A Discovery of Witches – Episode 1

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A Discovery of Witches - Episode 1

The opening episode of A Discovery of Witches introduces us to historian and closet witch Diana Bishop (Teresa Palmer) who while working on research at Oxford University stumbles up on a long lost volume in the library that appears to her. The ripples of her exposure to the book ring across the school and raise the interest of the vampire Matthew Clairmont (Matthew Goode) as well as other witches and daemons. It turns out the lost manuscript involves the origin of supernatural species and may hold the key to their survival or extinction.

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The Sintern

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The Sintern

Your basic low-budget TV-movie style thriller, The Sintern stars Evelyn Giovine as a woman with a checkered past, an 80s perm, and horrible taste in men looking into the sudden disappearance of her estranged mother which she ties back to a megachurch. Verity goes undercover as the church’s new marketing intern Charity, hoping to uncover the dark secrets the church holds (while completely missing the obvious truth she will need to have spelled out for her in the final 15 minutes of the film).

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The Umbrella Academy – The Squid and the Girl

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The Umbrella Academy - The Squid and the Girl

As the show moves into the rockier final episodes eventually limping to an unsatisfying series finale, the family, minus Klaus (Robert Sheehan) who begins his own misadventures getting stuck using his powers for his old dealer, go in search of Jennifer (Victoria Sawal) who wakes up to meet her kidnappers Gene (Nick Offerman) and Jean (Megan Mullally) and their cult is obsessed by helping bring about the return of the original timeline through a cleanse. Ben (Justin H. Min) eventually finds and rescues her which will turn out to be not great for the rest of the world.

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Jenny Sparks #1

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Jenny Sparks #1

Planetary may be my favorite team, but Jenny Sparks is my favorite character from the WildStorm Universe. The Spirit of the 20th Century saved the world by herself and with various teams including the Authority until the end of the millennium which was the last we heard of her. After killing God, something referenced in this comic, she died (and left a gaping hole the team could never fill). As part of DC’s Black Label, we get Jenny back… somehow. 

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