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Bob’s Burgers – Escape from Which Island?

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Bob's Burgers - Escape from Which Island?

Rich people are crazy. In the need of a personal chef for the retreat of his secret club, Mr. Fischoeder (Kevin Kline) hires Bob (H. Jon Benjamin) who spends most of his night on the secret island running from one of the guests turned rabid and surviving the storm which Fischoeder ‘s friends chose to ignore. Back home, Linda (John Roberts) gives Gene (Eugene Mirman), Tina (Dan Mintz), Louise (Kristen Schaal) a crash course on proper etiquette at a cocktail party (some of her advice is even good).

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Spenser: For Hire – At the River’s Edge

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Spenser: For Hire - At the River's Edge

Throwback Tuesday takes us back to the mean streets of Boston and the travails of a smart ass private detective. Spenser’s (Robert Urich) latest case comes to him in an odd manner when he and Susan (Barbara Stock) witness what appears to be an armed robbery. After wounding the attacker and corning him in the parking garage, rather than be taken alive the criminal commits suicide allowing for several comments and ribbing from Spenser’s friends afterwards about his power to compel suspects to take their own lives. Spenser is left with a mystery but no client, at least until the victim’s prepubescent sister (Carrie Kei Heim) decides to hire him. Spenser makes a tenuous connection between the dead attacker and the victim, both with a connection to a preacher with a growing national following.

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Warrior Nun – Corinthians 10:20-21

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Warrior Nun - Corinthians 10:20-21

The fallout from the ill-fated heist actually works itself out quicker than expected. Imprisoned by the crown,  Ava (Alba Baptista) awakes in a dark space with demon creatures, and only after she’s been sufficiently weakened does Father Vincent (Tristán Ulloa) remove the crown just as Miguel (Jack Meade) arrives for the timely save. Still coy about who he is and what he knows, the pair follow Adriel (William Miller) followers to a meeting where his acolytes are demonically possessing the scared locals who are running from the same hallucinatory fear gas let loose in the streets that Beatrice (Kristina Tonteri-Young) encounters. Reminding more than a little of Scarecrow gas from Batman comics and cartoons, the effect works well driving people into the church’s arms.

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The Irrational – The Real Deal

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The Irrational - The Real Deal

Maybe The Irrational should keep Alec Mercer (Jesse L. Martin) as far away from the FBI as possible. For another week, the show offers Mercer working a case outside of his consultant role for the FBI finding a rhythm that has been missing in the previous episodes. “The Real Deal” gives us Alec on a date with Rose (Karen David) that turns into an investigation of a forged masterpiece. It’s easily the best episode of the series, in part to the chemistry between Martin and David, but also with the show capturing a bit more fun than the more gruesome cases Alec usually finds himself involved in.

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Blue Eye Samurai

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Blue Eye Samurai

Set in 17th Century Japan, Blue Eye Samurai follows the vengeful quest of a blue-eyed ronin obsessed with the murder of four white men poisoning the country, any one of which might be her biological father. Since childhood, passing as male, Mizu (Maya Erskine) finds herself orphaned and being raised by a blind blacksmith and sword maker who can’t see and doesn’t hold his new apprentice’s mixed heritage against her.

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