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NCIS: Hawai’i – Spies

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  • Title: NCIS: Hawai’i – Spies Part 1 / Spies Part 2
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The two-part “Spies” story brings back Tennant‘s (Vanessa Lachey) mentor from the CIA Maggie Shaw (Julie White) when a colleague of hers is kidnapped. Thanks to the help of an intelligence officer (Beulah Koale) from New Zealand, NCIS knows to be on the lookout of a legendary Far East spy, who eventually kidnaps Maggie as well. However, holes in the story after Maggie’s rescue make Tennant begin to suspect her closest friend may not be exactly who she appears to be.

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Hawkeye – Echoes

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  • Title: Hawkeye – Echoes
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The third episode of Hawkeye finally finds Clint (Jeremy Renner) and Kate (Hailee Steinfeld) working together. The pair survive their encounter with the Tracksuit Mafia and Echo (Alaqua Cox) by fighting their way out of the abandoned warehouse and through the streets of New York (leaving quite a bit of destruction in their wake thanks to the variety of Hawkeye’s trick arrows). The arrows, and Kate’s reaction to them, aren’t the only humorous slant to the episode as Clint’s hearing aid gets damaged during the escape leading to some miscommunication between the pair. 

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Single Drunk Female – Pilot

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  • Title: Single Drunk Female – Pilot
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The opening episode of Single Drunk Female introduces us to walking dumpster fire Samantha Fink (Sofia Black-D’Elia) whose alcoholism costs the young woman her job, 30 days in rehab, community service for assault, and court-mandated attendance at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Forced to move back home, Sam’s sobriety only lasts a day before old habits resurface. Picking herself up once more, ignoring the passive-aggressiveness of a mother (Ally Sheedy) on her last nerve, who may have not been as supportive in the best of times, Sam’s new sober life begins again, this time in earnest.

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Alex Rider – Strike

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  • Title: Alex Rider – Strike
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In the Second Season finale of Alex Rider, Alex (Otto Farrant) and his friends are unable to prevent the launch of Damian Cray’s (Toby Stephens) game which secretly links the computers of various users all over the world creating a super computer for the evil billionaire. The evil plan makes just enough sense for YA fiction, and, despite it being a bit goofy, plays out fairly well. Cray’s targets include Air Force One, where he can obtain the final piece necessary to launch his attack, and Middle East drug fields which he plans to wipe out with a nuclear strike. 

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Supernatural Academy – Parallel Lives

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  • Title: Supernatural Academy – Parallel Lives
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Adapted from the “sexy urban fantasy” series by Jaymin Eve, the new animated Peacock series introduces us to a world of magic hidden from the regular world feeling quite reminiscent of Harry Potter and Legacies, giving us a cloaked school whose students include were-creatures (wolves, dragons, etc.), or shifters as they are called here, vampires, fairies, magic users, and more. It turns out students in the school are nearly as oblivious about the outside world (learning about it through old movies) as the outside world is of the Supernatural Academy. Although the books are for older readers, the plot, characters, tropes, and setting for the show is all typical Young Adult Fantasy.

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