Television Reviews

XIII – Black Widow

  • Title: XIII – Black Widow
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XIII - Black Widow

“Black Widow” offers a look back at the reasons behind Victor Gong’s (Shannon Kook) transformation into XIII’s (Stuart Townsend) doppelganger one year ago as in the present XIII goes through the reverse procedure and is given Victor’s original face even though both M. Pong (Ho Chow) and Ai Ning (Sarah Lian) both know he’s not the real Victor. Meanwhile XIII’s doppelganger and a far more violent Betty (Roxane Mesquida) continue their new partnership which includes making a visit to both M. Pong and Ai Ning and the real Victor takes some vengeance out on his plastic surgeon (Diana Tso).

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Rookie Blue – Homecoming

  • Title: Rookie Blue – Homecoming
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“I should have known this would happen. Your first shift back and I’m already getting shot at.”

Rookie Blue - Homecoming

After the show opens with an elaborate proposal by Best (Lyriq Bent) to Noelle (Melanie Nicholls-King), Andy (Missy Peregrym) and Nick (Peter Mooney) officially return to duty at 15 Division. On their first day back on the beat with Shaw (Matt Gordon), Andy stumbles upon a bank robbery in progress by a masked robber who uses a fake baby attached to his chest and shooting the bank manager to facilitate his escape. Despite capturing a suspect (Grant Nickalls) with a record of breaking and entering a few blocks away near the discarded car, with the gun, money, and covered in the paint from the exploded dye pack, Andy isn’t so sure they actual have the right man.

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Teen Titans Go! – La Larva Amor

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Teen Titans Go! - La Larva Amor

After agreeing to babysit Silkie, Starfire‘s (Hynden Walch) baby mutant killer moth, the team almost immediately looses her while getting wrapped up in a milk mustache contest that quickly spirals out of control. After searching the entire Titans Tower without any luck the Titans are forced to broaden their search.

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Psych – No Trout About It

  • Title: Psych – No Trout About It
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“He showed all the tell-tale symptoms of Blink-182 poisoning.”

Psych - No Trout About It

When a out of control car chase ends in the wrecks of both Lassiter (Timothy Omundson) and Gus’ (Dulé Hill) cars as well as disrupting a holiday marathon, the new mayor sends in a consultant to take a hard look at The Santa Barbara Police Department. The first thing Harris Trout (Anthony Michael Hall) does is to fire Shawn (James Roday) and Gus. In an attempt to win back their jobs, Shawn relates the series of events that led to that morning’s fiasco through a series of flashbacks inter-cut with Trout’s questioning, beginning with their client (Joey Slotnick) who hired the pair to discover who poisoned him and is responsible for the theft of $10 million dollars from a safety deposit box in the bank where the victim worked.

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Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

  • Title: Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman – Pilot
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Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

With a new Superman ready to fly into theaters this summer every now and then I’ll take a look back at the hero’s more memorable moments on both the big and small screen. The concept of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman was different than almost every comic book hero television show which came before or since. More concerned with Clark Kent (Dean Cain) than Superman, and at least equally concerned with Lois Lane (Teri Hatcher), the show presented a peril or dilemma of the week for the Man of Steel to solve, but the crux of the series was the relationship between a pair of reporters whose obvious heat brought the Lois and Clark together in both television and comics.

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