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Batwheels – Secret Origins of the Batwheels

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  • Title: Batwheels – Secret Origins of the Batwheels
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Created for preschool viewers, with plenty of merchandise to sell based on its characters, Batwheels brings the Batmobile and several other vehicles to life in an odd Batman meets Cars mashup. The first three episodes of the series give us Batman, Robin, and Batgirl along with several Bat-villains the trio put in jail. However, with the heroes lured away, a break-in at the Batcave calls for unorthodox security procedures by the Bat-Computer which brings the Batmobile to life. Over the course of the episode more Bat-Family vehicles will be brought to life as will the vehicles of the villains we saw in the opening.

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Leverage Redemption – The Date Night Job

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  • Title: Leverage Redemption – The Date Night Job
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On the eve of Hardison (Aldis Hodge) going into space, the show’s excuse to write off the character again, both he and Parker (Beth Riesgraf) separately talk to members of the team enlisting their help to break into a tax-free port housing millions in treasures including those of a recently-deceased woman whose collection will be on display at a private party. We get flashbacks filling in the various characters’ roles in setting in the night’s event, before jumping back to the present to deal with an unexpected problem. There’s fun Hardison and Parker back-and-forth leading to the break-in where things take a turn with the arrival of armed robbers at the party below who unintentionally trap the thief and hacker inside the safe.

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Stargirl – The Reckoning

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  • Title: Stargirl – Chapter Thirteen: The Reckoning
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Reading the writing on the wall, the season finale of Stargirl was filmed with two possible endings. One would tease next season’s arc and the other, in case the show was indeed cancelled, would wrap-up the series’ various storylines. With the announced cancellation of the series, it was the latter that aired which not only concluded the JSA’s battle with Icicle (Neil Jackson), Dr. Ito, and the Ultra-Huminate inside Sylvester (Joel McHale) body, but also offered a series of epilogue scenes to say farewell to fans and suggest what might have happened in upcoming seasons had the show been renewed.

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Willow – The High Aldwin / The Battle of the Slaughtered Lamb

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  • Title: Willow – The High Aldwin / The Battle of the Slaughtered Lamb
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While the second episode of Willow primarily focused on the failures of Willow (Warwick Davis) to teach Elora (Ellie Bamber) magic while the group theoretically started their search for the captured Airk (Dempsey Bryk), “The High Aldwin” ended with Elora captured by the zombie soldiers following them setting up the events of “The Battle of the Slaughtered Lambs” with our fellowship once again abandoning the quest to find the prince and instead searching for Elora.

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NCIS: Hawai’i – Desperate Measures

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  • Title: NCIS: Hawai’i – Desperate Measures
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NCIS butts heads with a local DEA task force after Commander Chase (Seana Kofoed) is kidnapped by one of the DEA’s confidential informants who the DEA believe is responsible for killing one of their agents. The episode never quite sells us on the idea of Santino (Ian Verdun) as a killer leading to an unsurprising twist when the captive medical examiner starts believing in his innocence. The trigger-happy agents of the DEA also make it all too easy to figure out what’s really going on.

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