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Ahsoka – Master and Apprentice

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  • Title: Ahsoka – Part One: Master and Apprentice
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A live-action adaptation of Star Wars Rebels in all but name, the first episode of Ahsoka continues the path we saw Ahsoka (Rosario Dawson) on during her appearance in The Mandalorian: a search for Thrawn (Lars Mikkelsen). I do love me some Star Wars Rebels, and seeing the characters and locales of the show lovingly recreated is certainly a feather in Ahsoka‘s cap. A fully realized live-action Lothal, complete with Loth-Cats, is a joy to behold. With the lone exception of The Last Jedi, for me Rebels is the best property Star Wars has produced in the last 40 years. That’s not to say I didn’t have some problems with this first episode (such as bringing back the hidden map idea used to mixed results in The Force Awakens).

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Abominable and the Invisible City – The Ditch Sitch

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  • Title: Abominable and the Invisible City – The Ditch Sitch
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“The Ditch Sitch” suffers from one of oldest cliches of children’s television with adults being dumb and/or unreasonable in order for the plot to play out. In this case the adult is a building developer () irate of a creature continuously stopping her construction of her latest project that goes to extremes to see it destroyed. The episode does feature an interesting creature in the magical jellyfish along with a nice message with Yi (Chloe Bennet), Jin (Tenzing Norgay Trainor), and Peng‘s (Ethan Loh) teaching her a lesson about living with the magical creatures, although it’s possible you might get whiplash from how quickly that lesson is taken to heart.

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Only Murders in the Building – The Beat Goes On

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  • Title: Only Murders in the Building – The Beat Goes On
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“The Beat Goes On” offers flashbacks to early days of rehearsal while in the present events surrounding Ben‘s (Paul Rudd) funeral put Charles (Steve Martin) and Mabel (Selena Gomez) in harms way chasing down leads to the murder. Meanwhile, the failure of Oliver‘s (Martin Short) comeback brings on a heart attack. The episode is notable for revealing the issue Ben had with Charles, Oliver’s dream sequence leading to an epiphany and a way to save the play, and Charles and Mabel deciding that (once again) the police have the wrong man and the true murderer is part of the theatrical production Oliver has now saved. I’m just guessing, but I don’t think this was the low-stress situation his doctor recommended.

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Justified: City Primeval – Kokomo

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  • Title: Justified: City Primeval – Kokomo
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The fallout of Clement Mansell (Boyd Holbrook) recent actions begins with the Albanian mob searching for the man responsible for crippling and robbing Skender (Alexander Pobutsky). Believing the Albanians can find him faster than the police, Norbet (Norbert Leo Butz) slips his name to the head of the mob which turns out to be bad for both Sandy’s (Adelaide Clemens) roommate (Jessika Van) and boss (Ravi Patel), although Raylan (Timothy Olyphant) is able to prevent a similar meeting for Caroline (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor). The sad truth is had Raylan sacrificed Sandy’s roommate, Norbet’s plan would likely have worked, instead Clement and Sandy arrive, and leave, the scene after all the action.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Lost in Translation

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  • Title: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Lost in Translation
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“Lost in Translation” is an episode that previous Star Trek series have used before, with one member dimly aware something isn’t right and needing to solve a mystery to explain what is really going on (often due to some kind of yet undiscovered alien). In the case here it’s Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding) who begins experiencing hallucinations which the ship’s medical team initially diagnose to be nothing more that a case of exhaustion and low-levels of deuterium poisoning, something more is obviously going on. In order to discover what, she’ll need to face difficult moments from her past and potential future and decipher the meaning of the hallucinogenic messages being shown to her.

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