Television Reviews

NCIS: Hawai’i – Shields Up

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  • Title: NCIS: Hawai’i – Shields Up
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NCIS investigates the death of a Marine Captain on a beach where signs point to him being killed before an attempted suicide. The tightlipped unit isn’t offering any help, although NCIS uncovers two different suspects including a former Marine turned monk (Wes Chatham) who Jesse (Noah Mills) befriends. The episode introduces Juani Feliz as U.S. Marine CID Summer Westmore from Guantanamo Bay who helps with the investigation by delivering crucial information about the unit. Also notable, Tennant (Vanessa Lachey)’s son Alex (Kian Talan) being sick and Tennant discover his girlfriend (Sierra Swartz) cheating on him closing out that subplot.

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Will Trent – Don’t Let It Happen Again

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  • Title: Will Trent – Don’t Let It Happen Again
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The third episode of Will Trent takes some unexpected turns as a pair of recent killings tie back to the murder of a family decades before. Although the episode tips its hand a bit as to who the killer is, the reveal still works especially in how the climax affects Faith (Iantha Richardson). We get a little more bonding between Trent (Ramón Rodríguez) and Faith, a quick look at how Trent has grown attached to Betty, and in the subplot an old mistake comes back to bite Angie (Erika Christensen) leading her back to Trent for comfort. More murder of the week than the first two episodes, “Don’t Let It Happen Again” is a solid episode even if the show still hasn’t gotten me sold on its subplots yet.

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Jack Ryan – Our Death’s Keeper

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  • Title: Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan – Our Death’s Keeper
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While the other plots mainly spin their wheels (except for the end scene of the episode involving the kidnapping of an important figure), “Our Death’s Keeper” is most notable for Jack (John Krasinski) and Mike (Michael Kelly) gaslighting an arm’s dealer in Budapest in order to push him into revealing where the exchange of the Sokol device will take place. There are several fun segments along the way with the pair slowly turning the heat on the man until finally springing their trap. Elsewhere, Greer’s  (Wendell Pierce) digging leads to suspicions about Petr Kovac (Peter Guinness) and Wright (Betty Gabriel) is put in an uncomfortable position of how far she can stick her neck out to protect Jack.

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Leverage: Redemption – The Turkish Prisoner Job

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  • Title: Leverage: Redemption – The Turkish Prisoner Job
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Letting Harry (Noah Wyle) take the lead, the team goes up against a couple of crooked local cops (Alanna Masterson and Derek Theler) jailing honest people for real estate kickbacks after their homes get foreclosed. The transition from taking down the cops to saving the life of their latest victim is a little more clumsy than usual with Harry in charge, but the team manages to pull off a classic con sending the pair of marks after hidden treasure allowing their greed to blind them temporarily. 

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