Obliterated – Real American Heroes

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Obliterated - Real American Heroes

The first episode of Obliterated tells us everything to know about the characters and the series which apparently both have the same stunted level of intelligence. Our main characters are a cobbled together special ops team run by CIA Agent Ava Winters (Shelley Hennig). If your wondering how the show gets around the CIA running domestic ops… well, it basically just ignores the fact that they are a foreign intelligence service and is barred from anything remotely like what Obliterated gives us (or even a halfway rational version of events depicted). Could Obliterated be dumb fun? Possibly, although there’s certainly more dumb than fun in this first episode.

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Past Lives

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Past Lives

Writer/director Celine Song‘s Past Lives examines the haunting touch of love across time and distance. After introducing us to 12 year-old best friends Na Young (Moon Seung-ah) and Hae Sung (Leem Seung-min) on the verge of something more, Na Young’s family leaves South Korea for the United States, and we skip forward 12 years where Hae Sung (Teo Yoo) reconnects with Na Young now Nora (Greta Lee) over the Internet. Living on opposite sides of the globe, the two find their connection in place although the inability to physically connect becomes eventually too great and leads to another 12 year gap where the now married Nora is visited by Hae Sung in New York City.

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Bob’s Burgers – Fraud of the Dead: Zombie-docu-pocalypse

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Bob's Burgers - Fraud of the Dead: Zombie-docu-pocalypse

“Fraud of the Dead: Zombie-docu-pocalypse” gives us a mocumentary within a found footage horror movie made by the Belcher kids, their parents, and several of their friends. What starts out as Gene (Eugene Mirman) and Tina (Dan Mintz) creating a documentary about how good an archer Louise (Kristen Schaal) has become soon becomes hijacked when zombies attack the restaurant. It’s a completely unexpected episode that shows off the love and support of family and community behind the zombie craziness, and everything works here (even the unnecessary character assassination of mustard).

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