Both Blaine and Major try to cope with their respective situations, while Gilda continues to develop as an intriguing wild card and Peyton’s return promises to shake things up as well.
Reaper has the kind of premise that could’ve gone on for much longer than it was given. Ideally it would’ve been the M*A*S*H of supernatural shows with Ray Wise as the Hawkeye constant, where after a cycle they could get a new group for the Devil to play with. Unfortunately, the show got the axe before it could even properly close out the Sam era. Hopefully, Fazekas & Butters will be able to get enough pull to someday revive the show again and bring closure to the story they began with Sam and the Devil. There is a chance that this could happen now more than ever before, being that there has been a recent trend of TV show revivals surfacing as of late. As it is, Reaper is still a really entertaining show that is quality and warrants a place in your collection.
Season two of Jane the Virgin has brought about a lot of changes for the show, but what’s clearest in “Chapter Twenty-Three” is that creator Jennie Snyder Urman and her team know exactly who these characters are, and how they relate to one another and the world that Jane the Virgin has created.
Comedic singer Rachel Bloom has been a familiar face on the internet for a number of years, garnering a reputation for unexpectedly oddball songs that work in both a comedic and musical context. Fans of Bloom were glad to learn that she’d gotten a television show deal with Showtime, an excitement that was first crushed …
Although The Secret Circle didn’t last very long, it did have a good run and a standout performance by Phoebe Tonkin, which fans of hers should definitely check out this show. Currently there are a fair amount of shows that feature vampires, zombies and even werewolves, but still very few that feature witches as the main focus. As far as supernatural shows featuring witches, this is one of the better ones that offers an interesting take on the idea of witches and covens. One of the best things to be said about the show is that it has genuinely good production value with well executed special effects.
iZombie makes a strong return in its second season premiere, introducing a more fearsome foe as it explores the full capability of Max Rager’s Vaughn Du Clark, while delving into the fallout from both Major’s actions at the Meat Cute and from Liv giving him the zombie cure Ravi had created.
The legacy that is left in the wake of Emily Owens, MD’s demise could be found in Jennie Snyder Urman’s follow up television series Jane the Virgin. Urman wanted to fit her sensibility into a medical drama template but was limiting her creativity by playing too closely to the format. Her vision of an Ally McBeal-esque tone did not come through in Emily Owens, MD as one could imagine she had intended, as Jane the Virgin is much clearly Urman embracing her unique writing style without restraint. This show is still a very good effort by Urman as it is skillfully written and presented, yet the flaws exist mostly for being too generic to be noticed, which is mistake that Urman has certainly not repeated.
Both Liv and Major make their stands against Blaine, and Liv comes to a key decision about infecting others as the threat of Max Rager starts to assert itself, in a compelling episode to finish out the show’s first season.
An antagonist from Liv’s recent past comes back to haunt her, leading to a fight that causes Liv to tell someone from her old life of her zombie status from the first time, in a compelling episode.
Major’s discovery of the truth leads to a dreaded decision on his part as Liv discovers the presence of a video that could expose zombies, especially her, in an entertaining episode.
Sam’s search for a way to get the Mark of Cain off Dean brings forth a new enemy and ends with the death of a few key characters and the unlocking of a seemingly major threat for the show’s next season.
Liv and Major both try to deal with their individual issues from last week’s episode, as Max Rager re-enters the picture as a potential antagonistic force in a compelling episode that advances the plot while still focusing on character development.
Liv’s attempt to take on Blaine comes at a heavy price as the latter finds a potential new avenue for his business, while Major has another run-in with Julien that leaves him with yet more questions.
The show spends the last few episodes of the season focusing on the character of Jane and strengthening familial relationships while not forgetting its comedic elements.
I grew up with telenovelas. I lived in Mexico during my formative years, and telenovelas were appointment viewing, with my friends and I faithfully gathering after school to watch the latest episodes. They had wonderful and outlandish names and dealt with cheating spouses, long-lost siblings, lucrative business deals, and a whole lot of evening gowns worn inside …
Major takes a few steps closer to discovering the existence of zombies as Ravi comes closer to discovering a cure, possibly at his own peril. Liv, meanwhile, discovers that Lowell hasn’t been completely truthful about the source of his zombie brains.
In “The Trap”, Barry and his team have found the secret room of Harrison Wells and with it the secrets he has been hiding all along. They put together a plan to get Wells to confess to murdering Barry’s mother and helping to clear his father’s name once and for all. As they set a trap to lure Wells into telling everything, who is really trapping who?
Major’s actions cause him to potentially get on Blaine’s radar while getting alienated from Clive and the police force at large, while the Lieutenant further solidifies the possibility that he’s working with Blaine while beginning to suspect Liv in a compelling outing from the show.
Barry has assembled his team to start figuring out how Harrison Wells could be the Reverse Flash. The problem is that one member, Caitlin, is still unconvinced that Wells could possibly be behind all of bad things going on. In the meanwhile, a string of crimes are being committed, with the suspect who’s caught on camera having no idea how they were there. With Joe and Cisco taking a trip to Starling City to investigate the Wells car crash, it is up to Barry, Eddie, and Caitlin to take on a new shape-shifting meta-human.
Blaine shows his ruthless side as both Major and Detective Babineaux circle his operation, with a discovery by the former cluing Liv in to Blaine’s source of brains in an entertaining episode.
In “All Star Team Up”, Barry is still trying to solve the mystery of Harrison Wells. Why is Wells helping Barry develop his powers if Wells is the Reverse-Flash? Barry isn’t sure who he can trust and has brought Joe’s partner Eddie into the mix. They don’t have much time to dig further as a series of murders by bees (cue Wicker Man memes) has the Flash racing to stop a new threat. If he isn’t busy enough, Felicity from Arrow brings her new boyfriend and budding superhero Ray Palmer, a.k.a. The Atom, to STAR Labs for help on his super suit. Can the two of them stop this new Queen Bee?
Clive and Major both stumble closer to Blaine’s plans, as Liv comes across someone who’s remarkably similar to her in another enjoyable episode.
While the plot hasn’t suffered, the recent run of Jane the Virgin has turned the attention mainly on how the characters relate to each other, whether it’s seemingly unconnected people like Rogelio and Michael or duos with a bitter history like Rafael and Petra, and the show has benefited from it.