Television Reviews

Sinbad – Pilot

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Sinbad - Pilot

The short-lived BBC retelling of the journey of Sinbad makes its way to the shores of America this Summer courtesy of the Syfy Channel. The series, cancelled after a single season, stars Elliot Knight as a thief who flees his home following the accidental death of the son of a powerful lord (Naveen Andrews), as well as the death of Sinbad’s younger brother (Devon Anderson) and a curse bestowed on the young man by his grandmother (Janet Suzman) forcing Sinbad to a life on the high seas and unable to spend more than a single day at a time on land.

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Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters – Thirst

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Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters - Thirst

Looking to get on Megatron‘s (Frank Welker) good side, Knock Out (Daran Norris) and Starscream (Steve Blum) perform some experiments with a combination of Dark Engergon the stolen Autobots experimental, and still unstable, Artificial Energon on the Silas/Breakdown cyborg creating an out-of-control vampiric monster who begins preying on Deception troops and draining them of their Energon (and creating a small army of zombie Decepticons out of his victims).

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XIII – Punchout

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XIII - Punchout

Following the events of last week’s bizarre episode, XIII (Stuart Townsend) is sent into “The Pit” by Betty (Roxane Mesquida), an underground prison that pits its prisoners in gladiatorial combat to the death, while above ground she and Victor Gong take control of the Xu Corporation. XIII comes across a few familiar faces who Betty has also sentenced to The Pit including Mozambique (Wole Daramola), movie producer Barry Salters (Jason Blicker), Amos (Greg Bryk), Grier (Lisa Berry), and anyone else Betty blames for the hardships of her life. Pitted against each other, not all of them will survive.

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Continuum – Second Chances

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Continuum - Second Chances

Time Travel can be a tricky bitch. The Canadian sci-fi series stars Rachel Nichols as Kiera Cameron, a cybernetically-enhanced cop from the year 2077 who is accidentally transported back in time by a group of eight failed terrorists fleeing execution in hopes of changing the future which is controlled by a Corporate Congress. Over the show’s First Season Kiera attempted to track down the various terrorists with the help of Vancouver Police Detective Carlos Fonnegra (Victor Webster) and genius young designer Alec Sadler (Erik Knudsen) who will grow into the man responsible for the most impressive technology from Kiera’s time period.

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Graceland – Pilot

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Graceland - Pilot

USA Network’s newest show from White Collar creator Jeff Eastin stars Aaron Tveit as rookie FBI Agent Mike Warren who is taken directly from his graduation and assigned to a joint undercover operation in Southern California beach house. A little bit Covert Affairs and a little bit Point Break, Graceland is based, in part, on real events of a house in Southern California seized by the U.S. Government which became a base for top undercover agents of the DEA, FBI, and Customs.

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