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Will Trent – Two Hundred Dollars and a Bus Pass

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  • Title: Will Trent – Two Hundred Dollars and a Bus Pass
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Both A and B mysteries provide plenty of entertainment for our detectives in “Two Hundred Dollars and a Buss Pass.” Investigating the murder of a victim who reminds himself of his own experiences, Will (Ramón Rodríguez) uncovers a connection between a campus drug study and the murder. In the B-story, Angie (Savannah Hutson) and Ormewood (Jake McLaughlin) investigate the murder of a magician at a retirement community (where he and his accomplice were fleecing the tenants out of thousands of dollars). Both cases involve our detectives dealing with uncooperative groups of college kids or seniors before getting to the truth.

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The Company You Keep – A Sparkling Reputation / Against All Odds

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  • Title: The Company You Keep – A Sparkling Reputation / Against All Odds
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After some proverbial will-they-or-won’t-they, the second and third episodes of The Company You Keep play on the emerging relationship between criminal Charlie Nicoletti (Milo Ventimiglia) and CIA Agent Emma Hill (Catherine Haena Kim) whose stories are also tied together by Daphne Finch (Felisha Terrell) who forces our thief’s family to do jobs for her to pay off their debt as Emma and the government continue to investigate her. 

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History of the World: Part II – I

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  • Title: History of the World: Part II – I
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The first episode of Mel Brooks’ History of the World: Part II, a sequel to his 1981 film no one was really asking for, is, to put it kindly, brutal. Following the same format of the 42 year-old film, the opening episode of the Hulu series offers us various sketches throughout history. Some are one-offs, and others will be returned to over and over again over the course of the series. Very few, however, are funny.

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Kung Fu – Loss

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  • Title: Kung Fu – Loss
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Xiao (Jennifer Khoe) puts her plans into action using both Mia (Vanessa Yao) and Henry (Eddie Liu) to find and steal the power of the bloodline. For an episode that sees the death of a supporting character and puts the lives of everyone in Nicky‘s (Olivia Liang)  family at risk, “Loss” should not be as bonkers as it is which undercuts any possible emotional weight. There’s too much plot for the single episode and it lacks time for characters to grieve over Mia’s death or their own mortality, although, thankfully Zhilan (Yvonne Chapman) is given a couple of nice scenes early on (before disappearing under a pile of blankets like the majority of the cast for the rest of the episode).

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Metamorphosis

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  • Title: Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Metamorphosis
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It’s always weird to watch any Star Wars property try their hand at horror which was, at the very most, a minimal part of the original movie trilogy in something like the Sarlaac Pit (which still had a comic slant). The concept provided one of weakest episodes of Star Wars Rebels in “The Mystery of Chopper Base” and doesn’t fair much better here when the squad chases a monster around a crashed ship and woods for most of “Metamorphosis.” The concept is also a bit baffling as apparently Emperor Palpatine wasn’t going to use cloning technology to bring him back from the dead (which he does in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker) but to make giant energy-sucking monsters. Um… okay? Not sure what this is going, but the Imperial B-story does set the Empire back to looking for Omega (Michelle Ang),

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