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NCIS – Too Many Cooks

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  • Title: NCIS – Too Many Cooks
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With multiple teams in town for Professor Dale Harding’s (Robert Picardo) retirement, the party turns into an investigation when the professor turns up dead of apparent suicide with evidence of stolen Department of Defense files on his computer. The set-up allows for multiple team-ups with Tennant (Vanessa Lachey) and Knight (Katrina Law) performing some aggressive driving at the academy, Callen (Chris O’Donnell) and Hanna (LL Cool J) interrogating McGee (Sean Murray) who is a suspect for about three minutes, and Hanna alternating between helping and annoying Kasie (Diona Reasonover).

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Wednesday – Friend or Woe

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  • Title: Wednesday – Friend or Woe
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Finding a way to work in a Pilgrim scene obviously inspired by The Addams Family Values, “Friend or Woe” puts Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) in Pilgrim garb as the students are sent into town on Outreach Day to help with local businesses. After saving Eugene (Moosa Mostafa) from the bullies, Wednesday ropes him into some snooping about the the drawing of her ancestor and the Pilgrim from her Nightshade book. Later she heads into the woods to investigate the original Pilgrim meeting house leading to another vision of her ancestor and a rioting Pilgrims who burned outcasts alive.

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Leverage: Redemption – The Big Rig Job

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  • Title: Leverage: Redemption – The Big Rig Job
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Just before Christmas, the Leverage team targets a trucking company whose new owners’ (Garrett Coffey and Kate Eastman) predatory practices are stealing money from employees and lining their own pockets, and also smuggling guns for the local mafia, while planning to gut and sell the company. After the team’s antics tank the inspection of the prospective buyers, Parker (Beth Riesgraf) and Harry (Noah Wyle) step-in as a reality-TV crew gaining more access and getting the would-be influencer of the siblings on-tape about her dirty business practices (a thread which the episode drops after the smuggling in discovered).

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The Dragon Prince – Season Four

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  • Title: The Dragon Prince – Book Four: Earth
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The Fourth Season of The Dragon Prince, rebranded as Mystery of Aaravos, picks us the loose thread off the imprisoned archmage Aaravos (Erik Dellums) and the plans of  Claudia (Racquel Belmonte), her boyfriend (Benjamin Callins), and her resurrected father (Jason Simpson) to release him. Working to prevent this, and continue to try and bring the human realm closer to their neighbors, are Callum (Jack De Sena), and Rayla (Paula Burrows) along with the Dragon Prince Azymondias.

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Willow – Beyond the Shattered Sea

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  • Title: Willow – Beyond the Shattered Sea
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Our fellowship moves out of the woods and crosses the Shattered Sea in the aptly-titled episode that follows the same previously-used formula. Points of interest are Prince Airk (Dempsey Bryk) making a new friend who is obviously evil, the reveal that Prince Graydon (Tony Revolori) has some magic ability in him, Thraxus (Amar Chadha-Patel) discovers he’s unworthy, our travels squabble, and (after another episode of being a horrible character best killed off an left in the wasteland) Kit (Ruby Cruz) grows up a wee bit (we’ll see how long that lasts). 

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