Television Reviews

Warrior Nun – Luke 8:17

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Warrior Nun - Luke 8:17

The museum heist episode. Traveling to Madrid, Ava (Alba Baptista) and Beatrice (Kristina Tonteri-Young) have a run-in with Father Vincent (Tristán Ulloa) before their reunion with what remains of the OCS. It won’t be the last they see of the priest. Ava from Yasmine (Meena Rayann)  about the weapon used to trap Adriel (William Miller). The Crown of Thorns is a device from his realm and can shut off divine power and was used centuries ago to help trap him under the Vatican. After being lost for generations it now resides in the Prada Museum. It’s time for a heist.

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Rick and Morty – Air Force Wong

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Rick and Morty - Air Force Wong

“Air Force Wong” features a number of callbacks including Rick‘s (Ian Cardoni) unhealthy friendship with the President (Keith David) fueled mostly on loathing and petty jealousies that is only exasperated when the President takes a romantic interest in Rick’s therapist Dr. Wong (Susan Sarandon). Speaking of love in the air, the episode also features the return of Unity (Christina Hendricks) who takes over the entire state of Virginia just to get Rick’s attention after he ghosts her following their break-up. Attempts to control the spread of Unity spiral out of control when the needy President sees a way to take control of the hivemind and earn the love, and votes, of the masses.

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Only Murders in the Building – Thirty / Opening Night

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Only Murders in the Building - Thirty / Opening Night

In the final two episodes of the season, our podcasters manage to put together the series of events that led to murder of Ben (Paul Rudd) and manage to put on an opening night performance without anyone dying on stage. The bulk of the investigation takes place in “Thirty,” named for being Mabel‘s (Selena Gomez) thirtieth birthday which she spends happily with Charles (Steve Martin) and Oliver (Martin Short) coming up with a new suspect that is neither Dickie (Jeremy Shamos) nor Loretta (Meryl Streep). In the season finale, the trio manage to get their easiest confession yet, although it turns out not to be the full story.

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The Fall of the House of Usher – The Black Cat

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The Fall of the House of Usher - The Black Cat

It’s Leo’s (Rahul Kohli) turn to die in an episode that features our mystery woman (Carla Gugino) psychologically torturing him more than the previous kills. After selling him a demon cat to replace the one he killed (but did he?) things go downhill fast with Leo loosing sanity at an alarming rate after a series of attack from the cat and dealing with the stress from Camille’s (Kate Siegel) death eventually leading to murderously plunging to his death. 

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One Piece – Tell No Tales / The Pirates are Coming

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One Piece - Tell No Tales / The Pirates are Coming

The third and fourth episodes of Netflix’s One Piece center around our trio making landfall in the port of Syrup Village after their existing boat begins to sink. The episodes introduce an important new character in Usopp (Jacob Romero) who apparently has lived on the streets since his mother died and is a general menace in his constant crying wolf of arriving pirates to the point when pirates do arrive at the port no one will believe him. However, it’s not the Straw Pirates Usopp is afraid of but the group led by Kuro (Alexander Maniatis) which is hiding as the wait staff of his friend Kaya (Celeste Loots) planning to kill her on her next birthday and steal her wealth. Given the situation even Nami (Emily Rudd) decides it would be in bad taste to steal from Kaya and instead, surprisingly for her, she makes a new friend.

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