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Jurassic World: Chaos Theory – Fire in the Piazza

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  • Title: Jurassic World: Chaos Theory – Fire in the Piazza
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As expected, the introduction of Smoothie offered up the opportunity for the baby dinosaur to get lost and for an episode set aside to find him. Bringing the group back together, it also allows for them to find some common ground on their other lost friend (despite her own choices leading to her current predicament). Speaking of Brooklyn (Kiersten Kelly) she continues to find cracks in Soyona Santos (Dichen Lachman) and her partnerships which could be exploited in future episodes. And, after teasing it, we finally see the Pyroraptor which offers a showdown between in at the raptors.

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The Residence – The Third Man

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  • Title: The Residence – The Third Man
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After seeing a number of suspects, and hearing testimony from a number of people who witnessed events in The White House that night, “The Third Man” offers some context on how the the investigation ended, where Cordelia Cupp (Uzo Aduba) has been all this time, and identifies the mysterious “Third Man” (Timothy Hornor) who appeared at the state dinner without anyone knowing who he was and witnessed someone moving a body. Although the focus shifts from the investigation to different locals in future (the hearing, Cupp in The Amazon searching for the elusive giant antpitta, and Park (Randall Park) acting as the middle man to get to the truth while riding a kiddie train) all the parts blend wonderfully together to create one of the series best episodes and set the stage for the truth to finally be revealed.

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The Sandman – Brief Lives

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  • Title: The Sandman – Brief Lives
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With no real intention of success, Morpheus (Tom Sturridge) agrees to help his sister Delirium (Esmé Creed-Miles) in her search to find their missing brother believing there’s a chance he might run across Nada (Umulisa Gahiga) on their travels. However, all he does is further infuriate his siblings. The old friends of the missing Destruction (Barry Sloane) turn up dead, infuriating Desire (Mason Alexander Park), and Delirium learns the truth of Dream’s manipulation abandoning her siblings and locking herself up in her realm. While Creed-Miles’ Delirium is fun to behold, and there’s certainly more to Destruction that we’ve yet to see, Morpheus’ continued obsession with Nada isn’t what I was hoping for given the limited number of stories left to tell and how much more of his world there is yet to explore.

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Jurassic World: Chaos Theory – Villa Paradiso / The Queen’s Court

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  • Title: Jurassic World: Chaos Theory – Villa Paradiso / The Queen’s Court
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Following their escape from the secret facility, “Villa Paradiso” and “The Queen’s Court” focus on Ben (Sean Giambrone), Kenji (Darren Barnet), Darius (Paul-Mikél Williams), Yaz (Kausar Mohammed), Sammy (Raini Rodriguez) making it to the home of Ben’s girlfriend Gia (Beatrice Grannò) where their short respite is complicated by an unknown dinosaur in the area, Gia’s grandmother (Isabella Rossellini) and her hatred of dinosaurs, and the hatching of Bumpy‘s egg. We also catch up to Brooklyn (Kiersten Kelly), with a fancy new robotic arm, now working for Soyona Santos (Dichen Lachman) in her really awful plan to expose dino smuggling.

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Wednesday – The Devil You Woe

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  • Title: Wednesday – The Devil You Woe
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There’s quite a bit (perhaps too much?) jammed into the second episode of the show’s Second Season. We get the school practicing Prank Day (which has minimal effect on the plot outside of a couple of scenes), the murder of Donovan Galpin (Jamie McShane), Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) visiting Tyler (Hunter Doohan) in the mental institution where he has been locked away, Bianca (Joy Sunday) being blackmailed into charming Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones) into reaching out to her mother, Wednesday loosing her psychic abilities, and Wednesday needing to solve a mystery on the fly to rescue Enid (Emma Myers) from a secondary stalker (not the one previously discussed) which turns out to be a student (Evie Templeton) with the ability to become invisible.

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