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Ironheart – Will the Real Natalie Please Stand Up?

  • Title: Ironheart – Will the Real Natalie Please Stand Up?
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The second episode of Ironheart gives us  Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) freaking out about her successful artificial intelligence which her subconscious crafted off of the memories of her dead best friend Natalie (Lyric Ross). We also get Riri meeting, and blackmailing, a black market tech collector (Alden Ehrenreich) for pieces necessary to patch her armor heading into her first job with the Hood‘s (Anthony Ramos) crew (which is successful, but a bit more complicated than necessary with N.A.T.A.L.I.E.’s continued distractions). It, like the first episode, is largely fine, and Riri’s interaction with a character who is more important than he initially appears gives us some fun moments, but the heist is rather bland and I’m still waiting for things to pick up which we probably won’t get until Riri’s eventual hero turn that seems pretty far off at this point.

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The Wheel of Time – The Shadow in the Night

  • Title: The Wheels of Time – The Shadow in the Night
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The most memorable moment of “The Shadow of Night” doesn’t come from Egwene (Madeleine Madden) eventually confronting Rand al’Thor (Josha Stradowski) about seeing him with Lanfear (Natasha O’Keeffe) nor the tragedy at the end of the episode where Rand struggles at how helpless the one power is even against death. Instead, the best moment of the episode is courtesy of Elayne (Ceara Coveney), covering for herself after being recognized in the bar, with the help of Mat‘s (Dónal Finn) old friend Thom Merrilin (Alexandre Willaume), by delivering a rowdy rendition of “The Hills of Tanchico” which is so good the episode reuses the song for the outro and credit sequence. Also of note, Perrin (Marcus Rutherford) and Faile (Isabella Bucceri) finally admit their feelings for each other on the eve of an army about to hit the Two Rivers.

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