Welcome back to Boomb Tube! Here, we will be catching you up on the week in comics TV, both through micro-reviews, as well as links to our full-length TV reviews. We also tend to review series that are dropped all at once weekly so there are a few ‘older’ shows mixed in for good measure. Are we missing your favorite show? Let us know in the comments!
Bodies – “All in Good Time” (E3, Netflix)
Hillinghead takes center stage in 1890 here, as he discovers the man in Ashe’s photograph is a wealthy war hero/impostor named Sir Julian Harker, also played by Stephen Graham. Harker invites him to a seance held by his mother to help prove his innocence, and Hillinghead agrees; Ashe sweetly wishes him good luck outwitting the obvious trap. Hillinghead asks to commune with Defoe’s spirit, and actually winds up learning his name. However, despite only sipping the decanter Harker offered, he falls into a daze and collapses, allowing the evil mastermind to have him placed into position for a compromising photo. Hillinghead wakes up in a graveyard, and staggers back to Ashe’s place instead of his home, where he finally gives into his feelings for him.
In 2023, Elias breaks into Hasan’s home to tell her he’s being framed. At the police station though, he decides to confess to everything, claiming he was lying about his innocence. Unconvinced, Hasan reminds Elias he can have another lawyer instead of the one his foster parents hired, an offer he accepts. Using her experience as a mother and someone who lived with similarly troubled kids, she persuades Elias to reveal the Morleys said he would detonate a bomb, that would kill hundreds of thousands, and that she would make him do it. Barber, the lazy chief inspector, ignores his claims, and orders the case be closed while Andrew Morley walks free, prompting a fully justified but embarrassing outburst from Hasan. After seeing Elias leave in a police van, she returns to Longharvest Lane, and discovers Hillinghead scratched his name, as well as the shape of Defoe’s wrist tattoo, into the bricks.
Over in 2053, Maplewood brings Defoe to his future self, who dies on the operating table, much to his shock and disbelief. Maplewood returns home, still none the wiser about the nature of his doppelganger, to find Mannix waiting for a report: he informs her the double was Defoe two days from the future, and that Chapel Perilous is potentially armed with time travel. (To be honest though, it doesn’t seem like they’re the ones weaponizing it mate.) In 1940, Whiteman is ordered to kill Esther Jankovsky, the 11-year old Jewish orphan blackmailing him over Defoe’s body. In a horrifying scene, he appears to go through with it, only for it to be revealed he’s not so pathetic after all, and actually took her back to his apartment to hide her until they can figure out what is going on. Whiteman severs ties with his underworld contact over the supposed act, but is well aware they could still be tailing him. – Christopher Chiu-Tabet
Gen V – “Welcome to the Monster Club” (S1E5, Amazon Prime)
Have you ever gone to a huge party and blacked out so much you have no memory of it? Well, that happened to the crew on episode five of Gen V , or at least that’s what they initially thought. Jordan and Marie wake up in bed with each other, and the same goes for Andre and Cate. Emma is alone but still giant and naked, sleeping it off in the pool. It seems like a general time skip for the audience, except after Sam finds Marie and Emma in the aftermath and tries to thank them for calming him down in their previous encounter. The twist is that they have no memory of him, and Andre has no memory of why he missed his televised national interview. It wasn’t just an alcohol-induced blackout for everyone; no, their minds got wiped, and Rufus was the only person who could do it. A creepy psychic tried to sexually assault Marie in the last episode when she needed help finding Emma. Rufus manages to evade Jordan and Marie by running around campus and even Andre when he gets confronted in his room.
Continued belowWhile everyone is chasing him, Emma finds a shirt from the abandoned drive-in she and Sam had hidden in after escaping The Woods, and she goes there looking for him, thinking he might be telling the truth about knowing her from before. Sam is relieved once again to see her and more so that she was willing to go out on a limb to try and find him; he also tells her it was Cate that wiped everyone’s mind, and she used to do it to Luke (AKA Golden Boy) all the time to try and get him to forget about Sam. Rufus ends up getting found by Marie and Jordan while he’s doing drugs with another side character; Marie pieces it together after she finds a tracker inside of her and realizes her mind got wiped again after talking to Cate and then bumping into Jordan. Andre comes in ready to take off Rufus’ head when they stop him to give him the hard truth that Cate’s been behind it all along. Without denying it and claiming she was trying to “help out,” she returns everyone’s memories. – Alexander Manzo
Loki – “1893” (S2E3, Disney+)
In case you missed it, read our full review of by Robbie Pleasant.
Loki – “Heart of the TVA” (S2E4, Disney+)
Tune in later today to read our full review by Robbie Pleasant.
One Piece – “Worst in the East” (S1E8, Netflix)
Read our full review of the season finale by Robbie Pleasant.
Pluto – “Episode 1” (E1, Netflix)
Read our full review of the mini-series premiere by Elias Rosner.
Quantum Leap – “The Lonely Hearts Club” (S2E4, NBC)
This is the first episode of the season – series? – where there’s been a big name guest star in Animal House‘s Tim Matheson. He plays a washed up actor and does so with aplomb. Like many of the episodes of the show, it tends to dovetail a little too nicely with what is happening in Ben’s life at the moment. That said, this episode pushed the plot forward for the season’s story by removing Addison, at least for the time being, as Ben’s hologram. It’s a good decision for the show both for the viewer and for Ben.
And while the main story was fun, Tom, Addison’s new boyfriend, had the most interesting piece of the show. He proposes to Magic that “sacrifice is the engine of change” when it comes to leaping, and that is why Sam and Ben can’t get home. This sort of dovetails with the idea proposed in the series finale of the original show, which says that Sam never got home, because there was always more to do. I like that the show referenced Sam, I like this theory, and I like how this is the presumption. It doesn’t make it fact, it just makes it the prevailing theory. That’s what the show needs right now. – Brian Salvatore
Star Trek: Lower Decks – “The Inner Fight” (S4E9, Paramount+)
Read our full review by Joe Skonce.
