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Now Streaming: The Tick Season 2

Josh Zyber — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 12:00:27 +0000

You can’t keep a good bug down. Amazon’s goofy superhero comedy The Tick has returned for a second season that, in some respects, improves over the first. Evil villain The Terror may be gone, but that doesn’t mean The City (that’s the name of the place, “The City”) is safe. Arthur (Griffin Newman) and The...

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Now Streaming: The Tick Season 1

Josh Zyber — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 16:00:11 +0000

The Big Blue Bug of Justice has had a fitful life on TV screens. After three seasons in animated form in the 1990s and a paltry nine-episode live-action run in 2001, ‘The Tick’ returns in a new reboot on Amazon streaming with a new star and some new supporting characters, but plenty of the same...

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Weekend Roundtable: Saturday Morning Cartoons

Josh Zyber — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 19:00:25 +0000

The Smurfs may be feature film stars these days, but the little blue gnomes are perhaps best known for their Saturday morning cartoon that ran all through the 1980s. When you were a kid, what other TV shows did you crawl out of bed early to watch on the weekends? If you need a memory...

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Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Animated Villains

Josh Zyber — Fri, 30 May 2014 19:00:00 +0000

As Disney’s infamous ‘Sleeping Beauty’ villainess Maleficent gets her own live-action reboot in theaters this week, we’ll use today’s Roundtable to highlight some of our other favorite animated baddies from movies and TV. Brian Hoss “This town ain’t big enough for the two of us!” Bugs Bunny had a real stable of rogues, but the...

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TV Madness: Locke vs. Echo – The Tick vs. Nine

Aaron Peck — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:00:24 +0000

Michael Westen started out slowly in the TV Madness voting on Monday. It appeared that Al Swearengen would get the best of him. But then, out of nowhere, Westen piled up the votes and easily took the grizzled Wild West politician out of the running. In other news, MacGyver faced defeated at the hands of...

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TV Madness: Bristow vs. Hercules – Soprano vs. Tick

Aaron Peck — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:00:57 +0000

Holy espionage, Batman! It looks like Adam West’s Batman was no match for the ultra-cool, super-smart spy Michael Westen. Westen moves on to the next round of TV Madness, along with Raylan Givens, who bested Walter White. Raylan has taken down his share of drug pushers and criminals, and it seems like his experience paid...

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