Television Reviews

The Terminal List – The Engram

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  • Title: The Terminal List – The Engram
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The first episode of The Terminal List introduces us to Lieutenant Commander James Reece (Chris Pratt) and the operation overseas to take down a terrorist which goes bad, leaving almost all of his men dead. Reece gets his bell rung during the ambush by the locals, showing signs of a severe concussion throughout the remainder of the episode and setting him up as an unreliable narrator for what will follow. After returning home, Reece’s accounts conflict with the audio recordings of the missing, leading him to believe someone has doctored the mission logs (but we are never given a viable reason why someone would do this as events aren’t changed overall, only the member of the unit who triggered the trap is different than Reece’s recollections).

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SkyMed – Line Indoc

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  • Title: SkyMed – Line Indoc
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The second episode of SkyMed furthers the various internal drama of the nurses and pilots including Lexi (Mercedes Morris) beginning her new life of a pilot and facing animosity from those other in line for the open position (who are never called out for shirking their responsibilities?), guilt for accepting the position while keeping quiet about why the plane crashed, and hazing in her new role by a distracted Bodie (Aason Nadjiwon) whose secrets will be revealed concerning both his new job and pregnant girlfriend. 

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Fairfax – Career Day

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  • Title: Fairfax – Career Day
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Career Day comes to Fairfax and, not unexpectedly, things quickly get out of control. While both Derica (Kiersey Clemons) and Benny (Peter S. Kim) get interns with Girlbossier, and Derica is quickly fast-tracked as the new urban look for the company, Dale (Skyler Gisondo) gets assigned to Off-Brian and Truman (Jaboukie Young-White) has an unexpected reunion with Cerise (Camila Mendes) in the AI world of Welch’s. Each one has their own separate adventure, although Derica’s is the most notable for blackmailing the CEO (Annie Murphy) of the company for real change rather than just the appearance the corporation was all too pleased with.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – All Those Who Wander

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  • Title: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – All Those Who Wander
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds overcorrects the follow up to the all too cute “The Elysian Kingdom” with a horror episode that brings back the Gorn and sees the exit of not one but two major characters. Certainly better than the previous episode, “All Those Who Wander” goes a bit too far to the other side of the spectrum with an Alien-esque story of Captain Pike (Anson Mount) and a handful of other character skulking around a crashed ship avoiding rabid alien creatures who impregnate their hosts and burst out of their bodies. The results are memorable, if nearly as far from classic Trek tone as the previous episode.

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Batman – Fine Finny Fiends / Batman Makes the Scenes

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  • Title: Batman – Fine Finny Fiends / Batman Makes the Scenes
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to the 1966 Batman TV-series starring Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as Robin. The Penguin‘s (Burgess Meredith) men kidnap Alfred (Alan Napier) to brainwash the butler in cluing them into the time and location of a multi-millionaires dinner. After releasing the brainwashed butler back into the wild, Penguin leaves a clue to lure Batman and a Robin into one of the series’ weirder traps on the Gotham Pier involving pop-up umbrellas and exploding balloons. The episode also works in the woman (Julie Gregg) of Penguin’s crew as part of the larger plot to take the place of a beauty pageant winner and offer the distraction to rob the millionaires.

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