All posts tagged: lacks

Why Jessica Jones’s return in Daredevil: Born Again’s lacks punch

Why Jessica Jones’s return in Daredevil: Born Again’s lacks punch

Published by Daniella Wilson

Daredevil: Born Again season 2 kept fans waiting weeks to see Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) return to the MCU, but the reveal in this week’s sixth episode simply doesn’t live up to its full potential. Showrunner Dario Scardapane told Radio Times in March that the Disney+ drama needed to get to “a certain part” of its story for the long-absent character’s inclusion to “make perfect sense”. That point was reached, apparently, with last week’s death of Vanessa Fisk (Ayelet Zurer), which left her Kingpin-turned-Mayor husband Wilson (Vincent D’Onofrio) more unstable than ever before – and that’s saying something. In this manic state, Mayor Fisk sends members of his Anti-Vigilante Task Force (AVTF) to Jessica’s suburban home, where she lives with her daughter Danielle and, presumably, super-powered love interest Luke Cage (Mike Colter, as-yet-unseen). The initial reveal is charming enough, showing comical takedowns of the crooked squad in the periphery of Danielle’s vision, who is much too distracted to take notice. But it also, quite frankly, comes out of nowhere. Want to see this content? This …

Trump’s War Lacks a Marketing Plan

Trump’s War Lacks a Marketing Plan

Published by Daniella Wilson

A year ago yesterday, President Trump turned the White House lawn into a Tesla showroom to try to boost the slumping sales of his then-pal Elon Musk’s electric-car company. A few months ago, Trump declared from behind the Resolute Desk that he was Boeing’s “salesman of the year,” claiming to have helped facilitate the purchase of hundreds of aircraft. And long before he entered politics, Trump slapped his name on just about anything—apartment buildings, steaks, even a dubious for-profit university—to market it to the masses. Trump will sell anything. He has now made one of the most consequential decisions of his presidency: launching a war against Iran. The conflict, which is well into its second week, has widened throughout the Middle East, sent oil prices skyrocketing, and caused tumult in the financial markets. Yet Trump has not sold the war. In many ways, he hasn’t even tried. The absence of a sales strategy is all the more confounding when you consider the political stakes. The upcoming midterm elections were supposed to be about the economy. …

‘Vanished’ review: Kaley Cuoco’s France-set thriller lacks spark

‘Vanished’ review: Kaley Cuoco’s France-set thriller lacks spark

Published by Sam Flores

In “Vanished,” premiering Friday on MGM+, Kaley Cuoco plays Alice, an archaeologist, a fact she repeats whenever she’s asked about herself, without particularly seeming like one, apart from passing mentions of Byzantine caves and “one of the earliest examples of Christian worship” to make her sound professional. Sam Claflin plays Tom, who works for a charity organization dealing with Syrian refugees in Jordan; in a flashback we get to see them meet cute on a dusty Jordanian road, where he has a flat tire and no spare. Alice gives him a lift to camp; they banter and flirt after a fashion. He does something heroic within her sight. They have been long-distance dating for four years, meeting up, as Alice describes it, “in hotels all over the world” where they “actually want to have sex with each other all the time.” Currently they are in Paris (in a $500-a-night joint — I looked it up). But Alice, now working in Albania, has been offered a job as an assistant professor of archaeology at Princeton, which …