SERIES PREMIERE: Cobie Smulders, who has successfully negotiated both the silly romantic comedy of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother and the action-movie requirements of the Marvel Avengers franchise, stars in this new drama series. It’s based on a graphic novel, and set in Portland, and presents Smulders as Dex, a war veteran with a past, a drinking problem, and some apparent PTSD – like an ABC version of Netflix’s Marvel heroine from another illustrated inspiration, Jessica Jones, which presented Krysten Ritter as a similarly rough-and-tumble protagonist. Watch Stumpland for the leading lady, and see if that’s enough for you. For full reviews, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower and Ed Bark's Uncle Barky's Bytes.

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