Television Reviews – Page 959

The Newsroom – First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All the Lawyers

Alan Rapp / July 15, 2013 / Television Reviews

Title: The Newsroom – First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All the Lawyers
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The Second Season of The Newsroom opens with a new set of (far less pretentious) opening titles followed immediately by a legal meeting between Will (Jeff Daniels) and ACN’s legal team (led by Marcia Gay Harden) 14 months after the events of last season’s finale. Following this introduction the episode jumps back in time just weeks following the finale in which Jim (John Gallagher Jr.) requests to fill-in for a reporter on the road to get some distance from the rosy state of Maggie (Alison Pill) and Don’s (Thomas Sadoski) relationship causing MacKenzie (Emily Mortimer) to bring in Jerry Dantana (Hamish Linklater) to replace him for a couple of weeks which begins a series of dominoes falling that ends 14 months later with News Night‘s anchor talking to a room full of lawyers.

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Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters – Persuasion

Alan Rapp / July 15, 2013 / Television Reviews

Title: Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters – Persuasion
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With Ratchet (Jeffrey Combs) captured by the Decepticons and Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen) and the Autobots unable to stop their enemies from retrieving the final pieces of technology the need to rebuild the Omega Lock, Megatron (Frank Welker) attempts to appeal to his captive to finish his work with Synthetic Energon and and help transform Cyberton in the thriving planet it once was before the Transformers’ war consumed it.

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Continuum – Second Truths

Alan Rapp / July 14, 2013 / Television Reviews

Title: Continuum – Second Truths
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“My name is Kiera Cameron and I came here from the year 2077…”

Kiera‘s (Rachel Nichols) life gets even more complicated when Carlos (Victor Webster) begins an investigation into the case of a serial killer (Paul Jarrett) whose murders continued up until 2018 and were still unsolved in 2077. Even with remembering only vague aspects of the case she studied from the future, Kiera has no explanation for the incredibly accurate guesses which leads to the arrest of the killer and the rescue of his latest intended victim (Kimberly Sustad).

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Graceland – O-Mouth

Alan Rapp / July 14, 2013 / Television Reviews

Title: Graceland – O-Mouth
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After watching Eddie (Sheaun McKinney) blow his own brains out on Bello’s (Gbenga Akinnagbe) orders, Mike (Aaron Tveit) continues to work his way closer to California’s primary heroin supplier, both for Graceland and to test Badillo’s (Pedro Pascal) theory that Briggs (Daniel Sunjata) is taking a cut of heroin busts for himself for purposes unknown. Working his way into Bello’s trust by playing on the supplier’s love of cowboys and old western movies, Mike earns a new prestigious spot in the organization as the man’s bodyguard. Mike, much to Paige (Serinda Swan) and Tuturro (Manny Montana) amusement, also continues his burgeoning relationship with Abby (Jenn Proske) who now believes the undercover agent is a pilot thanks to Tuturro talking his friend up in the local bar.

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Burn Notice – Exit Plan

Alan Rapp / July 13, 2013 / Television Reviews

Title: Burn Notice – Exit Plan
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After convincing Sonia (Alona Tal) that they are on her side, Michael (Jeffrey Donovan), Sam (Bruce Campbell), Jesse (Coby Bell), and their new crazy Russian spy friend have to find a way out of Cuba before they are tracked down by the head of counter-intelligence for the GRU (Marina Benedict). With limited options and Colonel Oksana knowing all of Sonia’s tendencies, Sam and Jesse jump into the lion’s den playing a pair of bounty hunters who offer to team-up with the Russian to find the pair while secretly trying to create a hole in the net large enough for Michael and Sonia to slip through.

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