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The Inspection

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  • Title: The Inspection
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Written and directed by Elegance Bratton, and inspired by his real life experiences, Jeremy Pope stars as a gay, black, homeless man who joins the Marine Corp where he encounters brutal, and at time life-threatening, hazing from his training instructor (Bokeem Woodbine) and other recruits. It’s a deeply personal and harsh look not only at the intolerance and hate our main character finds in the Marines while succeeding where no one believes he can but also from his mother (Gabrielle Union) unable to cope or accept his sexuality.

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Will Trent – Unable to Locate

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  • Title: Will Trent – Unable to Locate
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While investigating what happened to a shipment of guns, and what a white supremacist organization might use them for, Will (Ramón Rodríguez) gets attacked and goes missing leaving Faith (Iantha Richardson) to continue the investigation and Angie (Erika Christensen) to Wagner (Sonja Sohn) to worry. Speaking of Angie, she gets her own case of the week looking into robbery and murder tied to expensive running shoes. The two stories are tied together with Trent’s discovery of a pregnancy test in his home and flashbacks to some incredibly well-cat younger versions of Trent (Andres Velez) and Angie (Savannah Hutson) centered around a similar situation during their childhood.

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch – The Crossing / Retrieval

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  • Title: Star Wars: The Bad Batch – The Crossing / Retrieval
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The two-part story in “The Crossing” and “Retrieval” focuses on the Bad Batch’s first missing without Echo in which the squad looks for Impsium in a mine on a remote planet, getting their ship stolen, becoming temporarily trapped in a mine, and later having to infiltrate and liberate their ship from a Dickensian group working a larger mine for a local tyrant. In terms of larger arcs, the only one notable is Omega‘s (Michelle Ang) abandonment issues, first in Echo’s leaving (and the squad’s minimal reaction) and then to the ship being stolen as well. While a perfectly fine mini-adventure for the group, I don’t know that this really needed to be two episodes.

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