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DC Universe: Swamp Thing – 1.09 “The Anatomy Lesson”

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Yuck. Usually, when I watch a horror movie when it ever comes to the autopsy scene I usually skip unless it’s in a theater and there’s no escape for me.

This one would be no different, but dammit the extra creepy factor of Swamp Thing (Derek Mears) being alive as Woodrue (Kevin Durand) opening and looking at every organ in his body. YUCK, but also what was I going to expect with Woodrue? Him just to go soft on a captured Swamp Thing? NOPE and boy he does in most of this episode.

Abby (Crystal Reed) thinks of one of the right reasons as to how Swamp Thing was swampnapped in the last episode, and in a very nice scene with her and Liz (Marie Sten) the two begin a quest to free the captured plant elemental. Ah, but we get also get the coming hour of need that Daniel (Ian Ziering) has been stuck in Marais, and the Phantom Stranger (Macon Blair) is here to collect on that promise. But do we learn what happened to Harlan? NOPE. Like seriously this show is gonna let me buy that he was just sent on another mission by the CDC when it clearly looks like he kidnapped by Conclave. ….. We’re never gonna find out are we? ARGH!

Anyway, this episode was the crossing point for Woodrue and does he pay for this obsession with Swamp Thing. I mean it was predictable yes, but to finally see Woodrue after being introduced in episode two and we’re here at this point. Yep, he is just one more domino away from true supervillainy. I kind of hope we see it in the final episode. I dunno.

Avery (Will Patton) and Maria (Virginia Madsen) subplot comes to a head, and I’m somewhat disappointed in it. I was rooting for you Maria. Your plan was perfect, just that well Avery is just more demented and prepared than you. Plus it helps that you basically were possessed by an evil spirit for half this series. So– yeah. That so didn’t help your cause.

See that’s the problem I have with this series. If it had known it was only going to be ten episodes instead of an entire series. It would have been mighty interesting to see what other directions this show would have gone. Instead, this feels like a TV series that doesn’t know it’ll be canceled. Besides Harlan, we still have the threat of the Rot (which I guess was what caused Avery his delusions last episode or was one of many things that forged the man to be the bastard that he is today). We barely have anything other than how powerful the Conclave organization is.

On the plus side, it was nice seeing the Daniel’s subplot finally reach a point that maybe can get some finality. That and poor Matt (Henderson Cable) seems about tired of this soap opera surrounds his character and he breaks down (wait I’m siding with Matt now after all these reviews? Huh).

That, and Swamp Thing really beginning to question his origins. Is he Alec? Is he something else entirely? The episode ends on one of the things Alan Moore‘s comic book run was famous for. Will it go the same route? I guess we’ll see as after the next episode. No more Swamp Thing, which is a darn shame. You could see the possibilities of good in some of these episodes. Well, when the burden of being a serial TV show in other aspects. This episode though? It fully embraced the comics and it was one of the stronger episodes of the series for it.

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Paramount+ Reveals Official Main Title Sequence for the Upcoming Series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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During the TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES panel earlier today at San Diego Comic Con, Paramount+ revealed the official main title sequence for the series. The sequence is composed by EMMY® nominee, Matt Mahaffey, known for his work on Sanjay and Craig, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and much more. 

From the studios of the Mutant Mayhem film, the all-new Paramount+ original series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES explores the adventures of everyone’s favorite pizza-loving heroes as they emerge from the sewers onto the streets of NYC. Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey are faced with new threats and team up with old allies to survive both teenage life and villains lurking in the shadows of the Big Apple. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation and Point Grey Pictures.

TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is executive produced by Chris Yost (The Mandalorian, Thor: Ragnarok) and Alan Wan (Blue Eye Samurai, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2012 Series]). Production is overseen for Nickelodeon by Claudia Spinelli, Senior Vice President, TV Series Animation, Nickelodeon, and Nikki Price, Director of Development and Executive in Charge of Production.

In addition to the upcoming new series, stream all things Turtles on Paramount+.

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DISNEY+ CASTS DANIEL DIEMER AS FAN-FAVORITE ‘TYSON’IN SEASON TWO OF “PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS”

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 in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Rick Riordan and Disney+ revealed that Daniel Diemer (“Under the Bridge”) will star as fan-favorite cyclops “Tyson” in the epic adventure series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” Diemer joins Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase) and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) as a series regular. The Disney+ Original series from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television will start filming its second season next week in Vancouver.

Season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is based on the second installment of Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series titled “The Sea of Monsters” by award-winning author Rick Riordan. In the new season, Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon.

Diemer stars as Tyson – a young Cyclops who grew up all alone on the streets, and finds it difficult to survive in the human world.  Shy and awkward, with a heart almost as big as he is, Tyson soon discovers that Poseidon is his father, which means Percy Jackson is his half-brother… and that Tyson may have finally found a home. 

Diemer recently starred in the Hulu limited series “Under the Bridge” based off the critically acclaimed book of the same name and a tragic true story of a missing teen girl in Vancouver in 1997. He will next star in the indie “Thug” opposite Liam Neeson and Ron Perlman for director Hans Petter Moland. Daniel was recently seen as the lead in the indie “Supercell” opposite Alec Baldwin and Skeet Ulrich and the lead in the film “Little Brother” opposite Phil Ettinger and JK Simmons. Daniel can also be seen in the Netflix series “The Midnight Club” and recently starred as the male lead in the breakout hit Netflix feature “The Half Of It” from producer Anthony Bregman and director Alice Wu. He is a graduate of Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts in Vancouver.

Created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is executive produced by Steinberg and Dan Shotz alongside Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.

The first season of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is available on Disney+

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