Ava Sharpe has been a villain, friend, and lover in this season of DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow, but she has a secret that not even she knows about. The title of “I, Ava” suggests that she’s a robot, and when Sara, Ray, and Gary travel to Vancouver, 2213, they discover that her name is actually an abbreviation for…
DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow just killed off one of its main characters, but rather than wallowing in misery, the show goes in the opposite direction with “Beebo The God Of War.” Cuddle Me Beebo was the hot holiday toy of 1992, but when a young Martin Stein is teleported back in time with the fuzzy blue critter, Beebo…
The Arrowverse has its flaws, but they can be forgiven because it gave the world a live-action Gorilla Grodd. This gigantic telepathic gorilla is one of the great Flash rogues, and he makes his way onto DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow as an anachronism that has taken a major role in the Vietnam War, stopping the fighting…
Fox released a trailer for its Prison Break revival way back in May, and at the show’s Comic-Con panel today it debuted an actual clip from the show that revolves around Wentworth Miller’s Michael Scofield doing what he does best: Coming up with an absurdly elaborate scheme to get out of prison. In the old show’s…
One-Season Wonders, Weirdos, And Wannabes considers the merits of short-lived TV shows. In this installment: John Doe, which ran for 21 episodes on Fox in 2002 and 2003.
“Left Behind” is the episode where the Legends Of Tomorrow writers realize they can do some crazy things with character development on a time-travelling superhero show. After two weeks away, the series returns stronger than ever, primarily because the narrative takes advantage of the time-travel conceit to…
In its eighth episode, Legends of Tomorrow strands its heroes and villains in both space and time, with pretty solid results. From a plot standpoint, it’s pretty simple: they go from having no leads in their hunt for Savage to a specific time and place in history, and Mick’s volatility moves past the point of simply…
With three team members holed up in Soviet gulag, the Legends Of Tomorrow gang has a clearly defined mission for this week’s episode: rescue their comrades, and prevent Vandal Savage from creating an army of Soviet Firestorms that will doom the future. “Fail-Safe” is a fairly straightforward prison break story, but…
Rip Hunter’s team of time-displaced heroes and villains takes the fight to Vandal Savage in the second part of the DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow pilot, an episode that sees the show settling into its concept but still holding on to some of the main flaws of its debut. There’s much less of the clunky exposition (although…
Hubris is at the root of DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow, not just for its characters, who believe themselves capable of altering the course of time, but for its creators, who take a big risk by launching a live-action superhero team TV series at a time when pop culture is saturated with superhero projects. Viewers have…
Dominic Purcell first became famous as one half of a pair of criminally-minded brothers on the Fox show Prison Break. Now, he’s trapped in a prison of a different sort—one that involves being forced to communicate primarily through references to high temperatures as Mick Rory, a.k.a the recurring villain Heat Wave, on …
