But for those who have been following his career since Community, none of it is entirely surprising, even if the exact directions his talent takes can rarely be predicted. Originally cast as a jock archetype named Troy Barnes on Dan Harmon’s demented sitcom, Glover transformed the character through his sheer personality and ingenuity into one of the many stealth weapons in the cult geek series that always deserved a larger audience....
Dragon Ball Super Episode 44 “This is bad! The power of the super water is in his hands!” In spite of this disappointment, none of this means that these next three episodes should automatically be written off. In fact, if audience’s head into these episodes with realistic expectations in check, they might actually really enjoy this detour. To their credit, there are a lot of solid laughs. In the end, even if you truly despise what goes on in the next few installments, don’t abandon ship....
2.4 Neverland How appropriate, then, to be reminded of Galahad as we observe Morse at worship in the opening scenes of Neverland, the devastating final episode of Endeavour’s impressive second series. Raymond Chandler described his Philip Marlowe as a ‘shop-soiled Galahad’, a man whose purity of heart was tempered by a toughness necessary on streets meaner than the chivalric code could ever have predicted. Endeavour’s Morse may not yet be as hard boiled as his older self, but cases such as the one he investigates here will test his personal code of honour to its limits....
Silent Kill Once more, Tom and company are going to get back Ben, because, apparently, Tom has done his last good deed for the group and now gets to once more endanger the lives of five of the group’s most accomplished fighters to regain custody of his middle son. He brings a lot to the table, and it’s best to keep him happy, so naturally, he’s given the go-ahead to recover his son, if (that’s a big if) he comes up with a good plan....
This week’s episode starts out with Tom waking up next to his wife. No, not Anne; his first wife, Rebecca, is there beside a clean-shaven and nearly unrecognizable Professor Tom Mason as he wakes up in his lovely home to the sound of screaming and gunfire becoming the buzz of an alarm clock. Tom had a nightmare, and immediately, I’m thinking of Dallas. However, rather than having this be a momentary dream of Tom Mason only to have him wake up in some sort of alien prison, the show commits hard to the idea, and Tom’s dream only becomes weirder....
4.10 Drawing Straws Tom bickers with Anne about his inability to let anyone else be the hero, since Tom feels like he’s the most competent pilot even though Dingaan has thirteen hours’ flight time and I seem to vaguely remember Pope once had an airplane at his disposal. I doubt he’d have an airplane if he has no flying ability. Granted, I can see that Tom has a point about blind draws being a terrible way to assign duties, but he’s also not the person that should be undertaking this mission if only because Hal is the guy that built the bomb and Dingaan, Pope, or both are experienced pilots....
Parts of this show I like, but others make me tear my hair out. For example, within five minutes of FlashForward starting it managed to present an exceptionally stupid view of what might happen if we all lost consciousness for two minutes and seventeen seconds. We are presented an aerial view looking down on an airport where numerous planes have been destroyed. Even those at the terminals? How exactly? But then the obsession with the length of the event seems nonsensical, because a second is an entirely arbitrary measurement, although nobody points this out....
1.1 Pilot If you wanted an old friend it would probably be Judd Hirsch, and if you wanted a secret it might well be that you can potentially never die. The way that this is explained in the pilot with the subway crash is rather elegant, a little unexpected, and also ties in the other critical main character, Detective Jo Martinez (Alana De La Garza). The preamble to the crash where he hits on the soon-to-be-deceased Russian cellist, reveals that Doc Morgan also fancies himself as Sherlock Holmes in his power of deduction....
There is a point when I’m trying to decide if I like a show or a movie when I set out quite clearly in my mind what it is that I like about that production, and if what I’m watching delivers that. If a Fringe episode has those key elements in exactly the right mix it will work, unless the story is complete junk. I mention this only because episode 3, Fracture manages to hit that perfect tone and is by far the strongest outing the show has managed this year....
3.9 Marionette The twist that Mary Shelley never came up with, for obvious medical advancement reasons, was that, in her story, all the spare part contributors were dead, where here the medically astute Roland is harvesting them back from the people to whom they were donated when the woman suddenly died. In most respects, this is a standalone story, one of the few they’ve done this year which has been totally fixated on the bigger plot development....
After a disastrous appearance at a comedy club, George finds himself the object of ridicule by a guy named Ira Wright (Seth Rogen), a funny writer but horrible performer. Seeing something in Ira’s writing, and seeing a need in himself to give something back and make one legitimate connection before his health takes a turn for the worst, George reaches out to Ira. Not as a friend, but as a writer and personal assistant....
7.4 The Thief Of Baghead The feisty robot’s actor buddy makes a magnificent return from a snatch of All My Circuits (prompting Bender to comment on his hero’s acting, “He really Shatnered the hell out of that one!”) to an appearance in the local aquarium where Bender gets in the mood to show off his photography skills. Oddly, he’s a bit old-school when it comes to the camera, choosing film over digital....
4.9 The Watchers On The Wall There are some episodes of Game Of Thrones that are showcases for the writing prowess of Dan Benioff and DB Weiss (and a whole bunch of other great television writers), there are episodes that are dedicated to the prowess of brilliant actors like Peter Dinklage, and then there are episodes of Game Of Thrones that are nothing but spectacle. Given the importance of the ninth episode of each season, it’s not surprising that The Watchers On The Wall is less a plot advancing episode and more of a pure spectacle courtesy of one of the masters of the modern action sequence....
I was back then, and remain today, incredibly shy, and I find myself struggling to do things that most others seem to find easy. I’m too scared to make new friends. I shrink away from nights out. I can’t quite push myself out on a date, or join that interesting club, or say hi to that person wearing the T-shirt of a band I like. The dark hole is more appealing than ever as an adult, but also more perilous: it’s a black hole and the last thing you want is to get sucked into it....
This week, I’m going a bit niche, and I want to talk about a broadcaster called Ed Doolan. Ed was born in Australia, but really made his mark on the world in my home town, Birmingham. He ultimately took the lunchtime slot on Radio WM in 1988, and whilst he worked across television and newspapers too, it was radio that was his first love. A love that proved infectious. I was an avid listener....
The story of Goon is a simple one. Doug Glatt (Sean William Scott) is a bouncer who’s the black sheep of his family of doctors who finds a new career path in the form of a hockey enforcer for a local team, after making light work of an opposing player who storms into the home crowd to confront his friend. After making a name for himself at a local level, he soon gets recruited by a bigger team who require him to act as an on ice body guard for a phenomenally talented player Xavier Laflamme (Marc-Anre Grondin) who has lost all confidence following a brutal hit at the hands of a notorious enforcer named Ross Rhea (Liev Schreiber)....
Gotham: Season 4, Episode 6 Last week I asked, when did Gotham become a guided tour anthology series about the DC Universe? Take a look at this week’s episode. We have a debut of a very modern DC villain, a weird Of Mice and Men riff centering on an underground fight club and a budding romance for the Penguin. How do all these diverse aspects fit together? They don’t. At all....
This episode gave moral dilemmas a back seat to straight up plot development. Some of it good, some of it a wee over the top. Oh Big Pharma, why are you always so evil? Oh plot, why are you sometimes so heavy handed? Which, unfortunately, was the case tonight with Anana and Major Balls. The two made their way back to the base, stopping to make camp for the night....
Meet the three bad bosses: Dave Harken, the cruel bastard (Kevin Spacey), Dr. Julia Harris, the sexually harassing basket case (Jennifer Aniston), and Bobby Pellitt, the worthless drug addict, sleaze ball (Colin Farrell). The guys are faced with a choice. Either suck it up and be run ragged by your bosses, or kill them. Fortunately, the guys have a man who seems to have the tools to help them with their crime, the ominously named Motherfucker Jones (Jamie Foxx)....
