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Magik #2

/ / Comics

The second issue of the new Magik series sends Illyana Rasputina and Callen Isaacs into the Tokyo underground to protect another of the seals preventing the rise of the demon Liminal from being open. Magik will get a face-to-face with the demon at the end of the issue, but before that comes to pass we’ll get the mutant fighting off the possessed Ren and demon apparitions out of her electric guitar from breaching another seal.

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La Dolce Villa

/ / Home Video
  • Title: La Dolce Villa
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In what could easily been released on the Hallmark Channel, La Dolce Villa is a perfectly fine example of a made for home video tale involving overprotective single dad Eric (Scott Foley) traveling to Italy to try and prevent his unfocused daughter Olivia (Maia Reficco) from buying a rundown villa in a small village with plans to restore it. While there, he falls for the town’s mayor Francesca (Violante Placido) beginning his first real romantic relationship with a woman since the death of his wife.

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Matlock – A Traitor in Thine Own House

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: Matlock – A Traitor in Thine Own House
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While offering a case of stolen secrets between two tech giants (which guests stars Covert Affairs‘ Christopher Gorham as a hippy CEO), “A Traitor in Thine Own House” offers the team-up of the distrustful and the vengeful Sarah (Leah Lewis) working together to find dirt on Matlock (Kathy Bates). Maddy outmaneuvers the again, putting a quick end to Sarah’s hate-fueled run and also forcing Shae (Yael Grobglas) to back-off of Matlock for the foreseeable future. The other note on the episode comes from its name which remarks on Sarah’s framing Maddie’s betrayal as something of Shakespearean-level significance (but which only lasts a single episode).

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Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Raph Thinks It Through

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Raph Thinks It Through
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Following the same format of the first two episodes of the series, “Raph Thinks It Through” offers a standalone tale for Raphael (Brady Noon) who spends most of the episode strung up by the Purple Dragons who fish him out of the river following his fight with a Mechazoid. Unable to use his brawn, Raph is forced to use his brains (especially after the killer robot tracks him to the gang’s lair). While the dimwitted Hun (Carlin James) was okay, I didn’t love the show’s interpretation of the Purple Dragons, particularly the animation for Angel (Jamila Velazquez), but the episode works well-enough for another one-off focused on one of the Turtles working outside their usual comfort zone while not being able to rely on their brothers.

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Goosebumps – Monster Blood

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: Goosebumps: The Vanishing – Monster Blood
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“Monster Blood” offers a Blob episode with Cece (Jayden Bartels), and later Devin (Sam McCarthy) and Frankie (Galilea La Salvia), chased around the city and subway by something grown from drippings of the killer car and her kombucha. It’s basic horror, with all kinds of questions such as why the subway is completely abandoned aside from the three kids, but there’s fun to be had. The episode also fills in Cece’s backstory revealing the rather large lie she’s been keeping from everyone. Elsewhere, Anthony (David Schwimmer) continues to struggle to find the missing specimen finding no help from Trey (Stony Blyden) who isn’t sure what happened to him. The two stories converge in the final few minutes as Anthony’s kids find their father in the ruins of Fort Jerome raising new questions for all about what is going on and who is responsible.

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