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Marvel's Secret Invasion

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  Based on: Marvel comic story of the same name Created by: Kyle Bradstreet Directed by: Ali Selim Written by: Kyle Bradstreet, Brian Tucker, Brant Englestein, Roxanne Paredes, Michael Bhim Starring: Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury), Ben Mendelsohn (Talos), Kingsley Ben-Adir (Gravik), Killian Scott (Pagon), Samuel Adewunmi (Beto), Dermot Mulroney (the President), Richard Dormer (Prescod), Emilia Clarke (G'iah), Olivia Colman (Sonya), Don Cheadle ("Rhodey"), Charlayne Woodard (Priscilla), Christopher McDonald (Chris Stearns), Katie Finneran (Rosa Dalton)  Secret Invasion  season 1 trailer: Well this show was honestly disappointing :-/  I had an idea of what it would be like going in: Nick fury and his team dealing with a covert invasion of aliens who look like people. I imagined something like The Bourne Identity , with Nick investigating a clandestine plot with a network of allies and cryptic com...

Unicorn: Warriors Eternal: Season 1

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  Created by: Genndy Tartakovsky Produced by: Sam Register, Genndy Tartakovsky, Shareena Carlson Starring: Hazel Doupe (Emma/Melinda), Demari Hunte (Alfie/Edred), Tom Milligan (Dimitri/Seng) Unicorn: Warriors Eternal Season 1 trailer : This show is pretty ridiculous, but in a great, often intellectual way.  It's got a lot going on, a bit too much for its own good. I'll be the first to admit that. To put it succinctly, the show is about a group of warriors who live and exist throughout time, reincarnating in different eras to fight a major evil that keeps cropping up. Oh, and the group is called "Unicorn." The group has four members: Melinda is a powerful sorceress, Edred is an elf swordsman, Seng is a psychic, and Copernicus is a sentient robot who can manipulate souls.  Copernicus, Melinda, and Edred ready for battle The show's weakness is that it throws all this out a little too fast, not really giving the viewer enough chance to absorb it and breath...

The Ark: Season 1

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    Created by: Dean Devlin and Jonathan Glassner  Written by: Dean Devlin, Jonathan Glassner, John-Paul Nickel, Rebecca Rosenberg, and Kendall Lampkin Starring: Christie Burke (Lt. Garnet), Reece Ritchie (Lt. Spencer Lane), Richard Fleeshman (Lt. Brice), Stacey Michelle Read (Alicia), Ryan Adams (Angus), Pavle Jerinić (Felix), Shalini Peiris (Dr. Kabir), Christina Wolfe (Dr. Cat Brandice), Tiana Upcheva (Eva) The Ark  season 1 trailer: Wow.  I saw ads and trailers for this show before it aired, which is obviously how I knew to tune in. It looked like a fun and decent show maybe in the vein of Star Trek . But wow , I loved  it, and it was one of the shows I actively anticipated each week as it aired.  The show was definitely not in the vein of Star Trek . It was a little more like Passengers , the 2016 movie starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt, with passengers aboard a huge colonial ship experien...

The Mandalorian: Season 3

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      Based on:  S tar Wars  by George Lucas Created by: Jon Favreau Produced by:  Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, Kathleen Kennedy, Colin Wilson,  John Bartnicki Starring: Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian/Din Djarin), Katee Sackhoff (Bo-Katan Kryze), Carl Weathers (Greef Karga), Taika Waititi (IG-11), Giancarlo Esposito (Moff Gideon), Emily Swallow (the Armorer) The Mandalorian  season 3 trailer:  So who is the titular Mandalorian, Din or Bo-Katan?  In something of a welcome shift from side quest after side quest, this season the show began focusing on the race of its name--or rather, the nationality? The Creed? Regardless, it went from depicting Din going on various missions with little overall meaning or purpose to having him team up with Bo-Katan, another Mandalorian, in effort to retake their destroyed and corrupted home world. There was also a strong focus on Grogu, Din's adopted child, and an effort to learn about ...