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The Punisher: One Last Kill Review

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When this was announced I was definitely interested, I’ve always liked Jon Bernthal’s Punisher so getting a new special focusing on him was good news, but after watching it I was just sort of confused. I mean as a stand-alone 45 minute thing it was fine but it didn’t fit into the MCU timeline at all, didn’t connect to the original Punisher series, Daredevil: Born Again Season 1 (which still has unresolved Punisher story beats) or the then-upcoming Spider-Man film as it turns out, it was like a pilot for a Punisher series that had nothing to do with the MCU but was added to it anyway. Oh well, what’s it like? Well given its length it won’t take long to tell you…

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Daredevil: Born Again – Season 2 Review

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The second season of the revived Daredevil show (so technically the fifth, I guess?) was more focused, I guess because it wasn’t half another show entirely this time, but some of the interesting plot points were dropped entirely without explanation, which was rather annoying. Still though, as I’ve said a few times on this site, seeing Charlie Cox’s Daredevil face off with Vincent D’Onofrio’s Kingpin is aways worth a watch! Let’s take a look.

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Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord Season 1 Review

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I was tempted to put this and the next two TV reviews into another trio of mini-reviews, but I just couldn’t, especially not with this. I loved Maul: Shadow Lord, it was the right combination of Star Wars wonder and action with a more mature edge and some interesting layered characters. It truly is weird just how much they’ve done with the Maul character, especially as I remember rolling my eyes when I heard he was being brough back… Let’s take a look!

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Marvel Zombies – Season 1 Review

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After the fun but very tame and green-blood-filled Zombies episode of “What If…?” I wasn’t super-excited about a whole series spun off from it, but you know what? It was really fun actually, mostly because they went for the higher TV rating / Age rating and therefore upped the gore (with red blood!) and even some casual swearing but still kept things light and comic-booky. It’s an odd mix, but one that really worked, so let’s take a look at what I assume is “Season 1” given it ends on a cliffhanger…

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Star Wars: Tales From The Underworld Review

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Another May 4th went by (a while ago now, admittedly) and with it was another pack of six animated shorts that fill in continuity gaps! This time we answer “how was Asajj Ventress alive in the Bad Batch?” and then throw in “What is Cad Bane’s origin story?”, which is admittedly not a gap that needed filling in, but it was a fun 40-ish minutes so why not? Let’s take a look!

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Star Wars: Andor – Season 2 Review

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Andor’s second and sadly final season somehow managed to keep up the momentum from its stellar first season and keep that going all the way up to connecting to the already-great Rogue One film, making for a hell of a run of stories and moving Cassian Andor way up the chain of “great Star Wars characters”. Perhaps beyond all that though is it showed masterfully how you can blend real world messages and allusions into a great fictional show without jamming it in people’s faces, no guesses as to what show I’m referring to there… Anyway, let’s take a broad look, which means yes there will be some scenes and characters I don’t mention… I don’t have all day you know…

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Daredevil: Born Again – Season 1 Review

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While this is indeed Season 1 of “Daredevil: Born Again” this is also Season 4 of the Daredevil show that started on Netflix, still my favourite superhero TV show of all time, so to say I was happy to hear about this would be an understatement (ignoring the months when it sounded like a reboot with no connection to the prior series, thank goodness they went back on that!) While this season hasn’t reached the peak that was Season 1 of the original series it does fit nicely with the rest of the original show, it’s still “gritty” and violent with a good message at its core and a fantastic cast. So let’s take a look!

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What If…? – Season 3 Review

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Several months late to the party on this one but for whatever reason I kept falling out of this season of the show and taking long breaks before I felt like continuing it. It’s a shame because I do like how they use several of the more obscure characters from the latter end of the MCU in the show but the stories themselves are often a bit.. meh. They become less “What If?” and more “Here are some characters in a zany adventure”, which is fine but not really why I liked the other two seasons. Well, either way, let’s finally take a look so I’m once again caught up on the MCU reviews!

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Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Review

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To tell you the truth “Skeleton Crew” wasn’t something I was looking forward to, from its vague announcement to the first trailer and beyond nothing really clicked with me. I knew I’d give it a proper go because I love Star Wars and about half way through the series I realised that I was actually enjoying it, and then by the end it was up there with the higher end of live action Star Wars programming. It’s just pure fun, not bogged down in continuity (not that I don’t love continuity references…) or serious story telling (not that I also don’t love that either!) and instead just tells a good family adventure story. Let’s take a look!

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