Ron Howard returns to acting and teams up with a couple of his most famous former co-stars to prove just how serious he is about seeing change in the White House come Election Day.
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Set in a land where a dark breed of flesh-eating beasts called Yoma terrorize the human race, “Claymore” tells the story of Clare, a beautiful human-Yoma hybrid who works for a secret organization that hunt and kill the very demons that make her who she is. When a young boy named Raki begins following her around after a Yoma kills his family, Clare takes him under her wing – learning more about how she became a Claymore, as well as the organization pulling the strings, along the way. “Claymore” is exactly the kind of anime you’d expect just from looking at the cover. It has a beautiful protagonist, tons of action, and is as shiny as the giant sword Clare carries. That may not sound very involved, but though the first volume of the 26-episode series doesn’t dig too deep into the mythology of the Claymores, it teases the audience just enough to ensure that they’ll be back for more. It’s quite rare to see such a dark and gritty anime that doesn’t take place in the future, but if you like you’re fantasy starring hot babes with big swords, it doesn’t get much better than this.
So you thought that NBC’s hit reality show “The Biggest Loser” was about losing weight? Not really. Not when you dangle a $250,000 grand prize and $100,000 more for the player who lost the most weight after being eliminated. That’s when contestants unfortunately resort to gameplay instead of focusing on the actual premise of the show, which is who can lose the most freaking weight! You heard me, Vicky. You heard me, Brady. You heard me, Heba. But more on that in a minute.
They began the show with initial activities of trapeze and climbing. Some of the contestants were terrified but overcame their fears. Then they all had to go see Dr. Huizenga again, and the results were better this time…many of them had added years to their lives in just this short time by losing all that weight so far.
Then came the challenge and it was a balancing act over a pool. And it was a blue vs. black team competition, but if anyone fell in the water, they had to wait until the other team completely fell overboard to get back up. The blue team, led by Vicky, said they weren’t interested in the prize, which was a video of their family back home. Are you kidding me? Continue reading »
If there was ever any doubt that “The Shield” was really coming to an end, tonight’s episode stamped it out with the boldest statement they could make: Vic’s decision to call it quits as a cop. I don’t think anyone imagined that he would give up fighting for his badge (even when his official termination had been all but confirmed), but after the events that transpired, it makes sense that Vic wouldn’t want the restrictions of law enforcement to get in the way of what needs to be done.
It didn’t take very long for Shane to go forward with his retaliation on Vic and Ronnie, and after setting up an alibi with Mara, he heads to Vic’s house to exact revenge. What he doesn’t know, however, is that Two-Man’s assassination attempt on Ronnie didn’t go as planned. Ronnie escaped unscathed, while his date just caught a stray to the arm, and when Vic gets a call about the situation outside of his house, Shane is there to watch as his chance slips away right in front of his eyes. What I don’t understand is why Two-Man didn’t take a similar approach. Granted, the last thing I want to see happen is Ronnie getting shot for all the shit that Vic and Shane have dragged him through, but it just doesn’t make sense that the guy would try and kill someone from afar when he could have just as easily done it at point blank range.
Nevertheless, with both Ronnie and Vic still alive, Shane is forced to go on the defensive – especially when Two-Man is captured and brought to the Barn for questioning. Dutch and Billings fail to trick him into confessing the first time around, but with the help of Vic (who suggests they just lie about having witnesses), they eventually get Two-Man to take the bait and give up Shane. Unbeknownst to everyone else in the captain’s office, however, Shane has already gotten the hell out of dodge. Claudette is curious as to why Shane would even want Ronnie dead, but as expected, Vic and Ronnie are both mum on the subject. In fact, Vic is so certain that Claudette will tie him to a desk for his final week on the job, that he just decides to up and quit right there, since it means he can go after Shane himself. Claudette warns him against it, but really, who’s going to stop him?
Of course, Shane has taken certain precautions as well. Though it seems he really did destroy that file he created on the Strike Team several months back, he sends Mara over to Corrine’s house to deliver a message: either Vic and Ronnie help Shane evade capture or he’ll testify against them in court. One thing he hasn’t considered, however, is Vic just killing him. I mean, that would solve all their problems, right? Perhaps Vic is worried about having to deal with Mara, but if he truly wants to move forward and make his current gig with the feds a permanent thing, he’s going to have to make Shane disappear – one way or another.
This episode started with a flashback, and for a minute I thought that we were in for some great revelation about Lincoln’s past. Instead, the purpose of the flasback was to 1) demonstrate a smash and grab operation and 2) to show that Lincoln wasn’t that bad of a guy because it was his “last job.” Right.
Meanwhile, Gretchen is up to no good. She managed to broker a deal with T-Bag’s new pimp, and it looks like she’s in for a massive payday if she can deliver Scylla. T-Bag’s cut is $25 million, so we were rewarded with a story about how he killed six people for stealing his sixer of Schlitz. He and Trish Ann seem to be cozy again, and it’s going to be interesting to see if they’re able to pull over anything on Gretchen.
We spent a lot of time flashing back with Sara once she found out that Gretchen was still alive. Sara apparently doesn’t hold a grudge over the scars that G left on her back, but she is pissed off about G’s decision to kill the guard that gave her a key that ultimately led to her escape. Part of me was hoping that Sara would go nutty in the hotel room and slit G’s throat, but that’s probably a little harsh for the good doctor. Gretchen is a good foil for the gang, and while it was enjoyable to watch Don talk some serious shit to her in T-Bag’s office, methinks it’s going to be a while before she truly gets what’s coming to her.
“One day we’re going to look back and laugh about this. You know, the whole kidnapping and torture thing.”
The gang only has one card left, and it belongs to the General. Everything would have gone smoothly if that “douche bag” (Linc’s words, not mine) Roland hadn’t lost his “electronic black hole” device because he just can’t say no to gambling. This led to Roland being ostracized by the gang, which of course led to Roland reaching out to Morpheus for a possible payday.
If Roland had been able to watch Morpheus work like we have for the past few weeks, he could have predicted how his story would eventually end (like we did). Is it any shock that “Prison Break” killed off a suddenly useless cast member? The gang better hope that they don’t need to do anymore hacking, because Roland is no longer. The upside is that the character was pretty annoying, though I will miss how easily he was able to tweak Lincoln.
The gang has Morpheus and Mahone wants to kill him. He wants to kill him so bad he’s having conversations with his son’s photo. This could get ugly.
By the way, how cool is it when Michael simply says, “Alex,” and Mahone knows exactly what to do?
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