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Titans Delivers A Sucker Punch of An Episode

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Titans continues to surprise with an episode that comes out nowhere. WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD.

When we last saw the Titans Dick had run into Rachel’s house and was the only one to get through the interdimensional barrier. But that’s not where we open. Instead the audience gets a five year time jump of a happily married Dawn and Dick living in Los Angeles with a little boy and another on the way. No real explanation is given although the occasional dimensional shift tunes the audience in that something isn’t quite right.

Instead of flashing to the present the episode plays it straight and shows us a future where Dick is happy but Batman is losing his mind. Jason Todd is in a wheelchair after a fight with The Riddler, Commissioner Gordon is dead, Barbara is dead and Bruce has no one left.

That’s enough to drive Dick to Gotham, albeit reluctantly, and viewers get their first time at how bad the city can get. Gotham without Batman is a hellhole, prostitutes are everywhere and the dead are sprawled out on the street. It can only get worse.

It’s almost impossible to talk about this episode without spoiling it. That’s not something I like to do but the steps the show takes are gutsy. Not only does it finally show Batman, though he never speaks, but it shows an unhinged Batman. Titans’ Batman makes Ben Affleck in Batman v. Superman look like an amateur.

What unfolds is very much a grounded retelling of The Dark Knight Returns in its truest form. Many have tried to homage but this one nails it. Meanwhile the audience is left wondering how any of it relates to the main story. None of that seems to matter though because it’s so enthralling you get sucked in within minutes.

Just in case that wasn’t enough to thrill you make sure you stay until the very end of the episode. There’s a post-credits tag that not only cracks the Titans universe wide open but somehow manages, yes again, to make one of the sillier parts of DC Comics look insanely cool.

Titans has this ability, I’d even go so far as to call it a want, to make aspects of the DC Comics Universe respectable again. Before the show aired no one thought Hawk and Dove were cool. Now they are some of the biggest badasses in the show. Robin, who has culturally been seen as a bit of joke until this point, has totally established himself as a fantastic character. I wouldn’t be surprised if a number of Titans cosplays started showing up at conventions from now on. It’s that good of a show.

What’s even better is we’re really just getting started with the first season. With a little over 20 episodes the series we’re watching the show get comfortable and spread its wings a bit more. It continues to surprise in the best possible way.

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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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