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Fairfax – So You Think You Can Grieve?

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  • Title: Fairfax – So You Think You Can Grieve?
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As the students of fight over who can turn their grief into the largest spectacle and earn the most social media likes following the news that Principal Weston (Colton Dunn) has died, Dale (Skyler Gisondo) discovers Weston faked his own death and is living in the bowels of the school. Weston blackmailing Dale to keep his secret, however, nearly gets the principal killed for real.

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Obi-Wan Kenobi – Part VI

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  • Title: Obi-Wan Kenobi – Part VI
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Taken in a vacuum, there’s some interesting aspects to the closing episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Taken as part of the whole, “Part VI” continues the trend of uneven writing and bad decision making leaving the finale, like many of the episodes before it, being pretty damn infuriating. After a strong opening episode, the show fell into traps thanks to some bad writing, ignoring Star Wars canon while constantly stealing from it and building its story from its now shaky foundations, and some questionable choices by nearly every single character who appears on-screen. While it delivers a handful of moments fans were salivating for, how it gets to them (and even how it uses them) are often mediocre at best. Is Obi-Wan Kenobi fun? At times. Was it a good show? No, not really.

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Only Murders in the Building – Open and Shut

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  • Title: Only Murders in the Building – Open and Shut
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The First Season finale of Only Murders in the Building finally solves the murder that occured in the The Arconia which brought together three strangers to make a podcast, solve a crime, and break out of their comfort zones. Believing they have uncovered evidence that points to Jan (Amy Ryan) having a relationship with Tim Kono (Julian Cihi), which makes her a prime suspect in his murder, Oliver (Martin Short) and Mabel (Selena Gomez) attempt to prove their theory to Charles (Steve Martin) who elicits his own confession from his girlfriend (but not before she successfully poisons him as well and sets out to murder everyone in the building to cover her tracks). 

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Halo – Reckoning

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  • Title: Halo – Reckoning
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With the larger artifact within the grasp of the UNSC, and Master Chief (Pablo Schreiber) dealing with some serious trust issues with Dr. Halsey (Natascha McElhone), various internal drama is put on hold with the arrival of the Covenant whose arrival not only leads to their aliens the artifact from the humans but also Kai (Kate Kennedy) struggling with the emotions of battle and the show finally interjecting Makee (Charlie Murphy) into the main storyline. Meanwhile, the storyline of Kwan (Yerin Ha) continues along its own path that feels increasingly disconnected from the other characters of the show. While far from a great episode, “Reckoning” does at least manage to push events forward for multiple characters and offer quite a bit of furious action in its final moments.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Spock Amok

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  • Title: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Spock Amok
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Following the tense and dramatic “Memento Mori,” Star Trek: Strange New Worlds shift gears for a far lighter episode featuring the Enterprise in space dock that turns out to be the best episode of the series so far. The title of the episode comes from the arrival of Spock’s fiancé T’Pring (Gia Sandhu). In an attempt to bridge the gap between them and understand each other’s position, the Vulcans take part in a ritual that unintentionally swaps their consciousness into each other’s bodies. Despite neither being happy about it, hijinks ensue as Spock (who is actually T’Pring in Spock’s body) is needed in delicate trade negotiations with the R’ongovian Protectorate and T’Pring (who is actually Spock in T’Pring’s body) is called into duty to help with a Vulcan who will only meet with her.

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