Guardians of the Galaxy #9

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Guardians of the Galaxy #9With Thanos‘ soldiers about to make Peter Quill, Rocket Raccoon, and Abigail Brand very dead the cavalry arrives, first in the forn of Angela followed by Groot and Drax giving their friends aboard S.W.O.R.D.‘s orbiting installation known as The Peak time to help the Avengers return to Earth (even if it does mean Star-Lord putting Carol Danvers on hold).

The issue also returns Gamora who decides abandoning her entire team to their likely deaths after she learned Peter Quill kept Thanos‘ survival from her may have been a bit of a miscalculation. Although that entire subplot felt hollow to me, it does allow Gamora to make one hell of an entrance.

Guardians of the Galaxy #9 leads directly into the the final issue of Infinity (which despite not reading I’ve still enjoyed these tie-in issues). It also reunites the whole team (well, I’m still waiting for Cosmo‘s return) and Angela moving forward with the post-Infinity clean-up you now will be coming. Worth a look.

[Marvel, $3.99]

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White Collar – Quantico Closure

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White Collar - Quantico Closure

Peter (Tim DeKay) is surprised by the arrival of his old girlfriend (Kim Dickens) who enlists his help to take down a security analyst (Christian Campbell) who is selling a top-secret password-decrypting microchip on the black market. The return of his former flame from their time together in Quantico, and Peter’s inability to tell his wife about any aspect of the time they are spending together, makes Elizabeth (Tiffani Thiessen) more than a little uncomfortable leading to Elizabeth enlisting the help of Neal (Matt Bomer) to try and discover what’s really going on.

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Nikita – Set-Up

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Nikita - Set-Up

Hitting the halfway point of the show’s final six-episode Fourth Season, “Step-Up” focuses on Birkhoff‘s (Aaron Stanford) suspicious behavior and the trouble Alex (Lyndsy Fonseca) runs into in India after Amanda‘s (Melinda Clarke) manipulations make it appear as if she is privately funding Nikita’s terrorist network. Although Ryan‘s (Noah Bean) suspicions put everyone on edge it turns out Birkhoff isn’t a mole for Amanda but has hidden the likely target of Ronald Peller (Judd Nelson) who he believes has been swapped out with one of Amanda’s doubles. Fearing exposing the fake will endanger the real Peller, Birkhoff didn’t want to put his father in any more danger.

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Scandal – YOLO

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Scandal - YOLO

Family troubles are the major theme of the latest episode of Scandal. “YOLO” begins with Olivia (Kerry Washington) being reunited with her mother (Khandi Alexander), who her father (Joe Morton) has kept in a secret government prison for more than 20 years after faking her death, while Huck (Guillermo Díaz) begins torturing Quinn (Katie Lowes) for answers after discovering she has been working against Oliva and for B613. There’s also trouble between Cyrus (Jeff Perry) and James (Dan Bucatinsky) after the reporter deduces how his husband used to him to out the Vice-President’s husband () and decides to go ahead with the affair to teach Cyrus a lesson.

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Glee – Previously Unaired Christmas

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Glee - Previously Unaired Christmas

Set during the show’s previous season, this “lost” Christmas episode (obviously filmed this year) centers around various Christmas themes in both New York and Lima. As Rachel (Lea Michele), Kurt (Chris Colfer), and a visiting Santana (Naya Rivera) all struggle with their holiday jobs as Christmas elves, the New Directions focus on winning McKinley High’s room decoration contest and auditioning for role of Mary in the live nativity that Marley (Melissa Benoist), Unique (Alex Newell), Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz), and Kitty (Becca Tobin) all have their eye on.

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