American Horror Story Season 7, Episode 11 Love him or hate him, you have to admit former City Councilman Kai Anderson knows how to work a room. Of course, if you don’t admit it, you might end up getting shanked in a shower. If you hate him, he hates you right back, with interest. But if you love him, the Divine Ruler will love you with all you’ve got. That’s how he intends, on American Horror Story: Cult season 7, episode 11, to make the country “Great Again....

“You’re very perceptive, Thea.” That’s how Malcolm Merlyn open this week’s Arrow. It’s true. Thea was pretty deep in post-adolescent angst when we left her in season two, and even though this opening scene still takes place then, there’s an immediate change in her. So, with an opening like that, and a title like “Corto Maltese,” we know where we’re going and who we’re focusing on. “Corto Maltese” is a change of pace/change of scenery for Arrow....

“Time of Death” opens with William Tockman maneuvering two goons through Kord Enterprises in pursuit of a “skeleton key” codebreaking device that would allow him to open any safe in the world. I was rather hoping it would be a flash gun or the plans for a giant beetle-shaped aircraft, but I’m surprisingly confident that Arrow will get us there eventually. Anyway, I digress. Knepper plays Tockman well, and doesn’t get into the dreaded “Oh, I’m playing a supervillain?...

Arrow Season 5 Episode 2 The finale of Arrow Season 4 left us all scratching our heads thinking, “they sure have written themselves into a corner here, haven’t they?” First, let’s go all the way back. The series started in wonderful 2012 with a heavily bearded man being discovered on a deserted island after five years stranded. That man ended up being the highly-trained archer and vigilante now known as The Green Arrow....

Arrow Season 6 Episode 22 Review The Ties That Bind is a reminder of what made Arrow great in the first place. It’s refreshing to see the team reunited and working together, and Lyla is always a welcome addition to the mix. Oliver’s feelings aside, it was fun to see Felicity in the field again, and to see some of her sense of humor come through with her, “sorry, not sorry!...

Dr. Tenma (Nicolas Cage) is the head of the Ministry of Science. One day, while demonstrating a new weapon, there is a horrible accident and his son Toby (Freddie Highmore) gets vaporized. Overcome with grief, Tenma and his colleague/conscience Dr. Elefun (Bill Nighy) construct a perfect robotic recreation of Toby, complete with Toby’s memories and appearance. Of course, Tenma doesn’t tell his son-bot that he’s got super robot powers, so imagine Toby’s surprise when he discovers he can fly....

1.10 The Price Of Hope First up, let’s recap this week’s action. Medusa can now turn men into stone, but that’s not stopping her best friends going looking for her. Hercules wants to find Medusa, hoping that she can be cured of her malady, even though no cure exists, unless there’s something in Pandora’s Box that might help… because it was so successful when it was first opened. Hercules sets out to rescue Medusa, despite thinking there is no cure, and Pythagoras and Jason set out to rescue him by wandering through a forest and encountering a bunch of hunters who really quite like hunting humans before escaping, with Jason having been injured....

Speaking of Baltar, he’s a bigger cock than ever (the only plausible reason I can see for his extensive clan of ‘girly groupie sex whatever they are’). Last seen hiding in his boho Playboy mansion as his followers were brutally attacked, he’s now quite clearly channelling both Richard Madeley and Derek Acorah as he sidesteps questions and gives rousing if utterly substanceless speeches about monotheism. And has sex with Tory....

Black Panther is now in theaters and Ryan Coogler’s movie has surpassed box office expectations, and garnered almost universally positive reviews. Marvel’s first movie of 2018 brings a fresh new feel to the MCU, introducing audiences to King T’Challa’s world, Wakandan technology, culture, and beliefs. But it also recalls a key element of 2008’s Iron Man: the feeling that great change is coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It’s no surprise that fans and people of both African and African-American descent were hyped to see a Black Panther solo movie, especially with its release right in the middle of Black History Month....

Arnold Rothstein is a degenerate gambler. Who’da thunk? This is the guy who’s been known as “The Brain” in mobster mythology. On Boardwalk Empire, he’s been shown as nothing less than a cautious professional who keeps his cards close to his vest. He never gets ruffled. Not really. And he always figures out all the angles before he makes a play. If the game doesn’t feel right, he walks away....

As series one draws to a close, Bored To Death is pretty insistent on going out with a bang. This episode follows immediately on from the previous, with the lead up to the boxing match between George against his magazine rival and also love rival, Antrem, Jonathan and the fork-tongued critic, Louis, and Ray agains some cartoonist at GQ, whom he bares no ill will against. Fortunately for Jonathan, he is being blackmailed by a complete amateur who called from his home phone, and it doesn’t take Jonathan much to find him....

The White/Schrader clan has become completely divided. Surprisingly, Skylar decides not to cave right away when Hank begins questioning, fawning sympathy and telling Skylar that she’s “done being his victim.” Skylar stubbornly refuses to state anything concrete, causing a rift between her and a plotting Marie. It’s interesting to see just how badly Marie wants Walt to go down, and you can see a burning “Lady Macbeth” intensity in her eyes as she urges her husband to press forward....

Now more thrilling fairground ride than compassionate drama, Broadchurch kept the narrative spins and drops coming this week while we all held on tight and tried not to lose our lunch. We’d have been in good company had we done so, because everybody was losing something. The case against Joe lost his confession, Grandma Liz (RIP) lost her part, Hardy lost his Sandbrook witness, and Beth lost her mucus plug as her waters broke all over DS Miller....

Everyone knows the impending awkwardness that comes before meeting your first girlfriend’s parents for the first time. It probably isn’t Hank first go-around but we still find him in a situation he is rarely in. He is given the kinda-sorta-boyfriend treatment by Faith when he gets the chance to make a visit to her childhood home but all the pressure of meeting the parents is erased when Hank finds out why she hasn’t been home in so long....

“Sledgehammer wanted to make Advanced Warfare 2“, said Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg during an interview with Newsweek. While they seemed rather committed to that plan, some within Activision recognized that there was a rather large portion of the franchise’s fanbase that deeply wished the publisher would push the game back towards its World War II roots. Once they realized that they’d like to go that direction, Hirshberg stated that those at Activision had little doubt that Sledgehammer could handle the change of plans....

Castle Rock Episode 4 There’s something going on with Henry but we’re still not sure what. While “Local Color” gave us the rub on Molly Strand and her ability to hear and feel what others feel (no one’s referring to it as the shining just yet), Henry remains an impenetrable enigma. He doesn’t open up to the other characters or show any vulnerability, and part of the problem is that no one in Castle Rock seems to want him around....