Television Reviews

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur – The Borough Bully

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  • Title: Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur – The Borough Bully
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The second episode of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur gets literal when, after earning praise from everyone else in the neighborhood, Moon Girl (Diamond White) becomes obsessed with a troll’s negative comments online eventually tracking them back to an actual troll who she’s unintentionally being feeding with her attention nearly bringing down a bridge. There’s a nice, if pretty blatant, message about how to deal with negativity online in “The Borough Bully” as Moon Girl eventually sees the error of her ways and disarms the troll by no longer engaging in his negativity.

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The Flash – Rogues of War

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  • Title: The Flash – Rogues of War
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After deducing that the new Rogues are building a time machine, and tracking down the final piece needed inside a government lab, Barry (Grant Gustin) and Pied Piper (Andy Mientus) recruit their own gang of Rogues to steal it first and keep it out of the villains hands. “Rogues of War” offers the return of several characters with two sets of teams working, although the inevitable betrayal (and the person responsible) is far, far too easy to see coming. The episode is also notable for several Gotham City references including the unmasking of the evil speedster as a Batwoman (Javicia Leslie) from the future in a reveal that lacks the pop the writers where intending.

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Will Trent – Unable to Locate

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  • Title: Will Trent – Unable to Locate
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While investigating what happened to a shipment of guns, and what a white supremacist organization might use them for, Will (Ramón Rodríguez) gets attacked and goes missing leaving Faith (Iantha Richardson) to continue the investigation and Angie (Erika Christensen) to Wagner (Sonja Sohn) to worry. Speaking of Angie, she gets her own case of the week looking into robbery and murder tied to expensive running shoes. The two stories are tied together with Trent’s discovery of a pregnancy test in his home and flashbacks to some incredibly well-cat younger versions of Trent (Andres Velez) and Angie (Savannah Hutson) centered around a similar situation during their childhood.

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch – The Crossing / Retrieval

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  • Title: Star Wars: The Bad Batch – The Crossing / Retrieval
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The two-part story in “The Crossing” and “Retrieval” focuses on the Bad Batch’s first missing without Echo in which the squad looks for Impsium in a mine on a remote planet, getting their ship stolen, becoming temporarily trapped in a mine, and later having to infiltrate and liberate their ship from a Dickensian group working a larger mine for a local tyrant. In terms of larger arcs, the only one notable is Omega‘s (Michelle Ang) abandonment issues, first in Echo’s leaving (and the squad’s minimal reaction) and then to the ship being stolen as well. While a perfectly fine mini-adventure for the group, I don’t know that this really needed to be two episodes.

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The Company You Keep – Pilot

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  • Title: The Company You Keep – Pilot
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On the night each of their previous relationships have gone down in flames, con man and criminal Charlie Nicoletti (Milo Ventimiglia) and CIA Agent Emma Hill (Catherine Haena Kim) meet in a hotel bar and spend the next 36 hours together. The “Pilot” episode captures their meeting, and the couple other run-ins between the pair, but is primarily focused on their separate lives with Charlie’s criminal family (Sarah Wayne Callies, Polly Draper, and William Fichtner) getting the bulk of the screentime. For Emma we get the standard “too smart to be listened to” set-up for her character that, like Charlie, sees things others miss.

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