Television Reviews

Superman & Lois – What Lies Beneath

  • Title: Superman & Lois – What Lies Beneath
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Superman & Lois returns for its Second Season with characters trying to get back to normal after the summer. Lois (Elizabeth Tulloch) is in uber-bitch mode while still not dealing with the emotions that a daughter from a different reality is walking around Smallville. Most of the episode deals with teens as Natalie (Tayler Buck) struggles with fitting in to a new world (and apparently will become part of the family), Sarah (Inde Navarrette) begins pulling back from Jordan (Alex Garfin) after returning from her summer trip, and Jonathan (Jordan Elsass) continues to struggle with the team while also getting a little frisky with his girlfriend sending an already tense Lois over the edge. Although less featured, Lana‘s (Emmanuelle Chriqui) role in the political campaign seems to set the stage for a larger arc which will play out over the season.

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Naomi – Don’t Believe Everything You Think

  • Title: Naomi – Don’t Believe Everything You Think
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Based on the six-issue mini-series by Brian Michael Bendis and David Walker, the opening episode of The CW’s latest super-hero series introduces us to adopted teenager, and Superman mega-fan, Naomi McDuffie (Kaci Walfall). There are some differences to the original comic as Superman is more myth than fact in this reality (making you wonder which world in the Arrowverse Naomi takes place in) adding a different take on Naomi missing the Man of Steel’s appearance in the out-of-way town of Port Oswego when even several witnesses are willing to believe was some kind of stunt.

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NCIS: Los Angeles – A Land of Wolves

  • Title: NCIS: Los Angeles – A Land of Wolves
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With the help of Hanna‘s (LL Cool J) visiting friend (Briana Marin), a short-staffed NCIS team searches for a missing Kensi (Daniela Ruah) who disappeared near the Mexican border while working undercover investigating a smuggling operation. It takes some time to make sense of a crime scene involving five dead who weren’t killed by the cartel but by a local militia group led by a cultish whackjob (Jolene Andersen) out to protect America from those seeking the American dream by gunning down unarmed refugees in the woods.

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Scooby-Doo! – A Tiki Scare is No Fair

  • Title: Scooby Doo, Where Are You! – A Tiki Scare is No Fair
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! for another mystery involving some meddling kids and their talking dog. While on vacation in Hawaii (where they also brought the Mystery Machine suggesting they somehow drove it to Hawaii?), Mystery, Inc. takes a case involving a Witch Doctor (John Stephenson), the disappearance of several locals, and a giant statue of Hawaiian god Mano Tiki Tia come to life. In the end, the reason behind the Witch Doctor and statue are explained by crooks looking to scare away both locals and tourists in order to hide their pearl-poaching operation.

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Charlie’s Angels – Angel Baby

  • Title: Charlie’s Angels – Angel Baby
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to the tale of three beautiful former police officers turned private detectives working for a faceless boss known as Charlie. A friend (Scott Colomby) from Kelly‘s (Jaclyn Smith) past, gone AWOL in search of his missing girlfriend (Sunny Johnson), puts the Angels on a case involving black market babies. Kelly goes in undercover as a pregnant woman looking to sell her baby after its birth. Sabrina (Kate Jackson) and Bosley (David Doyle) pose as an entitled rich couple willing to pay whatever price is necessary to procure the baby of their choice. And in a separate thread, Kris (Cheryl Ladd) tackles a different end of the operation finding herself propositioned to giving birth to the scam’s big commodity.

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