First, there’s his big-old East-LA latino family. Sure, being an undercover DEA agent wasn’t easy for maintaining family ties, but now that Tony has officially given up his days as a narc things should be settling down, right? Little does his family know that Tony has actually gone from narc to spook (the CIA kind), while still juggling an undercover day job as a soccer celebrity. Episode two brings this conflict front and center as Tony spends the majority of the episode’s 45 minutes trying to make it back in time for his brother’s homecoming party....

4.13 The Sword In The Stone Part 2 However, before we get there, we have some running to do. Yes, there’s more running in this episode as the heroes have no choice but to flee into the forest whilst Agravaine burns things. Merlin isn’t adverse to using his magic to protect his friends and, after far too long an absence, the dragon returns, affording Merlin and company the opportunity to escape from the forest into some nearby caves, whilst Agravaine flees from the fiery onslaught....

Despite Eileen being “of an age”, romance is soon in the air. But there’s an obstacle: Vince, who we learn is Eileen’s son. After bonding with Vince, Nelson tells him that he wants to marry Eileen and asks for his blessing. He receives Vince’s blessing, a head-butt, and the threat of something horrible happening to him if he hurts Eileen. Nelson’s surprise proposal causes Eileen to suffer a fatal heart attack....

Luke shakes Deacon’s hand thanking him for his help on tour and then doesn’t wait two seconds to verbally sucker-puch Deacon by yelling to the Roadies to get a move on “I’ve got people waiting for me in Nashville.” But more importantly… Rayna’s sister Tandy Milk Toast is back just in time for the non-wedding! Shout out to the b-roll crew! Rayna looking at her giant rock engagement ring from Luke and then re-reading the Rolling Stone article about her and Deacon the night before her wedding almost had me spill my Pinot Noir all over my chambray shirt....

No Ordinary Brother This week was one of the lamest stories the writers have managed to created yet, with the extra ordinary plot of having Jim’s brother turn up, who is the family’s ‘black sheep’, and in trouble with the mob. I can’t recall exactly when I first saw this plot as a child. Maybe it was Bonanza or Rawhide, but it’s as old as the hills. If they’re willing to push out such TV chestnuts as this, what next?...

Outcast Episode 4 What begins as a continuation of last week’s deliberate episode, the aptly titled “A Wrath Unseen,” ends with a fury of blows both literal and figurative. If last week provided a chance to catch our collective breaths, Outcast’s fourth episode ignites a slow burn. Written by Robert Kirkman and directed by relative newcomer Julius Ramsay (The Walking Dead), “A Wrath Unseen” opens as the camera looks straight down on Norville’s stark wooden casket ready to be lowered into the ground....

The biggest problem? We’ve seen this all before. Let’s flashback to last year for a moment. The third episode of Power Rangers Megaforce, “Going Viral,” featured Noah doubting himself and needing Jake’s help to learn a new skill that would give him the ability to beat the monster of the week. “Blue Saber Saga” features the exact same plot, albeit with much better pacing, which was the biggest problem with Megaforce....

What makes it stand out is the use of dramatic tension. Real stakes (both literally and figuratively now that I think of it)! We see civilians reacting to what Vrak has planned, even getting little details like taking pictures of the giant spikes on their cell phones. It’s a nice touch that reminds us that, oh hey, these are kind of real people to. Orion is kidnapped and his energy is drained, which not only further ups the stakes but also gives a somewhat logical reason why Orion isn’t around (instead of the half assed excuses we’ve been getting the past few weeks....

Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel Episode 3 One of Ninja Steel’s biggest problems was trying to tell incredibly simple lessons that made no sense in the context of the episode. Telling lies is bad, but tell one truth and it makes up for it. If you don’t always want to hang out with your friends, that’s horrible. Don’t use an aide that could make the difference in a life or death battle because teamwork is far more important....

4.18 Hot For Teacher It was a game of spy vs. spy this week, with Spencer and Ezra both onto each other’s game but too stubborn and crafty to admit it. Thank god, then, that by the episode’s end three of the four liars were in on Spencer’s pretty neat theory and, by the looks of her, she’s going to need them to pick up the slack when she crumbles from all the stress, pill-popping and mystery solving she’s been up to....

These were the formative years in Harryhausen’s long career, in which he himself would grow in stature, to become inarguably the most influential and respected special effects artist of the 20th century. The highlights of his life and work, from his earliest experiments in stop motion to his final feature, 1981’s Clash Of The Titans, are showcased in Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan, director Gilles Penso’s 90-minute documentary. Enthusiastic talking heads are interspersed with clips from Harryhausen’s short films and features, as each is discussed and compared in turn....

Perhaps even more so than Bastogne, this episode is a truly harrowing piece of television. The Breaking Point is a heart-breaking and unflinching look at the brutal toll the war took on this group of young men and continued to take on them for years to come afterwards. The centre for this episode is First Sargent Carwood Lipton (Donnie Wahlberg), who does his best to maintain morale amongst the men and to cover for the woefully inept Company XO Norman Dike....

1.1 & 1.2 Encounter At Farpoint Still, let’s hope it doesn’t come to that. We start, not surprisingly, with the very first episode of season one, and will hopefully do one or two a week from this point on. Encounter at Farpoint What intrigues most on a repeat viewing is the nascent depiction of the cast members we’ll come to know and love. A Captain Picard who is distant, brusque, even unlikeable – and about as far from Kirk as you could have wanted....

4.18 Identity Crisis Tracking one of the team members who stole a shuttle after deserting her post, the Enterprise find the ship but watch helplessly as it burns up in the atmosphere of the planet Geordi’s team originally investigated. Well, you can’t save everyone. Apparently. On the surface they find two more stolen shuttles and a bunch of torn starfleet uniforms. Leijten, who has joined the search party, herself goes missing, only to be found by Geordi staring blankly into the darkness and muttering about being able to feel the rest of the crew calling....

4.6 Legacy Troi, Worf, Riker and Data are interrupted from their poker game when Picard announces that they’ve received a distress call. Rushing to the scene, they arrive just in time to watch it explode. Uh-oh! If only they’d stayed at Warp 9.3 instead of going to Warp 9.6 they could’ve avoided some paperwork. Data tracks an escape pod trail to the surface, however. Oh, and that’s the surface of Turkana IV – birthplace of Tasha Yar....

Roger Corman spoke with Den of Geek about Death Race 2050 on the day after the presidential election. The film marks the first time Corman worked with McDowell. While the legendary filmmaker explained that he prefers to limit the interaction he has with actors to “text,” “subtext” and “his motivation” before passing it off to the director, he did make the time for a grooming tip. Because Corman keeps returning to the short story The Racer by Ib Melchior for inspiration, we wanted to know if he believed we were heading towards a dystopian future....

There’s a scene about halfway through the pilot episode of Scorpion where head of the eponymous group, Walter O’Brien (Elyes Gabel), has a conversation with a waitress where math is weighted against human life and in the middle of it, he is clunkily told to “reset.” This, of course, makes him realize resetting the TSA’s system is the key to their problem and propels the plot forward. Conveniences are currency in this world, and they just keep on happening to build and relieve tension....

Fiona’s journey of eloquent activism centers on the supermarket job she landed in the previous episode. Despite having V’s video that proves Bobby the Manager is a perverted creep, the job is still hellacious for Fi as she sees all the other women having to keep their jobs by pleasuring the scumbag. On the one hand, Fiona’s feminist streak makes her want to quit before he finds other ways to get her to package the deli meat....

This exhibition is testament how many people have done exactly that over the last one hundred and thirty years. In Doyle’s words (which can be heard in the exhibition’s copy of the only known filmed interview with the author) the character grew in his lifetime from a “small seed” to a “monstrous growth”. If he could only see him now. As author Sam Leith elegantly puts it here, the character of Sherlock Holmes “proved porous to the imaginations of others”....

Moving away from London tinges the episode with a touch of the Agatha Christies, as a brief pre-credits sequence gives way to the recognisable pattern of a client petitioning for their case to be taken, followed by the detective’s arrival at the fated rural home of the mystery. Out of that familiar set-up unravels an inventive interpretation of the Conan Doyle novel which cleverly magpies elements from across horror and sci-fi genres....