Da Vinci finds himself on trial for his life in ‘The Tower’, the fifth episode of Starz’s new series from creator David S. Goyer. This is another (for the most part) standalone episode, though we get to see some additional character development, particularly when it comes to Leonardo’s father.
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HBO has a knack for luring notable filmmakers – as in, people who are perfectly capable of sustaining a successful career in feature films if they want – to the land of television. For its latest half-hour comedy series ‘Family Tree’, the network nabbed mockumentary king Christopher Guest. Based on the first episode, the pairing is a very comfortable fit.
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Once a season, author George R.R. Martin writes the screenplay for an episode of ‘Game of Thrones’ himself. You might think that he’d do this to cover some monumental, game-changing event in the story that he felt needed his personal supervision, but that isn’t necessarily the case. It certainly isn’t with this week’s episode, a rather talky affair that, until the end, is conspicuously lacking in either action or high drama.
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After last week’s rather uneventful episode, ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’ gets back on track with its fourth installment, ‘The Magician’, as Season 1 marks its mid-way point.
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For all the dark and twisted and shocking plot developments that ‘Game of Thrones’ rolls out on a regular basis, the part that I found most troubling about this week’s episode was the casual writing-out of a minor but endearing supporting character.
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After a particularly strong second episode, ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’ dives back into mediocrity with a rather standard third installment. Entitled ‘The Prisoner’, Episode 3 proves to be a by-the-numbers affair that doesn’t do a whole lot to advance the ongoing storylines.
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While this week’s new episode of ‘Game of Thrones’ may not have the sort of spectacular, epic climax like we saw the previous week, it’s chock full of important story points that are well balanced by some great character moments.
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After an uneven pilot episode, the second episode of ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’ (entitled ‘The Serpent’) is a much more even affair. However, it still has a lot of plot threads that viewers need to weave through.
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Well hot damn! For three seasons now, Daenerys Targaryen has felt very remote and disconnected from everything else going on in ‘Game of Thrones’. We’ve known for quite some time that she’ll be an important player in the story at some point, but that point has always felt very far away. This week, her storyline finally kicked into high gear and allowed us to see, for perhaps the first time, just what a threat she truly is.
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If the season’s first two episodes of ‘Game of Thrones’ felt a little too heavy on the set-up and somewhat, perhaps, uneventful, this week finally starts moving things along, and has at least one very shocking development (assuming that, like me, you haven’t read the books and don’t know this stuff already).
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