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Wolf Like Me – Episode 1

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  • Title: Wolf Like Me – Episode 1
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The opening episode of Wolf Like Me introduces us to widower and struggling single father Gary (Josh Gad) who literally crashes into Mary (Isla Fisher) in a car accident. Aside from having a way to calm Gary’s emotionally-troubled daughter (Ariel Donoghue), Mary also catches Gary’s attention for her kind ear and odd behavior. The show’s opener teases the idea of Mary’s condition, more strongly in the final minute where she races home hoping to beat sundown and lock herself away, without confirming she is indeed a werewolf.

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Reacher – Spoonful

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  • Title: Reacher – Spoonful
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While anyone with answers continues to either go missing our show up dead, Reacher (Alan Ritchson) discovers some answers from his brother’s co-worker offering the first clue into the counterfeiting which is happening in Margrave. It will take most of the season for Reacher and his friends to grapple just how the counterfeit operation works, but it’s clear that all roads continue to lead back to to Kliner Industries.

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Naomi – Enigma

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  • Title: Naomi – Enigma
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After discovering that her parents knew she arrived from another world, Naomi McDuffie (Kaci Walfall) sets out to learn as much about her murky origins as possible. The flashbacks to “Enigma” are underwhelming to say the least, especially compared to how the reveal works in the original comics. I’m not sure if Naomi’s parents are still hiding more details from her (like say one of her parents also not being from this world) or if the episode’s writing is simply substandard and will continue to recon story and plot at random as the series has done repeatedly since the first episode to offer underwhelming reveals.

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Spenser: For Hire – Angel of Desolation

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  • Title: Spenser: For Hire – Angel of Desolation
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to the mean streets of Boston and the travails of a smart ass private detective. “Angel of Desolation” follows a formula found in Robert B. Parker’s original novels with Spenser (Robert Urich) being fired from a job before it is complete but deciding to continue to work under the mystery is solved. His client in “Angel of Desolation” is a popular model (Shelly Burch) married into old Boston money. Although she’s obviously frightened of something (even more than the drive by attack Spenser prevents), our intrepid investigator is let go by the family.

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The Book of Boba Fett – The Gathering Storm

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  • Title: The Book of Boba Fett – Chapter 4: The Gathering Storm
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Another episode that primarily focuses on an extended flashback, “Chapter 4” offers us Boba Fett‘s (Temuera Morrison) discovery of the wounded Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen), his decision to save her life, and the beginnings of the pair’s working relationship involving reclaiming Slave I from Jabba’s Palace and taking some revenge on both the Kintan Striders and the Sarlaac. Sneaking into, and escaping from, Jabba’s Palace is given the most time in the episode getting us closer and closer to who Boba was at the time of his first appearance in The Mandalorian.

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