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Shifting Gears – Valentine’s

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  • Title: Shifting Gears – Valentine’s
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On Valentine’s Day, the main storyline involves Matt (Tim Allen) visiting his wife’s grave and making a new friend (Nancy Travis). While the episode doesn’t set up Travis as a romantic interest, the interactions between them (first at the mausoleum and then at the pharmacy) does build on Matt learning how to move on after his wife’s death. Sadly, neither of the B-stories have much to offer in terms of Riley (Kat Dennings) fretting over a dance video which is really just an excuse for Dennings and Seann William Scott to dance badly, and Georgia (Barrett Margolis) getting sick when left alone with Carter (Maxwell Simkins), both feel very much lazy paint-by-number sitcom filler.

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Transformers #17

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Transformers #17 jumps around quite a bit to storylines both on Earth and on Cybertron. We see Thundercracker discovering the fate of Skywarp (but being unable to offer his friend any peace). We get Arcee and Beachcomber, along with the humans, searching for Ultra Magnus. We get the continuation of the Decepticon factions fighting each other spilling into the nearest human city forcing the Autobots to get involved, rescuing as many humans as they can. And, on Cybertron, we see the Autobots making a run at the Decepticons and the Hall of Sparks.

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Magik #2

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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

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  • 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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