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Hooten & the Lady – The Amazon

Alan Rapp / July 17, 2017 / Television Reviews

Title: Hooten & the Lady – The Amazon
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Where do you go after finding, and loosing, the Lost City of Gold? The first episode of Hooten & the Lady introduces us to British Museum curator Lady Alex Lindo-Parker (Ophelia Lovibond) whose run in with a treasure hunter named Hooten (Michael Landes) while searching for the lost camp of Victorian explorer Percy Fawcett will lead the mismatched pair on an adventure culminating in the discovery of the Lost City of Gold, having their lives threatened, and loosing the biggest archeological (and monetary) find of their lifetimes.

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Kill la Kill – Junketsu

Alan Rapp / July 14, 2017 / Television Reviews

Title: Kill la Kill – Junketsu
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The third episode of Kill la Kill raises the stakes and sets the stage for the episodes to follow as Satsuki Kiryūin (Ryôka Yuzuki) dons her own Kamui (named Junketsu, giving the episode its title) which will force Ryūko Matoi (Ami Koshimizu) to make a deeper connection to Senketsu in order to unlock her Kamui’s full potential. The fight between the pair dazzles the audience but ends in a stalemate and a challenge. If Ryūko wants a rematch, and answers to her questions, she will have to go through Satsuki’s underlings in the Honnōji Academy and earn that chance (thus setting up the countess battles to come).

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Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy – Back in Black

Alan Rapp / July 14, 2017 / Television Reviews

Title: Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy – Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
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“Back in Black” is notable for introducing Sam Alexander (Logan Miller) to the Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. Reprising the Nova helmet seen in earlier episodes (which turns out to have belonged to Sam’s father), the Guardians go in search of the missing weapon only to discover the young teen has become Earth’s new Nova. The first-half of the episode is pretty straightforward as the heroes clash before the Guardians attempt to both train and dissuade Sam from life as a cosmic super-hero. The former is more successful than the later.

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Remington Steele – Tempered Steele

Alan Rapp / July 13, 2017 / Television Reviews

Title: Remington Steele – Tempered Steele
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Today’s Throwback Thursday post takes us back to the 80s detective show Remington Steele. The second episode of the series, “Tempered Steele,” will introduce several themes which will become staples over the show’s run. First, Laura Holt (Stephanie Zimbalist) will become increasingly frustrated with the man now posing as Remington Steele (Pierce Brosnan). Steele will also make wrong assumptions about a case, and his interference will at times both hinder and help the investigation.

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Preacher – Damsels / Viktor

Alan Rapp / July 12, 2017 / Television Reviews

Title: Preacher – Damsels / Viktor
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After starting off the season with a strong pair of episodes Preacher crashes back to Earth. Well, they can’t all be winners. Believing their troubles to be over, but still in need of tracking down God, Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper), Tulip (Ruth Negga), and Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) arrive in New Orleans. While Jesse fails to find much of use, Tulip’s past comes back to haunt her as she’s taken by Viktor‘s (Paul Ben-Victor) men. The pair of episodes offers quite a bit of wandering and extended sequences of not much actually happening up until the end of “Viktor” where a distracted Jesse goes looking for his missing girl leading to an all-too-obvious American Pscyho rip-off action sequence and a revelation of just who Viktor is to Tulip.

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