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Zorro – The Bet

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Zorro - The Bet

“The Bet” feels like a very traditional episode of Zorro while also looping in another group of people often overlooked during the years of Zorro’s adventures. After her sister Mei (Chacha Huang) is lost in a game of poker to an unscrupulous local landowner, a young woman turns to Zorro to help. The humor from the episode comes from not knowing exactly how to contact him, and even after the pair come together, how to communicate with each other which is where Bernardo (Paco Tous) comes in. 

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Echo – Tuklo

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Echo - Tuklo

Repercussions of Maya Lopez‘s (Alaqua Cox) recent actions begin to reverberate in “Tuklo” as Vickie (Thomas E. Sullivan) and his idiot white trash friends (Lindsey Moser and Erin Ownbey) attempt to sell Maya to the foot soldiers of the Kingpin (Vincent D’Onofrio) who arrive in town leading to a shoot-out in the bowling alley. “Tuklo” also brings Maya face-to-face with Bonnie (Devery Jacobs) for the first time in years, and later with the one person she never expected to ever see again. The episode’s title comes from another ancestor (Dannie McCallum) of Maya as the sole female member of the Lighthorsemen. The sequence, framed as an old silent movie, is fun but, as with all of these flashbacks, still feels very disconnected from current events.

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NCIS: Sydney – Bunker

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NCIS: Sydney - Bunker

“Bunker” gives us the ridiculous premise of a whole bunch of important VIPs allowing themselves to be locked in an underground bunker at an undisclosed location and nearly dying when the untested new technology which would release them fails. Among the group in the bunker Mackey (Olivia Swann) , Evie (Tuuli Narkle), and Blue (Mavournee Hazel). Meanwhile, JD (Todd Lasance) and DeShawn (Sean Sagar) investigate what initially appears to be an unrelated murder they then discover was the method the bunker saboteur used to get their invite.

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Zorro – The Chosen One / Inheritance

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Zorro - The Chosen One / Inheritance

Filmed in the Spanish Canary Islands, the new Zorro offers a reinterpretation of his character opening with the deaths of both Zorro and Alejandro De La Vega in the opening scenes. Our Zorro is a Native American warrior, the latest to pick up the mantle bestowed on them after being chosen. Both men fall to the corruption of California under the thumb of an unscrupulous Governor (Rodolfo Sancho). After this we meet the clever Diego de la Vega (Miguel Bernardeau) who leaves his schooling and training in Spain after learning of his father’s death to assume control of his lands and learn the truth about his murder (which has been blamed on the now dead Zorro).

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Zorro – Presenting Señor Zorro

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Zorro - Presenting Señor Zorro

As Amazon Prime debuts a new Zorro series, Flashback Friday takes a look back at Walt Disney’s classic series of the late 1950s featuring the adventures of Zorro fighting injustice in the early 19th Century. After three years abroad Don Diego de la Vega (Guy Williams) returns to California from Spain along with his mute man-servant Bernardo (Gene Sheldon). On the ship back, Diego learns the trouble arising in his home comes from the ruthless Commandante Capitán Monastario (Britt Lomond) and chooses to not return as the worldly adventurer and swordfighter but instead a boorish aristocrat who could not possibly be seen as a threat. Don Alejandro de la Vega (George J. Lewis) is disheartened by his son’s disinterest in local troubles, but Diego keeps up the charade for everyone he meets choosing instead to take action later that night while wearing a mask.

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