Gotham?discussions have been ripe with rumors, innuendos, and theories that had Jerome was in fact the man who would one day be known as the Joker. The third episode put a sudden, stabbing end to that. But while we saw the bravery of Bruce Wayne, the loyalty of Alfred Pennyworth, and the boldness of Harvey…
Alex Parrish (Priyanka Chopra) is on the run. Framed for the bombing of New York City’s Grand Central Station, Parrish ran at the end of the first episode and tries in the second to find clues as to who is behind the bombing. As in the premiere episode, much of the plot is spent in…
Detective Lara Vega (Meagan Goode) and precognitive Dash Parker (Stark Sands) tackle their first official case together, tracking a potential murderer whose situation adapts and twists with each intervention by our two protagonists. Unlike the standard situations where Dash’s visions release slowly, Vega’s detective skills come into play and they race against time to stop…
One of my favorite premieres this year was followed up by a dud that was only beaten out for the bottom spot by the?Rosewood?premiere. Thankfully, Jamie Alexander’s team-up with Sullivan Stapleton was back to its impressive self in the third episode, as Taylor Shaw/Doe and Kurt Weller found themselves butting heads and chasing bank robbers….
In the Bradley Cooper film that the new CBS show is based on, Eddie Morra (Cooper) has mostly used the NZT drug for his own personal gain. In the show starring Jake McDorman as Brian Finch, the FBI and Morra (now a senator) have strong-armed Finch into using his newly-unlocked mental capacity to help them…
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: a crew of new medical residents invade an overworked hospital to learn from?the most qualified doctors around, but are forced to overcome said doctor’s idiosyncrasies and each other. While some of the shows that balance these qualities have succeeded (ER,?House, Grey’s Anatomy) at keeping our attention for years,…
This week, we take a look at life post-rapture, the struggle to find purpose in the day to day, and the battle between good and evil. Depending upon how you look at it, that description could have described any of these… The Leftovers: The Complete First Season – When You Get Left Behind Three years…
“Are you not sacrificing the greater good for the sake of your dignity and self-esteem?”– Bruce Wayne If you’re looking for a light-hearted (mostly) take on DC superheroes, go check out?The Flash. If you’re looking for a creative reimagining of Batman’s origins with humor, panache, and deep meanings that just might critique our society today,…
Watching?the second episode of FOX’s?Minority Report,?you quickly discover that the creators have a desire to feed us piecemeal sections of the backstory and overall mythos. Unfortunately, it remains to be seen if the banter between detectives Vega and Blake (Meagan Good and Wilmer Valderrama) and the cases solved thanks to precog Dash (Stark Sands) are…
Blindspot?attempted to tackle an issue facing us today politically and socially: the use of drones on American soil. Tackling this issue is the major ‘plot’ of the second episode in NBC’s new series, but I was drawn in more by the concepts playing out in the interaction of Sullivan Stapleton’s FBI Special Agent Kurt Weller…
