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Devil’s Reign: Omega

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Marvel’s event comes to a close with Daredevil alive but Matt Murdock dead to the world as the heroes bury Matt’s brother in his place so he and Elektra can begin their newest crusade against the Hand. Good luck with that.

As for New York, it’s got a new Mayor but even Luke Cage can’t fix things overnight as the Thunderbolts are still at large and vigilantism in the city is still outlawed. Time to get to work Mr. Mayor. Good luck with that.

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Halo – Contact

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  • Title: Halo – Contact
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I’ll be honest, my only real connection with the first-person shooter video game series the new TV-series is based on comes from the popular multi-player mode where I tried my best not to get shot in the back of the head by players who put in far more hours to the game than I ever would. The larger story about super-elite military soldiers versus invading aliens wasn’t really applicable to those scenarios. The series takes the basic mythology of the game and expands on it by adding a layer of class divide all too familiar to fans of dystopian science fiction. The opening episode is really only notable for recreating the look of the video game hero along with its high special effects and high body count of the various Covenant aliens Master Chief (Pablo Schreiber) and the others of Silver Team will put down.

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Top Gun: Maverick

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  • Title: Top Gun: Maverick
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From the opening credits, Top Gun: Maverick lays heavy into the nostalgia by recreating the opening of Top Gun. Not much has changed since we last saw Maverick (Tom Cruise), the film is deliberately vague about what year the movie takes place and exactly how much time has passed. Pete Mitchell is still the maverick who flies by the seat of his pants even if that has left him at yet another crossroads of his decorated, but rocky, career.

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The Wheel of Time – The Eye of the World

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  • Title: The Wheel of Time – The Eye of the World
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The anticlimactic finale to the First Season of The Wheel of Time offers action as the city of Fal Dara is defended against the dark legion which descends. However, the true outcome of the battle is not decided there but in the middle of the Blight where Rand al’Thor (Josha Stradowski) makes his stand against the Dark One (Fares Fares) who plays your basic devil’s bargain in offering Rand all he could possibly desire to free him. As devil’s tricks go, there’s nothing all that interesting or elegant here and our first encounter with the Dark One proves far less impressive than that of Logain Ablar (Álvaro Morte) earlier in the season.

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Naomi – Who Am I?

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  • Title: Naomi – Who Am I?
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The finale of Naomi sends the show’s title character back to her Earth to deal with the boogeyman Brutus (Ray Porter) whose minions have kidnapped her parents and allies as leverage. With only her high school friends as support, Naomi (Kaci Walfall) manages to free the others and make a stand against against the monster responsible for destroying the world she was born on before returning home to face the reveal of an awful truth that will apparently end not only the season but the series as well (as the show has not been renewed for a second season). Hitting the hero’s journey moments over the course of the episode, Naomi ends the episode in far more control of her powers, and a better understanding of what it means to be a hero, than at any point in the series.

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