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The Blacklist – Benjamin T. Okara

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  • Title: The Blacklist – Benjamin T. Okara
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The latest case, involving someone killing using secret DARPA technology to murder the scientists who designed it, takes a backseat to several ongoing B-stories involving someone framing Harold Cooper (Harry Lennix) for murder, Alina‘s (Laura Sohn) health and a bombshell dropped on her marriage, and trouble for Raymond Reddington (James Spader) regarding Dembe‘s (Hisham Tawfiq) work for the FBI. The later causes Red to question his return again when Dembe’s life is put in danger by a potential ally and he’s forced to choose whether to protect Dembe or allow him to come to harm. It’s unfortunate that the Blacklister and the invention get bumped for so many of these other stories that aren’t nearly as interesting (although the Dembe storyline does end in a tease as to what Reddington left his former comrade in a box).

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Psych 3: This is Gus

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  • Title: Psych 3: This is Gus
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Determined to discover what secrets his best-friend’s fiancé is hiding, Shawn (James Roday Rodriguez) begins poking his nose into Selene‘s (Jazmyn Simon) past in the latest Psych TV-movie made for the Peacock Network. All of the regulars are back, including Timothy Omundson as Carlton Lassiter who is able to do a little more this time around as the actor continues to work back from his stroke.

There are plenty of antics after Shawn drags a reluctant Gus (Dulé Hill) down a rabbit hole searching for answers about who the woman carrying Gus’ child truly is. The craziness includes a fight in a men’s room and a pair of ridiculous disguises for the duo (one of which involves a ventriloquist dummy) while checking out Selene’s old apartment.

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Hawkeye – Never Meet Your Heroes

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  • Title: Hawkeye – Episode 1
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The first episode of Disney+’s Hawkeye, notably being marketed as a mini-series and not a first season, involves two separate threads that will be brought together in the final scene. The breakdown is somewhere around 65% to 35% with the bulk of the episode focused on the introduction of Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld) whose love of archery and desire to protect comes from her experiences witnessing the Chitauri Invasion of New York and her first look at Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner). Years later, the talented college student returns home after some trouble at school to snoop into her mother’s (Vera Farmiga) new fiancé (Tony Dalton) which leads to a black market auction and the reason for putting her on a path to meet her hero.

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Legacies – We All Knew This Day Was Coming / See You On The Other Side

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  • Title: Legacies – We All Knew This Day Was Coming / See You On The Other Side
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Since the character’s introduction in The Originals, and through the first three seasons of Legacies involving the character’s connection to Malivore, there has been a promise and destiny waiting to be fulfilled. “We All Knew This Day Was Coming” offers the calm before the storm with Hope (Danielle Rose Russell) living her last day among family and friends before choosing to end her life, triggering her vampire side, and truly taking on the mantle of the tribrid. 

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The Lost Symbol – Order Eight

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  • Title: The Lost Symbol – Order Eight
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The search for portal and the mysterious power continues as Robert (Ashley Zukerman) uncovers a clue on the pyramid and hopes to use that knowledge to lure Mal’akh (Beau Knapp). Of course, things don’t go as planned. Much of the episode is devoted to more clue deciphering, with increasing ridiculousness making it feel like the worst possible National Treasure sequel, we also get Robert and the FBI betraying each other, and Mal’akh quite easily seeing through the ploy. The episode also teases the power of the technology Mal’akh got from the Freemasons, and how its ability to create specific frequencies might play into his plans to unlock the power he is searching for. By the end of the episode, the madman has once again outplayed the other characters and taken one step closer to his goal.

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