Television Reviews

Will Trent – Do You See the Vision?

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Will Trent - Do You See the Vision?

The season finale starts with both Will (Ramón Rodríguez) and Angie (Erika Christensen) in a good place both romantically and professionally. Angie is being tapped for a potential promotion to the GBI and Will has finally made peace with his past. Together the pair look to be on the path to starting a life together with their on-again/off-again phase finally moving into something more stable. And then a decision Angie made at the end of last season comes back to haunt them. 

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My Adventures with Superman – Fullmetal Scientist

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My Adventures with Superman - Fullmetal Scientist

While Jimmy (Ishmel Sahid) continues to struggle with running the Flamebird interns, Clark (Jack Quaid) struggles to find common ground with General Lane (Joel de la Fuente), Lois (Alice Lee) races Vicki Vale (Andromeda Dunker) to break a story, and Lex Luthor (Max Mittelman) begins working with Amanda Waller (Debra Wilson), the focus of “Fullmetal Scientist” introduces John Irons (Byron Marc Newsome) as the head scientist and face of whose CEO (Max Mittelman) puts the entire city at risk not listening to his scientists about a disturbing flaw with the new Metallo robots which could destroy a large section of Metropolis.

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Mr. Monk Goes to the Carnival

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Mr. Monk Goes to the Carnival

Monk Monday takes us back to San Francisco and the toils of the defective detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub). “Mr. Monk Goes to the Carnival” offers another unusual murder for Monk to solve. While working through his reinstatement hearing, Monk agrees to help Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine) with a death at the local carnival involving a cop (Stephen McHattie) known to shade outside the lines. The pro quo assumes Stottlemeyer will recommend Adrian for reinstatement, something he struggles with in front of the committee and eventually balks under the justification Monk isn’t ready to carry a gun (this will be an argument suggested against Monk’s reinstatement over the series, although the possibility of reinstatement and giving him desk duty, effectively solving the problem, is never discussed).

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Doctor Who – Dot and Bubble

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Doctor Who - Dot and Bubble

“Dot and Bubble” is problematic. An episode that focuses more on its guest-stars rather than The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and his companion Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) can work, and work spectacularly in “Blink,” but it does require those guest-roles to be strong enough to carry the episode. Unfortunately the thinly-veiled sermon against overuse of social media, presented with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, centers around a twat. And the rest of her planet turn out to be no better. Thankfully the tension in the episode works, despite the odd setup, and there’s enough interesting visuals to carry us through events eventually offering a hard lesson to the new Doctor.

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Fallout – The Beginning

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Fallout - The Beginning

The season finale of “The Beginning” provides answers for some characters, hard choices, new alliances, and new beginnings. Lucy (Ella Purnell) completes her journey, delivering the head to Lee Moldaver (Sarita Choudhury) and finding her father (Kyle MacLachlan). However, she also gets far more than she was prepared for as Lee fills in the past of Lucy’s parents, he father’s lies, where her childhood memories of the surface come from, and what really happened to her mother.

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