This low-budget sci-fi thriller stars Jose Adam Alvarez as a man struggling to get over the break-up with his girlfriend (Kylee Michael). Prompted by a friend (Quentin Boyer), he contacts a company offering the use of a cleaning sexbot he names Mako (Faith West) designed to provide for his every need. Although unsure how much the service costs, and ignoring red flags, it doesn’t take long for our lonely white male to become addicted to the service.
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The problem with basing an entire comic around a mysterious secret kept from both characters in the comic and from the readers is that once revealed, if it turns out to be dumb as fuck, the entire house of cards you built collapses in on itself. That’s what happens in Green Arrow #3 as Ollie and Lian are pulled into the future to join Connor Hawke and the Legion of Super-Heroes where it’s revealed an older version of Oliver Queen allowed Amanda Waller to play interdimensional hop-scotch with his entire family for something they might do on one particular timeline.
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Cancelled before its final episode aired, Gotham Knights limps to a conclusion with the Gotham Knights in prison (again) after being framed for a series of murders (again), this time the victims being the Court of Owls which Rebecca March (Lauren Stamile) had killed off for attempting to hide their existence by revealing them to the world (because, what?). She then doubles down by sending the Talons after the imprisoned Knights to kill a whole bunch of cops more than willing to pin the crimes on them (because, what?).
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Well there’s a half-hour of my life I’ll never get back. Not Dead Yet is a workplace comedy that forgot the comedy. Gina Rodriguez stars as a thirtysomething still acting like a twentysomething who returns home to a career she abandoned years ago for a relationship that eventually went up in flames. Half of the episode shows us examples of how everyone else has grown up in Nell’s absence, leaving her on shaky ground both in her work and social life. The other half deals with dead people.
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Lena Headey stars in this thriller in name only about a retiring stripper who goes on the run with the sole survivor (Dean Scott Vazquez) of her murdered neighbors who were all killed after stealing from her psychotic ex (Sam Worthington) leading to an annoyingly-long road trip with an equally annoying kid. Things aren’t improved when they pick up La La Anthony as a traveling companion running from her own problems.
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