Television Reviews

iZombie – The Exterminator

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iZombie - The Exterminator

Liv‘s (Rose McIver) snacking on the brain of a hit-and-run victim in the morgue has some unintended consequences. First, our zombie medical examiner discovers the man was murdered. Second, she learns the brain she’s just ingested belonged to a emotionless professional killer responsible for a recent murder that neither the police nor the District Attorney want to see reopened as they are already prosecuting another suspect for the crime. And third, but certainly not least important, Liv begins to adopt the attitude an manners of the sociopath whose brain she’s eaten.

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Scorpion – Crossroads

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Scorpion - Crossroads

Road trip! Team Scorpion signs up to protect a federal witness (Ginger Gonzaga), pressured into testifying by the U.S. Government, whose testimony could take down the leader of a powerful drug cartel (Jason Manuel Olazabal) who will stop and nothing to make sure the woman never makes it to the courthouse alive. Despite an intricate plan involving decoy vehicles and disguising the witness as a prisoner things fall apart almost immeadiately. Realizing the drug lord has a mole somewhere within the chain of command it falls to the team on their own, without any back-up, to deliver the woman in one piece.

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Castle – Habeas Corpse

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Castle - Habeas Corpse

When a personal injury lawyer is found tortured and beaten to death in an alley Beckett (Stana Katic) and Castle (Nathan Fillion) search for a motive in a bizarre murder mystery that includes an old debt needing to be repaid and the victim burying a crash test dummy in the woods the afternoon before his death. With the help of Lanie (Tamala Jones) and Tory (Maya Stojan), Castle and Beckett are able to retrace the victim’s movements the day of his death and eventually discover how the true motive for the crime was tied to the case of recently-hospitalized young woman who wasn’t even one of the dead lawyer’s clients.

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Ultimate Spider-Man – The Spider-Verse Part 4

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“A pig in a Spider-Man costume wanted a reasonable explanation. And it was the best day ever!”

Ultimate Spider-Man - The Spider-Verse Part 4

Wrapping up the Spider-Verse saga (which was really just a thin excuse to showcase various alternate versions of the character), Spider-Man (Drake Bell) returns home to confront the Goblin (Steven Weber) who has successful extracted DNA from all the other Spideys. After the villain transforms himself into the new Spider-Goblin, Peter needs all the help he can get and decides to enlist the various Spider-Men from other worlds to fight the Spider-Goblin.

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Battle Creek – Old Flames

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Battle Creek - Old Flames

The search into the truth about Milt’s (Tad Hamilton) past is put on hold in an episode that hits home for several characters when Commander Guziewicz’s (Janet McTeer) home is set afire with her inside. As suspects include criminals she put away, a long line of former boyfriends, and an estranged adopted son (Rotimi) recently returned to Battle Creek “Old Flames” gives us our largest glimpse into the life of any single character yet. Even if the explanation of what actually occurred that night is clumsily handled, the episode succeeds in large by focusing on Guziewicz’s propensity for getting out while the getting is good, a trait she likely developed due to the struggle with raising a troubled boy on her own.

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