How do you defeat a murderous mindreader with savage telekinetic powers?
Stargirl (Brec Bassinger) takes on one of the Justice Society’s most notorious foes in this week’s episode.
She has no training, no battle experience, and her cosmic staff seems to have a mind of its own.
This sure seems like it’s going to be over quickly – for Stargirl.
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Just in time for summer, at a moment when she’s never been needed more, Stargirl swoops in to rescue us all.
“DC’s Stargirl” (today on DC Universe, tomorrow on CW) is an utterly charming take on a beloved DC Comics teen, buoyed by a natural, breezy performance by star Brec Bassinger.
Warning: Minor spoilers follow!
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The series finale of ABC’s “How to Get Away with Murder” answered the season’s burning question: “Who killed Annalise?”
It also tossed in a few more bodies, for those keeping score at home.
Warning: Spoilers follow!
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In Starz’s new crime drama “Hightown,” premiering Sunday, Jackie Quinones (Monica Raymund, “Chicago Fire”) discovers the body of a murdered woman on a beach in Provincetown.
That’s not even the worst part of Jackie’s day.
Jackie is a National Marine Fisheries Service agent who works to feed her pleasures: booze, cocaine, and random hook-ups with tourists impressed by her badge.
But her discovery of that dead woman, a police informant, looks to put her on a collision course with some dangerous people.
Continue reading “Starz’s ‘Hightown’: A dead body is just the start of a bad, no-good, terrible day”
Everyone knows the Man of Steel has one rule:
The hero who stands for truth, justice, and the American way never kills.
Or does he?
A classic episode of “The Adventures of Superman” suggests he at the very least contributed to the deaths of two people.
In “The Secret Costume” (original air date Dec. 12, 1952), written by Ben Peter Freeman, a burglar, Johnny Sims (Norman Budd), stumbles into the apartment of Clark Kent (George Reeves) and discovers his secret closet containing but one item – his Superman outfit.
Mark Perigard 