![]() The episode features guest appearances by comedians Chris Higgins, Jarrell Barnes and Abi Sanchez, and treks to the Curaleaf Dispensary and Chicago's WDNR Museum, 1130 W. Sunday, May 8, on the Vice cable network, with the first of many encores at 11:30 p.m. "Tumbleweeds With Killer Mike," in which the rapper and activist tours the country's marijuana dispensaries and the cities they call home, comes to Chicago in an episode that premieres at 10 a.m. What has that meant for the Chicago area's "cannabis culture"? The last episode of a four-part documentary will find out this weekend. The legalization of recreational cannabis has certainly been a boon for Illinois' economy, with sales growing close to $2 billion - and tax collections of $563 million - as of December, according to a Sun-Times story that appeared in the Daily Herald. Rapper and host Killer Mike chats with comedian Taneshia "Just Nesh" Rice at Chicago's WDNR Museum on the fourth episode of "Tumbleweeds With Killer Mike." What sinks this most promising show is the writing, alternately overdoing and underexplaining. "Moon Knight" isn't even bogged down by Marvel's usual roll-call of cameos, Easter eggs and "Avengers" callbacks. (Check out the main title theme and "Constellation," the whirling choral track that accompanies "Moon Knight's" most visually striking scene in which Steven and Khonshu spin all the stars in the sky like a globe.) The inventive musical score by Hesham Nazih, an Egyptian composer making his Hollywood debut, will be in heavy rotation on my Spotify account. Director Mohamed Diab and the visual effects team deliver an action-packed finale. The confusion is particularly galling given the great work everyone else is doing, starting with Isaac. The story's rules for Khonshu and the other Egyptian gods that figure into the story seem to change scene by scene. There are multiple detours into an apparent purgatory represented by a psych ward, where the villain is inexplicably a therapist. ![]() Scenes are omitted during Steven's blackouts. This story about a man's psyche being fractured by himself, the god who possesses him, and the death-cult leader (Ethan Hawke) who used to be possessed by that god is told in a fractured narrative. Head writer Jeremy Slater ("The Umbrella Academy") asks so much of Isaac and, frankly, too much of the audience. ![]()
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