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Warehouse 13 – The Sky’s the Limit

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Warehouse 13 - The Sky's the Limit television review

Throwback Tuesday takes us back to a top-secret storage facility in South Dakota known as Warehouse 13. “The Sky’s the Limit” offers three stories as Pete (Eddie McClintock) and Myka (Joanne Kelly) are sent to Las Vegas in search of an artifact causing people to fall out of the sky, Claudia (Allison Scagliotti) and Jinks (Aaron Ashmore) head to England for an artifact killing horse jockeys, and back at the Warehouse the Regents send a new owner for the Bed and Breakfast (Kelly Hu), who also happens to be a psychotherapist, to offer some help to the troubled Artie (Saul Rubinek). The Vegas trip leads back to an elderly magician (Joel Grey) and his granddaughter (Nora Zehetner) who has finally discovered a bit of real magic (although it comes with some murderous side-effects).

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Star Trek: Discovery – Su’Kal

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Star Trek: Discovery - Su'Kal television review

The final arc of Star Trek: Discovery‘s Third Season begins with an episode named after the character the ship finds on planet at the epicenter of the Burn. For more than a hundred years, Su’Kal (Bill Irwin) has lived inside a radioactive nebula surrounding an entire world of Dilithium. The sheltered character reacts poorly the arrival of strangers Michael (Sonequa Martin-Green), Saru (Doug Jones), and Dr. Culber (Wilson Cruz) who he takes for programs of the deteriorating holodeck which has been his entire world. Unable to understand the concept of “outside,” his extraction becomes complicated. Circumstances aren’t helped with the arrival of Osyraa (Janet Kidder) and the Emerald Chain.

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Once and Future #15

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Once and Future #15 comic reviewWhile Duncan and Bridgette travel to Avon in search of answers to what latest craziness Mary has unleashed, Rose gets an unexpected visit from Duncan’s mother who attempts to convince his son’s girlfriend to change sides (at the point of a gun). Once and Future #15 shakes things up a bit by allowing half of the story to be told from Mary’s point of view (although her holding a gun on Rose, and constantly threatening her life, doesn’t do a lot to help with any possible reasonableness of her argument).

Despite her craziness, there is a rationale behind Mary’s actions, and a peek into her childhood does help explain just how she got such a warped sense of the world (and why Lancelot is now walking around in this world). Following Rose standing up to the Green Knight in the last issue, here she shows resolve as well as bravery earning the respect of an enemy.

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MacGyver – Quarantine + N95 + Landline + Telescope + Social Distance

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MacGyver - Quarantine + N95 + Landline + Telescope + Social Distance television review

Team MacGyver deals with the quarantine in “Quarantine + N95 + Landline + Telescope + Social Distance” which offers a look at how Mac (Lucas Till), Bozer (Justin Hires), and Riley (Tristin Mays) have been spending their free time. In a not-so-subtle Rear Window homage, Bozer sees what he believes to be a murder of one of their neighbors. Initially it appears that he is mistaken, but there’s more going on as the neighbors have been taken prisoner by a gang hoping to use the couple’s son to steal from a mall that has been shutdown during the quarantine. The episode makes good use of quarantine conditions to further the plot and involves the unusual invention of a temporary invisibility cloak which allows Team MacGyver to get close to the criminals and rescue their hostage.

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