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NOC Recaps Arrow: Falling Behind
Apologies if you’ve been coming here the last few weeks for our Arrow recaps. I’ve been supposed to be Connie’s back-up, but I haven’t been able to muster the strength to recap a show that, honestly,...
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NOC Recaps Supergirl (and The Flash): Dawn of Sunshine and Ice Cream
When the powers that be at Warner Brothers and CBS finally acquiesced and greenlit a Supergirl/Flash crossover, I wonder if they were intentional about airing it the Monday after Batman v Superman’s...
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NOC Recaps Supergirl: Drone Strike
I have to admit, the penultimate episode of Supergirl’s first season was definitely not my favorite. I’ve been a big booster for this show, even before it premiered, but last week’s culmination of the...
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NOC Recaps The Flash: Powerless and Pouty
My name is Barry Allen, and I am the saddest man alive. The title of the episode is “Back to Normal,” but this is not the normal Barry Allen that we met on Arrow years ago. He hates buses and putting...
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NOC Recaps The Flash: Hoodlums and Holograms
“My name is Barry Allen and I am the fas– nope, not yet.” Now I know that there is a certain amount of suspended disbelief when it comes to this show, and this is one of those times when I can’t help...
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NOC Recaps The Flash: Sit, Barry, Sit
“The Runaway Dinosaur” is a children’s book that our Flash’s mom used to read to him when he was younger about a lost dinosaur. Our Barry-saur is also lost, but in a place we’ve only been in passing:...
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NOC Recaps Voltron Legendary Defender: Get In Formation
When Netflix announced a reboot of the Voltron franchise, the inner child in me jumped for joy. More, I felt an instant connection to my identity as an Asian American. You see, when I think of Voltron,...
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NOC Recaps The Flash: It’s a Wonderful Reverse Life
We’re back! I think? Barry Allen is living an alternate reality with both of his parents. He’s retained his powers, but he’s spent the last three months laying low, summoning courage to speak to Iris...
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NOC Recaps The Flash: The Do Over
“I ran back in time because Zoom and my dad and things and I got to live with my parents and it was all good but then it wasn’t so I came back but everything is different and I want everything to...
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NOC Recaps Into the Badlands: Friends All Scattered to the Winds
After more than a year off the air, AMC’s dystopian martial arts epic Into the Badlands has finally returned! And with it, so have these NOC Recaps. Speaking of which, I’m going to try to title each...
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NOC Recaps Into the Badlands: Young, Scrappy, and Hungry
AMC’s Into the Badlands might have gotten a ten-episode second season (up four episodes from season one), but there’s no slowing down narratively. Episode 2 — which is actually chapter 8, proving just...
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NOC Recaps Into the Badlands: Teach ‘Em How to Say Goodbye
In my quest to title each Into the Badlands recap after lyrics from a Hamilton song, the writers did me a solid by letting Nathaniel Moon, played by veteran actor Sherman Augustus, say a line from the...
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NOC Recaps Into the Badlands: You Don’t Have the Votes
Once again, we’vre venturing back Into the Badlands as we finally get to see the much anticipated Baron Conclave. Last week, if you recall, we saw Minerva and Waldo arrive at Ryder’s estate to take...
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NOC Recaps Into the Badlands: A Glimpse of the Other Side
Another week, another Into the Badlands recap that takes its cue from a Hamilton song. While it’s pretty obvious that I’m quoting Lin-Manuel’s soliloquy from the end of “The World Was Wide Enough” —...
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NOC Recaps Into the Badlands: A Winter’s Brawl
Despite my better judgement, I went with a Hamilton pun this week rather than straight up lyrics from the show. Couldn’t help it. The fight scene between the Abbots and Sunny’s old and new sidekicks —...
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NOC Recaps Into the Badlands: What is a Legacy?
Apologies for the delay in getting this weeks Badlands recap out1. I know how much you anticipate my weekly Hamilton references! It was probably a good thing that I didn’t watch this episode live...
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NOC Recaps Into the Badlands: Equal, Opposite Reactions
There are few nerdy pursuits that bring me a lot of pure joy anymore. Hamilton, of course, is one, and Into the Badlands is the other. And like what the homie Shawn Taylor said, sometimes it just...
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NOC Recaps Into the Badlands: Disciplined Dissidents
In a fateful example of perfect timing, the airing of Into the Badlands episode nine, titled “Nightingale Sings No More,” coincided with Mother’s Day. So how does the Badlands writing crew celebrate...
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NOC Recaps Into the Badlands: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?
So that happened. We’ve been singing the praises of Into the Badlands all season, but man, that death was disappointing. I’ll keep the spoiler about which character(s) met their ultimate demise until...
View Article‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Gemma Chan Using Her Fame for Good
In Crazy Rich Asians, the character Astrid Leong is a beautiful and kind Oxford graduate, model, fashion icon, and humanitarian. When casting for the role, director Jon M. Chu had to find someone who...
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