Television Reviews

The Blacklist – Mr. Gregory Devry

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The Blacklist - Mr. Gregory Devry

Lizzie‘s (Megan Boone) new role as a consultant begins not with hunting a member of The Blacklist but with the arrest of an unknown man (Jake Weber) claiming to be the real Raymond Reddington (James Spader). Knowing sensitive information only the true Reddington should know, including the location of the Shell Island Retreat (an assembly of high-level criminals), the impostor attempts to prove that he is in fact the true Raymond Reddington. Denied a gun or further field experience, Lizzie’s new role will take some getting used to while also opening her up to the kinds of unexpected and unprovoked attacks which close the episode.

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DC’s Legends of Tomorrow – Pilot, Part 1

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DC's Legends of Tomorrow - Pilot, Part 1

Rule One: Time Masters lie. Taking place in the same shared universe of Arrow and The Flash, The CW’s latest super-hero series takes supporting heroes and villains from both shows and unites them with a common purpose. Brought together by rogue Time Master Rip Hunter (Arthur Darvill), who sells each of them on the idea of the legendary status each will achieve by joining him, Ray Palmer (Brandon Routh), Sara Lance (Caity Lotz), Captain Cold (Wentworth Miller) and Heat Wave (Dominic Purcell), Hawkman (Falk Hentschel) and Hawkgirl (Ciara Renée), Jefferson Jackson (Franz Drameh), and Martin Stein (Victor Garber) team-up to save the future from the immortal Vandal Savage (Casper Crump).

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Marvel’s Agent Carter – The Lady in the Lake

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Marvel's Agent Carter - The Lady in the Lake

One of my biggest complaints with the First Season of Agent Carter was the show spent so much time putting Peggy (Hayley Atwell) in her place as a woman in a man’s world that it often forgot to have any actual fun. This trend led to such an inconsistent freshman season that I thought long and hard whether or not it was even worth giving the show a second chance. Hayley Atwell, by far the show’s greatest strength, was enough to bring me back for the premiere where, for at least a single episode, the show lessons the sexist themes of the first season and allows the heroine to soar by transplanting Peggy to California to work under new West Coast Chief Daniel Sousa (Enver Gjokaj) to help investigate a bizarre murder involving a victim frozen in the middle of the lake in the middle of Los Angeles.

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Arrow – Blood Debts

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Arrow - Blood Debts

Arrow returns from mid-season hiatus with both good and bad news for Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) fans. Damien Darhk (Neal McDonough) attack has left some serious challenges for Oliver Queen‘s (Stephen Amell) girl Friday to overcome, but on the bright side Felicity is not the one buried at the grave site in the near future that the show teases us with a glimpse of once again. Although it looks like Felicity will have to struggle through her paralysis (be it temporary or permanent) for the remainder of the season, she isn’t the loss we see Oliver mourning over (which narrows the possibility down to a very small number).

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Shadowhunters – The Descent Into Hell Isn’t Easy

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Shadowhunters - The Descent Into Hell Isn't Easy

Picking up where the show’s Pilot episode left off, “The Descent Into Hell Isn’t Easy” introduces Clary Fray (Katherine McNamara) and her nerdy pal Simon (Alberto Rosende) to the secret world of the Shadowhunters (Dominic Sherwood, Emeraude Toubia, Matthew Daddario). Learning more about the world which her mother (Maxim Roy) kept from her, and about the war between the Shadowhunters and the Circle, and suffering another loss of a good friend, Clara embarks on a risky undertaking to the City of Bones where the warlocks known as the Silent Brothers may have the ability to restore the young woman’s memories.

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