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Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan – Pilot

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In Amazon’s Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, John Krasinski becomes the latest actor to step into the shoes of Tom Clancy’s most famous character. The show’s pilot episode introduces us to CIA analyst Jack Ryan (Krasinski) who follows several overseas bank transfers back to who he believes to be a terrorist on the rise known as Suleiman. The show’s first episode takes awhile to get going spending too much time in Ryan’s office and featuring the character getting off on the wrong foot with his new boss (Wendell Pierce) who, when Ryan’s hunch pays off, decides to take him into the field to help question a pair of suspects who they believe may be tied to the terrorist network.

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Hanna – Forest

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Hanna - Forest television review

There’s a double-edge sword to consider when elongated a two-hour movie into an eight-hour series. On one hand you are able to expand and go into more depth than the original film could ever hope to have done. On the other, events can feel drawn-out longer than necessary by those who remember the pacing of the (far shorter) story. Although I like the idea of Hanna, the Amazon series adapted from the film of the same name, the first episode is mostly uneventful focusing on Hanna’s (Esme Creed-Miles) life in the wilderness and one reckless choice which changes her world forever and alerts the outside world to her existence. Pretty much all set-up, “Forest” focuses on glimpses of Hanna’s training by her father (Joel Kinnaman) far away from the prying eyes of the world after he and his wife (Joanna Kulig) stole Hanna before fleeing into the woods on a journey only Erik and his daughter would survive.

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Warehouse 13 – Pilot

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Warehouse 13 - Pilot television review

Today’s Throwback Tuesday post takes us back to a top-secret storage facility in South Dakota known as Warehouse 13. The show’s pilot episode introduces us to Secret Service Agents Pete Lattimer (Eddie McClintock) and Myka Bering (Joanne Kelly) who, after witnessing unexplainable events one night, are reassigned by Mrs. Frederic (CCH Pounder) to work for Warehouse 13 recovering mystical artifacts which are stored within the Warehouse by its caretaker Artie (Saul Rubinek). “Pilot” does its job in introducing the various characters and setting the paramaters of the show’s weekly episodic nature involving the agents recovering various artifacts and returning them to the warehouse.

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Elementary – Gutshot

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Elementary - Gutshot television review

For a show that has included an underlining message about moving forward, the final season of Elementary awkwardly takes two-steps back as Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) and Watson‘s (Lucy Liu) London adventures are apparently done after a single episode. Returning to New York to investigate the shooting of Captain Gregson (Aidan Quinn), Joan publicly joins Marcus (Jon Michael Hill) in the investigation while Holmes hides in the shadows to avoid apprehension by the FBI. Although the episode begins with the assumption that both detectives would return to London following the apprehension of Gregson’s shooter, it appears the pair will be remaining in New York for the foreseeable future. While the move to London threatened a big shake-up for the show it also offered new avenues for both Holmes and Watson in London. That, apparently, is not what the writers had in mind for our characters.

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Good Omens – In The Beginning

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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch is a terrifically amusing novel from Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman about an angel and demon coming together in an attempt to save the Earth from Armageddon. Adapted as a six-part Amazon series, the first episode introduces us to both the angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and the demon Crowley (David Tennant) who have grown quite comfortable on Earth sine being stationed there before Eve plucked the apple from the tree in the Garden of Eden. Having formed an unlikely friendship in their shared exile, neither is all that keen on the coming of the Antichrist and the end of the world. After a brief set-up, including the pair’s first meeting, “In The Beginning” jumps forward eleven years prior to present day when Crowley is tapped to deliver the baby Antichrist into the arms of the human couple who will unknowingly raise it to destroy the world. As latch-ditch plans go, this one isn’t so bad… but then fate steps in.

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