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Willow – Prisoners of Skellin

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  • Title: Willow – Prisoners of Skellin
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Following a similar story of “The Whispers of Nockmaar,” with our travelers facing the dangerous of another enemy stronghold, “Prisoners of Skellin” involve the rest of the group entering the dangerous mines of the Skellin to rescue the captured Willow (Warwick Davis) and the still quite unlikable Kit (Ruby Cruz). The episode also gives us fellow prisoner, and former soldier Allagash (Christian Slater) who offers Kit some context to the fate of her father. We also see glimpses of a freed Prince Airk (Dempsey Bryk) still trapped by the magic of his location. At only six episodes, to see the series already starting to repeat itself doesn’t seem to bode well for what is yet to come.

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Scarecrow and Mrs. King – Magic Bus

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  • Title: Scarecrow and Mrs. King – Magic Bus
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Throwback Thursday takes us to 80s Washington, D.C. and the unusual partnership between a housewife and a spy. The more technical aspects of “Magic Bus” haven’t aged all that gracefully (even for the time, the episode is pretty goofy). The storyline involves a new prototype disguised as a RV that gets stolen from Amanda‘s (Kate Jackson) driveway by a group of survivalists blackmailing the government to release imprisoned members of their organization. Not exactly Bond-level tech here, even for the 80s, the RV feels even more quaint in 2022. 

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The Pretender – Jaroldo!

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Throwback Thursday takes us back to another episode featuring a man who can be anyone he wants to be. To investigate a gang shooting that left a cameraman (Ron Winston Yuan) with the use of only one arm, Jarod (Michael T. Weiss) becomes a Seattle news cameraman where he discovers an unscrupulous news anchor (Gregory Itzin) on the downside of his career arranged for the shootout to take place by egging on the two sides in a turf warrior in order to create a bigger story. With the help of the raw footage editor (Lisa Howard), Jarod arranges another news story involving the gangs to reveal the truth.

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