Television Reviews – Page 104

Dead Boy Detectives – The Case of the Lighthouse Leapers

Alan Rapp / May 22, 2024 / Television Reviews

Title: Dead Boy Detectives – The Case of the Lighthouse Leapers
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For their latest case, the detectives investigate a number of people who willingly are jumping to their deaths into the sea from the local lighthouse. Playing on the ideas of a siren’s call, albeit one with a more unusual creature revealed a the end, offers an unusual setup that is quite effective, especially after Crystal (Kassius Nelson) becomes attracted to the call. The town’s reluctance to acknowledge the supernatural, including the local police, as illustrated in no one believing the eye witness of multiple people seeing a suicide helps explain how so much wacky stuff can go down without anyone giving it any mind.

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Abominable and the Invisible City – Tales from the Fox’s Tails

Alan Rapp / May 21, 2024 / Television Reviews

Title: Abominable and the Invisible City – Tales from the Fox’s Tails
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When people across the city report their prize possessions being stolen by a creature they can only hazily remember, Yi (Chloe Bennet), Jin (Tenzing Norgay Trainor), and Peng (Ethan Loh) go in search of the Nine-Tailed Fox who has a hypnotizing effect to distract and trick its victims and steal items they believe they need. After stealing an important textbook from Jin, and injuring Everest, the fox distracts Yi forcing Peng to go to Burnish (Alan Cumming) for help.

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Bob’s Burgers – Butt Sweat and Fears

Alan Rapp / May 21, 2024 / Television Reviews

Title: Bob’s Burgers – Butt Sweat and Fears
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As a family activity of building something in the basement out of trash leads to a late-night burger speakeasy, Tina (Dan Mintz) is excited about a boy-girl party with dancing hoping to earn a little “upper butt action” from Jimmy Jr. (H. Jon Benjamin). While neither hits it out of the park, both storylines are solid with Bob (Mintz) and Linda (John Roberts) getting dragged into an odd, but ultimately fun, situation by their kids, and in this case Teddy (Larry Murphy), while Tina’s comedy of errors leads to a different night than she had planned.

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Mr. Monk and the Psychic

Alan Rapp / May 20, 2024 / Television Reviews

Title: Monk – Mr. Monk and the Psychic
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Monk Monday takes us back to San Francisco and the toils of the defective detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub). The first single-hour episode of the series following the two-hour pilot episode, “Mr. Monk and the Psychic” sees Monk volunteer his services to the former police commissioner (John Bourgeois) whose wife (Kate Trotter) goes missing and is later found dead by a psychic (Linda Kash). Given the loss of his own wife, the case hits close to home, but seeing discrepancies that can’t be explained, and not believing in psychics in general (or this specific psychic specifically), Monk begins to suspect the woman was murdered by her husband.

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Will Trent – Residente o Visitante

Alan Rapp / May 20, 2024 / Television Reviews

Title: Will Trent – Residente o Visitante
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While a good chunk of the first-half of the episode features Will (Ramón Rodríguez) in Puerto Rico with Antonio (John Ortiz), his part in an investigation doesn’t begin until he’s back home and discovers one of the friends he met on the island has been killed in Atlanta. The episode works to play on Antonio’s distrust of the police, particularly the FBI whose past with Puerto Rico is far from stellar, as well as give a chance for Will, Antonio, and the recovering Angie (Erika Christensen) to all work together to solve a crime the current FBI agent in charge (Christy St. John) seems all too willing to sweep under the rug.

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