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Guest Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03669570778514136726noreply@blogger.com255tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713073643028066347.post-79788507887557214172017-05-02T15:12:00.000-04:002017-05-02T15:12:08.220-04:00Recap: Mary Kills People 1x2<h3>
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TVEmpresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11324428867353988526noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713073643028066347.post-51048549035336210572017-04-26T15:32:00.001-04:002017-04-26T15:42:13.364-04:00RECAP: Mary Kills People S1E1 <h3>
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Frontier - Available worldwide (except for Canada) on Netflix </h3>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Basically, “Jason Momoa wrapped in fur killing a bunch of English people” - as </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://youtu.be/LZ1zNngOXBU?t=1m9s" target="_blank">described by Jason Momoa</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. That’s pretty much what the show is about and it sounds amazing, right? It had you at “Jason Momoa killing people”, right? Well… Sadly, it’s not as amazing as it sounds. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">has a cool setting (Canada’s wilderness), a cool premise (Native tribes against the evil trading companies) and great performances - particularly from the British actors; but it can be predictable, veering towards storytelling cliches. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">may have the setting for a kick-ass show, but it is lacking the grittiness [and the sharp dialogue] of shows like </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Banshee </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Justified. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Still, even with all its shortcomings, </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frontier </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">has enough enjoyable elements to make it worth watching: Lovable rogues coming to the new world, people killing each other over furs and strong female characters [Zoe Boyle, Katie McGrath and Jessica Madden stole the show for me]. And then, there is Jason [wrapped in fur] being a damaged badass… but that’s not precisely new [it hasn’t become any less hot either].</span></span><br />
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A Series of Unfortunate Events - Netflix</h3>
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The Santa Clarita Diet - Netflix</h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Drew Barrymore plays a painfully vanilla housewife who lives in the Santa Clarita suburbs with her equally boring husband (Timothy Olyphant). Their lives are quite ordinary until one day she spontaneously turns into a zombie. Hilarity ensues. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This show had a great mixture of heartfelt drama, character development and comedy that we don’t see anymore! It was very reminiscent of the blue-skies era of the USA network, back when </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Burn Notice </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">White Collar. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But even better. I know the current trend is to go as dark as people can take, but I miss watching shows that are fun. Plus, the cast – which also features Margo Martindale – is phenomenal.</span></span><br />
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Alejandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17977802475847512416noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713073643028066347.post-19506918898618467022017-01-22T12:45:00.000-04:002017-01-22T12:45:28.781-04:00The 6 Favourite Fictional TV Lawyers Ever<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Television law exists in its own universe. A universe where </span><a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MirandaRights" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Miranda Rights wax and wane</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> depending on whether or not our favourite TV cop wants to get a cheeky one-liner into the dialogue, and where the lawyers themselves can be anything from charming to pure evil. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As </span><a href="http://www.parslowsjersey.com/who-we-are/our-key-people/carl-parslow/?utm_source=enoutreach&utm_medium=article" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">someone who is an actual lawyer in Jersey</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, my favourite television lawyers aren’t necessarily the ones who make the job seem the most glamorous, nor are they the ones who are the most accurate portrayals of the job. No, just like everyone else, my favourite TV lawyers are the most entertaining ones. So here’s my list of the best fictional lawyers on television. Some I’d happily love to see working at my own firm and others who I’d rather keep my distance from.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By far the goofiest choice on this list, </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0003030/quotes" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lionel Hutz</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is hard not to like, just because of how much of an utter failure he is. After all, no matter how bad you might think your law career is going, you can always say to yourself, “well, at least I’m not Lionel Hutz.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lionel Hutz is the lawyer who drinks scotch from the bottle at his shopping-mall-based office in the morning, right in front of his clients. He’s the lawyer who can’t afford a belt. He’s the lawyer who forgets the word “lawyer” and instead calls himself “the law talking guy”. He is all things to all people, the ultimate screw up, and a great way to start this list.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From the lowest place a lawyer can be to, arguably, the very highest; meet </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0018963/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oliver Babish</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the White House Counsel. This real-life job is portrayed in fiction by a straightforward Oliver Platt, whose performance shows excellently how law bends to no man — not even the President of the United States of America.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Over the course of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The West Wing</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, we don’t meet many characters who get to properly put the President in his place. However, Babish’s unique position as a legal adviser to the White House means that he answers to something more powerful than the President: the law of the United States.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. Maurice Levy from </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Wire</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Of course, being a good lawyer is not the same as being an ethical lawyer. If it was, Maurice Levy wouldn’t be such a realistic portrayal of the kind of lawyers using loopholes in the legal system to protect murderers and drug dealers in the city of Baltimore.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sadly, he is. David Simon, the creator of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Wire</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, spent more than a decade working for the Baltimore Sun and covering the drug trade in his articles, while co-creator Ed Burns worked in the Baltimore police department for two decades. Their collective experience gave us the despicable Maurice Levy and his ruthless methods for allowing his clients, drug lords and other criminals, to make a killing by — well — killing.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Still, Levy isn’t the only character Burns and Simon’s collective experience gave us…</span></div>
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Guest Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03669570778514136726noreply@blogger.com65tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713073643028066347.post-83111290672257824002016-12-16T15:58:00.000-04:002017-02-22T03:36:20.566-04:00First Impressions: Star<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Premise: </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A girl named Star [really], her sister and a friend she met on Instagram [really] move to Atlanta with the hope to become music superstars [really].</span></div>
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TVEmpresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11324428867353988526noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713073643028066347.post-81063031624843547802016-12-12T16:10:00.001-04:002016-12-12T16:12:12.217-04:00The 2016-17 TV Season so Far…<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Listen, I’m trying to keep up. I really am… but there are just TOO MANY TV SHOWS WITH SUPERHEROES. I’ve been watching all the CW shows (</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Flash</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Legends, Arrow</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Supergirl</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">), mostly because they are light enough I can play them in the background. I’ve also thrown some </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Agents of Shield</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gotham </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in the mix. But that leaves little time to focus on the actually good superhero series: </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Daredevil</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Luke Cage</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and upcoming </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Iron Fist</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, none of which I have been able to watch! [I did watch </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jessica Jones </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">which is my favourite so far] </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are several other details that differ from one show to the other and the “time-trips” have had nothing in common so far, but the basic concept is the same. The Americans have so far traveled back to the Alamo, met Kennedy’s mistress and watched Abraham Lincoln die. In turn, the Spanish had trips where they met classic figures of their history like Lope de Vega and Cervantes; plus Diego Velazquez [who you might know because he painted <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Las_Meninas_01.jpg/800px-Las_Meninas_01.jpg" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">this</span></b></a>] is a recurring character.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And this is where the shows are wildly different.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Judging by tone alone, these shows have barely anything in common. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Time Ministry </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is a fun show that uses satire quite effectively. Don’t get me wrong, all the character development and intricate plot are there, but they keep things light and fun for the most part. Think about </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Doctor Who </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">rather than </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Continuum.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From a legal standpoint, no clue, I won’t even attempt to make a comment. If I learned something on my media law class, it was that this copyright suits are extremely complex. So I will leave that to the lawyers.</span></div>
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Guest Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03669570778514136726noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713073643028066347.post-4976817276754550802016-09-23T15:05:00.001-04:002016-12-16T15:59:19.334-04:00FOX New Shows: Sort out your Watchlist<span id="docs-internal-guid-883de8d5-585c-7af2-2b45-acc2a2f2fd25" style="line-height: 1.38;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fox, the remake network... and time-travel, because that's what it is all about this year</span></span><b id="docs-internal-guid-883de8d5-585c-7af2-2b45-acc2a2f2fd25" style="font-weight: normal;"></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If I am being honest, the Fox show that excites me the most is the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9T-9fZn_oA" target="_blank">Prison Break</a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">revival. And yes, I know I am being naive and it is probably going to be disappointing like </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heroes Reborn, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">but I have hope. Also, Michael Schofield is not dead and that’s enough for me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Helen Hunt drama about police shootings - </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN9qDc_1ub0" target="_blank">Shots Fired</a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">looks very promising, but it doesn’t come around until mid-season. In the meantime, I’m putting my money on:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pick of the Season: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0wLCGwYZ3g" target="_blank">Pitch</a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the drama about the first female baseball player to play on the Major leagues. Why? Because Paris Barclay is involved and I am a diehard fan of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SOA </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Bastard Executioner </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[RIP]. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">24: Legacy, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I don’t think we NEED more </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">24, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">but I guess I can watch it… if I have nothing else to do. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lethal Weapon, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sorry… there is only so many remakes of movies I can’t watch. Having said that, the trailer looked much better than I expected [which isn’t saying that much].</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.tvrepublik.com/2016/09/first-impressions-son-of-zorn.html" target="_blank">Son of Zorn…</a> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I mean… what the hell? Am I right? A cartoon man in a family/workplace/fish out of water/ coming of age comedy? It might be the most stupid thing ever… or it might be the greatest off-beat show since </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Community. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I REALLY can’t tell...</span></div>
</b>TVEmpresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11324428867353988526noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713073643028066347.post-27375488842500285562016-09-23T15:04:00.002-04:002016-12-16T15:59:30.671-04:00First Impressions: Son of Zorn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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FOX SUNDAYS 8:30PM<br />
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-348f75eb-585b-de9f-8420-a392965b020b" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The premise is just so ridiculous it is impossible not to laugh; however, I can’t decide if this show is genius or if it will become annoying after the novelty wears off. The jokes weren’t extraordinary, but they were generally well delivered by the actors. Plus, I like the magic realism tone they have going. It is funny that no-one seems to be fazed by the cartoon man walking in the middle of the street. </span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Should you watch it? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you mostly like traditional comedies like </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Modern Family, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">this is not your show. But if you are into quirky/weird stuff give it a go. </span></div>
</b>TVEmpresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11324428867353988526noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713073643028066347.post-49940483933959391502016-09-23T15:03:00.000-04:002016-12-16T15:59:52.406-04:00First Impressions: The Good Place<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-348f75eb-585a-d75d-de7f-ae3b3a042233" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-348f75eb-585b-5931-febc-26c37ef06768" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I love the idea of taking a magical/mystical setting and filling it with bureaucracy for comic effect. And that’s precisely what The Good Place has done. </span></b></b></div>
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</b></b>TVEmpresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11324428867353988526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713073643028066347.post-35716009691568022152016-09-23T14:51:00.000-04:002016-12-16T15:59:43.141-04:00First Impressions: This is Us<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-348f75eb-585a-6716-a8b1-13a5f97740cc" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Before I watched this show, I kept hearing about some “high concept twist” that happened towards the end of the pilot. Some critics even compared it to Lost and I had no idea what they were talking about. I started expecting some “they are all dead” scenario or an Alien invasion or something crazy like that. That’s not it.</span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-348f75eb-585a-6716-a8b1-13a5f97740cc" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And yes, there is a twist and it is great. But I don’t want to spoil it. Furthermore, I have to congratulate the person at NBC that decided the twist should not be spoiled in the trailers [which is what usually happens with this type of apparently low concept shows].</span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-348f75eb-585a-6716-a8b1-13a5f97740cc" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Without crossing into spoilery terrain, This is Us is a drama about a group of people who share the same birthday. The characters are very compelling and fleshed out. You have an overweight woman trying to turn her life around and her TV -star twin brother who has outgrown the sitcom that made him famous [“Man-ny”, a show about a male nanny]; then you have a successful family man who never got over the fact that he was abandoned at a fire station when he was a baby and, finally, a young soon-to-be dad whose wife is expecting triplets. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">CBS and I don’t have the best relationship. Probably because I really don’t like procedurals [and think they represent the death of modern TV, but that’s a debate for another day]. There are a few shows I’ll watch, just in case they end up being good, but nothing has me jumping up and down. </span><br />
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Alejandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17977802475847512416noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713073643028066347.post-83272718718011351332016-09-17T12:08:00.005-04:002016-12-16T16:00:19.015-04:00FINAL RECAP: BATB S4E13<h3>
<i>Au Revoir</i></h3>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Later, Tess, JT, Heather and Kyle mourn the death of their friends. Actually JT and Tess kill Braxton first. It was so fast and uneventful, I almost forgot. [</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sidenote:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I am happy Kyle didn’t turn out to be a mole or a beast, but what was the point of his character? It would have been interesting if he had discovered Vincent’s secret throughout the season instead of just accepting it all.] At the funeral, JT gives a heartfelt eulogy, but it didn’t resonate with me that much. Perhaps because it all happened so quickly and I knew there was no chance in hell they were actually dead [not ‘dead dead’ at least.]</span></div>
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TVEmpresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11324428867353988526noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713073643028066347.post-73409182950910461272016-09-11T04:25:00.001-04:002016-12-16T16:01:05.987-04:00RECAP: BATB S4 E12<h4>
<i>No Way Out</i></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As you might recall Vincent and Cat were arrested, leaving the rest of the gang to plan not one, but two prison breaks. Cat’s is easy enough. She doesn’t even get the chance to get used to the fact that orange is the new beast [because </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.tvrepublik.com/2014/12/recap-beauty-and-beast-season-2-episode.html" target="_blank">Beast is the New Black</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">duh], since JT and Heather pull all their money and post her bail. Vincent’s release, on the other hand, is not as simple. Mostly because no-one knows where they took him!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We know V is not in a federal prison, we learn that from Tess. And we know he is in a shady black ops interrogation site. We learn that from the cavernous setting and free-for-all-torture treatment they are giving him. And just as I was thinking that V’s ‘holding facility’ could totally be </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://scandal.wikia.com/wiki/B613" target="_blank">B613’s</a> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">headquarters, the guy from </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scandal </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">walks in. So there you go, confirmation that Command is behind all things Beast. And you know what they say… </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaSDK1XpmKU" target="_blank">“You can’t take command”</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anyway, B613 GUY is not playing around. He is well-versed in every torture technique in the book AND he knows V is a beast, so he knows exactly how to hurt him. In summary, V is accused of murdering Garrus, Ecklund and probably Jimmy Hoffa. Like seriously, it’s a full on game of “have a murder? Pin it on the beast!” And not only that, the sadist interrogators from hell are also convinced that Vincent has another target and are determined to find who it is [Where are they getting all their info?!] </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At some point we find out that the “target” is some sort of Prince of Persia or something and he is the fourth member of the “Cabal.” First of all, I must have been distracted because I can’t remember since when the “Cabal” is the official denomination for the baddies. But none of this is important at the moment, so let’s move on [I am assuming it will be important next week because otherwise it was a terrible waste of time!]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While V gets waterboarded and electrocuted and God knows what else, Cat and the gang try to come up with a plan to find the other beast. Unfortunately, it becomes increasingly evident that there is not much they can do. Even if they find the beast, they don’t have Vincent to fight him [or her]. Completely broken, Cat goes to her mother’s grave. Heather follows her and, in a very poignant moment, Cat finally comes to terms with the truth. She should have let go of the fight long ago. She had noble reasons, but there would always be another fight and now, her pursuit of justice may cost her everything. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BACK AT THE CAVE OF BEAST TORTURE, B613 guy brings up “love” as part of his psychological attack on Vincent. It kind of backfires though. Talking about love makes Vincent think of Cat, who, in a way has always been his guiding light. Thinking [and hallucinating] about her clears his mind and gives him the determination to escape. So he </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8y9US7ajWo" target="_blank">kill-bill’s</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> his way out of the… underwater [as it turns out] prison.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the midst of the escape, V has an epiphany. And this is where I start feeling we need a BIG BAD flowchart or a handy board, like they did on </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Wire.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anyway, V realises that they will never find the beast who took down Braxton because THERE IS NO BEAST. Oh, and Braxton is alive. So… basically there is no Big Bad behind Braxton and there is no killer Beast either.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So… in summary, Braxton, Garrus and Ecklund created a new batch of beasts that malfunctioned [The why is still a bit unclear]. Braxton realised that Garrus and Ecklund were going to sell him out to the State Department so he orchestrated a supercomplicated plan to flush a beast out [Vincent] by sending bounty hunters after him. Then he tricked V into thinking there was another beast… no idea why, but the point is that Braxton killed everyone and V was conveniently placed in the middle of it, ready to be framed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anyway, after V escapes he reunites with Cat. He agrees with her conclusion that their obsession to right all the wrongs in their past has put them in a precarious situation and maybe they need to let go of it. But… they have a final fight. Find and defeat Braxton… I think. I mean… who knows what’s going on at this point. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It shouldn’t be that hard, assuming Braxton is the final objective [and there isn’t a surprise big bad, beast, vampire or zombie behind him]. After all, Braxton is only a man and V is a beast with magical tracking abilities. Right? Wrong. Vincat follow Braxton’s trail, but they fail to realize that he is closer than they think. So it is Heather who comes in contact with him first. Little Chandler spent the entire episode feeling guilty about the whole “My boyfriend sent my sister and the love of her life to prison” situation. So, she decides to play hero and go after Braxton herself. She gets shot. Why didn’t she use her pepper spray!? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But fret not, Heather is OK. Unfortunately, everything else is falling apart, but the episode was almost over, so things had to be quickly wrapped up. Cat accompanies her sister to the hospital, while Vincent runs away [because he is still a wanted man]. And, naturally, he runs away to… lower Manhattan and visits the 9/11 memorial fountain. As you do… when you are wanted for domestic terrorism. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I really enjoyed watching this episode, which made me sad because the show is ending! I feel all this plot could have come a lot earlier in the season [and stretched out over more than one episode]. We got so many filler episodes and then suddenly we have the twist and the countertwist of the twist and just way too many twists that weren’t properly set up. Oh well… Even with all the circular plotlines, there were a few highlights that made me like the episode overall. I loved the scene at the graveyard and Jay was remarkable in those torture scenes. I felt for him. [He is NOT a monster, damn it!] Plus I am all for flashbacks when shows are about to end [but not time jumps… please don’t have a time jump! There is so gonna be a time-jump...]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was happy with the baddie of the week. One, because I think he is very good at playing evil and shady, but also because I always though he kinda looks like </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0671032/" target="_blank"><b>Mark Pellegrino</b></a></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and if I can’t have the real thing I’ll have to settle for a lookalike. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At one point I started thinking that the other beast might actually be V in some sort of split personality situation. But this isn’t </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mr. Robot</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">we definitely don’t need </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mr. Beast! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Who is giving Agent Dylan information? And how much information does she have? Is she in league with B613 guy? Is she OK with the Guantanamo setting he has going on? And… did V flood the prison when he escaped?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There was so much talk about V’s bros this ep, I also considered the possibility that one of them was going to show up and turn out to be the biggest bad or something. That could have been a neat twist but NOT at this point so… glad it didn’t happen.</span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-400d7fa3-e6ee-2293-aa7f-5f6caab1c05e"><span style="font-family: "droid serif"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Or does it? Workplace safety, like so much else in life, can be quite an exciting and important discipline, depending on how you look at it. It is the skill of the screenwriter to turn the everyday into the dramatic, and the same is true of workplace safety. For some, it’s a tiresome pain. For me, as a </span><a href="http://seerackinginspections.co.uk/a-day-in-the-life-what-do-sema-approved-inspectors-do/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "droid serif"; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SEMA approved rack safety expert</span></a><span style="font-family: "droid serif"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, it’s a livelihood.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "droid serif"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-family: "droid serif"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For characters like Larry, Phoebe’s </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0583486/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "droid serif"; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">one-episode fling in </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "droid serif"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Friends</span></a><span style="font-family: "droid serif"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, workplace safety is also a livelihood. However, in this particular instance, the livelihood is presented as an evil one. Throughout the episode, Larry does little else but close down — or threaten to close down — restaurants. It’s not a particularly nuanced or interesting depiction of workplace safety. For that, we need to be looking at some of the more dangerous fictional workplaces:</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-400d7fa3-e6ee-2293-aa7f-5f6caab1c05e"><span style="font-family: "droid serif"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let's start with the TARDIS in </span><span style="font-family: "droid serif"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Doctor Who.</span><span style="font-family: "droid serif"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> While some might argue that it’s not a workplace as we would know it in the human world, I would argue that saving the universe is the Doctor’s job, and that the TARDIS is his office/company car. Time Lords get to choose their names and, of all the names he could have chosen, </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1lAHEaOg6w" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "droid serif"; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the Doctor chose the name of a respectable career</span></a><span style="font-family: "droid serif"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. To him, being a Doctor means flying through space and time, and sorting things out.</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-400d7fa3-e6ee-2293-aa7f-5f6caab1c05e"><span style="font-family: "droid serif"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In over 2,000 years, though, he hasn’t quite gotten round to sorting out his TARDIS. The place is a mess — messier in the David Tennant and Christopher Eccleston era than it is in the Peter Capaldi era, but a mess regardless. More than that, the ship’s interior is a maze which is able to change according to its own will. How do you even start making a ship safe if it has its own conscience? I suppose you’d have to ask the ship...</span><span style="font-family: "droid serif"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-family: "droid serif"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-family: "droid serif"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Still, at least the TARDIS is run by someone intelligent. That’s not the case at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. While the lack of workplace safety at the plant is often the butt of many jokes in </span><span style="font-family: "droid serif"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Simpsons</span><span style="font-family: "droid serif"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, it’s also the focal point of some genuine dramatic tension, as </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701144/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "droid serif"; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a 300-pound Homer struggles to warn the plant</span></a><span style="font-family: "droid serif"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of an impending nuclear meltdown from his infamous brown sofa.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="color: #666666;">As well as being a writer, Justin O’Sullivan is also a SEMA approved racking inspector and the owner of Storage Equipment Experts. Through his company, he provides </span><a href="http://seerackinginspections.co.uk/contact/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">rack safety inspections and racking inspection training to workplaces across the UK and Ireland.</span></a></span></div>
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Guest Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03669570778514136726noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713073643028066347.post-90083381756457660762016-08-27T05:43:00.001-04:002016-08-27T05:43:52.605-04:00Recap: BATB S4E11<h3>
Meet the new Beast</h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;">Vincent and Catherine finally get to the bottom of Graydale’s Beast Hunting conspiracy only to discover the new bad guys are the old bad guys. Speaking of bad guys, they are dropping like flies, courtesy of the new beast whom we actually don’t meet… or have we?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The new evil organization - Graydale - has fallen. So, naturally, it’s time for “M” to make a comeback. The Beast team discover that one of Braxton’s main contacts was LARS ECKLUND, the man who bought M. [We know this because people who buy evil organisation never forget to file the appropriate paperwork?] In any case, the new plan [or rather the same rehashed plan], is to find Ecklund, find the new beast, bring it to DHS in exchange of immunity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DR. ALBERT GARRUS:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Contact of Ecklund, creator of beasts, cool gadget hoarder, boat owner, new bad guy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cat lures Garrus to a pier [why not an abandoned warehouse?] by sending a text from dead Ecklund’s phone. However, turns out Garrus is a smart cookie. He knows he is being hunted by a beast so he took precautions in the form of a portable ‘Beast detector,’ which also emits an ultrasonic sound only beasts can hear [why didn’t anyone think of that before?]. The Beast whistle momentarily incapacitates Vincent, giving Garrus the chance to escape. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JT figures that they don’t actually need Garrus. They could just break into his lab and look for information about the other beast. He volunteers himself for the mission because he wants some quality bro time with V, who may or may not have to go into hiding for good. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So JT and V break into the lab, but they are interrupted by Garrus himself, who attacks them with his cool stunt gun [that looks like something an </span><a href="http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Fringe#The_Observer.27s_Pistol" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Observer would use on </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fringe</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">]. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, V still manages to overpower Garrus and brings him to THE GUILD. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BRAXTON knew about M from his NSA days. So when he got a CLIENT who wanted to procure a Beast, he knew where to turn. He contacted GARRUS, who improved the Beast formula [with some useful add ons like beast camouflage]. The CLIENT wanted a Beast to take care of some terrible threat. He made a deal with the State Department in exchange for classified information, but somewhere in that complicated negotiation something went wrong and deal was off. Garrus and Client let Braxton take the blame which eventually lead to the whole beast bounty and HILL kerfuffle with the DHS… [I think…. I feel like I needed a diagram to understand all this].</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let’s simplify. Braxton had a client who wanted a Beast. Garrus made the beast who now is running wild killing people. V wants to use Garrus as bait to attract the beast and then take it down. Unfortunately, Garrus decides he can’t trust them [after getting a warning text from a mystery sender] and decides to leave. He doesn’t go far because the beast kills him. Of course. Aw… just when I was starting to like Garrus. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Although this episode was unnecessarily complicated [no reason to have two bad guys instead of one e.g.] I enjoyed it significantly more than the last few eps of this season. Here are some of the things I appreciated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As usual there was a lot of exposition, including the mandatory opening scene where they explain EVERYTHING. However, some other scenes that provided info were more deftly handled [some not so much]. And for some reason I loved the scene with Garrus and JT at the Guild when he introduces him as the “new bad guy” and he just waves to Heather. I felt it almost acknowledged the ridiculousness of the neverending succession of baddies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Who keeps rebuilding </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">il Cantuccio? </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Seriously, you guys, who owns this place? Maybe that’s the true conspiracy of the show. The coffee shop owner is behind all evil. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So far Kyle turned out to be just a traitor but not a beast. At this point, I’d be satisfied if the Beast is ANYONE other than Kyle. Just don’t let it be Kyle… it would be so expected. Wouldn’t it be shocking if the Beast is Agent Dylan for instance? Are we even sure the Beast is male? Did Garrus used the pronoun “he”? I don’t think he did. </span></div>
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TVEmpresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11324428867353988526noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713073643028066347.post-22061115872436570182016-08-13T05:37:00.000-04:002016-12-16T16:00:54.735-04:00Recap: BATB S4E10<h3>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-bd76a305-32fa-3d98-886e-4c009a55bd85"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cat is still pretending to work for the DHS [I think], even though a countless number of suits are hunting down Deputy Hill’s killer (Vincent), yet none of them seems bright enough to realize that “Agent Chandler” is not really going to betray her hubby in the name of national security. Meanwhile, Vincent is playing double agent hoping the Graydale folk will lead him to whoever is after him so he can finally put an end to his beast misery. This plan is obviously dumb. Even if V kills this particular [faceless, nameless] nemesis, there is ALWAYS going to be another one. So… Finally, Tess is dating again. She’s dating an A.D.A…. you know … because things worked out so great for Gabe and Cat. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the meantime, Vincent meets with Tahmoh and the Graydale criminal crew [sans </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.tvrepublik.com/2016/07/recap-batb-s4e8.html" target="_blank">Vaughn, because she died and no-one cared</a>, she’s in a better place with <a href="http://www.tvrepublik.com/2013/09/batbep19-pwf.html" target="_blank">CYLON TYLER</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">]. Their team leader gives them some tough love in order to motivate them to go get the beast… alive. They are quite insistent on the alive part, so I guess that will be important later. Then, a bunch of stuff happens that isn’t fundamental to the plot but I will briefly summarize. Grace gets a tip about the Graydale meeting - a fact she shares with Cat - and decides to show up at the bar looking for Vincent. Out of desperation, Cat crashes Tess’s date and convinces her to order a raid at the bar to give V the opportunity to escape Grace [because a “get out of there” text wouldn’t have sufficed?]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All this unnecessary plot twists basically bring V back home where Cat informs them about their new precarious relationship with mass media and convinces him that they need to get out of town and go to the CABIN OF BEAST EPIPHANIES. It’s there that FINALLY Cat says what should have been obvious 9 episodes ago. Whatever happens, they will never be able to recuperate their “normal life”. In Cat’s words “Normal is lost”. Sad, but true. This epiphany leads to Cat suggesting that telling Grace their story may not be the worst option. And you know what? I said ‘Why the hell not?’ It’s not like they had many other options, so I was actually on board with the plan. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And here is where the plot gets more circular than a badly written excel formula. Tahmoh follows Grace, who leads him to Cat, who leads him to “the beast” who… shocker, turns out to be his new Graydale colleague. Now let me ask you this. Why was this news to Tahmoh? Didn’t anyone think of running a background check on Vincent before letting him be a part of Graydale’s operations. Surely it would have been easy to find out that he was married to Cat (a DHS agent) and that he was a suspect in Hill’s murder! Which led straight to a connection to “the beast”. [</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am really confused about this and can’t be bothered to go back and watch all Graydale scenes, so if you have the answer do let me know in the comments]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Elsewhere, Tess was starting to contemplate a beast-less life, but still struggling with the moral implications of her past actions. She seeks comfort in her new beau by asking him a hypothetical question in the form of “my friend is a good cop but broke the law for good reasons”. She was obviously talking about herself but ADA handsome didn’t seem to notice [Seriously, dude there is NEVER a friend], so he tells Tess that her “friend” should be arrested and that the world has no shades of gray or something along those lines. This makes Tess suddenly feel all guilty and decide to quit being a cop, but JT convinces her not to do it by promising to keep her away from all things beast. JT’s promise was kind of sweet, but this storyline was ANOTHER circle that ended in the exact same place. Tess is a cop, she doesn’t want to be involved in beast stuff. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BACK TO THE CABIN OF PREDICTABLE DEMISES. Vincat ask Grace to come over and they tell her their story but do a crappy job at explaining Vincent’s motives. [You’d think they would have coordinated their story before Grace arrived, right?]. Grace is not sold, so she threatens to leave, which pushes V to reveal his true nature. But Grace’s beast awakening is interrupted when Tahmoh crashes the party and goes into a shooting spree. Grace gets shot and dies, shocking precisely NO-ONE. There goes their last beast-redemption hope. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">V runs away into the woods to lure Tahmoh away from Cat. This week Vincent has no trouble being “faster than a speeding bullet” [unlike when he was shot by the accountant], but Tahmoh came prepared with… a net. Yes, a net. That was the beast’s undoing. A NET. So, anyway, Tahmoh catches Vincent with the net and texts the big bad to let him/her know he has the most wanted beast in the world. All seems lost until Cat arrives and points her gun at Tahmoh. He goes all cocky-mercenary on her and calls her bluff, concluding she is too good to kill him. And Cat actually lowers her gun [which was incredibly stupid]. It takes Tahmoh less than a second to pull his gun and shoot Cat, she evades the bullet and this time she shoots Tahmoh dead. But it was in self-defense, so “Cat is still a good person”, which felt like an overly simplistic set-up, in my opinion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vincat keep talking about “normal”, but to be fair, how long did they actually have a “normal” life? Probably for a few months between seasons at most. Technically, they never really had normal. And it was kind of their thing…Cat didn’t “need walls or doors” her normal was when she was with him. So, even though I understand the impulse to aim for “normal”, I think it should have been established by now that they ain’t getting it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reporter “Grace” kept making me think of Grace Park, wouldn’t it have been cool if she had played Grace Rose? [raise your hand if you are geeky enough to get why that would be cool]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Welcome to the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BatB-Universe, </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">where watching the episodes is never enough and characters have to constantly talk about everything that has passed and will pass in an endless recapping loop. Why oh why do they keep explaining the plot?! That’s what the “previously on BATB” section is for! [I am starting to think that this recapping overload is almost as bad as in </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shadowhunters </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A.K.A the worst show on Earth - yes, I hate-watch it. Yes, I’m ashamed].</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anyway, Vincent is still at Graydale [but Tahmoh is not- snif], trying to become a Beast hunter but he has to prove his loyalty as a Graydale agent first. Basically, Vincent is knowingly working for the enemy, hoping to destroy them from the inside, while going on missions to retrieve rare random artifacts. In other words, V thinks he is </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Bristow" target="_blank">Sydney Bristow</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> [You didn’t think I’d make it through an entire season without </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alias </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">references, did you?]. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On a related note, I still don’t quite get what Graydale Securities’ deal is. I am assuming they are some sort of “mercenaries for hire” type organisation with clients ranging from rich crooks to foreign governments. But… it is a bit unclear. Also… who the hell runs that company? Who is funding it? How does it operate under the radar? Vincent just walked through the front door and their HQ didn’t seem all that secret [They weren’t even masquerading as a bank!]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Elsewhere, looks like Tess is finally moving on, but not if Heather has anything to say about it. Since V is gone playing double agent and maybe-Evil-Kyle is not around, Heather needs a project. So getting JT & T back together is her new thing. Oh Heather… you should be spying on your boyfriend instead of focusing on the superfluous and repetitive C story of the week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But back to the UNNECESSARY UNDERCOVER MISSION OF THE WEEK [yes, these are becoming a thing]. V is paired with a sexy Graydale operative named Vaughn [Seriously, that was her name]</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Their mission: to recover two watches from some rich couple at a pool party. Oh, and they have to pretend to be married, because only married people can go to parties, I suppose. As far as spy missions go, this was kind of a bore. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Meanwhile, Cat has gotten acquainted with the GIRL SUIT OF THE WEEK. She is a DHS agent determined to catch Vincent [how original]. Their interaction is basically the same as it was with ALL the 500 previous suits of the week so I won’t bother to repeat it. What’s important here is that Girl Suit and Cat track down Vincent and crash the party to arrest him/warn him. Even with all their backup, the cops utterly fail. Girl suit is attacked by 90210-spy, while Cat is pushed to the pool by V in an attempt to “maintain his cover”. Because nothing says “I am over my wife” like pushing her into a pool. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anyway, Vincent and Vaughn retrieve the magic watches and take them back to Graydale, A.K.A "BD-6" [BD stands for ‘Beast disparu” … someone will get this joke...]. Unfortunately Vaughn and her handler [or whoever that guy is supposed to be] are still unsure about Vincent’s loyalty. What does a beast need to do to prove his loyalty to a not-so-underground-evil-organization? Guess pushing cops into pools is not enough after all…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In summary, Vaughn is instructed to test V’s loyalty “one way or another”. Since this episode was one big fat cliche-fest, I was expecting Vaughn to try to seduce him. Luckily that didn’t happen. Her plan was simply to test him during the second part of their “spy mission” [if we can even call it that]. Basically, assassin and the beast use the magic twin watches to gain entrance to one of those high tech intelligent houses to steal… something [let’s face it, it doesn’t really matter]. Vaughn purposefully sets off a silent alarm so the security guard catches them in the act. She asks Vincent to kill the guard in order to prove his loyalty. And he does… for like 2 seconds. As soon as Vaughn is distracted, V goes into Macgyver mode and resurrects the guard with a homemade defibrillator. Someone said FLATLINING?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So, while V is backtracking on his latest unintentional murder, Cat arrives to the house and gets into a fight with Vaughn. The confrontation culminates with Vaughn falling onto her own knife. I guess Cat didn’t technically kill her [except she kinda did], but she is shockingly unaffected by it. Not that I was particularly attached to Vaughn, but still... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anyhow, at that point, Vincat can hear sirens approaching, so V escapes to “maintain his cover” [because a dead partner screams loyalty duh] and Cat returns to the DHS to maintain </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">her </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">cover. Vincent and Cat are the worst undercover agents ever and yet everyone seems to believe them. I feel this incredible need to send them an assorted DVD collection including </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Americans, The Departed, Nikita </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and, yes of course, </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alias. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the intelligent house of unimportant missions, V sends Vaughn to check the elevator. I am assuming he could hear Cat’s heart and knew it was her, so… not very nice to send an assassin after your wife, is it? Even if you need some space to resurrect someone. Guess we can take it as a vote of confidence on Cat’s skills?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Remember how last week’s episode had such a </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.tvrepublik.com/2016/07/recap-batb-s4e6.html" target="_blank">promising opening scene</a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">? This episode started with Cat and Vincent explaining the entire plot in a scene that turns out to be a dream. So, basically, two things I hate: characters recapping and dream fake-outs! [Why writers, why? At least they didn’t throw in an unnecessary voiceover in there].</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Small parenthesis, I really need to get this rant out of my system. Vincent and Catherine need to accept their reality! Yes they “deserve better” and yes, Vincent is innocent[ish], but the world doesn’t care! He is never going to stop being a beast and hunted for it, so they REALLY need to start considering the Denver plan. You can’t always have everything you want guys! </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There was a LOT of talking [the exposition fairy was having a field day!] The only action of the episode was that ridiculously spinning chair. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vincent said “we deserve better” almost as much as Gabe said “</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.tvrepublik.com/2014/09/recap-beauty-and-beast-season-2-episode_12.html" target="_blank">flatlining</a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No-one knows how V held on to his hospital job for so long, but now I am wondering how Cat still has a job! And technically, V hasn’t been fired yet… </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Not sure where Graydale falls in the </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.tvrepublik.com/2014/08/about-secret-organizations_1.html" target="_blank">evil corp spectrum</a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. For now I’m assuming somewhere in between </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Massive Dynamics </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Division.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finally, let’s talk about Tahmoh [I love saying his name BTW “Taaaahmo”] Anyhow, this is a guy who played the </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://dollhouse.wikia.com/wiki/Paul_Ballard" target="_blank">male lead on a Joss Whedon show</a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and was on one of the </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Agathon" target="_blank">biggest sci-fi cult hits of the decade</a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. He basically did nothing on this episode. This made me think that maybe… just maybe this could be spoiler casting. Tahmoh is actually someone that would excite me as V’s antagonist [almost as good as my top choice Mark Pellegrino].That or Tahmoh’s career is seriously on the fritz, which is not out of the question considering I last saw him as a guest on </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Star-crossed. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But even then… he had a few action scenes, and was a more important character than “nameless bounty hunter who doesn’t even throw a punch”. And if this was really it for Tahmoh on the show… What the hell people, someone give the man a job! </span></div>
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