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The Law According to Lidia Poët – Episode 1

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The Law According to Lidia Poët - Episode 1

Matilda De Angelis stars as Lidia Poët, the first modern female Italian lawyer who saw the laws changed to prevent her practicing on grounds women shouldn’t be allowed to practice. While barred from arguing her own cases, Poët continued in the profession working in her brother’s offices or relying on other male colleagues to argue her cases in court. The first episode of the series runs through the gamut of Lidia becoming a lawyer, seeing it stripped away on the basis of sex, and working to find a way to continue the profession and help out a sole client charged with the murder of a ballerina.

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Yu Yu Hakusho – Episode 1

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Yu Yu Hakusho - Episode 1

Adapted from the manga of the same name, Yu Yu Hakusho introduces us to troubled but honorable teen Yusuke Urameshi (Takumi Kitamura) who dies in the first episode and returns to life as a spirit detective to investigate appearances of Yōkai and demons escaping from the underworld through a giant pit. Given that so much of the episode focuses on Yusuke’s life prior to death, we get to know far more about him than the odd circumstances he finds himself in. Originally fine with moving on to heaven or hell and forgoing the offer to return, our protagonist agrees to help save those he left behind.

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Obliterated – Born in the U.S.S.R.

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  • Title: Obliterated – Born in the U.S.S.R.
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Obliterated - Born in the U.S.S.R.

So it’s like The Hangover, but spies. I would bet that was the pitch for Obliterated which takes the now drunk, high, and hungover special forces crew on the hunt for a missing nuclear weapon. Despite being obvious to everyone, except apparently their superiors (who appear oblivious their drunken behavior), that the group are not up for the challenge the misfits are back on the case with even more infighting, bickering, and getting in each other’s way while stumbling, mostly through dumb luck, on a lead. What I can say is that two episodes in, Obliterated knows what it is and doesn’t feel the need to be anything more than raunchy fun (with more obligatory nudity to try and save a lagging story) against the backdrop of a terrorist attack and humor that is nowhere near as funny as it thinks it is. With writing this lazy, it’s heard not to feel a little sorry for everyone involved.

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Reacher – ATM

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  • Title: Reacher – ATM
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Reacher 1 - ATM

The unbending justice of former military investigator Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson) continues with the show’s return for a Second Season. The episode gets its name from the short introductory interlude which reminds returning viewers just who Reacher is and also works as an introduction to new viewers when our good Samaritan helps out with a situation involving a carjacking and an ATM machine. Reacher’s time in the military was referenced multiple times in the show’s First Season, but the mystery he’ll find himself in the middle this time around will allow for flashbacks to those days in with the 110th Special Investigators Unit filling in more of the character’s backstory.

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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters – The Way Out

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  • Title: Monarch: Legacy of Monsters – The Way Out – The Way Out
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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters - The Way Out

A bit of a transitionary episode, in which one of our characters will have to face the horrors of their past, “The Way Out” gives us Monarch releasing Cate (Anna Sawai), Kentaro (Ren Watabe), and May (Kiersey Clemons) who will make their way to San Fransisco hoping the illusive answers about Cate and Kentaro’s father not found in Japan may be found in the ruins of his other life. Monarch keeps ahold of Lee (Kurt Russell) hoping to find answers about what the former Monarch solider is after and why he chose the arrival of these three kids for his first escape attempt in years.

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