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Reaper: A New Hope (season premiere)
by Debra McDuffee, posted Mar 3rd 2009 10:05PM
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(S02E01) "Shut your mouth, that's my sister! I have dibs." -- Sock, to Ben who referred to Sock's stepsister as "smokin' hot"Reaper's back, and our resident lovable losers are in full form: homeless (evicted from their apartment), jobless (though they get them back with a little blackmail), Sam's in the doghouse with Andi, and it's just another devilish day at The Work Bench.
That all may add up to a typical episode of Reaper for you, but they've taken a couple of steps to bring this show to the next level, as well as bringing us everything we loved so much about the first season.
It was hard to tell where they were going to go with the back story, but for now, it looks like Sam is the Devil's son and he still wants out of his contract. Enter Alan, played by Sean Patrick Thomas, who seemingly has succeeded in just that. Sam cannot send him back to Hell; therefore, he assumes he's gotten out of his deal with the Devil. It looks as though Sam and Andi are making it a mission to find this guy and get his secret, so that Sam can do the same thing. Hopefully, this plot device will keep Andi in the loop without being just a source of argument for Sam. That grew tiresome in season one.
And congratulations, Sock -- you've got a baby sister! A very hot baby sister... Played by Eriko Tamura, the guys all end up moving into Sock's house with her. So far, it's hilarious, giving us tidbits like the tickle fight. Let's hope they keep this up -- no confessing your love for her, Sock; let us just laugh at you please.
So that's the new stuff. The old stuff? Sam gets a job from the Devil, to send 20... no 40... Fight Club-like souls back to Hell -- with a cattle prod that needs recharging between zaps. The guys plan for this in the best way possible -- they get drunk. Their biggest soul-eradicating challenge yet to date, and they plan for it by drinking, gorging on pizza and playing strip poker (um, with no chicks? Talk about a bromance....).
The premiere did a nice job setting up the new season. We know we'll be getting plenty of what we love about Reaper, but with two new characters to spice things up a bit and hopefully take us deeper into the humor, but also into Sam's back story.
Other things worth mentioning:
- Blackmailing Ted to get their jobs back ... funny stuff.
- Sam tries to summon the Devil, but when he showed up and Sam thinks that it worked, the Devil says, "Not so much sport, I just wanted to tell you that your pentagram is actually a star of David. Mazel tov!"
- The Devil tells Sam he looks like a fairy princess with the cattle prod, but they don't let that joke die. Later, to the tune of "The Sugar Plum Fairy," Sam gets lowered down to the souls' lair Mission Impossible-style, cattle prod in hand. A riot.
- Sam gets the souls by soaking them down and touching the cattle prod to the puddle. Somehow Sam always pulls it out of his butt last minute.
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