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Good Cop / Bad Cop – Peace in the Valley

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  • Title: Good Cop / Bad Cop – Peace in the Valley
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Good Cop / Bad Cop stars Leighton Meester as Lou Hickman, the lead detective on an underfunded small town police force run by her father (Clancy Brown) in desperate of help. In the opening episode, Lou’s brother Henry (Luke Cook), who left home after a dust up with his father years ago, is failing yet again to earn his detective badge in Seattle due to his woeful interpersonal skills. Killing two birds with one stone, Big Hank offers Henry a detective badge if he returns home and joins the force (which of course isn’t the kind of help Lou had in mind).

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Ballard – BYOB

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  • Title: Ballard – BYOB
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Investigation into other cases is largely put on hold as Ballard (Maggie Q) and her team are ordered to reopen a different cold case involving the death of a young man at a fraternity given the victim’s sister and her most recent stunt getting play on social media. In that aspect, “BYOB” is mostly a case-of-the-week episode where the truth behind the crime isn’t what anyone initially expects. There are scenes here and there tied to the larger mystery including Martina (Victoria Moroles) being stalked by one of the lower-ranking members of the conspiracy and Ballard and confirming evidence from years ago was destroyed until suspicious circumstances including forgery of a retiring cop to hide who within the department wanted the bullet destroyed. And we get several scenes involving Parker (Courtney Taylor) agonizing over if she really wants to return to duty (despite all outward signs showing she’s pretty much all-in at this point).

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Rick and Morty – The CuRicksous Case of Bethjamin Button

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  • Title: Rick and Morty – The CuRicksous Case of Bethjamin Button
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As Rick (Ian Cardoni) takes Morty (Harry Belden), Summer (Spencer Grammer), and Jerry (Chris Parnell) to an alien theme park based on Earth which if far less bizarre and crazy than he claimed, the episode’s B-story features Beth (Sarah Chalke) and Space Beth de-aging themselves back to kids in an attempt to rediscover the joy that both have lost. The main story is a thin excuse for the show to get as crazy as possible when the park beneath the park is revealed. It’s the Beth storyline of the pair working out their ennui and pained frustrations to both their lives and their father that has a bit more meat on the bone. It also provides a couple of interesting nuggets in revealing how batshit-crazy-awful Beth was as a kid and the lengths Rick takes to try and control their neighbor Gene‘s (Tom Kenny) response to the number of bizarre and crazy things he’s seen over the years.

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Foundation – When a Book Finds You / The Stress of Her Regard

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  • Title: Foundation – When a Book Finds You / The Stress of Her Regard
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As the Mule‘s (Pilou Asbæk) influence on Kalgan continues to grow, something which Han Pritcher (Brandon P Bell) gets a glimpse of for himself, “When a Book Finds You” and “The Stress of Her Regard” develop the partnership between Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell) and Brother Dawn (Cassian Bilton). Flashbacks explore how their conversations began while the current crisis forces Dawn into a difficult decision heading into a cliffhanger with not one but two Cleons abandoning their posts as Demerzel‘s (Laura Birn) actions to end his his problematic romance to a woman who worships robots which in turn forces Brother Day (Lee Pace) to leave the palace as well. As one heads to the stars to a future he can’t fathom, the other dives deep into the planet in search of  something lost.

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The Librarians – And the House of Cards

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  • Title: The Librarians: The Next Chapter – And the House of Cards
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Coming back from the retrieval of an artifact, Lysa (Olivia Morris), Charlie (Jessica Green), and Connor (Bluey Robinson) find themselves redirected through the Door to a classic Agatha Christie mansion where a party, and series of murders, are underway. The Christie trappings, the importance of the tarot card reading (both in the real world and inside the prison), and the absence of Vikram Chamberlain (Callum McGowan), forcing them to work through the mystery themselves without the knowledge of their Librarian, are a some fun pieces to one of the season’s more memorable episodes.

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