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Alex Rider – Widow

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  • Title: Alex Rider – Widow
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Alex Rider - Widow

Adapting events from the fifth novel, Alex Rider returns for its Third Season. We open with Alex (Otto Farrant) in Malta, along with Tom (Brenock O’Connor) and Kyra (Marli Siu), seeking the SCORPIA operative known as the Widow (Sofia Helin) and answers about his father. We get some new faces in this episode, some like Tom’s big brother Jay (Emmet Byrne), an extreme sports athlete, won’t play prominent roles in the season. However, our Widow will eventually provide Alex with more answers than he’s ready for.

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3 Body Problem – Red Coast / Destroyer of Worlds

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  • Title: 3 Body Problem – Red Coast / Destroyer of Worlds
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3 Body Problem - Red Coast / Destroyer of Worlds

The second and third episodes of the series begin fitting the pieces together. We learn that in China Ye Wenjie (Zine Tseng) is the one responsible for contact with alien life and an invitation that the world now must contend with. In the present, we see much more of the video game with Jack (John Bradley) and Jin (Jess Hong) both playing, first separately and then together, to solve the problem that gives the show its name. That problem ties directly to an impending alien arrival and it’s in the solving of the game, and an invitation given to the pair of them, that the show also incorporates the mysterious woman (Marlo Kelly) who doesn’t take kindly to one of the pair turning her down.

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Shōgun – The Eightfold Fence / Broken to the Fist

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  • Title: Shōgun – The Eightfold Fence / Broken to the Fist
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Shōgun - The Eightfold Fence / Broken to the Fist

“The Eightfold Fence” and “Broken to the Fist” focus on John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis) teaching Lord Toranaga’s (Hiroyuki Sanada) soldiers while continuing to struggle with cultural nuance of the foreign land. Blackthorne and Mariko (Anna Sawai) are drawn closer together only to be pushed apart by the miraculous appearance of her douchebag of a husband Buntaro (Shinnosuke Abe) who continues to struggle with his wife earning greater favor with their lord. In a forceful display of power, the samurai forces Mariko to explain to Blackthorne her past and unfortunate familial ties. That, along with Buntaro beating his wife that night, nearly forces a deadly confrontation between Buntaro and Blackthorne (who does witness an example of the samurai’s skill with a bow).

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – The Solitary Cyclist

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  • Title: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – The Solitary Cyclist
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Solitary Cyclist

Sherlock Sunday takes us back to 221 B Baker Street and the Granada Television’s faithful adaptations of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. “The Solitary Cyclist” offers an example of  Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) being too slow to act nearly spelling disaster for his client Violet Smith (Barbara Wilshere) who hires the detective after noticing an odd man following her every week on her journey to and from the train station. The truth behind the mystery has to do with the sudden interest in the young woman from Mr. Carruthers (John Castle), whose daughter she is now tutoring, and the far less agreeable Mr. Woodley (Michael Siberry), following the death of her uncle overseas.

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Wonder Woman #7

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Wonder Woman #7

I often lament the lack of one-off super-hero stories. Give me a full story in a single issue and I’m happy. Everything these days gets geared to an arc to be easily bound together as a trade paperback with most of those stories, unfortunately, being often stretched beyond its limits. So I celebrate Wonder Woman giving us a fun little one-issue story of Wonder Woman and Superman shopping at a galactic mall for a birthday present for Batman. Sure, it’s it he most bizarre and illogical place ever (in the middle of Wonder Woman’s battle against Sovereign which is mostly ignored), but it’s still a fun read.

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