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Perry Mason – The Case of the Sleepwalker’s Niece

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Perry Mason - The Case of the Sleepwalker's Niece television review

Throwback Tuesday takes us back to the courtroom of Perry Mason. “The Case of the Sleepwalker’s Niece” has a little of everything. Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) is initially hired to help with a messy divorce when a busman’s unscrupulous partner (John Archer) conspires with the man’s soon-to-be ex-wife (Hillary Brooke) to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars. However, when a member of the household is killed in a way that resembles an earlier sleepwalking incident (one that opens the episode), Mason is soon defending his client (John McNamara) against murder charges.

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The Great North – Sexi Moose Adventure

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The Great North - Sexi Moose Adventure TV review

The series premiere of The Great North has a Bob’s Burgers feel which makes sense as the series is the brainchild of longtime Bob’s Burgers‘s writers and producers Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin and Wendy Molyneux. “Sexi Moose Adventure” introduces us to the Alaskan family the Tobins on the 16th birthday of of Judy Tobin (Jenny Slate). The family also includes her father Beef (Nick Offerman), her brothers Wolf (Will Forte), Moon (Aparna Nancherla), and Ham (Paul Rust), and Wolf’s fiancé Honeybee (Dulcé Sloan). The conflict of the first episode focuses on Beef’s inability to deal with change, whether it be his wife running away or his daughter getting a job at the mall. There’s also a wacky hunting of a moose through the woods which gives the episode its title.

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MacGyver – Banh Bao + Drill + Burner + Mason

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  • Title: MacGyver (2016) – MacGyver – Banh Bao + Drill + Burner + Mason
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MacGyver - Banh Bao + Drill + Burner + Mason television review

“Banh Bao + Drill + Burner + Mason” offers two stories. In the first, MacGyver‘s (Lucas Till) uncomfortable meeting Desi‘s (Levy Tran) parents (Michael Paul Chan and Page Leong) turns into a mission to save Desi’s brother (Paul Yen) from those attempting to scare the medical examiner into falsifying a report. The storyline features your basic meet the parent moments while also cluing them in on both what Desi really does for a living and her boyfriend’s unusual skill set. The other involves Russ (Henry Ian Cusick) and Matty (Meredith Eaton) attempting to woo the next generation’s MacGyver, Eli Brown (Ben Wang), and then enlisting some unlikely support (Peter Weller) when government agents target the kid. I’ll be curious to see if we’ll get more of Eli or if this was a just a one-off performance. The idea of Team MacGyver introducing a talented kid into the group, and someone for MacGyver to mentor, offers some new avenues for the show to explore.

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