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Ms. Marvel – Crushed

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  • Title: Ms. Marvel – Crushed
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Aside from a SHAZAM!-ish montage of Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani) testing out her powers and the mixed results of a late save attempt, the second episode of Ms. Marvel continues to keep the focus on , her friends, and her family. Kamala convinces Nakia (Yasmeen Fletcher) to run for an election at the temple and, in her attempt to earn the vote of Kamal’s father (Mohan Kapur) we discover why you don’t want to get on her bad side. We get a potential love interest with a new boy at school (Rish Shah), although there are plenty of hints throughout there is more to him than what he seems which will confirmed in the cliffhanger ending as he saves Kamala from the creepy government agency who attacks her for daring to attempt to save a young boy in trouble (did Captain America have to put up with this?).

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Halo – Homecoming

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  • Title: Halo – Homecoming
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The appropriately-titled “Homecoming” offers stories of both Master Chief (Pablo Schreiber) and Kwan (Yerin Ha) returning home. While Kwan discovers she can’t really go home again and the revolution she hoped to rejoin is dead, John makes some discoveries in returning to his childhood home as he leads Dr. Halsey (Natascha McElhone) to the larger artifact. While the artifact is the big find, John’s discovery of meeting Halsey before his parents’ death, something the doctor inelegantly sidesteps when it’s brought up, suggests there is much more hidden about John’s past than has so far been revealed. As for Kwan, that storyline continues to spin its wheels, although hopefully Makee‘s (Charlie Murphy) eventual arrival on Madrigal might help.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Memento Mori

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  • Title: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Memento Mori
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“Memento Mori” has the feel of a submarine battle deep under the ocean which also works as a callback to the memorable space battle in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. We begin on Starfleet Remembrance Day with the Enterprise arriving to offer support to a settlement that has been attacked, unaware the survivors are only bait left by the Gorn. Offering a tense and action-packed episode, “Memento Mori” follows the trend of using the story to explore the past of a specific member of the crew. This time its Lieutenant La’an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong), one of the few victims of the Gorn ever to make it out alive.

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Legacies – This Can Only End in Blood

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  • Title: Legacies – This Can Only End in Blood
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The penultimate episode of Legacies caps the gods storyline in an episode that features the death of several main characters who return at the end thanks to the help of Landon (Aria Shahghasemi), who is left with his own price to pay. As for the big fight between Hope (Danielle Rose Russell) and Ken (Luke Mitchell), which the show has struggled to properly lead up to points in the season, we get another swerve with Hope first having to battle Aurora de Martel (Rebecca Breeds) albeit in a far different manner than how her father would have dealt with her. In other spots, Cleo (Omono Okojie) embraces her role as a Fury to help with Ken’s final takedown. 

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Kung Fu – Alliance

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  • Title: Kung Fu – Alliance
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After exhausting all other options to find Mia (Vanessa Yao), Nicky (Olivia Liang) reaches out to Zhilan (Yvonne Chapman) for help. Despite their distrust of each other, the pair work good together, and her addition is the last piece necessary to find Russel Tan (Kee Chan). Unfortunately, despite discovering several facets of Russell Tan’s plan and the location where he plans to ring the bell, our heroes aren’t able to stop events as Tan uses Mia’s blood, the body of his own son, and the hammer and bell to create an earthquake across the city.

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