biological father, and Christmas will come in October for the Salvatore School when Krampus comes knocking turning everyone except Hope (Danielle Rose Russell) into a group of merry fools. To save the day, Hope will have to rely on unexpected help from Clarke (Nick Fink) and Santa Claus (Jeff Pillars). It’s a goofy end to a half-season that resets things (mostly) back to normal with both Hope and Alaric back in school, Hope and Landon together, and the pit closed.

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The Flash – Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Three

Alan Rapp / December 12, 2019 / Television Reviews

Title: The Flash – Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Three
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Since the creation of The Flash the writers have foreshadowed the character’s death in a Crisis set in the not-too-distant future. “Part Three” sees those events come to pass. Again, pulling from the original source material, we get the Anti-Monitor’s canon and the one hero whose speed can stop it and save the Earth. Knowing that The Flash wasn’t looking to kill off Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) and permanently leave a hole in the show left the writers looking for an out, and they found one that might even work better than Gustin’s Flash giving his life as it plays on well-developed themes of Barry seeing those he loves die and hits just the right nostalgic notes for fans of the original Flash television series. While one Flash does dramatically sacrifice his life to stop the anti-matter wave, it’s actually the Flash of Earth-90 played by John Wesley Shipp reprising his role from the 90s television show (complete with a flashback and use of The Flash‘s opening score).

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