Legacies – Yup, It’s a Leprechaun, All Right / Long Time, No See

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  • Title: Legacies – Yup, It’s a Leprechaun, All Right / Long Time, No See
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Legacies - Yup, It's a Leprechaun, All Right / Long Time, No See television review

The two latest episodes of Legacies play on the season’s two big themes to this point: attempting to save the Salvatore Boarding School from closing down and the loss of Landon (Aria Shahghasemi). The introduction of the Leprechaun in “Yup, It’s a Leprechaun, All Right” offers some zany fun as Lizzie (Jenny Boyd) decides to use the creature’s ability to attract wealth (along with greed and madness) to try and make the money necessary to save the school in a day of fundraising that, of course, gets out of hand. The arrival of a Malivore monster also has an affect on Hope (Danielle Rose Russell) who realizes she may have a way to reach Landon after all. Hope’s recklessness, and the reveal of MG‘s (Quincy Fouse) betrayal (which I’m still struggling to understand?) make up most of “Long Time, No See” as Hope risks everything, even her friends, in another dangerous search for Landon.

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Supergirl – Rebirth

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Supergirl - Rebirth television review

Supergirl‘s final season begins with a mess of a first episode that attempts to wrap up several threads from the COVID-shortened Fifth Season all in one episode prior to moving on to new stories. Before the opening credits even roll, Brainy (Jesse Rath) is saved and Leviathan is defeated leaving the rest of the episode to deal with Lex Luthor (Jon Cryer) who apparently has become a god, has half the world’s population under his sway, and is working to kill off everyone else. Cryer is fun here yet again in what will apparently not be his final appearance which offers him more than one victory over Supergirl (Melissa Benoist). As has been the show’s problem recently, too much of the episode is centered around making sure every single member of the ever-growing supporting cast gets their moment. Given Supergirl’s current predicament, I’m bit concerned with the short-term direction of the show and if the rest of the cast can keep things afloat prior to the Maid of Might’s inevitable return from the Phantom Zone.

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Godzilla vs. Kong

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Godzilla vs. Kong movie review

A year ago, summer was called off, theaters were closed, and studios pulled their largest potential blockbusters from the calendar. Although far from perfect, and with too much of the Godzilla story built on the ashes of the weakest film of the series (Godzilla: King of Monsters), Godzilla vs. Kong delivers the kind of big dumb summer blockbuster audiences have been waiting two years for. The culmination of Legendary’s MonsterVerse wastes little time getting both King Kong and Godzilla on-screen. And, clocking in at under two-hours, director Adam Wingard knows not to overstay his welcome.

As the film opens, Godzilla appears to be out of control, attacking the Florida coastline without warning (although his choice of target, Apex Cybernetics, allows some to question the kaiju’s motives). Having defeated the last of the Titans, only Kong, who has remained in Monarch captivity on Skull Island, remains. With Godzilla’s increasingly erratic actions a choice is made to return Kong to the Hollow Earth, both for his own protection, and in a businessman’s (Demián Bichir) hope that something long hidden can be found to defeat Godzilla.

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Jack of All Trades – Return of the Dragoon

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Jack of All Trades - Return of the Dragoon television review

Throwback Tuesday takes us back to the 19th Century Southeast Asia and an American hero named Jack. After rescuing, and bedding, the niece (Kim Michalis) of President Thomas Jefferson (Charles Pierard), American spy Jack Stiles (Bruce Campbell) is reassigned by the President to the French-controlled East Indian island of Pulau-Pulau. Along with English spy Mrs. Emilia Smythe Rothschild (Angela Marie Dotchin), Jack is tasked with stopping Napoleon’s threats to the United States. The make it up as you go philosophy of Jack, which is likely to get him slapped in the face by any nearby woman, ends up with him adopting the role of a local legendary figure known as the Daring Dragoon in order to protect the covers of both himself and Emilia.

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Perry Mason – The Case of the Sulky Girl

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Perry Mason - The Case of the Sulky Girl television review

Throwback Tuesday takes us back to the courtroom of Perry Mason. Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) gets not one but two clients in “The Case of the Sulky Girl” when he’s hired first by a willful young woman (Olive Sturgess) looking to get under the thumb of her uncle (Raymond Greenleaf) and later her secret husband (Brian G. Hutton) who becomes the prime suspect when the uncle turns up dead. The episode offers a strong set-up with a witness to the crime as well as offering up the housekeeper (Lillian Bronson) as a strong red herring to the murder. Starting with the theory that his client is indeed innocent, Mason looks to unravel the facts which all seem to point to his guilt including a phone call to the police and the witness to the crime both of which he manages to weaken in the courtroom until eliciting a confession about what truly happened.

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