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Stargirl – Summer School: Chapter Thirteen

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  • Title: Stargirl – Summer School: Chapter Thirteen
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Stargirl wraps up its Second Season with everyone on deck for the final battle against Eclipso and the arrival of Sylvester Pemberton (Joel McHale) to Blue Valley as the older generation shows up not to take something away from Courtney (Brec Bassinger) but to offer help at her darkest hour and stick around to show Stargirl a few tricks with the staff next season.  I’ll be interested to see McHale in the role of mentor to Stargirl, and see how Sylvester and Pat (Luke Wilson) may clash as their old hero/sidekick dynamic is replaced by something new.

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Foundation – Barbarians at the Gate

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  • Title: Foundation – Barbarians at the Gate
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Jumbling the second and third Foundation stories which take place decades apart, with content that was never part of the original stories from Isaac Asimov, and moving Salvor Hardin (Leah Harvey) even farther from the politician the character was in the original stories to some weird agent of fate, Foundation gears up for a more action-centered storyline as Hardin captures the leader (Kubbra Sait) of the Anacreon invasion force not realizing everything they are doing is playing into the intruders’ plans. While this Hardin is an interesting character, the longer this series continues the less if feels like Foundation.

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The Big Leap – We Were Just Babies / I Should Have Gone to Motown

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  • Title: The Big Leap – We Were Just Babies / I Should Have Gone to Motown
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In “We Were Just Babies” the truth about Sam’s (Crew Kingston Miskel) father is revealed when the show returns to Gabby (Simone Recasner) and Justin’s (Raymond Cham Jr.) high school bringing Gabby’s oldest secret to light by revealing her favorite teacher took advantage of her and then promptly dumped Gabby when she became pregnant with his child. The long-running thread has a far better payoff than I expected, and also gives us a look at the crew discussing what’s best to do with this information, both for Gabby and for the show, ultimately giving Gabby a strong moment to stand-up for herself.

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The Girl in the Woods – The Guardian

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  • Title: The Girl in the Woods – The Guardian
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The opening episode of the new Peacock series introduces us to a traumatized young woman named Carrie (Stefanie Scott) who abandons her religious commune in the woods and her responsibilities of protecting a door deep in the woods from which monsters can enter our world. The cult seems to have all the time in the world to search for Carrie but not offer any help in guarding the door from the horrors on the other side. When a young girl (Lily Jane) is taken by one of the monsters, Carrie will team up with the girl’s older brother (Misha Osherovich) and a new friend (Sofia Bryant) to find her. The search will continue past the show’s first episode, which may offer plenty of cliched young adult trapping thrown together on a shoestring budget but little reason to stick around and learn more about what’s really happening in the woods.

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The Blacklist – The Skinner (Conclusion)

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  • Title: The Blacklist – The Skinner (Conclusion)
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The season premiere of The Blacklist concludes with the team fully reinstated, Raymond Reddington (James Spader) using a case to bolster his own power base once again, and the safe return of the kidnapped family. While the team is successful without the help of a profiler, the tactic of running to tell daddy (i.e. the former heads of the secret organization) on the bad guy of the week isn’t exactly one of the show’s strongest resolutions. Still missing an important piece of the team, and a key member of the show’s cast, can The Blacklist find it’s footing without Elizabeth Keen? Evidence so far is inconclusive.

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