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Will – The Play’s the Thing

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Will - The Play's the Thing TV review

It may be unfair to criticize TNT’s new drama Will for not being Shakespeare in Love, but since the show was obviously inspired by the Oscar-winning film it’s not something you can easily dismiss either (even if it sorely lacks the wit of the film). Set during the beginning of William Shakespeare’s (Laurie Davidson) days as a struggling playwright, the show’s first episode brings the writer to London where his first play is presented to a starved audience looking for something new.

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Preacher – Damsels / Viktor

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Preacher - Damsels / Viktor TV review

After starting off the season with a strong pair of episodes Preacher crashes back to Earth. Well, they can’t all be winners. Believing their troubles to be over, but still in need of tracking down God, Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper), Tulip (Ruth Negga), and Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) arrive in New Orleans. While Jesse fails to find much of use, Tulip’s past comes back to haunt her as she’s taken by Viktor‘s (Paul Ben-Victor) men. The pair of episodes offers quite a bit of wandering and extended sequences of not much actually happening up until the end of “Viktor” where a distracted Jesse goes looking for his missing girl leading to an all-too-obvious American Pscyho rip-off action sequence and a revelation of just who Viktor is to Tulip.

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Killjoys – A Skinner, Darkly

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Killjoys - A Skinner, Darkly television review

“A Skinner, Darkly” offers two separate stories before bringing Johnny (Aaron Ashmore) home. Before he can get there, however, Johnny will learn the (disappointing) truth about both his missing friend and Clara (Stephanie Leonidas) and the young woman (Tommie-Amber Pirie) wearing her weaponized arm when he uncovers the facts about a re-skinning operation which is using the Hullen ooze to allow others to take on the appearance of the doctor’s (Viktoria Modesta) victims. The audience isn’t the only one disappointed in the outcome, as Johnny (thankfully) heads home calling an end to his solo travels.

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GLOW – Pilot

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GLOW - Pilot television review

Well, that was… underwhelming. There’s a moment about 30-minutes into the first episode of GLOW where it almost sells me on its premise, but that’s quite a long wait for an episode that’s only 37-minutes long (counting opening and closing credits). Based loosely off the 1980s syndicated women’s wrestling league of the same name, GLOW introduces us to bad actor Ruth Wilder (Alison Brie) struggling to find work of any kind in Los Angeles. After accosting a talent promoter in a woman’s restroom, Ruth is given the opportunity to try out for a new concept put together by Sam Sylvia (Marc Maron) who hopes to take a group of semi-athletic women, untalented actors, and those apparently with nothing better to do, and turn them into a brand.

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Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider #3

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Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider #3 comic reviewWhile the third issue of Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider does offer a cameo of Kaine on the hunt for his clone brother, the majority of the comic deals with Ben Reilly‘s fucked-up Las Vegas adventure. With his lies buying some time from Cassandra Mercury, at the cost of a bomb in his neck, Ben is at least able to breathe again. However, when a group of spider-clad would-be heroes decides to show up in the casino our protagonist springs into action, playing the hero whether he wants to or not (at least for a little while).

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