Television Reviews

Will Trent – Pterodactyls Can Fly

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Will Faith (Iantha Richardson) stuck on desk duty after the shooting, and unexpectedly hosting her mother (LisaGay Hamilton), Will (Ramón Rodríguez) works a trailer park killing of a family that left a single witness in a traumatized boy. There’s some nice moments between Will and the boy, and a twist to the case the detective doesn’t see coming. Past events play big roles in both the main storyline, as Will takes the kid in to keep him out of Foster care, and in the B-story in which Angie (Savannah Hutson) continues to be obsessed with her childhood rapist (French Stewart) while finding no evidence that the podophile is up to his old ways.

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True Lies – Unrelated Parents

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  • Title: True Lies – Unrelated Parents
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The theme of “Unrelated Parents” can be summed up in a single sentence: Teenagers are impossible to deal with. Harry (Steve Howey) and Helen’s (Ginger Gonzaga) trouble dealing with their daughter (Annabella Didion) is mirrored on their mission when dealing with a young hacker who can’t get his head out of his ass long enough to realize while stealing nuclear weapons may have been bad or that he’s been used by a gang of mercenaries. There’s not much else to the episode as the experiences with one pain in the ass teen eventually help the couple deal with the other as they recover the nukes and deal with their daughter’s recent struggle for independence in what amounts to one of the least inspired spy stories one could imagine.

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The Blacklist – The Dockery Affair

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  • Title: The Blacklist – The Dockery Affair
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“The Dockery Affair” is the rare episode of The Blacklist that doesn’t focus on either a Blacklister or a direct threat to Raymond Reddington (James Spader). While the episode’s B-story does continue the season thread of Wujing (Chin Han) putting together a gang of aggrieved parties by recruiting Vesco (Stacy Keach), a thread which conveniently does not show us how Red responds to Vesco’s questions, the main storyline involves the death of a judge which Red’s evidence guy Herbie Hambright (Alex Brightman) finds suspicious despite overwhelming evidence pointing to an obvious suspect. Turns out he’s right as the true killer has far more bodies buried than just the judge. It’s a fine standalone episode, but being only marginally tied to the season arc there’s nothing of note you’d miss skipping this one.

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Scooby-Doo – Large Dragon at Large

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  • Title: What’s New, Scooby-Doo? – Large Dragon at Large
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As part of Dragon Week, Throwback Tuesday takes as back to What’s New Scooby-Doo? for a mystery involving some meddling kids and their talking dog. Mystery, Inc. discovers a dragon terrorizing a renaissance fair in Scotland. While mostly running from the creature, in ways that offer throwbacks to the earlier Scooby series with characters running up stairs or through various doors (here through the use of a maze), eventually a captured Velma (Mindy Cohn) makes the most important discovery to lead her to the secret of the dragon and the person responsible. We aren’t given a trap, and with the dragon revealed to be robot we don’t get the classic unmasking either, but otherwise this dragon-themed episode works well enough.

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