Television Reviews

True Lies – Independent Dependents

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  • Title: True Lies – Independent Dependents
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In an episode centered around the team attempting to save hostages from terrorists who have taken control of a weapons manufacturing plant, the focus of both the A & B plots involves characters resistant to asking for help needing help. Of course the framework is more than a bit forced when neither situation were setup prior to this episode as suddenly Harry (Steve Howey) apparently doesn’t ask for help and the other pairing involves Gib (Omar Benson Miller) and a character created solely for this episode. Despite the hostage situation, the late twist involving deadly nerve gas secretly created by the company, and Harry being temporarily blinded, nothing about the episode is at all memorable.

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The Mandalorians – Guns for Hire / The Spies

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  • Title: The Mandalorian – Chapter 22: Guns for Hire / Chapter 23: The Spies
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The two episode building to the season finale focus on bringing the Mandalorian tribes back together and the return to their homeworld. Well, that is except for another side quest that takes up 90% of “Guns for Hire,” but at least this one involves our main character. Feeling like a mix of world building and rehash of previously defeated villains, with some odd Asimov-ish droid plot thrown in, neither episode is bad but neither really focuses on either the characters or the plot offering something new. That’s not to say there aren’t enjoyable moments, such as Grogu thoroughly enjoying his new murderous mode of transportation (which also allows him to more easily communicate to the other characters).

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NCIS: Hawai’i – Bread Crumbs

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  • Title: NCIS: Hawai’i – Bread Crumbs
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NCIS: Hawai’i offers a well-worn story trope for the action/cop show when Tennant (Vanessa Lachey) goes missing when the helicopter transferring a prisoner (Dylan Kenin) across the island goes down in the jungle. While her team begins the search to find her, Tennant and the only other agent (Nick Creegan) not hurt in the crash go after the prisoner only to find themselves wounded themselves and trapped in a cave deep in the wilderness and far from the eyes of those who will come looking for them. 

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The Blacklist – The Freelancer: Part 2

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  • Title: The Blacklist – The Freelancer: Part 2
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The Tenth, and final, Season of The Blacklist continues to revisit former Blacklisters with the return of Alban Veseli (Daniel Sauli) who makes an attacks on a New York ferry and high-scale hotel. Believing someone onboard was targeted by Veseli for Wujing (Chin Han), the team investigates but Reddington (James Spader) comes to believe there was no specific target in either instance but rather an attempt to confirm Reddington’s connection to the FBI through a photographer (Kristopher Kling) capturing the FBI’s response to each attack.

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