Television Reviews – Page 51

X-Men ’97 – Fire Made Flesh

Alan Rapp / April 1, 2024 / Television Reviews

Title: X-Men ’97 – Fire Made Flesh
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Picking up from the tease at the end of the previous episode with the sudden appearance of another Jean Grey (), “Fire Made Flesh” Cyclops‘ (Ray Chase) wife and the mother of his child to be a clone created by Mister Sinister (Chris Britton). With the baby now born, the clone is activated by Sinister becoming Dominatrix Jean Grey, calling herself the Goblin Queen, and abducts the baby leading to a rescue operation, triggering events of Nathan Summers’ fate, and leaving Cyclops without a wife or son.

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Shōgun – The Eightfold Fence / Broken to the Fist

Alan Rapp / April 1, 2024 / Television Reviews

Title: Shōgun – The Eightfold Fence / Broken to the Fist
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“The Eightfold Fence” and “Broken to the Fist” focus on John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis) teaching Lord Toranaga’s (Hiroyuki Sanada) soldiers while continuing to struggle with cultural nuance of the foreign land. Blackthorne and Mariko (Anna Sawai) are drawn closer together only to be pushed apart by the miraculous appearance of her douchebag of a husband Buntaro (Shinnosuke Abe) who continues to struggle with his wife earning greater favor with their lord. In a forceful display of power, the samurai forces Mariko to explain to Blackthorne her past and unfortunate familial ties. That, along with Buntaro beating his wife that night, nearly forces a deadly confrontation between Buntaro and Blackthorne (who does witness an example of the samurai’s skill with a bow).

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – The Solitary Cyclist

Alan Rapp / March 31, 2024 / Television Reviews

Title: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – The Solitary Cyclist
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Sherlock Sunday takes us back to 221 B Baker Street and the Granada Television’s faithful adaptations of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. “The Solitary Cyclist” offers an example of Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) being too slow to act nearly spelling disaster for his client Violet Smith (Barbara Wilshere) who hires the detective after noticing an odd man following her every week on her journey to and from the train station. The truth behind the mystery has to do with the sudden interest in the young woman from Mr. Carruthers (John Castle), whose daughter she is now tutoring, and the far less agreeable Mr. Woodley (Michael Siberry), following the death of her uncle overseas.

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Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur – Belly of the Beast

Alan Rapp / March 30, 2024 / Television Reviews

Title: Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur – Belly of the Beast
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After working through some issues over the pair getting on each other’s nerves, Lunella (Diamond White) and Casey (Libe Barer) work together to save Devil after he accidentally injects one of Moon Girl’s new experiments. “Belly of the Beast” wears the moral of the episode on its sleeve with the Innerspace-style adventure allowing for some action not caused by the pair’s bickering. In the end, talking things out and working together help heal the rift in pair’s friendship (although, notably, neither take much effort to apologize to Devil who not only has to awkwardly stay still while the girls investigate inside him but also misses out on several favorite treats.

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Spider-Man – The Menace of Mysterio

Alan Rapp / March 30, 2024 / Television Reviews

Title: Spider-Man – The Menace of Mysterio
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Spidey Saturday takes us back to the 90s New York City and an animated Wall-Crawler. Basing some of the events of the episode off of Amazing Spider-Man #13, “The Menace of Mysterio” introduces the character of Mysterio (Gregg Berger) framing Spider-Man (Christopher Daniel Barnes) for a series of robberies while setting up himself as the hero to take him down. Of course, J. Jonah Jameson (Edward Asner) is overjoyed with events until he discovers he’s been fooled again and Mysterio is nothing more but a special effect tech with a grudge against our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.

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