The Review at the End of the Universe
“The Whole World Is Watching” The Falcon and The Winter Soldier continues the search for the Flag Smashers and their supply of the Super Soldier Serum as Wakanda further complicates the situation. Ayo’s appearance at the end of the previous episode raised the stakes in a really meaningful way. Wakanda’s reluctance to involve themselves in…
“Power Broker” The Falcon and The Winter Soldier has the characters look up an old enemy as they search for answers to the mystery of the recent appearance of Super Soldiers. One theme this show covers that I didn’t catch in an earlier review is consequences. The entire show is built around the idea that…
“The Star Spangled Man” The Falcon and The Winter Soldier brings the two leads together on a mission as the new Captain America makes his debut. Introducing a new Captain America at the end of the previous episode was a cliffhanger I found underwhelming because it was delivered as a shock reveal that was somewhat…
“Project Reborn” Heroes Reborn ends its only season with a resolution of the solar flare story that has been teased throughout the season. I found myself a little confused by the structure of this episode as it robbed the story of any real urgency. We knew that the solar flare impact was imminent but it…
“Company Woman” We’re almost there folks, Heroes Reborn has one more episode to go and in theory all of the plot threads so far should be starting to pay off to deliver a conclusion. The reality is that they aren’t because the show has been hampered by really dull characters who largely don’t develop in any…
“Send in the Clones” Heroes Reborn returns for the final 3 episodes of the season and after watching this I think it really shouldn’t have bothered coming back. Things are still lurching towards what promises to be a fairly predictable endgame. I’ll confess that I completely forgot what the cliffhanger was and didn’t have the…
“11:53 to Odessa” Heroes Reborn gives audiences the final episode until January with further teases about Erica’s endgame and more meandering stories involving the massive cast of characters. As with any season of this show’s predecessor Heroes, the characters all start to come together in a common cause as the end of the season approaches….
“Sundae, Bloody Sundae” Heroes Reborn returns to the present and continues Tommy on his journey towards his destiny of saving the world. This episode was a vast improvement on last week as it confined the focus to only a few characters instead of trying to cram everyone into the same episode just because they exist….
“June 13th – Part Two” After a solid outing last week, Heroes Reborn returns to the mediocrity and frustration that it has unfortunately become associated with since the beginning of the series. This episode actually opens really well with an explanation of how Claire was able to die. It turns out that Nathan -or Tommy as we…
“June 13th – Part One” Heroes Reborn enters into the second half of the season and has another episode deliver some answers while replacing them with a whole new set of questions. The explosion at the Human-Evo summit on June 13th has been underpinning this entire season in one way or another so returning to that date…
