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The Lazarus Project – Episode 1

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  • Title: The Lazarus Project – Episode 1
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After living through the same six months twice, George (Paapa Essiedu) is recruited into The Lazarus Project, a secret organization that uses time resets to avoid the cataclysmic end of the human race. “Episode 1” takes a little while to get going, first seeing George and his girlfriend (Charly Clive) live out their normal lives and then a second time with George freaking out over deja vu, and finally a third time getting recruited and going to work for Lazarus. There’s a pretty obvious tease to trouble George will get into at the end of the episode, but it certainly sets up some interesting discussions about when and how Lazarus is willing to use its technology and potentially why so many of their former agents have gone rogue including the one currently attempting to start a nuclear holocaust.

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Panhandle – To Bell or Not To Bell?

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  • Title: Panhandle – To Bell or Not To Bell?
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Similar to Endgame (the one with Shawn Doyle not Morena Baccarin), the opening episode of Panhandle casts Luke Kirby as a genius agoraphobic haunted by his wife’s murder who helps the police solve crimes. In the case of Panhandle, named after the northern swampy region of Florida, Kirby stars as Bell Prescott a Renaissance man who put his life on hold after the death of his wife (Lorenza Izzo who appears as a ghost talking to only him) and has taken up the hobby of solving crimes from his manor. Our other main character is overworked patrol officer Cammie Lorde (Tiana Okoye) called in when a dead body is found on the Bell property.

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Secret Invasion – Resurrection & Promises

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  • Title: Secret Invasion – Resurrection & Promises
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Inspired by the Marvel comic storyline of the same name, Secret Invasion provides a mini-series where Skrulls have infiltrated the globe and are actively working to take control of the planet for themselves. Given their introduction as refugees rather than terrorists in the film which also introduced Carol Danvers, the show has to work four times as hard to try and position the Skrulls as bad guys. Two episodes in, by giving us Skrulls who largely stay in the shape of a single human, rather than quickly jump as they please or remain in their natural state, each limiting their abilities (and the show’s budget), the results are mixed

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The Blacklist – The Morgana Logistics Corporation

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  • Title: The Blacklist – The Morgana Logistics Corporation
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You can really feel The Blacklist pushing to its conclusion with Reddington (James Spader) helping the Task Force take down The Morgana Logistics Corporation which is responsible for thousands of falsified documents and companies operating covertly around the world. It’s a big win for the group when they need one, although Red doesn’t reveal that he was the one who built Morgana as part of his own network years ago and keeps all of his top lieutenants from ending up on the firing line. A risky play by Congressman Arthur Hudson (Toby Leonard Moore) leads him to a loose thread he begins to pull and allows him to tie Dembe (Hisham Tawfiq), and by association Reddington, to the Task Force as he redoubles his efforts to expose them.

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Dragons: The Nine Realms – It Flies in the Family

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  • Title: Dragons: The Nine Realms – It Flies in the Family
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Ever since his first appearance, and his insatiable curiosity about what his sister is up to, Dragons: The Nine Realms has been teasing what finally occurs in “It Flies in the Family” as Eugene (Vincent Tong) discovers the truth about Dragon Club. Demanding a dragon of his own, or threatening to tell everyone their secret, Eugene basically blackmails his way into the club as the group go in search of a dragon for Jun‘s (Ashley Liao) older brother before running into new troubles with dragons from the Fire Realm invading the Crystal Realm.

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