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Abominable and the Invisible City – Welcome Home, Everest!

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  • Title: Abominable and the Invisible City – Welcome Home, Everest!
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Putting their mission to find and help magical creatures in the city on hold, Yi (Chloe Bennet), Jin (Tenzing Norgay Trainor), and Peng (Ethan Loh) need to help Everest (Darin De Paul) who isn’t used to the warmer temperatures of a summer in Shanghai. A short cool down in the restaurant’s freezer offers a temporary solution, but in order to save their friend the kids will reach out to the reformed Burnish (Alan Cumming) who, after initially refusing, decides to help by building a cooling chamber for the yeti on the roof allowing Everest to stay with Yin.

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Stargirl – Chapter Six: The Betrayal

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  • Title: Stargirl – Chapter Six: The Betrayal
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Yolanda (Yvette Monreal) shares her discovery with the team, but gets caught by Cindy (Meg DeLacy) while putting back to laptop as the years of animosity between the pair boil over leading to more dirty laundry aired by the increasingly dysfunctional team. Feeling appropriately betrayed and her privacy invaded, Cindy to have little interest in helping the JSA moving forward. Mike (Trae Romano) and Jakeem (Alkoya Brunson), unaware of what has happened within the JSA, continue their attempts to recruit Cindy to get their own team off the ground. Will Cindy’s split with the JSA be their opening?

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Andor – Episode 6

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  • Title: Andor – Episode 6
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The sixth episode of Andor finally gets to the heist, although the show’s method of drawing events out unnecessarily continues even during the heist itself often flashing to events elsewhere on the military base or with the locals amassing to view the celestial event. The choice would seem to be done in attempt to draw out the tension of events even longer. However, the result is actually the opposite as editing of the episode continually undercuts and distracts from the events the show has finally gotten around to delivering. If Andor was a comic book series it would be a three-issue story stretched thinly over an entire year’s run where you could easily miss two or three months at a time and still have no trouble staying caught up with the story.

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Silk Stalkings – The Sock Drawer

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  • Title: Silk Stalkings – The Sock Drawer
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to the unsolved crimes of passion in the wealthy playground of Palm Beach, Florida. William Lucking guest-stars as a prominent police commander who enjoys taping his wife (Patsy Pease) having sex with other men. Through a bit of a convoluted set-up, Stonewell (Lucking) gets into a public shoot-out with Chris (Rob Estes) and Rita (Mitzi Kapture) while killing one of his his wife’s lovers who discovered he was being recorded. Stonewell attempts to sweep up everything under the rug, which includes throwing and under the bus who were the ones at fault in the shooting.

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The Umbrella Academy – Wedding at the End of the World

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  • Title: The Umbrella Academy – Wedding at the End of the World
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In the calm prior to the final two episodes of the season, with nearly the entire world swallowed up by nothingness, Luther (Tom Hopper) and Sloane (Genesis Rodriguez) decide to get married. The episode offers us a bachelor party, the wedding and reception, and a nice family moment that even Ben (Justin H. Min) gets let into. We also see Allison (Emmy Raver-Lampman) remain a bitch and refuse to reconcile with Viktor (Elliot Page), and a drunken Five (Aidan Gallagher) gets a glimpse of something which will impact the final two episodes of the season, the journey into the Hotel Oblivion, and beyond. Aside from the fact the all reality is ending, it’s a fun and lighthearted episode, although dark times aren’t far away.

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