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Smallville – Hug

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Smallville - Hug

Superman Sunday takes us back to Smallville, Kansas, and the arrival of scumbag salesman Bob Rickman (Rick Peters), able to influence people through his Kryptonite-powered handshake, who comes to town to build a pesticide plant on the Kent farm and deal with his old friend (Gregory Sporleder) who could expose the secret of his persuasion. The B-story of the episode involves a horseback riding accident where Lana (Kristin Kreuk) is unsure whether the town hermit, Bob’s old friend Kyle, was responsible. This causes conflict between Clark (Tom Welling) who thinks the best of him (and sees a bit of himself in the man) and both Lana and Whitney (Eric Johnson) who get angry at Clark for not lying about what he actually saw to help the police to imprison a man Clark feels is innocent.

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Spider-Man – The Spider Slayer

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Spider-Man - The Spider Slayer

Spidey Saturday takes us back to the 90s. The second episode of Marvel’s Spider-Man begins to flesh-out the cast of supporting and recurring characters including Norman Osborne (Neil Ross), and his silent partner the Kingpin (Roscoe Lee Browne), who hire Spencer Smythe (Edward Mulhare) and his son Alistair (Maxwell Caulfield) to build him technology to kill Spider-Man (Christopher Daniel Barnes). First, we see the Spider Seekers capable of tracking Spider-Man, and later we see Smythe’s more deadly creation, the Black Widow, in action.

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Percy Jackson and the Olympians – The Prophecy Comes True

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Percy Jackson and the Olympians - The Prophecy Comes True

Percy Jackson and the Olympians concludes with an episode that offer short confrontations between Percy (Walker Scobell) and Ares (Adam Copeland) on Earth and Percy and Zeus (Lance Reddick) in Olympus before winding down the adventure with a whimper. We also get moments of Percy with his father and his resurrected mother. While his arc does gain him recognition in the magical community, and allow him to put skills to the test, things overall don’t change with the gods still meddling in the lives of mortals to their own ends and Percy leaving Camp Half-Blood and returning home until called upon for his next adventure. It’s an underwhelming finale for an underwhelming season. At least the show is consistent.

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Death and Other Details – Exquisite

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Death and Other Details - Exquisite

While Jules (Hugo Diego Garcia) and Imogene (Violett Beane) get their own side quest in Malta and delivering the refugees, live on-board the ship gets back to normal for most of the passengers. However, now believing the mysterious Viktor Sams is behind the murder, Rufus Cotesworth (Mandy Patinkin) continues to investigate this time with the help of Leila (Pardis Saremi), whose backstory gets filled in a bit more, and Teddy (Angela Zhou). As Jules and Imogene get closer, the trio on the ship will make a discovery that raises questions about Jules, the ship, and how all of it is connected to the man responsible for the death of Imogene’s mother.

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The Irrational – Cheating Life

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The Irrational - Cheating Life

The hit-and-run death of a former scientist turned fitness guru he once knew leads Alec Mercer (Jesse L. Martin) to look into discovering the man’s death was no accident (although it will take longer than the audience to come to the logical conclusion of what really happened). The show continues to play down the roles of Phoebe (Molly Kunz) and Owen (Arash DeMaxi), with Kylie (Travina Springer) playing shotgun for her brother rather than one of his assistants, while also limiting Alec’s interactions with the FBI to a single scene (sadly they still get their own subplots which continues to spin their wheels).

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