Gotham SN2 Finale – ‘Transference’

Gotham’s series two finale is something to be applauded. Hands down one of my favorite season finales in recent years.

This finale opens with a recap of the last episode leading to Professor Strange making Clayface become Gordon. Gordon the stalwart hero never would help the villains, but Hugo is going to get all he can.

It then returns to Hugo and Gordon, Hugo has injected our hero with “Honesty serum”. He asks him all that he knows, and about his ex paramour Lee, who I honestly hope he is done with for good. Finding out he doesn’t know all that he wants he tells him he has only hours to live. He also references “The Court” who can be none other than the Court of Owls.

Nygma has Bruce and Lucius trapped in a room, a room ready to be flooded with poison if they don’t answer his question. “He asks who runs Wayne Enterprises.?” They try as hard as they can and end up answering the board of directors. Yowzah, that is the wrong answer. As poison floods the room, Bruce’s life flashes before his eyes and suddenly he wakes up with Lucius in the room where Gordon is.

I love Clayface Gordon, he is trying to be the real Gordon but its rather suspect. But Harvey seems a little slow, as saying you have the flu wouldn’t really change a person that much. CFG clearly only knows a rudimentary amount of information about our hero and is trying his best, but he will need some work to become the great villain he will one day be.

One of my favorite parts of the episode would be a small scene where Penguin is decorating his home with Barbara and Butch. He is trying to find a place to put his trophy, the head of his father’s Black widow. He can’t help but listen to Barbara as she really knows what she is talking about.

As usual, my least favorite part of the episode revolves around Fish Mooney. The fact that she has repeated the line, “I’m Fish Mooney, Bitch” repulses me. Her new special power of controlling people is rather weak. She takes over Strange’s weakly normal sidekick Ethel Peabody. Then she has Peabody chase Strange as he runs to press the destruction button, readying the end of Indian Hill. BD Wong has really proved to be the best choice for the role of Strange.

Bruce encounters Selina again and she tells him she has had him wrapped her around her finger the whole time. Though she does later let him out along with Lucius and Gordon. Strange running from Fish’s controlled sidekick Peabody runs to set the bomb after knocking her out with his briefcase.

Barbara, one of my favorite characters on the show, finds out that the Clayface Gordon is a fake when he comes onto her and disparages Lee. She smacks him and his face moves, causing them all to realize something strange is going on.

Back in the Prison, Strange talks to Selina, Firefly and Mr.Freeze. Selina tries to fight for her friends, and Strange orders Mr.Freeze to kill her. Firefly standing up for her friend, gets upset. A duel between the two begins. Seeing Gordon Strange perks up and tries to get away.

Strange runs from the Heroes who were able to escape from the cage, runs between two opposing forces. In a fight between Mr.Freeze and Firefly,the beams cross and Strange  is frost burned. Gordon saves him and he is later arrested, though he is freaking out over the villains who will have been let go and that he is in a load of trouble.

With the use of Nygma, since Strange is out of comission for the moment, they dump water on the bomb and it is safely deactivated. Though without a thirsty Mrs.Peabody they wouldn’t have though to do this.

Fish Mooney who has escaped, le sigh, drives a bus down a road. Gordon tells Bullock what is going on and they chase the bus. Fish is then attacked by The Penguin and his allies who include his old right hand man Butch. In another brilliant move they blast the bus with bullets causing it to crash.

Gordon leaves Gotham to search for Lee. Bruce tells Alfred he has more to do in solving the mystery. Bullock is told by Gordon to take true command and cut his hair since he is the chief.

.As Penguin goes to confront Strange who he thinks is driving the bus. Fish Mooney walks out and taps him on the shoulder.  In a stunning moment he turns and is shocked before she touches his face and knocks him out. His allies run leaving him for dead in the street.

The episode ends with the an old woman pushing a shopping cart close to the bus filled with Strange’s monsters. There are a cacophony of noises playing in the background, but one laugh pierces the bubble, the laugh of none other then Jerome our proto Joker. As the monsters pour out of the bus, the last shot is of a Bruce Wayne Clone thanking the woman for letting them out.

Can’t wait until the Fall for Gotham Season 3. Wonder what these monsters will be.

 

Phil? His First Name Is Agent

This post contains spoilers for Agents of SHIELD Seasons 1, 2 and 3.

After the shocking finale of Season 3 which left many openings for Season 4, it was revealed to the audience that Season 4 would become “darker” with promises to the change of character, Phil Coulson. In an exclusive interview with Entertainment Weekly(http://www.ew.com/article/2016/05/27/spoiler-room-arrow-unreal-blacklist-spoilers), Clark Gregg stated  that “The person he cares about is on the run and seems to be very sought after by the authorities. It’s very much changing the game for Coulson. Certainly from that teaser of where we’ll be next season, he does not seem to be in good shape.” We can certainly sense interesting twists to Season 4 and a darker theme, new creations are coming to surface (Doctor Radcliffes Life Model Decoys), Phil Coulson is no longer Director of SHIELD and we are left questioning who is and Daisy Johnson, beloved member to the team has taken back to the streets and is running from SHIELD.

Daisy Johnson Played by Chloe Bennet, Breathing Life Into the Character of Quake.

 

But before we explore the depths of what Season 4 could hold for a darkened atmosphere and a slight change of character for Coulson, just who is this agent?

Agent Phil Coulson was first a character who was introduced onto our screens during the first Iron Man movie, an agent and representative of SHIELD (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division- someone really did want their initials to spell out SHIELD). Appearing every so often as a small, minor character in the mainstream movies, the agent quickly captured the hearts of Marvel fanatics, causing devastation across the entire fan base when he met his rather pointy end at the wrath of Loki, God of Mischief.

Phil Coulson dying however caused an unpredicted reaction from across the world as fans seemingly mourned the death of this small character whose swagger and sass captured the hearts of thousands. Phil Coulson, played by Clark Gregg, no longer was an irrelevant character that Marvel had to spare, but to the fans. a beloved hero whom they demanded to see more of.

Thus, the TV series titled ‘Agents of SHIELD’ made its way to our screen, capturing the audience made up of thousands of Phil Coulson lovers and fans, all wondering the same thing- How did Phil Coulson really survive?

This of course, was covered in Season 1 of the TV show which ran for an amazing 22 episodes which first seemed to be a team of agents, and a hackervist picked up from the streets, trying to save the world in their own way and discover who they were. Things however began to take a dark twist when reaching the episode titled ‘The Magical Place’ in which we caught a glimpse of what project TAHITI really was. An island with a massage and cocktails? Nothing more than mirage concocted by a small number of doctors under strict orders by Director Fury himself. Perhaps Tahiti wasn’t such a magical place after all.

The Truth Behind Tahiti. No Golden Sands or Cocktails Here.

If things weren’t dark enough by this point in Season 1 where fans heard Phil Coulson begging for his death, then the next episode certainly was a culture shock. Fans of the TV show that was just beginning to unravel its web were surprised to hear about the shocking truth of Skye (played by the wonderful Chloe Bennet), a character that had left fans marvelling (no pun intended) at her relevance in the TV show after all, she was just a hacker that the team had picked up. Turns out, as many could have predicted, that writers Maurissa Tancharoen, Joss Whedon, Monica Owusu-Breen and Jed Whedon had more planned for this character than truly expected. Where she goes, death follows.

Things quickly picked up from that point on varying from shootings  to an inhuman revelation being produced (no that wasn’t a pun to Season 2) in which Phil Coulson discovers that he was brought back to life with a mixture of Kree blood. This then sent the TV show into a spiral of questions such as, who designed this Kree blood program? But more importantly, who was the Clairvoyant playing amidst with the SHIELD team?

Things certainly did get a whole lot darker upon the episode ‘End of the Beginning’ where we see Grant Ward, who was clearly in love with the hacker Skye to viewers at home, shoot the supposed Clairvoyant, killing him instantly. This to fans at home seemed to be something that was spurred on by the mans untameable feelings for Skye however, was something entirely different. The episode ‘Turn, Turn, Turn’ certainly was a turning point for the TV show as Grant Ward was revealed to be in alliance with the twisted organisation labelled as Hydra.

Hail Hydra? Stand With Ward?

Deaths, shootings, murder and oxygen starvation (sorry Fitz) seemed to follow in the footsteps of this revelation and even brought to light an amazing fight between Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen) and Grant Ward (Brett Dalton), resulting in the defeat of Grant Ward and causing him to be captured by SHIELD. However, the show offered a more interesting turn of events when the Director of SHIELD himself gave up the job of Director, handing the job to Phil Coulson. No longer was he Agent Coulson of SHIELD, but more so Director Phil Coulson, leader of an organization that technically wasn’t legal anymore.

This left such a wide opening for Season 2 which premiered on September 23rd, dragging a massive 5.98 million US watchers. The first episode titled ‘Shadows’ officially introduced us to new characters but more so, dipped fans into the ideas of powered individuals without the unnatural enhancements from the program ‘Centipede’, only seen previously in Season 1 once or twice. Season 2, episode 1, gave fans subtle hints as to what the season would produce, which was further emphasised in the following episodes. Episode 1 in Season 2 really did kick off with a darkened atmosphere, showing us the fate of Grant Ward and introducing us to a new prop which would later be the centre piece of Season 2. We also discovered how Phil Coulson was taking to being Director, often enclosing himself away from his team that he had created that was now seemingly in ruins (Jemma Simmons was gone, Fitz had suffered brain trauma and a former member of his team was locked in a cellar down below).

Season 2 however quickly kick started the dark theme, revealing the truth of Skye’s parents. Cal Johnson was revealed to be her dad, a doctor with a murderous side and anger issues that seemed to be out of control. More of the past of Grant Ward was revealed and he ended up escaping having the climatic result of him burning down his old house with his parents and brother, Christian Ward, inside. Carvings soon also became something dark as Phil Coulson began carving odd symbols which later turned up carved into a dead body. The TAHITI program was sending everyone carving.

So This Is What He’s Been Doing In His Spare Time…

Everyone except for Skye.

This led to the possibility that maybe she wasn’t as human as we thought she was, which then led to a whole new turn of events. Skye meeting her mentally unstable dad, Skye shooting Grant Ward, explosions and the death of short timed agent, Agent Antoine Tripplett and more so, Inhumans. Throughout the entire Season we see deaths, hear truth revealed regarding Skye’s mom and Hydra, and see a new side to Phil Coulson that fans had been anticipating to see since Season 1- his fatherly side for Skye which is emphasised during the final few episodes of Season 2 where he states “she’s not my daughter but she’s as close to family as I’ve got”. Season 2 then brought up a darkened ending with Skye losing her mother who tried to kill her, her father going through the TAHITI protocol, Bobbi being rescued from being tortured and Phil Coulson losing his handy hand. Melinda May also left, Simmons was taken by the monolith and Inhumans were left without a leader and protector.

Which is where Season 3 came into play, shining a light on Daisy Johnson, formally known as Skye and Director Phil Coulson who was dealing with having his hand quickly removed. Season 3 instantly kicked off with the darkness where we see a side to Leo Fitz that had been hidden throughout the past two seasons, in which he kills several men with a splinter bomb to obtain scroll leading to Jemma Simmons. We see Daisy Johnson becoming Quake, Phil Coulson suffering without his hand and Melinda May and a new Inhuman villain is born going by the name of Lash.

Season 3 presented so much and offered an insight to new sides of characters we had yet to see (much like Andrew Garner who was in fact Lash). For Phil Coulson who was typically relaxed in the past two seasons, it was the revelation of his darker side in which his demons came out to play upon the death of Rosalind Price, sniped down by former agent, Grant Ward, now top of the Hydra food chain. The darkened side is emphasised upon the death of Grant Ward which is done by Coulsons own hand (although it wasn’t necessarily his own hand as strictly speaking, it was robotic). Things soon enough began taking more and more dark twists and turns as Ward came back from the dead, taken over by the deathly character of Hive.

From there on, things seemed to escalate down a darkened path when Ward took over Daisy, Daisy brought the base down, the Kree made a short appearance, agents Bobbi and Hunter were lost and Coulson retracted his want to kill Grant Ward, stating that he should have left him alive. The darkened era of Season 3 came to a close upon the death of Grant Ward, a long time running character, and Lincoln Cambell (Luke Mitchell). We then jump to 6 months later where we discover that Daisy is on the run from SHIELD and other authorities, Phil Coulson is no longer the Director of SHIELD and characters Fitz, Simmons and Melinda May are nowhere to be seen. There is also a hint as to what the centre piece of Season 4 will be about upon the small clip of character Doctor Radcliffe creating Life Model Decoys.

So is a character change for Phil Coulson and a darker season for Agents of SHIELD the way go?

In my personal opinion, yes. Throughout the previous seasons of Agents of SHIELD we’ve had an insightful character development and change of Grant Ward. The former agent went from Agent of SHIELD, to someone who just wanted redemption for his family, to a Hydra agent and then to the character named Hive, an Inhuman with a murderous twist. Through these means we got to see a broad range of acting skills from Brett Dalton and audiences got to see a continuous character change that always left them wanting to see more and on the edge of their seats.

For a short while through the movies we saw Phil Coulson as an agent and this was later seen in the first season of Agents of SHIELD. However, Phil Coulson has been the Director of SHIELD for the past two seasons which is why I believe a character change is good. Through the character change we get to see Phil Coulson become an agent again, perhaps allowing the audience to have more of an insight to the character and see the relationship between him and Daisy Johnson emphasised. Whilst other characters have undergone major developments much like Daisy Johnson, Coulson has remained close to home throughout despite having a darkened side and his Director side revealed. It’s about time we see our beloved agent take over the spotlight and become something more than just the Director of SHIELD. Fans look forward to the change through the fact that we may have more of an insight to Coulson’s darker side, we may get to see him break the rules he once strongly abided by and we may get to see how much Coulson truly does need and appreciate the character of Daisy Johnson. We also may see Coulson have some guilt towards the previous events like Hive returning and the death of Lincoln Cambell.

Considering Agents of SHIELD is dark in the eyes of some given the previous seasons, I think it’d be interesting to see what writers can do with their promises of a darker season in comparison to others. The writers are a talented bunch with twists and turns in their writing everywhere so seeing more of them is something I both fear (as an avid fan of the program) and look forward to.

As a fan of Clark Gregg and a fan of Agents of SHIELD, I hope that this character change is seen through, accompanied by the darker promises that the writers have made. I look forward to writing about Season 4 and more so, look forward to seeing what it has to offer.

Phil? His first name is agent. Not anymore, Phil Coulson is someone who has stole the hearts of millions across the globe and is known more than just an agent. Here’s to Season 4 and seeing more of this much loved character (and maybe some Philinda action?).

Do you think a character change and a darker atmosphere is the way to go? Leave your comments below!

Daredevil SN1 EP2 – ‘Cut Man’

After a fight, Daredevil is found in a dumpster by Claire, a nurse who takes him in. Daredevil is mum about his personal details, but informs Claire on his battles with the kidnappers and how he needs to rescue the kidnapped child. Meanwhile, there are flashbacks about Matt dealing with his father being hired to take a dive by mafia. Elsewhere, Karen and Foggy are having a night of bar hopping.

Much of this episode is slower, but effective nonetheless. The scenes between Claire and Matt are good at building suspense and establishing the character. Introducing a new character is good way of being a third person perspective to introduce Matt’s powers as we see him hone his incredible hearing skills. We also learn about Claire and she is a good character. She’s caring but no-nonsense as she wants to learn about Matt. She also holds her own when dealing with the criminals.

The flashback scenes between Matt and his father. Matt’s father shows some tenderness when helping Matt with his blindness. He is also faced with conflict when presented with the choice of taking a dive. He wants to set an example for his song, but he knows the mafia won’t take kindly to that. He eventually stands by his guns and it costs him. With a little character development, we feel the pain at his death. The B-plot of Karen and Foggy hanging out may sound like filler, but it does help flesh out Foggy’s character as a goofball.

While most of this episode is an effective character building episode, there is one terrific fight scene when Daredevil confronts the kidnappers. The fight is successful in its bare bones approach. Rather than a big sprawling fight, this is a fight that takes place in an enclosed hallway. The fight is brutal. Daredevil does not just dispatch these guys with no effort, he has to wail hits just to knock out one guy. Also the whole fight is done in one take (or at least appears that way). This works because the raw technique makes us feel more absorbed in the fight.

Overall, this was another great episode. It was set up to establish characters and have an intense fight scene. “Cut Man” succeeded in both.

Game of Thrones SN6 E6 – ‘Blood of My Blood’

Welcome my khalasar, to your weekly review of Game of Thrones. The episode I shall be recapping is episode 6 of season 6 —’Blood of My Blood.’ Let’s get started!

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The Frozen Forest

Meera is doing her best to pull Bran to safety through the Frozen Forest, but she is struggling with the burden. Bran continues to have visions, he even sees the Mad King in the past, and the wights in the present getting closer and closer to their location. Meera apologizes to Bran, seeing the wights surrounding them, but a mysterious hooded figure on horseback arrives and starts killing the wights. The man on horseback pulls Meera and Bran onto his horse and they flee. Later on as the cloaked figure prepares Bran a fresh hot cup of bloody rabbit, Bran asks him who he is. Pulling back his hood, he reveals himself to be Bran’s uncle, Benjen Stark. He reveals that the white walkers killed him, and he was transforming into one of them, but the Children of the Forest stopped the process by impaling him with dragonglass. The Three-Eyed Raven had called him to save Bran before dying. He tells Bran that he must learn to control his warging ability before the Night King arrives south.

Horn Hill

Sam, little Sam and Gilly arrive at Horn Hill, the seat of House Tarly. Upon arriving, Sam and Gilly are welcomed by Melessa, Sam’s mother, and Talla, Sam’s sister. Baby Sam and Gilly are similarly welcomed and settle in. They both meet Sam’s father, Randyll Tarly, and Sam’s brother, Dickon Tarly, at dinner later on. Sam had previously warned Gilly to not mention to his father that she is a wildling, but it manages to slip out in dinner. Randyll begins insulting Gilly for being a wildling, and insults Sam for his weight. Melessa having had enough of Randyll’s rudeness, excuses Talla, Gilly and herself from dinner. Later that night, Sam visits Gilly and tells her that he’s leaving, and steps out of her room. He bursts through the doors a few moments later, telling Gilly to pack her things because he’s taking her to the Citadel with him. On their way out Sam takes House Tarly’s Valyrian steel sword, Heartsbane.

Braavos

Arya scouts her target, Lady Crane,  a second time by watching her perform a play. She confirms her suspicions that the younger actress wants Lady Crane dead, when she spots her mouthing all the lines perfectly to a scene Lady Crane performs. While the play goes on, Arya sneaks backstage and poisons Lady Crane’s drinking flask. As she leaves the backstage area, the actors start piling in, Lady Crane being one of them. She spots Arya and they start conversing, but Arya leaves after a while. Lady Crane and her fellow actors are talking, and she begins to raise the poisoned flask to her mouth when suddenly Arya smashes it to the ground. Everyone stares at her, shocked at the outburst, but Arya wars Lady Crane that the younger actress wants her dead, and leaves. The Waif after watching all of this unfold returns to Jaqen H’ghar and asks to kill Arya because she failed. He agrees. Arya in the meantime retrieves Needle from the rock pile she had buried it in, and hides it by the side of her bed. The Waif might be up for the fight of her life.

King’s Landing

King Tommen and the High Sparrow talk about Queen Margaery’s walk of atonement that will soon take place. The High Sparrow gives Tommen permission to visit Margaery, who assures him everything will be better than before once she atones. Jaime and Mace Tyrell begin marching with the Tyrell army through King’s Landing to the Great Sept of Baelor to stop Margaery from walking. Jaime threatens the High Sparrow with the Tyrell army, unless he were to release Margaery and Loras. The High Sparrow declares that there will be no need for violence, as Margaery has atoned already by bringing another into the Faith of the Seven. King Tommen appears and gives a speech about uniting the Faith and the Crown. Later on in the throne room, Tommen relieves Jaime of his Kingsguard duties. Jaime speaks with Cersei, explaining how he has been given orders to overthrow the Blackfish, Brynden Tully, who has retaken Riverrun. Cersei advises Jaime to be the head of the Lannister army and crush their enemies.

The Twins

Lord Walder Frey is met by his sons Lothar Frey and Walder Rivers, who had one job: hold Riverrun. They failed. They defend their loss, saying that multiple Riverlords have risen against the Freys. The Brotherhood Without Banners are also raiding their supply camps (I think we might see Brienne dealing with them in a future episode, along with Jaime). Walder commands them to take the Tully stronghold back, infuriated that he should be humiliated this way. He then brings in Edmure Tully, the younger brother of Catelyn and Lysa, and orders that Edmure be used to help them take back Riverrun.

Dothraki Sea

Daenerys, mother of how-many-ships-do-I-need, discusses how she will cross the Narrow Sea and take her place on the Iron Throne. Daario tells her that she was born to conquer, not to sit on a throne all day. Noticing a gust of wind in the distance she believes to be caused by Drogon, she takes off riding, telling Daario to wait. Time flies by and a worried Daario tells the Dothraki he shall go look for her, but suddenly a shadow passes overhead. It blocks the sun, it makes Dothraki and horses alike anxious. It’s Drogon alright —with Daenerys riding him. She lands before the Mother of Mountains, and delivers a speech to the Dothraki, asking them all to be her blood riders. They cheer back, and she declares they will cross the Narrow Sea on wooden horses to conquer Westeros.

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I admit, this episode wasn’t as dramatic as the ones before for me, but tossing uncle Benjen back in this mix did warm things up (though I did see that coming). Also, who doesn’t like a good inspirational moment from Daenerys? I’m not quite sure how she managed to coax Drogon into letting her ride him, probably candy or sacrificing the horse she was riding, but it was pretty epic. What did you like or dislike? Like, share and comment below, or tweet me @SohoDoll. And as always, “The North remembers.”

‘Search Party’ Red Band Trailer Released (The Movie Came Out In 2014?)

So back in 2014,  the tide behind The Hangover was really dwindling, with barely anyone seeing the third part and the reviews coming off as pretty trashy. This didn’t stop Scot Armess. Search Party was his directorial debut, coming out with the movie starring people who may not have been as popular then but are now pretty huge.  The film stars T. J. Miller (Silicon Valley, Deadpool) , Adam Pally (Not much) , Thomas Middleditch (Silicon Valley ) , Alison Brstrong (Writer of Elf and The Hangover Part 2) from trying to cash in on its limited succie (Community, Lego Movie, Get Hard) , Shannon Woodward (Raising Hope), and Krysten Ritter (Jessica Jones). Note how most of those credits came out after 2014. Anyway, the movie was released internationally but wasn’t given a US release, so today a red band trailer was released for the US release hoping to capitalise on the success and name recognition of the actors in it..

It looks pretty ok to me, judging from the actors and comedy but the trailer seemed to spoil the plot and all of the jokes, so I looked to Metacritic.

Ouch.

Feel free to give the movie a watch and tweet your opinion to me @oliverwoodster .

Silicon Valley SN3 EP5 – ‘The Empty Chair’

Well that was fucking mortifying. I mean I’m a simple man, I can withstand a good cringey moment, but my god, that drawn out sequence of Richard tanking his chances of becoming CEO in that conference room was Scott’s Tots levels of cringe. Richard is swiftly becoming David Brent in all but name and stature. Now that’s over with, welcome back to our weekly review of Silicon Valley. This week we have Richard clawing his way back to try and fill ‘the empty chair’ that Barker left last week. The engineers trying to make money back through selling the office supplies and Erlich sapping Bighead’s money like the dickhead that he is.

We open up with Richard realising that as CTO, he calls the shots at Pied Piper. His first act as pseudo-CEO? Relocate back to the incubator and fire all of the unneeded staff. It was funny to see that the Barker’s guys were just as useless as the engineers after his expulsion from the CEO position. With the sales team playing lacrosse and screwing around in the offices. However, Jan the man raises a good point, does Richard have the authority to fire them? This starts the driving plot of the episode as Richard starts his campaign to regain control. I’m ambivalent as to whether Richard should be reinstated or not, my thoughts on Barker vs Hendrix are voiced at the beginning by Gilfoyle and Dinesh when Richard proclaims Jack’s empty chair as the CEO.

‘Say what you want about the chair but at least it never asked me to build a fucking box.’

‘True, compared to Richard it’s a lot sturdier’

‘And it has a lot less of Barker’s ass rubbed all over it’

After voicing his complaints over the slandering he has suffered over the internet, Richard is sent to a PR rep by Laurie. Her hope being that he learns how to address the public like a proper CEO while she gives fake interviews from other CEO candidates to make Richard look more suitable when he assumes the role. Of course, Richard takes this the wrong way and assumes that she doesn’t  want him voicing all of his complaints to the ‘PR Rep’ that was waiting in the conference room that he wasn’t supposed to go to. This was especially painful after his dismissal of the secretary who tried to take him to the right room. ‘No no, I know where it is, it turns out I actually know some things…. Not a fucking idiot.’ God he’s a fucking idiot.

We also have Jared, Gilfoyle and Dinesh searching for Dinesh’s hard drive that Gilfoyle sold during Pied Piper’s sale of assets. This story line was the highlight of the episode to me, with Gilfoyle drilling the hard drive in front of the man who bought it and Jared’s casual revelation that he doesn’t  have a birthday. Meanwhile, Erlich using Bighead’s finances pissed me off, especially since he tried to come off as the person being slighted whenever Bighead questioned it, it makes sense for his character, but I hope Erlich gets comeuppance this time.

The episode ends with Bighead saving Richard by revealing Gavin’s scrubbing of the internet. The team uses the information by selling it to the reporter in exchange for Richard’s interview being dashed and buried. The episode ends with Richard taking the empty chair (sort of) in front of the offshore coders that the team has hired to speed up production. Richard is CEO again. This episode was pretty average in comparison to the previous episodes in the season, not really drawing strong emotions either way. It just seemed like a way to get Richard back in charge to prepare for the rest of the season.

Follow me @oliverwoodster.

 

Cancelled, Renewed & New Shows for 2016-17

So the other day while doing my article on Elementary, I got to thinking about how many shows are being cancelled and the fact that I was struggling to keep up with what was going on, so I have scoured the Internet and have for you that latest on the cancelled,  Renewed and for good measure a few of the new shows coming up. I think I have them all covered but you know how quickly stuff changes on the Internet but tis is the complete list as of today.

ABC

Renewed Shows 2016

● American Crime
● black-ish
● Dr Ken
● The Catch
● Fresh Off The Boat
● The Goldbergs
● Grey’s Anatomy
● How To Get Away With Murder
● Last Man Standing
● Marvel’s Agent Of S.H.I.E.L.D
● The Middle
● Modern Family
● Once Upon A time
● The Real O’Neals
● Secrets and Lies Season 2 premieres this fall
● Scandal
● Quantico

Cancelled Shows

● Blood & Oil
● Castle
● The Family
● Galavant
● Marvel’s Agent Carter
● Wicked City
● The Whispers
● Nashville
● Rookie Blue

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CBS

Renewed Shows

● 2 Broke Girls
● The Big Bang Theory
● Blue Bloods
● Code Black
● Criminal Minds
● Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders
● Elementary
● Hawaii Five-O
● Madam Secretary
● Mom
● NCIS Renewed for Seasons 14 and 15
● NCIS: Los Angeles
● NCIS: New Orleans
● The Odd Couple
● Scorpion
● Supergirl Renewed for Season 2 – on The CW.
● Survivor
● Undercover Boss
● Zoo

Cancelled Shows

● Angel From Hell
● CSI Cyber
● Extant
● The Good Wife
● Limitless
● Mike & Molly
● Person of Interest
● Rush Hour
● Under The Dome

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FOX

Renewed Shows

● American Idol
● Bob’s Burgers
● Bones: Renewed for 12th and final season
● Brooklyn Nine-Nine
● Empire
● Family Guy
● Gotham
● Hell’s Kitchen
● The Last Man on Earth
● Lucifer
● New Girl
● Rosewood
● Scream Queens
● The Simpsons
● Sleepy Hollow
● Wayward Pines

Long-Shot For Renewal

● Houdini & Doyle – Limited series finale airs June 27th

Possible Renewal

● The X Files Season 11

Cancelled Shows

● Boom
● Bordertown
● Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life
● Grandfathered
● The Grinder
● Minority Report
● Second Chance

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NBC

Renewed Shows

●Aquarius
● The Blacklist
● Blindspot
● Chicago Fire – Through Season 5
● Chicago Med
● Chicago P.D – Through Season 4
● Grimm
● Law & Order: SVU
● Little Big Shots
● The Night Shift: Season 3
● Shades of Blue
● Superstore
● The Voice
● The Carmichael Show

Cancelled Shows

● Crowded
● Game of Silence
● Hannibal
● Heartbeat
● Heroes Reborn
● Mr Roberson
● The Mysteries of Laura
● The Player
● Telenovela
● Truth Be Told
● Undateable

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CW

Renewed Shows

● The 100
● Arrow
● Beauty and the Beast – Forth and Final season airs in Summer 2016
● Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
● DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
● The Flash
● iZombie
● Jane the Virgin
● The Originals
● Reign
● Supernatural
● The Vampire Diaries

Cancelled Shows

● Containment – Premieres at midseason
● The Messengers
● Significant Mother

Moved Network
● Americas Next Top Model – Revived on Vh1 with new host

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FX

Renewed Shows

● American Horror Story
● Archer
● Baskets
● Fargo
● Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll
● The Americans
● The Strain
● Tyrant

Shows Still To Air

● Atlanta
● Better Things
● Feud
● Taboo
● Trust – Limited Series

Cancelled Shows

● The Bastard Executioner
● The Comedians

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SyFy

Renewed Shows

● 12 Monkeys
● Continuum
● Dark Matter
● The Expance
● Killjoys
● The Magicians
● Z Nation

Cancelled Shows

● Defiance
● Dominion

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A&E

Renewed Shows

● Bates Motel – For 5th season

Cancelled Shows

● Damien
● Longmire (moved to netflix)

Obviously I have had a bit of trouble finding info on A&E shows.

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SHOWTIME

Renewed Shows

● The Affair
● Billions
● Dark Net
● Homeland
● Penny Dreadful
● Shameless

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TNT

Renewed Shows

● Falling Skies – Through 5th/finale Season
● The Last Ship
● The Libraries
● Major Crimes
● Murder In the First
● Rizzoli & Isles

Cancelled Shows

● Agent X
● Legends
● Public Morals

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BBC AMERICA

Renewed Shows

● Almost Royal
● Doctor Who
● Orphan Black

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TBS

Renewed Shows

● American Dad
● The Detour

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HBO

Renewed Shows

● Ballers – Through Season 2
● Game of Thrones – Through Season 7
● Getting On – Through 3rd/final Season
● Girls – Through Season 6
● The Leftovers (final season)
● Silicon Valley
● Veep
● Vinyl

Cancelled Shows

● Togetherness

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AMC

Renewed Shows

● Better Call Saul
● Into the Badlands

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STARZ

Renewed Shows

● Black Sails
● The Missing
● Outlander
● Power
● Survivor’s Remorse

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NETFLIX

Renewed Shows

● Bloodline – Through Season 2
● Bojack Horseman – Through Season 3
● Daredevil – Through Season 2
● Hemlock Grove
● Narcos
● Orange is the New Black

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AMAZON/AMAZON PRIME

Renewed Shows

● Bosch
● The Man in the High Castle
● Transparent

Cancelled Shows

● Mad Dogs

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COMEDY CENTRAL

Renewed Shows

● Broad City – Through Season 5
● South Park

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PBS

Renewed Shows

● Call The Midwife
● Grantchester
● Sherlock

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HULU

Renewed Shows

● Casual
● Difficult People
● The Mindy Project
● The Path

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USA

Renewed Shows

● Colony
● Graceland
● Mr Robot
● Playing House
● Royal Pains

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LIFETIME

Renewed Shows

● Devious Maids – Through Season 3

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RENEWED SHOWS  (Not sure of network home)

● Fear the Walking Dead
● The Fosters
● From Dusk Till Dawn
● Fuller House
● The Game
● Portlandia
● The Royals
● Salem
● Schitt’s Creek
● Scream
● Shadowhunters
● Spotless
● Star Wars: Rebels
● Teacher
● Teen Wolf
● Turn: Washington’s Spies
● Underground
● UnReal
● Vikings
● Younger
● Young & Hungry

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PIVOT

Renewed Shows

● Fortitude

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AMC

Renewed Shows

● Halt and Catch Fire
● Hell on Wheels
● The Walking Dead

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FXX

Renewed Shows

● Always Sunny in Philadelphia
● The League
● Man Seeking Woman
● You’re the Worst

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BBC

Renewed Shows

● Peaky Blinders
● Top of The Lake

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Below is everything I could find on new shows for the 2016-17 season. Don’t hold out a lot of hope for them, seems to be a lot of remakes instead of being creative and giving us some original content…Its getting boring with constant remakes of shows.

NBC’s  NEW SHOWS

●The Good Place

Staring: Kristin Bell & Ted Danson. Creator Mike Schur (Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine) making this a much-watch series. When Eleanor Shellstrop (Bell) arrives at titular Good Place after being hit by a truck her mentor Michael (Danson) tell her she made it there because she helped innocent people get off death row. Only one problem: She didn’t actually do that. Comedy gold? Maybe.

● Timeless

Staring: Abigail Spencer
In Timeless, a criminal steals a secret government time machine, and Homeland Security seeks out a history professor (Abigail Spencer) to lead a team that will travel back to restore the timeline and save history of America.

●Marlon

Staring: Marlon Wayans, Essence Atkins, Notlim Taylor, Amir O’Neil, Bresha Webb and Diallo Riddle
“Marlon” is inspired by the real life of the titular comedian, Marlon Wayans, who plays a loving but immature father committed to co-parenting his two kids with his ex-wife.

●Great News

Staring: Briga Heelan, Andera Martin, Adam Campbell, John Michael Higgins and Kimrie Lewis-Davis
Briga is an up-and-coming news producer whose overbearing mother (Martin) re-enters the workforce with a job as an intern at the station where Katie works.

●Trial and Error

Staring: Nichols D’Agosto, John Lithgow, Krysta Rodriguez, Steven Boyer and Sherri Shepherd
In this outrageous fish-out-of-water comedy, bright-eyed New York lawyer Josh Segal (D’Agosto) heads to a tiny Southern town for his first big case. His mission? To defend an eccentric, “rollercizing” poetry professor Larry (Lithgow), accused of the bizarre murder of his beloved wife.

●Powerless

Staring: Vanessa Hudgens, Alan Tudyk, Danny Pudi and Christina Hudgens
Emily (Hudgens), a spunky young insurance adjuster specializing in regular-people coverage against damage caused by crime-fighting superheroes.

●Chicago Justice

Staring: Philip Winchester, Carl Weathers, Nazneen Contractor and Marina Squerciati
Dick Wolf delivers a captivating new installment to the hit “Chicago” franchise. Just like their brethren in the Chicago P.D., the State’s Attorney’s dedicated team of prosecutors and investigators navigates heated city politics and controversy head-on while fearlessly pursuing justice. As they take on the city’s high stakes and often media-frenzied cases, they must balance public opinion, power struggles within the system and their unwavering passion for the law.

●Taken

Staring: Clive Standen
Is a modern-day, edege-of-your-seat thriller that follows the origin story of younger, hungrier former Green Beret Bryan Mills (Standen) as he deals with a personal tragedy that shakes his world. As he fights to overcome the incident and exact revenge, Mills is pulled into a career as a deadly CIA operative, a job that awakens his very particular, and very dangerous, set of skills.

●The Blacklist: Redemption

In this new spinoff of NBC’s hit series, undercover operative Tom Keen (Ryan Eggold) joins forces with Susan “Scottie” Hargrave (Famke Janssen), the brilliant and cunning chief of Grey Matters, a covert mercenary organization that solves problems governments don’t dare touch. While on the hunt for Liz’s attacker, Tom secretly discovered that Scottie is actually his biological mother. Now, as they team up to employ their unique skills and resources in a dangerous world of deadly criminals, Tom begins his own covert mission to find out more about his shadowy past.

●Midnight, Texas

Staring: François Arnaud, Dylan Bruce, Parisa Fitz-Henley, Arielle Kebbel, Sarah Ramos, Peter Mensah, Yul Vazquez and Sean Bridgers
Based on the hit book series from author Charlaine Harris (“True Blood”), comes a journey into a remote Texas town where no one is who they seem. From vampires and witches to psychics and hit men, Midnight is a mysterious safe haven for those who are different. As the town members fight off outside pressures from rowdy biker gangs, ever-suspicious cops and their own dangerous pasts,they band together and form a strong and unlikely family.

●This Is Us

Staring: Manny Moore, Milo Ventimiglia and Sterling K. Brown
The series follows a unique ensemble whose paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways. We find several of them share the same birthday, and so much more then anyone would expect

● Emerald City

Staring: Adria Arjona and Vincent D’Onofrio
In the blink of a tornado’s eye, 20-year-old Dorothy Gale (Arjona) and a K9 police dog are swept into a world far removed from our own – mystical land of competing realms, lethal warriors, dark magic and a bloody battle for supremacy. Vincent D’Onofrio as the guileful Wizard and directed by the visionary Tarsem Singh across three European countries, this is Oz completely re-imagined.

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FOX’s NEW SHOWS

● Son of Zorn

Staring: Jason Sudekis, Johnny Pemberton, Cheryl Hines, Tim Meadows.
The latest show from Phil Lord and Chris Miller, Zorn (Jason Sudekis) is an animated warrior in the style of He-Man who rules an isolated kingdom in the Pacific Ocean. He leaves that world behind and makes the journey to Orange County to reunite with his son Alan (Johnny Pemberton) and ex-wife (Cheryl Hines), who’s now engaged to Craig (Tim Meadows).

● Star

Staring: Jude Demorest, Brittany O’Grady, Ryan Destiny.
Featuring: Queen Latifah, Lenny Kravitz and Benjamin Bratt
Star (Jude Demorest) is an 18-year-old gifted singer who spent much of her life in the foster system. She takes her sister Simone (Brittany O’Grady) and moves to Atlanta to meet their godmother Carlotta (Latifah), and start a girl group with Alexandra (Ryan Destiny).

●Pitch

Staring: Kylie Bunbury, Mo McRae
Pitch is a combination of the real-life story of Little League pitcher Mo’ne Davis, who captivated baseball fans in 2014, and something like Rookie if the Year. Ginny (Kylie Bunbury) is the first woman to play in Major League Baseball, a pitcher called up by San Diego Padres. But instead of an injury granting her magical throwing powers, she’s developed a mean screwball, a pitch built after years of practice with her father Blip (Mo McRae).

●Making History

Staring: Adam Pally
Making History centers on Dan (Adam Pally), a sad sack computer science professor who invents a time machine and uses it to spend his weekends exploiting his knowledge of the future to make friends and become popular in colonial America.

●A.P.B

Staring: Justin Kirk
A tech billionaire (Kirk) who purchases a struggling police precinct after a loved one is killed. His hope is to use innovative tech to stop criminals.

●Prison Break

Staring: Dominic Purcell, Sarah Wayne Callies and Wentworth Miller
The revival centers around Lincoln (Purcell) and Sara (Callies) as they learn Michael (Miller) isn’t dead, but rather stuck in a Yemeni.

●The Exorcist

Staring: Geena Davis and Alfonso Herrera
Another TV reboot of a classic film, it will be more of a modern take on the novel and 70’s movie

●Lethal Weapon

Staring: Damon Wayans and Clayne Crawford
Yep you guessed it another reboot of a classic film

●24: Legacy

Staring: Corey Hawkins
The saga continues with Eric Carter (Hawkins), a man who turn to CTU to help him save his life while also working to stop a terror threat.

●Shots Fired

Staring: Sanaa Lathan, Stephan James, Helen Hunt, Richard Dreyfus and Stephen Moyer.
A compelling event series examining the dangerous aftermath of racially charged shootings in a small Southern town

●The Mick

Staring: Kaitlin Olson
From producers of “its Always Sunny in Philadelphia”, “The Mick” is a no-holds-barred single-camera comedy that follows Mackenzie, aka “Mickey” (Olson), a brash, two-bit hustler for Rhode Island who must assume guardianship of her sister’s three high-maintenance children. As irresponsible as Mickey has been her entire life, she may discover that responsibility isn’t the buzzkill she always thought it would be.

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ABC’s NEW SHOWS

● Conviction

Staring: Hayley Atwell
Hayley Atwell is Hayes Morrison, a former First Daughter who has a drug problems, among others, that are getting in the way of her mother’s Senate campaign. To keep from going to prison, Morrison accepts a jobs the head of a Conviction Integrity Unit in New York City, tasked with re-examining cases to determine wrongful conviction.

●Designated Survivor

Staring: Kiefer Sutherland
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Tom Kirkman (Sutherland) is the titular designee, who gets sequestered during the State of the Union. When an explosion destroys the Capitol Building, Kirkman is the next in line for the presidency.

●Still Star-crossed

Based on the novel by Melinda Taub, and created by Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal writer Heather Mitchell, the fifth ABC show from Shonda Rhimes uses the ends of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as its starting point. It’s hammy in the way CW’s historical romance Reign and Starz’s Outlander, but this genre has a dedicated following, and Rhimes has displayed a golden touch that dewarfs other major executive producers.

●American Housewife

Staring: Katy Mixon
Katie Otto (Katy Mixon), a confident, unapologetic wife and mother of three, raises her flawed family in the wealthy town of Wesport, Connecticut, filled with “perfect” mommies and their “perfect” offspring.

●Imaginary Mary

Staring: Jenna Elfman
Alice (Elfman) is fiercely independent career woman whose life is turned upside-down when she meets the love of her life – a divorced father with three kids. The triggers even more upheaval when she slightly unhinged imaginary friend she created as a child suddenly reappears to help her navigate the transition from single girl to a woman ready for a family.

●Notorious

Staring: Piper Perabo and Daniel Sunjata
Is inspired by the true-life stories of famed criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos and cable news producer Wendy Walker, who serve as executive producers. The series is a provocative look at the unique, sexy and dangerous interplay of criminal law and the media

●Downward Dog

Staring: Allison Tolman
Is a comedy that follows a lovelorn woman through the eyes of her dog.

●Time After Time

Staring: Freddie Stroma and Josh Bowman
Follows the story of a young H.G. Wells as he attempts to track Jack the Ripper through time.

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CBS’s NEW SHOWS

● The Great Indoors

Staring: Joel McHale
Joel McHale is an outdoorsman returning to a magazine where he’s now the sole Gen Xer in a sea of Millennials might just work.

●Bull

Staring: Michael Weatherly, Freddy Rodriguez, Geneva Carr
Weatherly stars as Dr. Jason Bull in a drama inspired by the early career of Dr. Phil McGraw, the founder of one of the most prolific trial consulting firms of all times. Bull employs an enviable team of experts at Trial Analysis Corporation, including his quick-witted brother-in-law, Benny Colón (Rodriguez) who plays a defense attorney in mock trials; Marissa Morgan (Carr), a cutting-edge neurolinguistics expert from the Department of Homeland Security.
●Kevin Can Wait

Staring: Kevin James and Erinn Hayes
A newly retired police officer looking forward to spending carefree, quality time with his wife (Hayes) and three kids, only to discover he faces tougher challenges at home then he ever did on the streets.

●Man with a Plan

Staring: Matt LeBlanc
A comedy about a contractor who starts spending more time with his kids when his wife returns to work, and he discovers the truth every parent eventually realizes: their little angels are maniacs.

●MacGyver

Staring: Lucas Till and George Eads
A  re-imagining of the classic series, is an action-adventure drama about 20-something Angus “Mac” MacGyver who creates a clandestine organization within the U.S. government where he uses his extraordinary talent for unconventional problem solving and vast scientific knowledge to save lives. Joining his team on high-risk missions around the globe is maverick former CIA agent Lincoln (Eads).
Under the aegis of the Department of External Affairs, MacGyver takes on the responsibility of saving the world, armed to the teeth with resourcefulness and little more than bubble gum and a paper clip.

●Pure Genius

Staring: Augustus Prew and Dermot Mulroney
A cutting-edge medical drama about James Bell (Prew), a young Silicon Valley tech titan, who enlists Walter Wallace (Mulroney), a brilliant veteran surgeon with a controversial past, to run a state-of-the-art hospital with an ultramodern approach to medicine.

●Training Day

Staring: Bill Paxton and Justin Cornwall
A crime drama that begins 15 years after the events of the feature film, starring Paxton as Frank Rourke, a hardened morally ambiguous detective for the LAPD, and Cornwell as Kyle Craig, a young, idealistic officer tapped to go undercover as his trainee and spy on him.

● Doubt

Staring: Katherine Heigl, Laverne Cox, Dreama Walker
Sadie Ellis (Heigl), a brilliant attorney at a boutique firm who starts to fall for her charismatic client, an altruistic pediatric surgeon recently accused of murdering his girlfriend 24 years ago. Sadie’s colleagues include Cameron Wirth (Cox), a transgender Ivy League graduate who fights passionately for her clients since she’s experienced injustice first hand, and Tiffany Simon (Walker), a second-year associate who is quickly learning the ropes.

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CW’s NEW SHOWS

●Frequency

Staring: Peyton List and Riley Smith
This drama reimagines the 2000 film of the same name, following a female police detective (List) in 2016 who discovers she is able to speak via a ham radio with her estranged father (Smith) who died in 1996. The forge a new relationship while working together on an unresolved murder case, but unintended consequences of the “butterfly effect” wreak havoc in the present day.

●No Tomorrow

Staring: Tori Anderson and Joshua Sasse
When a risk-averse, straight arrow, female procurement manager (Anderson) at an Amazon-like distribution center falls in love with a freewheeling man who lives life to the fullest (Sasse) because he believes the apocalypse is imminent, they embark on a quest together to fulfill their individual bucket lists, to comedic and poignant results.

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There you have it guys, the list of what is happening in the TV world for 2016-17.

Arrow SN4 EP23 – ‘Schism’

It’s time for your latest Arrow review! This episode was directed by John Behring. If the episode’s name doesn’t foreshadow what is to come, then I don’t know what does. For those of you wondering, schism basically means two strongly opposed parties —in this case, Team Arrow and Star City v. Darhk and his men.

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The episode begins with Darhk knocking Curtis unconscious, choke-holding Felicity’s mom, and threatening to suck the life out of her unless Felicity were to hand over Rubicon. Suddenly Oliver and Diggle appear and save them, but Darhk steals the laptop and launches over 15,000 nuclear missiles. The team has two hours to prevent worldwide annihilation. Damn Darhk. The citizens of Star City start rioting in the streets with the chaos of the “end of the world.”

Oliver has an epic moment, and while standing atop a car he addresses the citizens inspiring hope in them to stay strong. The missile is spotted in the sky above them, and it approaches closer and closer, but Felicity and Curtis divert the missile.

Oliver then goes after Darhk, while Felicity, Merlyn, and Thea track down Rubicon to a secret location. It turns out Cooper, Felicity’s ex, is helping Darhk with the program against his will. Felicity convinces Cooper to stop helping Darhk and save the world which he does, and falls to the floor in a painful death. Curtis thinks of a creative way to stop the missiles, by basically flipping the world, so the missiles head up instead of down.

Thanks to all the citizens of Star City believing in Oliver, he is now an even match for Darhk’s powers. Let the arse kicking begin! Oliver fights Darhk, and the citizens fight Darhk’s remaining men. The fight ends with Oliver killing Darhk.

Afterward the group has a discussion, Lance, Thea, and Diggle decide to leave the team for new lives, and Oliver is appointed Mayor. In flashbacks to the island, Reiter and Taiana fight; Taiana is able to drain Reiter’s life force enough for Oliver to kill him, but she becomes overwhelmed with darkness in the process. She begs Oliver to kill her, and he finally obliges. Oliver radios Amanda Waller who comes with helicopters to rescue the rest of the prisoners and keep the idol safe.

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Did you like the season finale? Have any favourite parts? I know it’s a bit cheesy, but I liked how the citizens of Star City joined team Arrow in the fight. Are you excited to see Ollie as mayor? Do you think Lance, Thea, and Diggle will be able to stay away from the excitement next season? Comment, share and like below or tweet me @SohoDoll. And if you don’t… well, “You have failed this city!”

The Social Outcasts Announced As Stars Of ‘The Marine 5: Battleground’

Watch out Tom Cruise, Chris Pratt and Robert Downey Jr.! You fellas may have some competition in the acting world now.

A few days ago, it was announced that Heath Slater, Bo Dallas and Curtis Axel will be starring alongside the Miz, Maryse and Naomi in ‘The Marine 5: Battleground’. This news surprised and confused many people but for me personally, I was ecstatic. For those who don’t know, the Social Outcasts are my favorite part of WWE TV every week. They are fantastic at what they do!

Just watch this week’s episode of Main Event and see how wonderful these guys are at what they do. On Main Event, they had stolen Xavier Woods’ ring gear so he had to compete in Big E’s gear. On top of that, they came out to a New Day style entrance with Dallas, Axel and Slater backstage screaming like Big E. The difference was they were not even sure what town they were in.

These three men are perfect in the roles they are currently in. It’s a shame everything happened with Adam Rose because he was great in the role as well. Unfortunately I feel these men go unappreciated, so let’s take a look at each of these three men!

Heath Slater is the biggest WWE veteran of the three. He’s been with WWE since the first season of NXT and would eventually join groups like The Nexus and The Corre. After those groups, he went out on his own and I must say he became my favorite part of Raw every week. On the way to Raw’s 1,000th episode, Slater would face the likes of Doink the Clown, Bob Backlund and many others. He consistently stole the show and it showed that WWE had a lot of faith in him in that role.

He then joined 3MB along with Jinder Mahal and Drew McIntyre. Slater ended up being the only one left with WWE after the group ended. After that, he had a memorable win in the main event of Raw against Seth Rollins thanks to help from Dean Ambrose. Slater then spent time with Titus O’Neil as Slater Gator. They disbanded when Darren Young came back from an injury. Slater now seems to be the leader of The Social Outcasts and its great to see him on my TV every week again. Slater excels at everything he does and may just be the most underrated performer in all of WWE.

Let’s look at Curtis Axel now.

Curtis Axel is a third-generation superstar and the son of Curt Hennig. He originally showed up on WWE TV on the second season of the original NXT. He was stuck with and awful name and never given many opportunities. He spent a good amount of years as that character but then things changed.

One day he became Curtis Axel and he was beating the likes of Triple H. He became Intercontinental Champ quickly after that. Since then, he has been in tag teams with Ryback and Damien Sandow. This may be an unpopular opinion, but I loved Sandow and Axel as Hogan and Macho Man. I honestly feel they would still be doing that gimmick today if the whole Hulk Hogan scandal did not happen. But now, Axel is in The Social Outcasts and able to show his worth next to Dallas and Slater.

Last but certainly not least is Bo Dallas aka my spiritual savior and the greatest man who ever lived.

For those who do not know, Bo Dallas is my favorite wrestler in the world today and he has been for many years. He first showed up on the new version of NXT as arguably the most hateable babyface of all time. A fantastic change was eventually made to the character in which he still thought he was a good guy but did bad guy type actions inside and out of the ring. He was given a long run as NXT champ but wasn’t given much to do on the main roster prior to joining The Social Outcasts. I must say that I’m very happy for Dallas that he is part of a group that appears on television on a consistent basis.

It will be interesting to see these three in a WWE film. For every John Cena and The Miz, you get a Mr. Kennedy or a Ted DiBiase. Who know if one of these men could be the next Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. All I know is, I BOlieve!

The Flash SN2 EP23 – ‘The Race of His Life’

It’s time for your latest The Flash review! This episode was directed by Antonio Negret, and written by Aaron Helbing & Todd Helbing. As the episode’s name hints, Barry has the race of his life … against Zoom.

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Zoom comes to Barry demanding a race to determine who is faster, threatening that if he refuses, he will kill everyone that Barry loves. Wells tells everyone at S.T.A.R. Labs that Zoom stole a magnetar from Mercury Labs that can be used to destroy every world in the multiverse if Zoom and Barry can create enough energy from their race to power it up. Everyone at S.T.A.R. Labs agrees that Barry is too emotional, from the recent loss of his father, to make a rational decision about the race.

When Barry refuses to back out, Joe with the help of the team locks Barry in a containment cell for his own protection. The team develops their own plan to send Zoom back to Earth-2 and seal the breach behind them. One small fault makes the plan turn into a disaster: Wells’ gun jams. In the chaos of getting Zoom through the breach, Joe is pulled in with him. On Earth-2, Zoom reveals to a restrained Joe that the man in the iron mask is the real Jay Garrick.

Back on Earth, the team tells Wally that Joe has been taken hostage, so Wally releases Barry to rescue Joe. Cisco vibes to Zoom, so that Barry can tell him he has agreed to race him, so  long as Joe is returned without harm if he wins. Barry and Zoom race while the magnatar begins to charge. However, Barry creates a time remnant of himself, who gives up his life to stop the magnatar, while Barry frees Joe and takes on Zoom.

Barry kicks Zoom’s butt (collective sigh of relief), and two Time Wraiths appear. Zoom is unable to fight them off and is taken away by the Time Wraiths who basically suck his life dry, Dementor style. Back at S.T.A.R. Labs, the true Jay Garrick is revealed to be Henry Allen’s doppelganger, much to Barry’s shock.

Wells and Jesse return with Jay to Earth-2 to live their lives. Just when we think everything is back to normal, Barry confesses to Iris the true depth of his pain —having lost both his mother and father. After Iris tells him that she will always wait for him, like he waited for her, he leaves Barry to his thoughts. Barry unable to cope with the way things are goes back in time, to the night his mother died… and saves her.

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What are your thoughts on the finale? Disappointing or up to par? I myself was expecting more of a fight between Zoom and Flash, but I guess it goes to show they were equally matched by this episode. What are your predictions for the next episode? Comment, share and like below, or tweet me @SohoDoll. And as always, “Run Barry, run!”