Atlanta – The Big Bang

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  • Title: Atlanta – The Big Bang
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“Look, I don’t have $500. I make $5.15 plus commissions, I gotta pay rent tonight, and my parents won’t let me in the house. It’s like those drug commercials, only not funny.”

Atlanta - The Big Bang

The first episode of Atlanta introduces us to Earnest Marks (Donald Glover), his ex-girlfriend (Zazie Beetz) and daughter, and his cousin Alfred (Brian Tyree Henry). Stuck in a series of dead-end jobs and schemes which have failed to pay-off, Earn gets the idea to attach himself to Alfred’s aspiring music career as the rapper’s new manager. Of course to do so he’ll have to get around his shifty reputation which even his parents admit is his defining characteristic.

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The Flash – The Complete Second Season

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  • Title: The Flash – Season Two
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The Flash - The Complete Second SeasonThe Second Season of The Flash feels like a bit of a retread putting the Scarlet Speedster up against although super-fast baddie. Zoom isn’t as strong a villain as the Reverse-Flash which leads to a disappointing season finale, but along the way the season does have several bright spots including exploring the concept of a Multiverse, Barry‘s (Grant Gustin) relationship with Patty Spivot (Shantel VanSanten), and bringing back Tom Cavanagh as the all-different Harrison Wells.

Highlights include the Flash’s time jump to trick his old enemy into helping him, the return of the Reverse-Flash (Matt Letscher), the team-up of the Weather Wizard (Liam McIntyre), Captain Cold (Wentworth Miller) and the original Trickster (Mark Hamill), Central City terrorized by King Shark, Barry struggling with the loss of his speed, the Flash temporarily trapped inside the Speed Force, the return of Grodd, the introduction of Zoom, and the episodes leading up to the spin-off Legends of Tomorrow.

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The Wicked + The Divine #22

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The Wicked + The Divine #22My interest in writer Kieron Gillen and artist Jamie McKelvie’s The Wicked + The Divine died along with the murder of lead character Laura Wilson (the fan girl through whose eyes we met Lucifer and the rest of the pantheon) way back in issue #11. Learning that Laura had been brought back as the destroyer Persephone, however, renewed my interest in the comic and gave me a reason to check out what I’ve missed.

The Wicked + The Divine #22 is the conclusion of the “Rising Action” story arc (and really the arc which began in the series first issue). Mortals turned Gods square off as Anake buys time to kill Minerva and complete her sacrifice of four (alluded to but not explained) which she claims is necessary to stop the oncoming darkness.

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Star Wars Rebels – The Complete Second Season

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  • Title: Star Wars Rebels – Season Two
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Star Wars Rebels - The Complete Second SeasonThe Second Season of Star Wars Rebels finds the crew of the Ghost spending more time as full members of the Rebellion after being forced off of Lothal by the Empire. Teased over the course of the season, the two-part finale delivers the long-awaited reunion between Ahsoka Tano (Ashley Eckstein) and Darth Vader (James Earl Jones) along with an unexpected appearance by Maul (Sam Witwer) and the foreshadowing of Ezra‘s (Taylor Gray) possible turn to the Dark Side.

Other highlights of the season include Ezra, Kanan (Freddie Prinze Jr.), and Ezra returning to the Jedi Temple on Lothal, Ezra captured by the Empire, the introduction of Sabine‘s (Tiya Sircar) old friend and rival Ketsu Onyo (Gina Torres), Chopper’s own episode, Ezra’s search for his parents, Fifth Brother (Philip Anthony-Rodriguez) and Seventh Sister (Sarah Michelle Gellar) stealing Force-sensitive children, the introduction of the B-Wing, and an appearance by Princess Leia (Julie Dolan).

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