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Remington Steele – Steele Waters Run Deep

Alan Rapp / September 19, 2017 / Television Reviews

Title: Remington Steele – Steele Waters Run Deep
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Today’s Throwback Tuesday post takes us back to the 80s detective show Remington Steele. Still in the early days of their partnership, Steele (Pierce Brosnan) and Laura (Stephanie Zimbalist) struggle through a case together involving a missing video game executive whose absence could hold up the an important merger for the company. Making matters more complicated is grocery store magnate Emery Arnok (George Wallace) who Steele drags into the case while trying to hold up his promise to Laura to win the man’s business.

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The Orville – Command Performance

Alan Rapp / September 18, 2017 / Television Reviews

Title: The Orville – Command Performance
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Half-assed. I’ve been searching for the right words to describe Seth MacFarlane‘s Star Trek rip-off and “half-assed” is about as succinct as I can get. There’s a reason sitcoms aren’t an hour long. Even at 20 minutes the lazy comedy can begin to stretch thin. At a full hour The Orville‘s latest episodes has more groans than laughs. If the whole enterprise was crap it would be easy enough to ignore, but what’s maddening is that there is some good acting and some interesting ideas that just keep getting mired in basic sitcom hell. The premise of “Command Performance” finds Alara Kitan (Halston Sage) in charge of the ship after Ed Mercer (MacFarlane) are Kelly Grayson (Adrianne Palicki) kidnapped and Bortus (Peter Macon) is unavailable while sitting on his egg during the misadventures which will follow.

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Samurai Jack – Episode VIII: Jack versus Mad Jack

Alan Rapp / September 14, 2017 / Television Reviews

Title: Samurai Jack – Episode VIII: Jack versus Mad Jack
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While it’s jam-packed with action and features Samurai Jack (Phil LaMarr) literally fighting a manifestation of his internal demons, “Episode VIII” is one of the least memorable of the series. Opening with an extended sequence in which Jack’s battle with a bar full of bounty hunters which spills out into the forest, Aku (Mako) decides to raise the stakes by pitting the samurai against an evil doppelganger. Of course, the frenzied Jack eventually gets his emotions under control and is able to realize the situation he finds himself in. Our hero is able to regain his composure, defeat “Mad Jack,” and continue on his quest once more.

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Preacher – The End of the Road

Alan Rapp / September 13, 2017 / Television Reviews

Title: Preacher – The End of the Road
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The Second Season of Preacher wraps up with more of a whimper than a bang. After being stuck in neutral for most of this season, the show moves microscopically forward with Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) admitting the hard truth to himself about his son, albeit in a completely selfish way, providing the beginning of Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper) working as Klaus Starr‘s (Pip Torrens) new messiah, and offering a pair of deaths which should finally force the show to move out of the rut it has gotten stuck in since landing in New Orleans.

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Hooten & the Lady – The Caribbean

Alan Rapp / September 13, 2017 / Television Reviews

Title: Hooten & the Lady – Cambodia
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Hooten & the Lady closes its First Season with one last adventure for the mismatched pair before, or to be more accurate on, Alex’s (Ophelia Lovibond) wedding day. Running from the drama of a wedding that’s gotten out of control, Alex follows Hooten (Michael Landes) to the Caribbean in search of lost pirate treasure of Captain Henry Morgan. When her fiance Edward (Jonathan Bailey) follows, Alex struggles to juggle the future she wants with the man she loves versus the adventure she craves with the other man in her life.

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