What to watch this weekend after Avengers: Infinity War

There are so many transmission options available these days, and so many contradictory recommendations, it's hard to see all the junk you might be seeing. Every Friday, The Verge's Cut The Crap column simplifies the choice by classifying the overwhelming multitude of movies and television shows into subscription services, and recommending a single perfect thing to watch this weekend.

What to See

DC Legends of Tomorrow episode "Here I Go Again".

In episode 11 of the third season of The CW recently completed, the time-traveling heroes get stuck a cycle of time, reliving an hour of their lives that always ends with their ship exploding. Zari, the newest member of the team, is the only one who keeps his memories. He spends hours repeating trying to solve the mystery of what is happening, all while familiarizing himself with his fellow Legends: Sara Lance (a "White Canary"), the sensible leader; Ray Palmer ("The Atom"), a cheerful nerd scientist; Mick Rory ("Heat Wave"), a not so reformed super villain; Nate Heywood ("Steel"), a handsome and scared adventurer; and Amaya Jiwe ("Vixen"), a serious advocate for the needy.

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Why look now?

Because Avengers: Infinity War will take full control of cinema screens and cultural conversation this weekend. It is possible that the spectators leave the film and want an antidote for the big blows and the heavy tone of the film, or maybe make them feel hungry for a lot more superhero. Either way, Legends of Tomorrow has them covered, with a type of saga of super teams clearly different.

The creative collective of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has planned its series remarkably well, building the big launch this weekend, when a dozen of the most popular Marvel Comics characters can share the big screen for an epic battle. But on a smaller scale, producer Greg Berlanti and Warner Bros. Television have also done something quite impressive, using their shows Arrow and The Flash to populate a whole universe with some of DC Comics "Stranger and cooler superheroes and villains."

Legends of Tomorrow has given some of those characters a place to congregate for their own adventures.The first season of the show suffered from too heavy a plot and too many disputes between his band of heroes who also ran, on a mission to correct chronological anomalies.The second season added new characters and embraced the inherent insolence of the time travel stories, which resulted in something much more entertaining. madness, through episodes like "Guest Starring John Noble", in which some of the Legends try to prevent a psychic gorilla from killing a Barack Obama in university age, while others travel to the past The Lord of the Rings to enlist the Australian actor John Noble (who played Denethor) in a complicated scheme.

The "anything goes" quality of Legends is evident in the opening minutes of "Here I Go Again", "Where the team returns from a mission off the screen in white nightclubs, apparently having avoided that an 8-track ABBA lost of time convinces Napoleon not to fight in the Battle of Waterloo, that's not exactly on the epic scale of Infinity War but it's very funny.

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For who it is

Fans of comics for a long time, addicted to superheroes, and anyone who loves the extravagant science fiction / fantasy shows.

People who have never read a comic of DC can enjoy Legends but it is likely that the program will be more appealing to comic book fans who are excited to even hear the names "Gorilla Grodd" or "Jonah Hex", let alone see those characters in action, even Zari is a n deep character of DC: his superpowers derived from magic-amulet are identical to those of the 70s, the heroine of comedy and the comic Isis … although the program never uses its original name, given the inevitable associations with the group ISIS terrorist. 19659015] "Here I Go Again" is relatively low in super power action, although as part of his research, Zari manages to reduce Atom's size; and in a climactic moment, Steel changes to its armored metal form, while Vixen uses his animal totem to conjure the spirit of a charging rhinoceros. But what makes this an introduction episode so good for newcomers is that while Zari repeatedly lives the same time, she discovers more about her teammates and comes to appreciate them. A feeling Legends beginners can also experiment while watching "Here I Go Again".

Groundhog Day is an obvious influence here, which Nate recognizes, since he urges Zari to make the most of what is happening while enjoying the lack of consequences. (She finally does it, in a silly funny montage). Accredited writers of the episode, Ray Utarnachitt and Morgan Faust – along with director Ben Hernandez Bray and winning Iranian-American actress Tala Ashe – enter the Groundhog Day spirit, arriving with witty little gags, extracted from the exhaustion of Zari by repeatedly seeing the same things.

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But he's saying that when Zari asks Ray for help, his point of reference for what's happening is the episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation "Cause and Effect ". "Here I Go Again" includes some serialized elements, which air since the beginning of the season, but for the most part, it is a throwback to the heyday of the 90s genre shown as The X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer that inserted memorable independent stories in the middle of longer arcs.

Where to see it [19659020] Netflix. Although the end of Season 3 was aired just a few weeks ago, on April 9, Netflix already has 18 available episodes to broadcast, along with the previous two seasons Legends of Tomorrow . If "Here I Go Again" encourages you to watch more, feel free to skip season one completely (apart from the Western episode "The Magnificent Eight") and jump directly into the second year, when the show really starts to shoot the madman.