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Summary As Denny and Russell work to stave off a greedy memorabilia collector, Bee and his Team chase a collector of their own – a Decepticon with an impulsive urge to hoard all things “shiny.”. Our Take A lightweight filler…

Summary Sideswipe’s loyalty to the team comes into question as he and Bumblebee track down a Cybertronian crime boss. Our Take A middling bottle episode that leans hard on Sideswipe’s hothead routine without giving him much new to do. The…

Summary Beleaguered Bumblebee must learn to lead in his own way as the Team struggles to bring in a brutish Decepticon whose stasis pod has been discovered by human authorities. Our Take A middling episode that leans on a fairly…

Our Take This is a fairly standard bounty-of-the-week episode that leans on kid-friendly humor rather than any real stakes. The action moves along fine and there are a couple of decent character moments for Bumblebee as he settles into the…

Our Take A lightweight bottle episode that pairs up the team and lets personality conflicts do the heavy lifting. The banter between Grimlock and Sideswipe is genuinely fun, even if the plot around them is thin and the villain barely…

Our Take The second half of the opener settles into a groove, letting Bumblebee’s new team stumble through their first real fight, and the humor mostly lands even if the stakes feel pretty low for a series premiere. The action…

Our Take A decent enough kickoff that mostly exists to set up the status quo, with Bumblebee settling into his leadership role while the show settles into its kid-friendly tone. The action is fine and the new Decepticon-of-the-week format is…

Our Take Middle of the road. Watchable, but you’ll forget the details by next episode.

Our Take The middle hour of the miniseries is basically one long arms race, with half of Cybertron suddenly gaining Headmasters and Targetmasters whether the story has room for them or not. It’s fun in a Saturday morning sugar-rush way,…

Our Take The Rebirth crams what feels like an entire season’s worth of setup into twenty minutes, and it shows. New characters like the Headmasters and Targetmasters get introduced so fast you barely learn anyone’s name before the next batch…