After last week’s reveal that Lights was going to be fighting again, I thought that he couldn’t possibly screw up his life anymore. Well, Lights Out decided that Lights can’t just coast to his fight against Death Row. Rather bribery, criminal charges, and more

LIGHTS OUT “Cakewalk” Season 1 Episode 2 – After breaking a man’s arm last week, Lights is taken in for questioning by the police in front of his family. His car is repossessed. His daughters are worried and his wife is quick to provide him with a false a more

The second episode of Lights Out maintained the show’s gradual pacing by continuing to set up characters and storylines, while even escalating a few in the process. Moreover, a Rocky -esque theme song came up during the title credits of "Cakewalk!" Althou more

LIGHTS OUT “Pilot” Season 1 Episode 1 – The show opens with a face, bruised, bloody, lumpy; it has been beaten to a pulp. The man is lying on his back on a silver table under bright lights, bright enough for a pathologist to examine this specimen. His wif more

I came into Lights Out a little caustiously last night. Most sports dramas I have watched either focus to much on the sport or to much on one main character. I thought maybe Lights Out would have followed that same procedure but instead, it punched i more

There are plenty of boxing movies that follow in the vein of the working class fighter struggling to win in both the ring and life. Raging Bull , Rocky , and The Fighter are films that most easily come to mind. However, while the trials and tribulations b more

Advance Review: Lights Out is about boxing the same way Friday Night Lights is about high school football. That is to say, their sports serve as an entryway into more challenging dramas about families in crisis. Even if you hate the barbarism of both spor more