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Lights Out

2011

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EP1 Pilot Jan 11, 2011

Former heavyweight boxing champion Patrick "Lights" Leary struggles to find his identity after retiring from the sport. He also wonders how he is going to support his medical resident wife Theresa, and their three daughters. The series premiere begins five years after Leary's retirement following a controversial split-decision loss to Richard "Death Row" Reynolds. The Learys' once charmed life is on shaky ground; the IRS is determined to take away their mansion, and Patrick's brother/manager Johnny wants him to make a comeback, despite him showing signs of pugilistic dementia.
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EP2 Cakewalk Jan 18, 2011

When Leary is threatened with criminal charges, he must do the bidding of bookmaker Hal Brennan to make them go away. Lights is also being coy with his suspicious wife Theresa, and Mike Fumosa, a pesky reporter—both having heard rumors that he will return to the ring to fight Reynolds. Meanwhile, his daughter Daniella finds out about her father's diagnosis and confronts him.
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EP3 The Shot Jan 25, 2011

Lights struggles to help train his father's young fighter, Omar "The Armenian Avenger" Assarian for the middleweight championship against Monte "The Hurricane" Harris. Omar may be the best hope for Leary Gym of becoming a champion since Lights retired. However, promoter Barry K. Word is only interested in getting Omar into the fight if Johnny agrees to a deal involving Lights' return. Meanwhile, Patrick's family makes him a memory book for his 40th birthday and he spends the rest of the night watching the outcome of the fight.
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EP4 Bolo Punch Feb 01, 2011

Johnny gets himself in a life-threatening situation when he is unable to pay his gambling debt after betting on Omar's fight. So Lights has to put himself on the line to bail him out by fighting an MMA fighter named Dokaj in order to make the money and save his brother. Meanwhile, Theresa offers to donate $50,000 to help rebuild a clinic that her church is involved with in Haiti, but she soon discovers that the family's $12 million from Lights' fighting career is all gone.
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EP5 The Comeback Feb 08, 2011

The Learys' financial situation turns more desperate and they are advised to consider bankruptcy. However, Lights decides to make a comeback with a few easy fights, but discovers Johnny's deal with Barry Word. Despite this, Lights tries to find his own fight enlisting Reynolds' old sparring partner Jo Jo Reade for his next opponent. But an unfortunate accident causes him to take on a harder challenger in the dangerous ex-con Javier "El Diablo" Morales and the aftershock threatens Lights' and Theresa's marriage.
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EP6 Combinations Feb 15, 2011

Lights starts training for his fight with El Diablo—his first fight in five years, while dealing with the heartbreak of being away from his family. While sparring, he receives an injury from a thumb to the eye, causing him to see double. This gets him into trouble hanging out with Johnny who tries to help his brother's well-being by setting him up with a call girl. When stories fly about his night out and that the fact he has been cage fighting for money, Lights seeks advice from reporter Mike Fumosa to make the story go away, but he wants to write about Lights' private life in return.
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EP7 Crossroads Feb 22, 2011

As the fight with Morales nears, Lights finds himself at a crossroad in his life and career. He is about to attempt a comeback both in the ring trying for his 36th win, and at home trying to gain the support of his family. But when he asks Theresa to be in his corner for the fight, he instead gets unwanted support from an unlikely ally.
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EP8 Head Games Mar 01, 2011

When his father decides not to train him because he does not think he is capable of fighting at a professional level anymore, Lights turns to Ed Romeo, Reynolds' former trainer for some heightening of his skills. Not only does Ed train him in an unorthodox style, he tries to make Lights realize he should fight for his wife and girls, and cut his father, brother, and sister out for the fact that they are suffocating him. Lights takes this into account when he grows suspicious of their sudden interest to help him with his big fight in an effort to fire Romeo.
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EP9 Infight Mar 08, 2011

Lights alliance to Ed Romeo, his new boxing mentor comes between him and his family. Although, Romeo likes Teresa and the girls, he wants Lights to cut his father and brother out because he thinks they are weighting him down. This does not sit well with Lights, who in return, tells Romeo he doess not feel free of them, but feels controlled by him and decides to free himself of his eccentric trainer. Meanwhile, at the gym, Johnny and Romeo get into a fight, which ends up in an unfortunate accident for Lights.
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EP10 Cut Men Mar 15, 2011

After being accidentally stabbed with scissors by Johnny, Lights' injury puts his comeback, his health and Theresa's medical career in jeopardy, especially when Barry Word can not postpone the fight because of the penalty fees. As his family's expenses pile up, Lights tries to speed up the healing process by secretly seeing a doctor to give him a potent "medicine cocktail" mixed with prednisone. Lights tries to recover from his unfortunate injury, but finds out from Mike Foster—now a TV reporter—that Word is already setting up Reynolds' next fight with a Ukrainian Muslim boxer named Mustafa. Meanwhile, Lights and Johnny find out that Margaret is seeing gangster Hal Brennan, and think he is playing her to get closer to Light's and backing his fight.
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EP11 Rainmaker Mar 22, 2011

Lights tries to help a hard-up former champ, Jerry "The Rainmaker" Raynes, but the punchy boxer ends up helping him. Meanwhile, Councilman Randall Hess is brought in for questioning in a prostitution scandal and is all of a sudden "talkative" with the FBI. Hess threatens Lights' future by trying to get him to confess his involvement in having the councilman take a bribe when he delivered a cake box full of cash from Brennan. However, Lights gets arrested for bribing a public official and has to find a way out without jeopardizing his family and his upcoming fight.
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EP12 Sucker Punch Mar 29, 2011

Things are heating up two weeks before the big fight when Lights is no longer the favorite to win and is a 6 to 1 underdog. This makes Barry Word worried and tells him take a dive. Further more, Lights gets a surprise visit from his estranged mother, Mae, who has left the family several times over the years. Though Margaret considers her mother dead and Johnny suspects her of wanting a handout, Mae claims she just wants her family back, so Lights and Pops try to reunite with her.
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EP13 War Apr 05, 2011

After all the trials and tribulations that led up to the championship fight, Lights goes to "war" when he finally faces off with "Death Row" Reynolds for the heavyweight title. Before the big fight, Hal Brennan gathers all the former champs that have been burned by Barry Word and starts a war against him by starting a new boxing alliance called United Boxers. But in order for Lights to be a part of it, he suggests a 10 percent cut for a health fund to help all the boxers in need of medical care. Meanwhile, Word has a pre-fight talk with Lights, and it is not very inspiring the night before the fight. Theresa has her own talk with Reynold's wife, Jennifer. As soon as the third round begins, Lights manages to K.O. Reynolds and wins back his title, but suffers a severe concussion. After the fight Theresa makes a shocking discovery about Lights: she goes to his side and watches in horror as he groggily asks her "Who won?".
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Synopsis

Lights Out is an American television boxing drama series from the FX network in the United States. It stars Holt McCallany as Patrick "Lights" Leary, a New Jersey native, and former heavyweight champion boxer who is considering a comeback. The series premiered on January 11, 2011 at 10 pm ET/PT. On March 24, 2011, FX announced the cancellation of the show. The final episode aired on April 5.

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Reviews

Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.
RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.
Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
Staci Frederick Blistering performances.
collinsenosh The devil lies in the details, and the little things matter, making this show incredibly realistic.(Psychological realism)Eamonn Walker is a revelation, making one wonder, where has he been all along.Not to mention the intriguing writing.Along with being captivating and entertaining the dialogues serve as a life coaching mantra.This show is an inspiration to take hold of life by changing the little things, habits and routines and make the big difference.This is more than boxing, its human drama at its best!Give it a try you won't regret, seriously fun.
unclefrito-31-79716 All of those that "loved this show" please list your top 10 other favorite shows so I will know what to avoid in the future. In my opinion you would have to deprived of all other options when it comes to TV shows in order to possibly think that this was in any way a good one. You guys probably also love all of the Law and Orders, CSIs, Bones, and NCIS. Well I personally would gladly lock myself in a room and watch every episode of According To Jim before I would waste my time on Lights Out again.Lights Out was one of the most predictable and cliché pieces of crap I have ever watched. I committed to watching the entire season because I was convinced that something would happen to make it all worth it but when it culminated into one of the most ridiculously hollow season finales I have ever seen it only confirmed my first impression of this show. It was awful! Good riddance Lights Out.
scottbeers As a boxing and MMA fan this show initially caught my attention. If you know Mixed Martial Arts, please read the paragraph below. Otherwise skip to the last paragraph.Patrick Leary's fight against Bas "El Guapo" Rutten in a disgusting Mixed Martial Arts fight. It's exactly what a 70-year-old man would imagine mixed martial arts to be; a cage in an abandon building, the canvas covered in a thin layer of dirt with the complements of blood stains that were never cleaned up. Rutten takes Leary down after landing a spinning back kick that lands clean to the head. Rutten "A World Class MMA Fighter" quickly applies what appears to be an armbar. However Bas Rutten's left leg is isn't in the correct position and yet he continues to hold the submission attempt. Leary powers out of the incorrect submission and eventually ends up back on his feet. Rutten gets Leary in a standing guillotine choke which is fully locked in. Leary miraculously manages to throw Rutten off of him. After exchanging some more unblocked punches by both fighters Rutten applies a rear naked choke; once again the submission is not applied correctly but somehow it drops Leary to the ground and Rutten lets go of the choke despite Leary was close to being put to sleep. Rutten is holding his own head as if somehow choking Leary hurt him. By this point both fighters' backs are covered in dirt, Leary is bleeding, neither fighter is sweating. Leary baits Rutten over to him by holding his throat in agony. He follows quickly lands a right uppercut to the throat followed by a left hook to the back of Rutten's head. The Boxer with no MMA skills emerges victorious!Aside from my sad description of the MMA scene, the final boxing scene isn't any better. The last two minutes of the show left me feeling as if nothing was resolved aside from Leary avenging a loss. No characters were followed up on, not even Leary. There is no way this show will have a second season.
TooKoolforSkool I am all for giving new shows a chance. With all the reality programming on TV, I welcome a network that is putting out hour long dramas like FX.I had been waiting to see the show since I saw the great trailer FX put together. I am a boxing buff and thought it was nice a show would bring some attention back to the sport I love. It looked like it was a quality drama with action. So when I watched the pilot it was a let down to all the buzz.The pilot was slow and predictable and not compelling at all. The characters, especially Holt McCallany were very unlikeable and seemed to overly whiny about being broke and a middle aged has been. When McCallany wasn't whining he was boring to watch. The wife and kids were not interesting either, the writer through them in there to make his character more likable I guess but it doesn't hold your interest.Everything sets up the comeback of the character to the ring.Sure this sounds familiar, its because this story has already been told. Its called Rocky or The Fighter or The Wrestler. I don't know why this show was made. It should have been a 2 hour movie on Lifetime. There's nothing about the show or actors that makes it worth tuning into regularly.I was bored by it and wonder why the network thought this would work.

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