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The Sandman – Brief Lives

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  • Title: The Sandman – Brief Lives
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With no real intention of success, Morpheus (Tom Sturridge) agrees to help his sister Delirium (Esmé Creed-Miles) in her search to find their missing brother believing there’s a chance he might run across Nada (Umulisa Gahiga) on their travels. However, all he does is further infuriate his siblings. The old friends of the missing Destruction (Barry Sloane) turn up dead, infuriating Desire (Mason Alexander Park), and Delirium learns the truth of Dream’s manipulation abandoning her siblings and locking herself up in her realm. While Creed-Miles’ Delirium is fun to behold, and there’s certainly more to Destruction that we’ve yet to see, Morpheus’ continued obsession with Nada isn’t what I was hoping for given the limited number of stories left to tell and how much more of his world there is yet to explore.

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Jurassic World: Chaos Theory – Villa Paradiso / The Queen’s Court

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  • Title: Jurassic World: Chaos Theory – Villa Paradiso / The Queen’s Court
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Following their escape from the secret facility, “Villa Paradiso” and “The Queen’s Court” focus on Ben (Sean Giambrone), Kenji (Darren Barnet), Darius (Paul-Mikél Williams), Yaz (Kausar Mohammed), Sammy (Raini Rodriguez) making it to the home of Ben’s girlfriend Gia (Beatrice Grannò) where their short respite is complicated by an unknown dinosaur in the area, Gia’s grandmother (Isabella Rossellini) and her hatred of dinosaurs, and the hatching of Bumpy‘s egg. We also catch up to Brooklyn (Kiersten Kelly), with a fancy new robotic arm, now working for Soyona Santos (Dichen Lachman) in her really awful plan to expose dino smuggling.

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Wednesday – The Devil You Woe

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  • Title: Wednesday – The Devil You Woe
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There’s quite a bit (perhaps too much?) jammed into the second episode of the show’s Second Season. We get the school practicing Prank Day (which has minimal effect on the plot outside of a couple of scenes), the murder of Donovan Galpin (Jamie McShane), Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) visiting Tyler (Hunter Doohan) in the mental institution where he has been locked away, Bianca (Joy Sunday) being blackmailed into charming Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones) into reaching out to her mother, Wednesday loosing her psychic abilities, and Wednesday needing to solve a mystery on the fly to rescue Enid (Emma Myers) from a secondary stalker (not the one previously discussed) which turns out to be a student (Evie Templeton) with the ability to become invisible.

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The Residence – Dial M for Murder / Knives Out

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  • Title: The Residence – Dial M for Murder / Knives Out
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Beginning with the Australian delegation, Cordelia Cupp (Uzo Aduba) continues to interview staff and guests piecing together a timeline of the night while looking for motive. The Foreign Minister (Brett Tucker) explains how he happens to be wearing a dead man’s shirt while also revealing some other activities he got into with the chef (Mary Wiseman) who had plenty of confrontations with everyone that night including the victim. The awkwardness of the situation allows Cordelia to pressure the Australians into helping lock down the White House and sniffing out what really happened to the head usher (Giancarlo Esposito).

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Good Cop / Bad Cop – The King’s Assassin

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  • Title: Good Cop / Bad Cop – The King’s Assassin
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Lou (Leighton Meester) and Henry (Luke Cook) investigate a trio of cyrpto bros after one of the dies of poisoning leaving the rest of the department to focus on Big Hank’s (Clancy Brown) charity fundraiser and the money that disappear during a sudden blackout. There isn’t much to either case, although there is some fun to be had watching Joe (Scott Lee) struggling to figure out who stole the money only to donate it to charity anonymously (which of course was Lou, attempting to teach her father a lesson) and given one of the suspects in the poisoning reminds Henry of his ex it does offer a bit more of a glimpse into his past.

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