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Bond is so stuffy. TNT’s Agent X is our guy.

November 6, 2015 Barb Oates

There’s a lot to love about TV’s new Agent X. He’s smart, loyal, handsome, resilient and a little bit sloppy, but that’s his appeal. He’s not the stuffy Bond type. Much of that can be attributed to the charisma of the man playing Agent X, Jeff Hephner, whose Midwest charm and kick-butt wit definitely show through. TNT’s action/drama series debuts Sunday, Nov. 9 at 9pmET. “[The show] doesn’t take itself too seriously because, God knows, I don’t,” Hephner says. “I’m from Michigan and I’m playing this guy as if he’s from Michigan, and there’s a low-key-ness that I relate to […]

#TCA15: Meet Emily Beecham, The Widow of AMC’s “Into the Badlands”

July 31, 2015 Ryan Berenz

AMC’s upcoming drama series Into the Badlands (premiering Nov. 15) is a genre-bending martial arts, sci-fi action odyssey about a distant future in which the only inhabitable lands are in the former American Midwest, and they’re governed by seven feudal Barons who control vital resources. In the series, Emily Beecham plays The Widow (it’s not just a scary name!), one of the Barons of the Badlands. She controls the oil, and her ambitions disrupt the tenuous peace among the Barons. The Widow has the look of a Steampunk Southern belle with a twist of The Matrix warrior/dominatrix and two deadly daggers as her weapons of choice. “My character […]

Daredevil Season 2 coming to Netflix in 2016

April 22, 2015 Jeff Pfeiffer

NOTE: THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS ABOUT SEASON 1 OF “MARVEL’S DAREDEVIL” Last night, just as I was completing my enjoyable viewing of the first season of Marvel’s Daredevil on Netflix, I learned the equally exciting news that the series has been renewed for a second season. Daredevil Season 2 will premiere on Netflix in 2016. The return will come with some notable changes, as Doug Petrie (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, American Horror Story) and Marco Ramirez (Sons of Anarchy) will serve as show runners. According to Netflix, the two “worked closely with Steven DeKnight and Drew Goddard.” DeKnight was show runner for Season 1, and Goddard created the series, […]

“Daredevil” an effectively dark entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

April 10, 2015 Jeff Pfeiffer

Sure, colorfully outfitted superheroes soaring to great heights, wielding magic hammers, wearing iron suits and engaging in fisticuffs of the innocuous, blood-free comic-book sort are great fun to see on the big screen, hence the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and its box-office blockbusters like The Avengers, Captain America, et al. But once in a while, as comics fans know, it’s also fascinating to get down to street level, and all the grittiness and life-or-death battles down there. Covering those more (sometimes brutally) real adventures is the goal of a batch of Marvel Netflix series based on those more down-and-dirty heroes, the […]

Allegiance: NBC’s Slick Spy Thriller

February 5, 2015 Kellie Freeze

Wiretaps, car chases, clandestine meetings and brutal Cold War-era assassinations — and that’s just the first episode. NBC’s twisty spy thriller Allegiance pulls viewers into the world of America’s fight against espionage and one family who is embroiled in the fight from both sides. Alex O’Connor (Gavin Stenhouse), a rookie CIA analyst specializing in Russian affairs, learns that his parents (flawlessly played by Scott Cohen and Hope Davis) are former covert Russian spies reenlisted by the Kremlin to plan a terrorist operation inside the United States. Now he has to decide where his loyalties lie — to his family, or his […]

Netflix releases teaser trailer for “Marvel’s Daredevil”

February 4, 2015 Jeff Pfeiffer

It’s becoming a golden age for superheroes not only on the big screen — with Marvel’s cinematic universe doing gangbusters at the box office in recent years, including this year’s Avengers: Age of Ultron poised to explode, and DC looking to emulate that starting next year with Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice — but also on the small screen, with hits like The Flash and Arrow on The CW, and CBS’ upcoming Supergirl. Netflix is also getting into the superhero game beginning with the original series Marvel’s Daredevil, with 13 one-hour episodes premiering on April 10 at 12:01am PT (in all territories where Netflix is available), streaming in 4K. Netflix released the teaser […]

Interview with “Allegiance” Star, Gavin Stenhouse

February 2, 2015 Kellie Freeze

Imagine that you’re new on the job, and in your first big assignment, you uncover a huge spy ring, and lear that your parents are part of it. Welcome to the world of CIA analyst, Alex O’Connor. I chatted with actor Gavin Stenhouse about his role in NBC’s exciting new thriller, Allegiance, and the charming Brit was excited to share lots of details about the show’s exciting first season. The pulse-pounding action premieres Feb. 5, and follow’s NBC’s The Black List on Thursday nights at 10pm ET/PT. Gavin, tell me about Allegiance… The show is a spy thriller with an […]

“Game of Thrones” to be featured in IMAX (updated)

January 6, 2015 Jeff Pfeiffer

Given its epic scope and colorful, fantasy-world backdrop, it probably makes sense that HBO’s hit Game of Thrones is becoming the first TV series to be showcased in IMAX. Starting Jan. 23, and running for one week only, through Jan. 29, Jan. 29, two episodes from Season 4 of Game of Thrones, followed by the worldwide debut of a sneak-peek Season 5 trailer exclusively created for IMAX, will air in nearly 150 IMAX theaters across the country’s top markets (click here for screening info, and to buy tickets). The IMAX release of Game of Thrones will be digitally re-mastered into the image and sound […]

“The Flash” recap: Things get explosive in “Plastique”

November 12, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer

I’m not sure if The CW purposely scheduled the “Plastique” episode of The Flash to air on Veterans Day or not, but either way, it was timely, in that its main story dealt with the mistreatment of a military veteran who ends up as a metahuman capable of blowing things up merely by touching them. Her backstory touches on the way she has been used in the past, and in her current story she is pursued by the military to be used again, this time as a new weapon. Also in the episode, Barry (Grant Gustin) and Iris (Candice Patton) […]

The Flash recap: Captain Cold is introduced in “Going Rogue”

October 29, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer

In last night’s episode of The Flash, titled “Going Rogue,” we finally get to see one of the “big bads” of the Flash mythos — Captain Cold (a.k.a. Leonard Snart), played very well by Wentworth Miller. Miller displayed the cool-under-pressure sinisterness of Captain Cold that fans of the villain’s appearance in comics and in animated versions should appreciate. The episode title is also likely a sly reference to The Rogues, a group of villains in the comics headed by Captain Cold who regularly tried to stop The Flash. The end of this episode also saw Captain Cold trying to recruit […]