Legends of Tomorrow: Season 3 Premiere Review

Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.

If the season premieres of The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow shared anything in common tonight, it’s that neither did a particularly good job of paying off on their respective cliffhangers from last season.In the case of Legends, Season 2 wrapped with the team confronting the fact that they seemed to have broken time for good, resulting in a bizarro version of Los Angeles where pyramids loom and dinosaurs run amok. But as with Flash, that dramatically different status quo didn’t last long before the genie was stuffed back in the bottle. The difference, however, is that “Aruba-Con” made up for this abrupt return to normalcy with more of the zany fun that makes the series such a joy to watch in the first place.

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Call of Duty: WWII – 9 Things We Want Fixed Before Launch

Call of Duty: WWII takes the series back to the semi-modern warfare of the Second World War for the first time since 2008’s World at War, but in abandoning the franchise’s increasingly futuristic trajectory, the gameplay has had to change. Exoskeletons and nano-bot-fuelled superhuman advanced movement is gone, which decreases player escapability. An arsenal of familiar weapon categories play to their expected ranges (for the most part), instead of the lasers and other bizarre sci-fi shooters of recent titles. Amid the return to a focus on shooting trumping abilities, I have some quibbles with what I experienced in the recent multiplayer beta.

Here’s a list of nine things that developer Sledgehammer Games should consider tweaking or changing before the final release of Call of Duty: WWII on November 3.

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American Horror Story: “Mid-Western Assassin” Review

Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.

Note: Due to the horrific mass shooting in Las Vegas last week, tonight’s broadcast of American Horror Story, which featured a mass public shooting, was heavily edited for TV. The original version is available on VOD and the advance press screener that I watched was also unedited. Tonight, I saw the edited version too, and the cuts made don’t effect the overall episode score as nothing story-related was eliminated.

“Mid-Western Assassin,” with all its shocking savagery, which was not at all out of the realm of the show’s toolkit considering how one of the biggest and scariest moments back in Murder House was Tate shooting up his school, drove us deeper into Kai’s schemes to show us, truly, how the sausage was made. Meadow’s escape last week was, indeed, a ruse to further drive Ally over the edge.

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