Television Reviews

The Mighty Nein – Mote of Possibility

  • Title: The Mighty Nein – Mote of Possibility
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Coming out of Critical Role, and with more than a passing resemblance to The Legend of Vox Machina (and taking place in that same world), the opening episode of The Mighty Nein begins bringing together a part of mismatched adventurers who will be called upon to save the world. The show kicks off with the theft of a religious artifact by magician assassins known as Volstrucker which raises the already tensions between the Dwendalian Empire and the Kryn Dynasty to the brink of war.

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NCIS: Origins – Happy Birthday

  • Title: NCIS: Origins – Happy Birthday
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Randy‘s (Caleb Foote) birthday and Franks (Kyle Schmid) growing agitation with too much change in his life anchor the episode where the NIS team looks to solve the death of a Marine found in an abandoned house in what appears to be part of some bizarre ritual. Believing he entered a similar case into the computer, Randy spends too much time in his search for Franks’ liking leading to a confrontation which also highlights Randy’s personality and making the best of a bad situation (even if Franks’ actions do manage to draw his ire).

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Bat-Fam – Bat-Trip

  • Title: Bat-Fam – Bat-Trip
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The second episode of the series plays on both Bruce Wayne (Luke Wilson) as a helicopter parent and Damian‘s (Yonas Kibreab) proclivity to bend the rules, even if for a good cause, leading to trouble. Along with Judy (Reese Lores) and Trudy Dent (Natalie Palamides), Damian hatches a plan to sneak off on a field trip to S.T.A.R. Labs and break into the secure crime wing. Unable to chaperone, because of more Damian shenanigans, Bruce finds a way to push himself into the trip anyway making Damian’s plan all that harder to pull off.

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Murder in a Small Town – This, That, and the Other Thing

  • Title: Murder in a Small Town – This, That, and the Other Thing
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As the peace between Cassandra (Kristin Kreuk) the Mayor (Marcia Gay Harden) crashes given her attempts to sneak changes into the budget proposal just prior to the vote (gutting the common ground the pair had worked on), all hands are on deck as Karl (Rossif Sutherland) leads an investigation into the kidnapping of a young boy and his babysitter that isn’t what it initially appears to be.

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Watson – Lucky

  • Title: Watson – Lucky
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In an episode that keeps several plates spinning simultaneously, “Lucky” features the return of Sherlock Holmes (Robert Carlyle) far sooner than I expected, but again only for a single episode. Spending a bit of time poking around Pittsburgh, Holmes stays with Watson (Morris Chestnut) and offers some advice on the doctor’s latest case involving a man in a coma ward suffering from undiagnosed locked-in syndrome who has witnessed multiple murders by an angel of death over the years. Along with helping the patient, Watson and the team also work to prove there is someone killing end-of-life patients and identifying her before she murders again.

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