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NCIS: Hawai’i – Primal Fear

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  • Title: NCIS: Hawai’i – Primal Fear
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A couple weeks too early for Halloween, “Primal Fear” offers a search for a serial killer who scares his victims to death after spiking their adrenaline and causing a coronary. The less-than-scary visage of the killer (i.e. random guy in a Halloween mask) doesn’t help sell the premise nor does the rather obvious suspect who is immediately identifiable as the likely killer after showing up on-screen. The episode also sees the return of Coast Guard Special Agent Neil Pike (Mark Gessner) and delivers on the breadcrumbs with Tennant (Vanessa Lachey) meeting his son’s older girlfriend (Sierra Swartz) leading to concerns she decides not the share.

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Abominable and the Invisible City – Everest Returns

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  • Title: Abominable and the Invisible City – Everest Returns
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Spinning out of the underrated 2019 animated feature Abominable, the new series brings back Everest (Darin De Paul) to Shanghai to help Yi (Chloe Bennet) with her magic and deal with a magical bird known as a Fenghuang which shows up in the restaurant in need of help. Offering reunions between the yeti an the the kids, the first episode of Abominable and the Invisible City also sets up the premise of the show with Yi, Jin (Tenzing Norgay Trainor), and Peng (Ethan Loh) helping a different magical creature in every episode.

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Rick and Morty – Juricksic Mort

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  • Title: Rick and Morty – Juricksic Mort
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Combining Arrival and Jurassic Park into a single idea, “Juricksic Mort” sees dinosaurs return to the Earth in spaceships to be surprised by humanity’s rise and offers to fix the world for them (which they do in record time). Rick‘s (Justin Roiland) obsession to prove himself better to the dinos leads to a discovery about mildly-sentient asteroids out to destroy them. While not one of the strongest episodes, there’s fun to be had such as the family turning to Jerry (Chris Parnell) as the expert on how to get by doing nothing (now that nothing is needed).

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She-Hulk: Attorney at Law – Episode 8

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  • Title: She-Hulk: Attorney at Law – Ribbit and Rip It
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Well, at least the Daredevil scenes were fun. Sandwiched between the show’s mediocre sitcom writing about a super-hero lawyer who dosen’t do much super-heroing or lawyering, the meat of the episode offers the return of Charlie Cox both in and out of costume as Matt Murdock and Daredevil. Also, points for getting the yellow version of Daredevil on screen (even if the reason for the change in costume is never addressed). For a series fumbling around the idea of female empowerment, there is some irony in the idea that it’s a man who gets Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany) back into the courtroom (as a lawyer and not a defendant) and into her super-hero costume for the first time.

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Stargirl – Chapter Five: The Thief

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  • Title: Stargirl – Chapter Five: The Thief
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As Courtney (Brec Bassinger) begins spending more time with Cameron (Hunter Sansone) and pulling away from the team, Sylvester (Joel McHale) steps up to fill the hole with another angry outburst and some questionable advice to Rick (Cameron Gellman), Mike (Trae Romano), and Yolanda (Yvette Monreal) foreshadowing trouble as Rick removes a safety on the hourglass and Yolanda makes a discovery that leads to more assumptions about Cindy (Meg DeLacy). As for the investigation into the murder of the Gambler (Eric Goins) no new suspects emerge. Flashbacks seem to clear Cindy of the crime, although Yolanda’s discovery of the laptop should lead to another confrontation between the pair.

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