Television Reviews

King & Maxwell – Pilot

  • Title: King & Maxwell – Pilot
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King & Maxwell - Pilot

Based on the series of novels by David Baldacci, TNT’s latest procedural drama stars Jon Tenney and Rebecca Romijn as a pair of former Secret Service agents turned bickering Washington D.C. private detectives. After a ridiculous bit of nonsense involving the pair chasing a blackmailer dressed as a beaver through the city, the “Pilot” episode begins with the murder of an old friend of King’s (Tenney) who was working as the attorney for alleged serial killer Edgar Roy (Ryan Hurst) at the time of his death.

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Lois & Clark – I’ve Got a Crush on You

  • Title: Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman – I’ve Got a Crush on You
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Lois & Clark - I've Got a Crush on You

With a new Superman ready to fly into theaters this week every now and then I’ll continue to take a look back at the hero’s more memorable moments on both the big and small screen. “I’ve Got a Crush on You” gives us both Lois (Teri Hatcher) and Clark (Dean Cain) undercover at a nightclub which is a front for the head of the Metro Gang. Both reporters are trying to uncover who is setting fire to buildings in the West River neighborhood. The full truth, which neither will fully discover, is that the is gang financed by Lex Luthor (John Shea) who has plans to buy up real estate cheap and reinvent the waterfront as Lex Harbor.

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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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