NOC Recaps Game of Thrones: Dicks and Stones
Last week on Game of Thrones, most of the attention was focused on underground extremist movements in various parts of the realm. This week’s episode, “Kill the Boy,” turns the lens again towards those...
View ArticleNOC Recaps The Flash: This Sh*t is Bananas
“Grodd Lives” is like that old school video game level before the Big Boss that you may die a couple times trying to beat, so you just turn off the game and restart the battle until you are successful....
View ArticleNOC Recaps Daredevil: Say Hello to My Little Friend
The Russian that we love to hate ends up taking one for team Murdock in “Condemned.” We get our first Fisk/Murdock confrontation (via walkie talkie), get to see Urich working the case, and in my...
View ArticleNOC Recaps The Flash: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies?
If last week’s “Rogue Air” is anything to go by, tonight’s episode will be a beautifully worked and satisfying finale leaving us with lots to look forward to in the second season. Before I recap the...
View ArticleNOC Recaps The Flash: No Fate But What We Make
It is time to bust out my time-travel movie reference arsenal, because things are about to get heavy, Doc. Yes, this recap title is a Terminator quote, and dammit does it apply. I am about to recap the...
View ArticleNOC Recaps Arrow: City’s Under Attack, Must be May
Before getting into it, I just wanted to thank all of you readers for joining me in my recaps this season. I’ve been having so much fun writing these (even when I take a week to do it) and the...
View ArticleNOC Recaps Daredevil: Papa Don’t Preach
At this point, the similarities between Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk both wanting to make their city a better place have been repeated a few times. Yep, they’re two sides of the same coin; we get it....
View ArticleNOC Recaps Daredevil: The Trial of the Incredible Matthew Murdock
Yes, the boys are fighting and Foggy Bear attacks like a… bear. It’s Foggy’s turn to learn about Matt’s powers and the first part of “Nelson v. Murdock” basically repeats previous scenes and flashbacks...
View ArticleNOC Recaps Daredevil: Saw Blades & Tender Villains
Four of our favorites are paired up once more and give us some outstanding on-screen chemistry. Claire’s patches up Matt again, even if it’s for a brief moment. While Vanessa is in recovery, Fisk and...
View ArticleNOC Recaps Daredevil: None Shall Sleep
What a groundbreaking ride this has been. I am so thrilled that this character and his world that connected with me as kid has finally fallen into the right hands and ended up not just revolutionizing...
View ArticleNOC Recaps Vixen: The Animated Microseries
Watch the episode here. I was probably more excited than most when it was announced that DC Comics’ Vixen would be animated for the small screen. Vixen is one of my all-time favorite characters and if...
View ArticleNOC Recaps The Flash: Rebuild It and They Will Come
I bet you didn’t think that our second season would include Barry Allen ditching Team Flash to become a mysterious midnight contractor, Cisco becoming a semi-cop, Harrison Wells making things right,...
View ArticleNOC Recaps Arrow: Green Means Go
UPDATED OCTOBER 9, 2015 This is definitely my favorite time of year. Autumn is in the air, and superheroes are back on my television. PS, you might be disappointed that the byline for this recap...
View ArticleNOC Recaps The Flash: Getting Goosies from Earth-Two(sies)
“I opened up our world to new threats, and I am the only one fast enough to stop them.” You sure about that, Barry? Barry spends the episode denying the existence of another speedster due to some...
View ArticleNOC Recaps The Flash: Daddy Coldest
I always look forward to an episode featuring Wentworth Miller as Leonard Snart aka Captain Cold. The Flash’s encounters with Cold always end up with the two of them in a romantic-ish telenovela scene...
View ArticleNOC Recaps Arrow: Lazarus Flush
Going into the 2015-16 television season, there were questions about how Legends of Tomorrow was going to fit in to the timelines established by Flash and Arrow. Little did we know that the first few...
View ArticleNOC Recaps Supergirl: This Show Flies Up, Up, and Away
It feels like we’ve been riding the Supergirl hype train for more than a year now. Now that the show has finally arrived — behind a massive marketing campaign that made it the most watched new show of...
View ArticleNOC Recaps The Flash: We Didn’t Start the Firestorm
Is it just me, or have the early episodes of both Arrow and Flash felt more like prologues for Legends of Tomorrow than independent, standalone series? Perhaps this is the one drawback of such a...
View ArticleNOC Recaps Arrow: The Room Where it Happens
This week’s episode of Arrow was really great — it’s probably the first time ever that I’ve enjoyed Arrow more than The Flash since 1.) Last season of Arrow was ROUGH, and 2.) This week’s episode of...
View ArticleNOC Recaps Supergirl: Strength in Numbers
After a strong debut last week, the second episode of Supergirl’s inaugural season took a bit of a ratings hit, losing 30% of the audience that tuned in for the premiere. And that’s too bad because...
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