December 22, 2019 by `Lex Pendragon His Dark Materials, Star Wars
The holidays mean everything slows down, including the shows to watch. His Dark Materials and The Mandalorian are the only regular shows this week, but Lost in Space‘s second season drops, and if you’re a fan of Holiday Specials, Call The Midwife and Mrs. Brown’s Boys has you covered.
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December 15, 2019 by `Lex Pendragon His Dark Materials, Marvel's Runaways, Star Wars, Watchmen
Today is my 12th wedding anniversary, and all of the shows, even the ones not wiped out by a Crisis, have decided to celebrate and take the week off. Except Watchmen, who seem to be falling into Crisis after all. His Dark Materials gets extra dark, with children in fights to the death. The Mandalorian doesn’t give us anything to go on, but each episode has been better than a good chunk of the movies, so it doesn’t really have to. Looking ahead, if you are planning for the next week, while you are on a stake-out for the fat man who is breaking and entering, you’ve got two more episodes of these shows an a season of Lost in Space. I will be using the time to catch up on Runaways from last week, first.
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December 12, 2019 by `Lex Pendragon Arrow, Batwoman, Black Lightning, Legends of Tomorrow, Lucifer, The Flash
December 12, 2019 by JD DeLuzio TV Series
Family-unfriendly trailer:
Riddler: Riddle me this: What did Nadia Comaneci do after she scored seven perfect tens at the 1976 Montreal Olympics?
Harley: Win a medal?
Poison Ivy: Not menstruate until her twenties?
Riddler: No! She broke a record! And that’s what you sound like. A broken record.
The new, R-Rated Harley Quinn series premiered at the end of November. Here’s our take on the pilot of a series set in a version of the DCU where everyone swears heavily and reality doesn’t take itself too seriously.
December 9, 2019 by JD DeLuzio Superman/Smallville, TV Series
The Crisis on Infinite Earths continues, as the characters move to Batwoman’s show and encounter a couple more Legends, some spare Supermen, and an especially Dark Knight.
December 8, 2019 by JD DeLuzio Crisis Comics, Superman/Smallville, TV Series
The Crisis on Infinite Earths comes to DC-TV starting tonight, with Supergirl. We’ll have reviews—and we have an overview.
Lex Pendragon: On the CW, five shows are combining their audiences into one super crossover event, Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Based (at least loosely) on the DC comics event Crisis on Infinite Earths, the comics story that took the various Earths and different continuities and eventually combined the multiverse down to a single continuity. The Multiverse option was appealing to the showrunners, who embraced it to allow a crossover between Supergirl on CBS and The Flash on the CW. The shows loved to exploit this, giving us Flash hopping between universes regularly, using it for further crossovers, and eventually even referencing past shows such as the 90s Flash and Constantine (from NBC), who eventually joined Legends of Tomorrow.
December 7, 2019 by JD DeLuzio TV Series
“I‘d like to go to Themyscira.”
–Velma Dinkley
Lex and I will be alternating reviews to the forthcoming CWTVDCU version of Crisis on Infinite Earths, starting tomorrow with a joint overview of the series, followed by Lex’s take on the official start with Supergirl. Despite a plethora of guest-stars that will bring Smallville, Superman Returns, the 1990s Flash and, just possibly, the 1960s Batman (we don’t yet know which character Burt Ward will actually be playing) into continuity with the various CW series, the Crisis will leave many worlds untouched. The chaotic DC movies seem disconnected from this event, as do prestige shows like Titans and Doom Patrol.
Also missing? The latest incarnation of Scooby-Doo, who has belonged to DC for some decades now. In 2019, the pooch and his Mystery-solving friends appear in Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?, a series that revisits the premise of the first Scooby spin-off, The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972-1974), in which, each week, Mystery, Inc. stumbled onto a mystery and a famous guest-star.
In this episode, it happens to be a certain DC Amazon.
November 24, 2019 by `Lex Pendragon TV Series
I have managed to get nearly everything to be advertisement free in my life, which means that until something is outright told to me, I tend to miss that it exists. His Dark Materials is a new genre show that I had no concept of, so didn’t know it needed to go on our list. If anyone finds any more of those, please, chime in! The week is a bit more bare than usual, but we get to see Watchmen explain the past, Black Lightning have a father and daughter bonding episode, The Good Doctor tries to get laid, The Flash gives us the first half of a two parter leading into Crisis, Arrow tries to restart his game, Riverdale acknowledges these kids are getting to old for high school, and Titans finishes its season. We don’t get a description for Castle Rock nor The Mandalorian, but if you’re watching either you probably have a good idea what to expect from these episode.
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October 20, 2019 by `Lex Pendragon Arrow, Batwoman, Black Lightning, Riverdale, Superman/Smallville, The Flash, Titans, TV Series
I hope you didn’t have any other plans, as there is plenty of television to keep those of us unpopular enough not to have Halloween party invites busy. If the Dire Crisis of Batwoman, Supergirl, Arrow, Flash, and maybe Black Lightning and the Titans coupled with the horror of 1984, Riverdale, the return of Castle Rock and watching The Good Doctor try to get to second base is took much, Will and Grace also will return to lighten the mood. Personally, The Blacklist cheers me up pretty well, too.
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The Expanse Review: “New Terra” and “Jetsam”
January 11, 2020 by JD DeLuzio The Expanse
We’re a little late here; Amazon Prime, which saved The Expanse from cancellation, dropped the entire fourth season a month ago. However, we’re finally catching up, and we’ll be reviewing it in two or three bits— flotsam and jetsam, as it were.
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