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Five Thoughts on Titans‘s “Purple Rain”

By Michael Mazzacane | Oct 22, 2021 | Television

Titans‘ third season comes to a close, and it largely worked. After several finales and pseudo-finales “Purple Rain” manages to just be a solid season finale that sticks the landing and teases what is to come in the fourth season of this new HBOMAX original. 1. As Far As Finale’s Go I was kind of […]

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Five Thoughts on Titans‘s “Prodigal”

By Michael Mazzacane | Oct 15, 2021 | Television

This show dear readers. This *insert word here* show. As my previous thoughts demonstrate, I have not been the biggest fan of the last couple of episodes – more “The Call Is Coming from Inside the House” to be fair. “Prodigal” offers up another mixed bag that is more of the same as the previous […]

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Five Thoughts on Titans‘s “The Call is Coming from Inside the House”

By Michael Mazzacane | Oct 8, 2021 | Television

“The Call is Coming from Inside the House” sets up next weeks penultimate episode of Titans season three in an interesting place, with the Titans scattered and Crane triumphant. I just wish it got there in a cleaner and more effective fashion. Old bad habits come out in this episode as the cast is split […]

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Five Thoughts on Titans‘s “Troubled Water”

By Michael Mazzacane | Oct 1, 2021 | Television

The Titans are not on a bridge over “Troubled Water,” they’re crashing into after the titular water washed away the bridge in a slow-motion tsunami of fear. 1. Advertising the Magical System During the pre-title sequence, Crane once again goes down the road of intellectualization as a cover for his feelings of inadequacy, and to […]

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Five Thoughts on Titans‘s “Souls”

By Michael Mazzacane | Sep 24, 2021 | Television

“Souls” takes a trip to the afterlife and check in on a few characters we’ve lost over the seasons exploring such existential questions about self, the past, and future. It also puts an end to the question of does Hank Hall have terrible taste in music, because nothing says taste like driving through the after […]

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Five Thoughts on Titans‘s “Home”

By Michael Mazzacane | Sep 17, 2021 | Television

As Jason Todd started to wax poetic about wanting to just come home, I half expected him to start whistling the melody of the indie folk song of the same name. The idea of home evokes the concept of family, which is what Dick constantly says the Titans are, even if they rarely feel that […]

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Five Thoughts on Titans‘s “51%”

By Michael Mazzacane | Sep 10, 2021 | Television

The seventh episode of Titans season three is a surprising one in several ways. On a plot level it moves to shut down the threat of Scarecrow with plenty of time left in the season. It also begins to work through an ethic of vigilantisim that the show has always lacked. It isn’t easy or […]

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Five Thoughts on Titans‘s “Lady Vic”

By Michael Mazzacane | Sep 3, 2021 | Television

Titans enters the middle stretch of its third season as Lady Vic comes to town. That awkward middle phase means not a whole lot happens and yet some very important things do occur. “Lady Vic” continues the overall upwards trajectory of the show’s quality even as it exposes some structural shortcomings. 1. Messy Middle With […]

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Five Thoughts on Titans‘s “Lazarus”

By Michael Mazzacane | Aug 27, 2021 | Television

“Lazarus” was an episode that I had to sit on and revisit to really appreciate. The Bryan Edward Hill written flashback episode tracks the months leading up to Jason’s one-sided run in with the Joker. Acotr Curran Walters, Hill, and director Boris Mojsovski come together to create one of the most affective episodes of the […]

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Five Thoughts on Titans‘s “Blackfire”

By Michael Mazzacane | Aug 20, 2021 | Television

In the fallout of Hank’s death Titans appears to take another difficult step forward with “Blackfire,” which by its very title indicates a disconnect from the show’s Gotham based Red Hood drama and firmly in the personal realm of Starfire. Unlike Dawn’s work in the previous episode “Blackfire” marks the rare episode where the ‘A’ […]

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Five Thoughts on Titans‘s “Hank & Dove”

By Michael Mazzacane | Aug 18, 2021 | Television

The initial batch of three episodes of Titans comes to an explosive end with Jason proving he isn’t messing around. This chapter of the season comes to a close and positions the show to succeed in ways previous seasons have not. With a simple and effective deadline plot Titans begins to feel like a team […]

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Five Thoughts on Titans‘s “Red Hood”

By Michael Mazzacane | Aug 16, 2021 | Television

It’s more like a helmet than a hood, but talking about the man under the hood sounds cooler. The second episode of Titans season 3 starts with an homage to ‘Under the Red Hood’ and ends up going its own direction. With the Titans arriving in Gotham, they quickly learn the City will never let […]

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Five Thoughts on Titans‘s “Purple Rain”

Five Thoughts on Titans‘s “Prodigal”

Five Thoughts on Titans‘s “The Call is Coming from Inside the House”

Five Thoughts on Titans‘s “Troubled Water”

Five Thoughts on Titans‘s “Souls”

Five Thoughts on Titans‘s “Home”

Five Thoughts on Titans‘s “51%”

Five Thoughts on Titans‘s “Lady Vic”

Five Thoughts on Titans‘s “Lazarus”

Five Thoughts on Titans‘s “Blackfire”

Five Thoughts on Titans‘s “Hank & Dove”

Five Thoughts on Titans‘s “Red Hood”

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