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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The Broken Circle

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds kicks off its Second Season not with delving into the fallout of the arrest of Number One (Rebecca Romijn) and her impending trial, which is briefly mentioned but almost immediately shelved, but instead picking up the thread of Lieutenant La’an Noonien-Singh‘s (Christina Chong) universal walkabout. With the ship in space dock, Captain Pike (Anson Mount) has left to find a lawyer for his friend leaving Spock (Ethan Peck) in command when La’an’s call for help arrives from a key planet to both the Klingons and the Federation warning of dangers to the fragile peace.

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Citadel – Infinite Shadows

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  • Title: Citadel – Infinite Shadows
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The theme of trust and secrets slowly being revealed makes up the majority of Citadel’s third episode. “Infinite Shadows” offers a flashback into the first meeting between Mason Kane (Richard Madden) and Nadia (Priyanka Chopra Jonas) on a mission in the Alborz Mountains to retrieve a deadly virus a decade ago. Now ten years later, in one of Citadel’s former safehouses, the questions of trust the spies asked each other years ago are as relevant today as they were then. Meanwhile, Manticore tortures Bernard Orlick (Stanley Tucci) for information and access into Citadel technology. 

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The Rising – Episode 4

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  • Title: The Rising – Episode 4
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As the police continue their investigation into Neve’s (Clara Rugaard) murder, her family struggles to deal with both her loss and the discovery that her step-sister Katie (Robyn Cara) was boinking Neve’s boyfriend (Solly McLeod) on the night of the party. Meanwhile, Neve’s ghost enlists the help of Alex (Nenda Neururer) to understand the strange stone shrine in the woods and the odd effect it has one her. The emotional toll of Neve’s death, and the revelations it leads to, continues to be the strength of the show four episodes as Maria (Emily Taaffe) lashes out,  Daniel (Alex Lanipekun) struggles to keep the family together, Joan (Karen Henthorn) attempts to offer comfort, and William (Nicholas Gleaves) finds some comfort in unexpected places.

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The Lazarus Project – Episode 2

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  • Title: The Lazarus Project – Episode 2
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While the interrogation of the prisoner captured in the last episode does weave into the end of the episode, “Episode 2” primarily deals with two separate storylines. The first is George (Paapa Essiedu) being rocked by events involving Sarah’s (Charly Clive) accident. The other, coincidentally taking place on the same night George and Sarah met, are the repeated attempts of Anjli Mohindra (Anjli Mohindra) and her former partner (Brian Gleeson) to stop the end of the world. This helps explain her attempts to ease George’s pain based on her own loss and provide some interesting insight in how many of the reset timelines in which George and Sarah didn’t get together, or even meet, at a party the same night the world ended.

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