The Equalizers

The Equalizer Season 2 Episode 21: Hand and Glove

This one is a bit of a departure. And by a bit, we mean it seems like someone switched an Equalizer script with a Scooby Doo script at the last minute and it was too late to turn back (we'll look for a corresponding Scooby Doo where a woman is being hunted by the KGB in gritty 80s Times Square). EQ and his doofus son Scott help a woman haunted by a mysterious man in black in her dreams... and maybe in real life! Is it all in her head? Is her rich family behind it or just especially negligent? Will her therapist William H Macy help her battle her own psyche? Will The Equalizer bounce around genres in the upcoming season? There's more questions than answers in this intrguing episode.

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The Equalizer Season 2 Episode 20: First Light

Ladies and gentlemen, strap yourselves in. William Zabka is back as Scott McCall aka Son of the Equalizer. And with EQ out of town, Scott is trying to do some equalizing himself, namely protecting his girlfriend Lori Laughlin (!) and her boss from a man seeking vengeance for a double cross at a WWII POW camp. And that's just the tip of the iceberg for the EQ episode: EQ and Control in DC sub-sub committee meetings; Quentin Crisp as an older Liberace-type Broadway icon turned set designer for criminal's evil whims; Monuments Men-esque Nazi art thievery; Zabka's traded a violin for a guitar; so much more. And the EQ episode itself is just the tip of the iceberg for what we consider our duty to cover in this podcast episode.

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The Equalizer Season 2 Episode 19: Coal Black Soul

There's a serial killer loose but more importantly, The Equalizer has found himself a ladyfriend. And as he'll tell you, she's quite the dish. Not only that, she's a therapist, and she can help him go all Freud 101 on that serial killer, so much so that EQ's main strategy to combat him is to psych that mother out. And does this ladyfriend feel the same for the Equalizer? Oh yes she does. And just how much younger is she? Oh really? Jesus. So is it like a silver fox piss-off-the-parents thing? Anyways, we'll get to the bottom of all that in the podcast.

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The Equalizer Season 2 Episode 18: A Place To Stay

The streets of NYC in 1987 were harsh. For a runaway teenager once you step foot in that city, you're on the fast track to a hellish existence for the rest of your short life. The only way you can survive is with the help of a retired secret agent who offers his services in classified ads, and he's a pretty busy guy. In this Very Special Episode (with a message before the end credits and everything), The Equalizer addresses these topics - runaways, the exploitation of minors, domestic abuse - with the delicacy of last episode's car bomb.

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The Equalizer Season 2 Episode 17: Solo

We get it. A lot of us aren't really in the mood to watch Kevin Spacey in anything. And if you are, it'll probably be to watch some classic 90s movie, or to hate watch K-PAX. So instead of writing about him (though he does give a top level EQ villain performance), we'll focus on the romantic sparks flying between Robert McCall and guest Lindsay Crouse, much more complex than the typical damsel in distress. Good plot, good characters. Sure it had an inevitable action scene in an abandoned warehouse, but even the warehouse was better than average, some top tier catwalks. The Equalizer came out of their epic two parter with guns (and grenades) a blazing.

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The Equalizer Season 2 Episode 16: Memories of Manon: Part 2

Second half of a two parter! We see just what the freedom of the two part format gives the show: deeper relationships, deeper drama, denser plots. At times it helps (a rift between EQ and Mickey? We're doing it). At times it brings more focus to plot points you might otherwise gloss over (wait, they're "delaying" a bomb?). We're not saying it's as epic as say Kill Bill 1 and 2. We're just saying that the next Equalizer "Manon" two parter (Memories of Manon in season three) has a lot to live up to.

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The Equalizer Season 2 Episode 15: Memories of Manon: Part 1

Folks, there's a lot to process here. We've got the first Equalizer two parter which means a big cliffhanger ending. We've got perhaps the biggest dramatic bomb drop moment for the Equalizer. And we've got Little House on the Prairie's Melissa Sue Anderson, a big deal for any Prairie-head out there, like our very own Chris Daniels. Hear how a police inspector from Quebec can take down all the Mafia on America's east coast, just how closely Anderson is tied to the show, and what the Equalizer and his gym trainer consider "psychological torture".

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The Equalizer Season 2 Episode 14: Carnal Persuasion

Oh boy, this one is doozy. It answers the question we've all had at some point: What if you put together the docks and legal angles of season two of The Wire with the movie Indecent Proposal, then crank the creepiness up to 11? You'd come out with this episode of The Equalizer. It's creepier than you might expect, with an otherwise dense plot mixed in with classic EQ far-fetched shenanigans. Top tier episode. Also we dive into the composer of the music from The Equalizer, Stewart Copeland from The Police!

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The Equalizer Season 2 Episode 13: Beyond Control

A deeper dive into the Agency than we've had in a while. The Agency gets infiltrated by a KGB! Control has to find all the copies they made before KGB gets their hands on it... and before they get their hands on him! Mickey's on the case too to break some code. Plus bombs, poison needles, a coffin factory, and some thick thick tension between Control and the Equalizer. Also we feature a new format to the show: Chris and Chuck somehow able to break down everything the Equalizer is putting out there within an hour!

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The Equalizer Season 2 Episode 12: High Performance

A female construction worker sees a murder while high up on a building construction site. No one takes her seriously except of course Robert McCall, the Equalizer. Only thing is, Equalizer's only documented fear is a fear of heights! The two of them bond (and maybe more) over their vulnerabilities and team up with Mickey to solve this mystery, a mystery which includes hit men, a bomb, hiding a body... seemingly no motive... barely any details at all, really... just enough to drive us crazy.

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