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'The Cape' Season 1, Episode 9 Recap
- ['The Cape' - 'Razer'] I come not here to bury 'The Cape,' though by all accounts what we saw tonight was the last episode of the series that will ever air. What star...
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'The Cape' Season 1, Episode 8 Recap
- ['The Cape' - 'The Lich, Part 2'] At this point, 'The Cape' has gone so far over the top that its weird storytelling almost works. Emphasis on "almost," but since the...
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Talking 'Walking Dead' and 'The Cape' With 'Battlestar Galactica' Composer Bear McCreary (VIDEO)
- The current "Golden Age" of television has been accompanied by some terrific music. It's impossible to imagine 'Lost' without Michael Giacchino's distinctive score, o...
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'The Cape' Season 1, Episode 7 Recap
- ['The Cape' - 'The Lich, Part 1'] OK, now that's more like it. 'The Cape' hasn't exactly been Emmy-caliber in its early goings, but 'The Lich, Part 1' was the stronge...
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'The Cape' Season 1, Episode 5 Recap
- ['The Cape' - 'Dice'] When 'The Cape' began, it had quite a bit of promise. Sure, it was tightroping the line between cheese and earnest action, but it managed to sta...
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'The Cape' Season 1, Episode 4 Recap
- ['The Cape' - 'Scales'] Trains work as well as courtrooms in terms of setting the scene for a drama. In both cases, the people inside have an awfully hard time leavin...
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James Frain and Vinnie Jones Talk Slugging It Out for Top Villain on 'The Cape'
- On 'The Cape,' James Frain (the late, lamented Franklin on 'True Blood') plays an evil businessman who's also a masked supervillain named Chess. But if Vinnie Jones, who...
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'The Cape' Season 1, Episode 3 Recap
- ['The Cape' - 'Kozmo'] Comic books almost always have origin stories. And if the pilot episode of 'The Cape' featured the origin story for Vince Faraday's transformat...
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'The Cape' Season 1, Episodes 1 and 2 (Series Premiere) Recaps
- ['The Cape' - 'Pilot'] ['The Cape' - 'Tarot'] Early in the pilot episode of 'The Cape,' our titular hero (played by David Lyons) wakes up inside a creepy carnival. H...
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'The Cape' Swoops in With a Lively Superhero Story
- When the two-hour pilot for an NBC superhero drama arrived, I cringed and put the advance DVD at the bottom of the pile of mid-season shows. Can you blame me? Given N...
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Vince Faraday is an honest cop on a corrupt police force. Framed for a series of murders, Faraday must leave his wife and son to go into hiding. Driven by his desire to reunite with his family and fight the criminals who have overtaken Palm City, Faraday decides to become his son's favorite comic book superhero, The Cape, after being trained by the ringleader of a circus gang of bank robbers.

![['The Cape' - 'Razer']
I come not here to bury 'The Cape,' though by all accounts what we saw tonight was the last episode of the series that will ever air. What star...](http://o.aolcdn.com/dims/TELE/5/180/101/75/http://www.blogcdn.com/www.aoltv.com/media/2011/02/3e07929ae5738021d2a5a4f6e8b0cd33.jpg)
![['The Cape' - 'The Lich, Part 2']
At this point, 'The Cape' has gone so far over the top that its weird storytelling almost works. Emphasis on](http://o.aolcdn.com/dims/TELE/5/180/101/75/http://www.blogcdn.com/www.aoltv.com/media/2011/02/the-cape-nbc-17-550x366-1298346913.jpg)

![['The Cape' - 'The Lich, Part 1']
OK, now that's more like it. 'The Cape' hasn't exactly been Emmy-caliber in its early goings, but 'The Lich, Part 1' was the stronge...](http://o.aolcdn.com/dims/TELE/5/180/101/75/http://www.blogcdn.com/www.aoltv.com/media/2011/02/the-cape-550x412.jpg)
![['The Cape' - 'Dice']
When 'The Cape' began, it had quite a bit of promise. Sure, it was tightroping the line between cheese and earnest action, but it managed to sta...](http://o.aolcdn.com/dims/TELE/5/180/101/75/http://www.blogcdn.com/www.aoltv.com/media/2011/01/the-cape-nbc-mena-suvari-di.jpg)
![['The Cape' - 'Scales']
Trains work as well as courtrooms in terms of setting the scene for a drama. In both cases, the people inside have an awfully hard time leavin...](http://o.aolcdn.com/dims/TELE/5/180/101/75/http://www.blogcdn.com/www.aoltv.com/media/2011/01/nup1426750192www.jpg)

![['The Cape' - 'Kozmo']
Comic books almost always have origin stories. And if the pilot episode of 'The Cape' featured the origin story for Vince Faraday's transformat...](http://o.aolcdn.com/dims/TELE/5/180/101/75/http://www.blogcdn.com/www.aoltv.com/media/2011/01/the-cape-kozmo-9-550x364.jpg)
![['The Cape' - 'Pilot']
['The Cape' - 'Tarot']
Early in the pilot episode of 'The Cape,' our titular hero (played by David Lyons) wakes up inside a creepy carnival. H...](http://o.aolcdn.com/dims/TELE/5/180/101/75/http://www.blogcdn.com/www.aoltv.com/media/2011/01/the-cape-nbc-17-550x366.jpg)
