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Star Wars: The Bad Batch – The Summit / Plan 99

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  • Title: Star Wars: The Bad Batch – The Summit / Plan 99
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After spending an inordinate amount of time in the safe embrace of Pabu, the two episode arc that ends Star Wars: The Bad Batch‘s Second Season has the squad seek for answers about the missing clones. The mission’s disastrous end is tipped off almost immediately in an awkward conversation at the start of “The Summit” between Phee Genoa (Wanda Sykes) and Tech (Dee Bradley Baker) which is only shoehorned in here because Tech won’t be returning. Sorry, Tech. But, hey, turns out Omega (Michelle Ang) has a sister (but not the blue one).

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The Mandalorians – The Pirate

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  • Title: The Mandalorian – Chapter 21: The Pirate
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“The Pirate” pulls a couple of threads together when Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) rallies the Mandalorians together to save Nevarro from the pirates he dealt with earlier in the season. The trouble alone, and the promise of a land for the Mandalorians on the planet, would have been more than enough to get the soldiers to Nevarro. And, since the pirates are little more than canon fodder for the Mandalorians, neither the characters nor the events needed to be set up in an earlier episode.

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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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