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The Santa Clauses – Good to Ho

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  • Title: The Santa Clauses – Chapter One: Good to Ho
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Picking up the threads of The Santa Clause film franchise 28 years after the original film (and 16 years since the last entry), the new series deals with an aging Scott Calvin (Tim Allen) dealing with a dwindling list of kids still believing in Santa Claus and his Christmas magic beginning to fail. While first ignoring his problems after trouble one Christmas, he must face the truth when circumstances repeat the next year. If Santa feels a bit worn down so does the series trying to squeeze some Christmas magic out of a franchise that dried up over a decade and a half ago.

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Rick and Morty – A Rick in King Mortur’s Mort

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  • Title: Rick and Morty – A Rick in King Mortur’s Mort
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Remember that time Morty (Justin Roiland) started a war across the entire solar system by refusing to cut off his penis? That’s the basic idea in “A Rick in King Mortur’s Mort” where a bored Morty becomes a Knight of the Sun only to then disillusion the lot about their religion and, unknowingly, start a war between the various tribes of the solar system. A wacky take on King Arthur, the episode is also notable for Rick‘s (Roiland) attempts to be less of an asshole for an episode which eventually gets on Morty’s nerves before leading to a callback from “The Vat of Acid Episode” to solve Morty’s problems.

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Stargirl – The Last Will and Testament of Sylvester Pemberton

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  • Title: Stargirl – Chapter Twelve: The Last Will and Testament of Sylvester Pemberton
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Following the death of the Crocks, the long-brewing Sylvester (Joel McHale) decides to take action, burning bridges with both Courtney (Brec Bassinger) and Pat (Luke Wilson) and leaving a few words of advice for the other new members of the JSA to continue to honor his fallen friends and build the ranks of the new JSA. Despite his friend’s harsh words, Pat refuses to let Starman face Icicle (Neil Jackson) alone, although he’s not prepared with how the night ends with the big reveal of the reasons behind Starman’s unstable behavior throughout the season.

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Kung Fu – Villains

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  • Title: Kung Fu – Villains
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As Zhilan (Yvonne Chapman), Nicky (Olivia Liang), and Henry (Eddie Liu) work together to use the soul-sucking sword to rid Pei-Ling (Vanessa Kai) of Xiao, the imprisoned Xiao sends her own apprentice to use the trust Bo (Ben Levin) has built up to betray Nicky and allow his shifu to take over the body of her shifu. With Bo throwing a wrench into their plans, Xiao’s spirit is able to escape into the body of one of Nicky’s friends as she contemplates the next step of her plan.

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Leverage: Redemption – The Tournament Job

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  • Title: Leverage: Redemption – The Tournament Job
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In “The Tournament Job” the team takes on an unscrupulous e-sports team owner (Pierson Fode) mentally and physically abusing his players for his own gain. The con allows Eliot (Christian Kane) to once again play a chef and offers Breanna (Aleyse Shannon) a larger role as a producer attempting to get their mark to publicly cheat. Although Leverage: Redemption has a different feel than the original series, “The Tournament Job” is one of the closest episodes of the reboot to a more classic Leverage episode including complications and a late twist, more of Parker (Beth Riesgraf) being Parker, some off-screen Hardison involvement, and a very public victory over the mark. Harry (Noah Wyle), who we learn is a gamer, also steps up with some non-legal help that turns out to be crucial to the con.

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