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Peacemaker – A Whole New Whirled

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  • Title: Peacemaker – A Whole New Whirled
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Set five months after the events of The Suicide Squad, a recovered Peacemaker (John Cena) is pulled back into Task Force X albeit a few steps down from his previous position involving the fate of the world overseas. The opening episode of the series, written and directed by James Gunn, fits the tone and humor of the film while exploring the character in more detail. Cena is certainly having fun here as the clueless would-be-hero who loves peace so much he’ll kill everyone to achieve it, and the opener has some nice moments (my favorite being the reunion between Peacemaker and his sidekick Eagly).

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The Wheel of Time – Shadow’s Waiting

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  • Title: The Wheel of Time – Shadow’s Waiting
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“Shadow’s Waiting” finds our characters on the road running from the Trolloc army on the journey to the White Tower. The episode is notable for the characters taking brief respite in the dead city of Shadar Logoth. Spending less than a night there at least one character will be deeply affected and all will be forced to flee as the band is broken into pairs each forced to find their own way to Tar Valon over the next few episodes. The design of Shadar Logoth is easily my favorite locale of the first-half of the season and I’m sad to see the characters flee so quickly from its, admittedly evil, clutches. We also get the introduction to the Children of the Light who will cross paths with some of our characters again.

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Moon Knight – The Tomb

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  • Title: Moon Knight – The Tomb
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The appropriately titled fourth episode of the series gives us a Mummy-lite excavation into the tomb of Alexander the Great. There’s not much in the way of deciphering clues as Steven (Oscar Isaac) and Layla (May Calamawy) fight a creepy monster and then simply stumble around until the find what they came for. And, as foreshadowed, the truth about Layla’s father is revealed at an inopportune time as they also lead Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke) straight to the prize.

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NCIS: Hawai’i – Nurture

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  • Title: NCIS: Hawai’i – Nurture
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A mauled body in the jungle leads NCIS into a Fish & Wildlife case involving a shipwreck full of exotic animals including an apex predator now loose on the island along with a smuggler’s (Bronson Pinchot) missing crew and a taxedermist looking to collect the escaped animals including one in particular. Alisa Allapach and Charley Koontz guest-star as agents from Fish & Wildlife, one of whom catches Kai‘s (Alex Tarrant) eye. The episode’s B-story involves a sports-related injury to Tennant‘s (Vanessa Lachey) son Alex happening at the same time her ex-husband’s new wife gives birth to their first child. …

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Legacies – Everything That Can Be Lost May Also Be Found

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  • Title: Legacies – Everything That Can Be Lost May Also Be Found
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Legacies pulls in several familiar faces from The Originals as Hope’s (Danielle Rose Russell) family makes a concerted effort to reach her humanity. Rebekah (Claire Holt), Marcel (Charles Michael Davis), Kol (Nathaniel Buzolic), and Freya (Riley Voelkel) are all brought back as is the Michaelson family home in New Orleans where the distribution of her father’s ashes becomes the key to giving Hope’s humanity a fighting chance at retaking her body. Fans of The Originals should enjoy the reunions, although I was half-expecting them to find a way to work in the characters who didn’t make it through the show in one form or another. While the episode ends with her humanity restored, her darker self isn’t gone completely suggesting a new status quo for the character moving forward.

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