Television Reviews

Sleepy Hollow – The Midnight Ride

  • Title: Sleepy Hollow – The Midnight Ride
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“A Headless Horseman is mowing people down and bringing about the end of days. For further questions please call Ichabod Crane, the man who beheaded him in 1781.”

Sleepy Hollow - The Midnight Ride

With the blood-tie between Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison) and the Headless Horsesman (Richard Cetrone) severed, Ichabod heads to a gathering of the Free Masons only to discover each member has been beheaded by the Horseman who has finally risen again to retrieve his missing skull and bring forth the remaining Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. Realizing they can never allow the Horseman to regain possession of his missing head, Abbie (Nicole Beharie) convinces Captain Irving (Orlando Jones) to allow them to destroy the skull, but the Horseman has other plans as the Police Captain finally comes face to torso with the unstoppable Horseman.

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The Blacklist – General Ludd

  • Title: The Blacklist – General Ludd
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The Blacklist - General Ludd

Reddington (James Spader), while not assisting a suburban housewife (Kelly Deadmon) print counterfeit money out of her garage, steps in to help the FBI investigate the bombing of a commercial plane by a terrorist group known as General Ludd whose founder (Justin Kirk) has been able to stay hidden for years under multiple identities with the help of a plastic surgeon (Andrew Dice Clay) friend of Red’s who gave the man a new face. While investigating the group, Agent Keen (Megan Boone) is distracted by news her father (William Sadler) is back in the hospital undergoing another series of tests for a condition whose severity he has managed to keep hidden from his daughter.

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Castle – A Murder is Forever

  • Title: Castle – A Murder is Forever
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“That is… surprisingly plausible.”

Castle - A Murder is Forever

Beckett (Stana Katic) and Castle (Nathan Fillion) investigate the murder of a relationship guru to the rich and famous with a private jet on standby and whose car and office were both ransacked by a legendary fixer (Anthony Ruivivar). With no proof connecting the man to the crime, or any idea what he was sent to retrieve, Ryan (Seamus Dever) and Esposito (Jon Huertas) talk with the victim’s assistant (David Blue) and a wealthy former client (Dominic Hoffman) facing a messy divorce who arranged a secret hotel room for the victim in the days leading up to her death.

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The Mentalist – Fire and Brimstone

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The Mentalist - Fire and Brimstone

With no murder case of the week to solve The Mentalist centers its entire episode on setting up a fateful meeting to get Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) one step closer to identifying Red John. Over two days the events of the episode slowly build tension as Jane and the CBI arrange for all five of the remaining suspects to be at a predetermined time and place of his choosing allowing Jane to identify and, if The Mentalist gets his way, kill Red John.

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Once Upon a Time – Dark Hollow

  • Title: Once Upon a Time – Dark Hollow
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Once Upon a Time - Dark Hollow

“Dark Hollow” opens in Storybrooke with the departure of Hook‘s (Colin O’Donoghue) ship and the rescue mission to Neverland. Left behind, Belle (Emilie de Ravin) is given a cloaking spell and a warning from Rumpelstiltskin (Robert Carlyle) that others are coming. Although the protection spell works, it’s too late to stop two new travelers (Matt Kane, James Immekus) from making their way into its now magically-protected borders with a mission to stop the newly-arrived Ariel (JoAnna Garcia Swisher) from finding and returning to Neverland with a weapon Rumpelstiltskin believes can stop Pan.

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