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Smallville Season Eleven: Alien #2

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Smallville Season Eleven: Alien #2As Lex Luthor releases the Monitor from his Russian prison, unaware how powerful and dangerous the creature actually is, in Gotham City Lois and Chloe seek out Batman and Nightwing for their help investigating the murder of a man dressed up like the Man of Steel.

While teasing us about a Crisis and parallel Earths (one of which I hope resembles the pre-New 52 DCU), Smallville Season Eleven: Alien showcases the capabilities of the Monitor who proves more than a match for the entire legion of Rocket Reds and even for Superman who the Monitor wounds (much to Clark’s complete surprise).

The Gotham storyline offers writer Bryan Miller and artist Edgar Salazar a chance to show off the Smallville version of the Batcave to Chloe and Lois and tease us with the possibility of a certain Mr. Dick Grayson being introduced into the series in the near future. Worth a look.

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Psych – S.E.I.Z.E. the Day

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  • Title: Psych – S.E.I.Z.E. the Day
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“Our killer is targeting a-holes.”

Psych - S.E.I.Z.E. the Day

Officer Lassiter (Timothy Omundson) psyches himself up to go after the shooter targeting Interim Police Chief Trout (Anthony Michael Hall), even if it requires dying “in a hailstorm of bullets” (something Trout is willing to live with), but when Marlowe (Kristy Swanson) breaks the news about her pregnancy the SBPD’s former Chief Detective finds himself less willing to put his life on the line. Enlisting the help of Shawn (James Roday) and Gus (Dulé Hill), who are still banned from working for the department and are struggling with Shawn’s ridiculous new plan to transform himself into a life coach, Lassiter brings in Trout’s mother (Celia Weston) as their leading suspect.

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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

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  • Title: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

It’s been more than a decade since the last movie based on Tom Clancy‘s thinking man’s action hero Jack Ryan opened in theaters. Far from a box office bomb The Sum of All Fears still failed to relaunch the franchise with Ben Affleck in the starring role. 11 years later Hollywood tries again with Chris Pine taking over the role in a Jack Ryan origin story that is the first of the five films to not be based off one of Clancy’s novels.

Although it plays with the timing of various important events, the screenplay remains close to Ryan’s origins from the Clancy novels. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit offers a quick look at the series of events that led him from earning a Doctorate in Economics to his stint in the Marine Corps and his eventual injury and recruitment into the CIA by Thomas Harper (Kevin Costner). The film also spends quite a bit of time developing the relationship between Ryan and Cathy (Keira Knightley), a phsycial therapist earning her medical degree who helps in his recovery and rehabilitation following the helicopter crash that nearly left him paralyzed.

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Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Seeds

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  • Title: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Seeds
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Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - Seeds

When a piece of tech invented by Fitz (Iain De Caestecker) and Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) is used in the attempted murder of three S.H.I.E.L.D. cadets the team heads to the the science and technology division of the S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy. As Ward (Brett Dalton) begins his investigation, Fitz and Simmons give the students “the talk” (about the history of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the dangers of those using science for evil) which is interupted by a second attack on a genius outsider named Donnie Gill (Dylan Minnette) who has had trouble fitting in during his short stay at the Academy.

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House of Lies – Wreckage

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  • Title: House of Lies – Wreckage
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“She just asked you to blow a CEO.”

House of Lies - Wreckage

Appropriately entitled “Wreckage,” the season premiere of House of Lies picks up the pieces from last season’s finale which saw Mary Kaan (Don Cheadle) leave Galweather & Stern, Clyde (Ben Schwartz) go to work for Monica (Dawn Olivieri), and Jeannie (Kristen Bell) in control of the new Pod which includes a far more dickish Doug (Josh Lawson) and new recruits JC (Brad Schmidt) and Benita (Lauren Lapkus). And, yes, each and every one of them are miserable.

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