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Archer – 30 for 30

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  • Title: Archer – 30 for 30
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Completing the two-part season premiere, “30 for 30” continues to play on the rivalry between Archer (H. Jon Benjamin) and Zara Khan (Natalie Dew) as they compete to take down members of Vanguard in their secret base. Although eventually Lana (Aisha Tyler) arrives for support, after a chaotic consumer airline trip involving Cheryl (Judy Greer) and Cyril (Chris Parnell), the success of the mission falls on Archer, Zara, Ray (Adam Reed), and Pam (Amber Nash) who must race out of the secret base after the Vanguard’s leader is killed. Plenty of wacky and chaotic fun ending with Zara getting the upper hand with Archer and joining the Agency.

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Futurama – Parasites Regained

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  • Title: Futurama – Parasites Regained
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After Nibbler (Frank Welker) falls ill to the parasites living in his sandbox, slowly making him stupider, the crew uses Professor Farnsworth‘s (Billy West) shrink ray to go into the sandbox and save Nibbler’s mind. The episode is a callback to Fry‘s (West) infestation of worms which made him smarter back in Season Three, but it’s really just an excuse for Futurama to have fun parodying various aspects of Dune. The episode falls apart when Nibbler’s damaged brain decides he’d rather stay dumb, logic that doesn’t make any sense but does offer the chance of a nice bittersweet moment for Leela (Katey Sagal). This is immediately wiped away with Leela’s last-second discovery of how to save Nibbler’s mind (which will likely be ignored for several more episodes until the plot calls for it to be referenced again).

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Almost Paradise – All In

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  • Title: Almost Paradise – All In
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The opening of her family’s casino brings the return of Ann Villegas (Max Collins) whose distrust of security expert Barton Coyne (Joel Pierce), and threats about a potential robbery, forces her to enlist the help of Alex Walker (Christian Kane) to test out the casino’s security… by robbing it. Putting a small crew together with Kai (Samantha Richelle) and Ernesto (Art Acuñ), Alex and his group successfully pull off a robbery to highlight gaps in the casino’s security only to discover other thieves piggybacked on their plan, with the help of one of the crew posing as a hostess in the casino (Erika Heynatz), and stole millions more.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Subspace Rhapsody

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  • Title: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Subspace Rhapsody
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Sandwiched between two darker episodes is the far lighter, and immensely enjoyable, “Subspace Rhapsody.” After exposing a subspace fold to music, the crew of the Enterprise (and other ships in the nearby star systems) find themselves trapped in a musical where their emotions feed both big and brash and small and intimate musical numbers around the ship. While working for a solution, and through their own personal problems, through song, the crew need to find a solution before song angry musical Klingons arrive to make matters even worse.

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Ahsoka – Time to Fly

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  • Title: Ahsoka – Part Three: Time to Fly
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As the slow build-up to the search for Ezra Bridger (Eman Esfandi) and Thrawn (Lars Mikkelsen) begins (that’s right, more than a third through the series it still hasn’t actually started yet for an ongoing story that is already longer than the original Star Wars), “Time to Fly” at least sees Ahsoka (Rosario Dawson) and Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo) get to the right planet and observe our baddies building a giant hyperspace drive. We do get a little action as they get shot down, but the episode’s bulk is internal discussions and training involving Ahsoka and Sabine and Hera Syndulla‘s (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) inability to get the New Republic leadership to take the threat seriously.

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