Beacon 23 - Season 1, Episode 8 - Adamantine
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Sci-Fi
And season 1 ends... of course on a cliffhanger! This show opens with a nice action sequence, a dog fight scene of sorts that eliminates all the QSA cutters as a threat. The show goes on to build up the idea that Aster is a messiah and that she is to receive a message from the Anomaly, as prophesized by the Column. Keir greatly desires to be t...
Beacon 23, Season 1, Episode 7 - End Transmission
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Sci-Fi
I liked this episode. It picks up in action, suspense and drama. The ever present mystery of the anomaly inches closer to revealing itself and more of the questions of the Beacon and Bart are addressed as well. The episode opens with a rather traumatic scene that depicts Solomon doing a normal memory wipe of everything that has occured before. This...
Beacon 23, S.1 ep 6 - Beacon Twenty Three
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Sci-Fi
Just two more episodes left and a lot of mysteries left unsolved. Seems like most of them wont be solved this season as there is another season that has already been green-lighted. The show takes a lot of tangents and flashbacks to provide background story and this one is to some time likely 30-50 years ago. This show mostly centers on the backstor...
Doctor Who - The Giggle
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Sci-Fi
And so the 60th anniversary special ends with some fan service as several references are made to previous doctors as he takes on the Toymaker, an entity from another universe that he incarnated with his salt ritual at the edge of the Universe in the previous episode. Warning! Spoilers ahead! This episode continues from the cliffhanger of the previo...
Beacon 23, Season 1 Episode 5 - Rocky
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Sci-Fi
This is a fantastical episode that goes a little further to explain the mysteries of the rocks and the beacon. There seems to be no more exposition on the AI personalities, which I find an extremely interesting part of the show. But with only three more episodes to wrap things up, I can see the need to use what film time there remains on the story ...
Doctor Who - Wild Blue Yonder
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Sci-Fi
A terrifying episode reminiscent of Midnight and Blink. I am so happy with these new episodes of Doctor Who episodes and so happy at how clever the storytelling. I should not have been scared but I was a little, watching this episode. It was delightful. Warning! This contains spoilers! Onboard a spaceship at the edge of the universe. the doctor and...
The Den at Azabu
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Miami Restaurants
Located in the Marriott Stanton hotel in Miami Beach, Azabu has a restaurant nestled away in the back called The Den which is an amazing omikase experience. Headed by Chef Atsushi Okawara, this restaurant has fish flown in from Japan at least twice a week and provides Tokyo style Omikase and has another location in New York City with its own michel...
Beacon 23, Season 1 Episode 4 - God In the Machine
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Sci-Fi
We are at the midpoint of the season! And the show takes a turn away from our main protagonists to focus on the beacon's history and to do what I had hoped would happen, give us a glimpse into the AI's. The show starts with a flashback to 180 years earlier where a shadowy man with two briefcases docks at the beacon. It turns out to be Milan Al...
Doctor Who - The Star Beast
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Sci-Fi
Warning! This contains spoilers! David Tennant and Russell T. Davies is back! And after enduring a Hollywood actor, screenwriter's and director's strike. The TV industry in England is unaffected, but the timing could not be any better as this episode is oddly familiar as it was it was extremely refreshing. In some ways I feel like I've grown a lot ...
El Cielo in Miami
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Miami Restaurants
One of four locations (others are Medellin, Bogota, Washington DC, Chef Juan Manuel Barrientos seeks to explore all the sense in his tasting menu.  His restaurant is a very refined and nice look at Columbian cuisine for the uninitiated (myself) and his creative presentations are well appreciated. The restaurant is located in the heart of ...