The Authority #2

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The Authority #2

Flashback Friday takes us back to a higher Authority. In their defense of London, The Authority #2 shows us just how scary powerful the group is that Jenny Sparks has assembled culminating in her electrocuting and drowning a large number of the Children of Kaizen Gamorra in the Thames. The second issue continues the opening arc with plenty of examples of the team kicking some serious ass together. It’s in the quiet aftermath, after the Doctor saves Apollo from going splat, however, that the comic really digs in to what makes this group tick.

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Space Ghost #5

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Space Ghost #5

Space Ghost #5 wraps op the Zorak arc with Space Ghost surrendering to the villain, who has captured his two young partners, and being forced to overload the collider as he commands. It turns out the crazed bug’s mad prophecy was true. Thankfully, Space Ghost overloading the collider doesn’t destroy the universe, but it does rip a hole to another reality revealing Zorak’s god to be quite real and give him a door to send through his minions.

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The Perfect Couple – Happy Wedding Eve

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  • Title: The Perfect Couple – Happy Wedding Eve
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The Perfect Couple - Happy Wedding Eve

Presented as a TV-mini-series about a murder investigation, the opening episode is really only murder-adjacent. Instead, the majority of “Happy Wedding Eve” focuses on introducing us to a bunch of insufferable rich assholes and the woman who is marrying into their family (who isn’t even sure she wants to). After an hour with these people I’m less surprised a murder occurred than the fact it was apparently only one. Presented in flashbacks to the day of the rehearsal dinner, we get the framework of a police investigation but since the victim isn’t confirmed until the final minute of the episode as too much time is spent spinning its wheels.

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Yakuza Girl

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  • Title: Yakuza Girl
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Yakuza Girl

Writer/director Louis DeStefano‘s Yakuza Girl is largely unwatchable. Cheap, poorly made, featuring a collection of stilted acting which would make pornstars blush and a plot that never goes anywhere, it’s an impressive feat to fail so completely and on so many levels simultaneously. Shot with apparently little to no set up in a variety of locations ranging from somebody’s house to a parking lot, the rambling story follows an undercover detective (Masashi Ishizuka) from Japan to Los Angeles after taking down a member of the Yakuza. 

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Only Murders in the Building – The Stunt Man

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  • Title: Only Murders in the Building – The Stunt Man
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Only Murders in the Building - The Stunt Man

The investigation into Sazz‘s (Jane Lynch) murder leads Charles (Steve Martin), Oliver (Martin Short), and Mabel (Selena Gomez) to a stunt man bar which Sazz visited before her death. While it doesn’t offer new clues to his friends murder, spending some time with the stunt people does bring Charles a sense of peace and help him find an old memory concerning his friend’s retirement dream which leads to an entirely different kind of confrontation at the end of the episode.

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