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Backstrom – Inescapable Truth

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  • Title: Backstrom – Inescapable Truth
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Backstrom - Inescapable Truth

Noticing an unexpected physical resemblance with Valentine (Thomas Dekker), along with an offhand comment from Niedermayer (Kristoffer Polaha), sends Backstrom (Rainn Wilson) down a rabbit hole wondering if Val might be his son. As such thoughts continue to fester, leading Backstrom to make a trip to see a former prostitute (Lolita Davidovich) he frequented in his youth (who is roomie’s mother), the squad is called in to investigate a missing musician who disappeared after escaping rehab.

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Jimmy Fallon – Like A Prayer vs. The Rock – Staying Alive (Lip Sync Battle)

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  • Title: Lip Sync Battle
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Here’s Jimmy Fallon‘s lip-sync version of “Like A Prayer” and Dwayne “It’s Okay to Call Me The Rock Again” Johnson‘s version of “Staying Alive” from the opening episode of Lip Sync Battle. The first two episodes of the new show aired last night on Spike TV. Fun but full of a tremendous amount of filler between four musical numbers over a half-hour, and the bizarre choice of Chrissy Teigen as co-host (she flubbed her only real line in the opening episode), the show could use a little reworking. That said, the numbers themselves are fun (especially The Rock’s opening rendition of Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” which has yet to be uploaded to the official YouTube Channel).

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Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – One Door Closes

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Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - One Door Closes

S.H.I.E.L.D. vs. S.H.I.E.L.D. begins here. You know, I might be more interested in this storyline if it wasn’t playing out as too spoiled teenagers arguing over the same Xbox gamertag. “You’re not S.H.I.E.L.D.! I am!” “Nuh-uh, I called it first!” Anywho, everything starts when Coulson (Clark Gregg) calls out Mac (Henry Simmons) on his betrayal before realizing Bobbi (Adrianne Palicki) is actually in on it. Betraying S.H.I.E.L.D. for another version of S.H.I.E.L.D. the pair work to smuggle Fury’s special Pandora’s Box out of the compound before getting caught. When that fails Adama, I mean Gonzales (Edward James Olmos) sends in the Marines, I mean “real” S.H.I.E.L.D. for back-up.

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Forever – Dead Men Tell Long Tales

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Forever - Dead Men Tell Long Tales

The murder of the captain of a salvage ship alerts Henry (Ioan Gruffudd) to the fact that the ship he was murdered on (the first time) has been found. While helping Jo (Alana De La Garza) and Hanson (Donnie Keshawarz) solve the case Henry becomes incresingly obsessed with the ship and what happened to those aboard after his murder.

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Red One #1

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Red One #1Originally written as a French comic under the title Red Skin, Xavier Dorison and Terry Dodson’s spy-thriller opens in 1977 during the Cold War when the Soviet Union’s best agent is tasked with her latest assignment: work undercover in America to become the country’s greatest super-hero.

Most of the unusual tale takes place before Vera Yelnikov begins her assignment in America giving us glimpses of her Russian family, her flippant attitude to her superiors, and her undeniable physical abilities, warm nature, and sexual presence. The comic also introduces the character of the Carpenter, a new right-wing American vigilante whose popularity could cause trouble for the Soviets if left unchecked.

The first issue of Xavier Dorison and Terry Dodson’s certainly has fun with the character of Vera and the reaction of various men to her. I’m more interested in the character and the process of how she is transformed into a super-hero than the the inevitable conflict with the Carpenter (or the questionable undercurrent that anyone who isn’t a rabid right wing Republican is actively helping the Soviet agenda). For fans.

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