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Phineas and Ferb – Deconstructing Doof

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Starting out by introducing that both Candace (Ashley Tisdale) and Doofenshmirtz (Dan Povenmire) are patients of the same psychologist,, “Deconstructing Doof” has some fun with the premise as the doctor comes to see a pattern in both patients’ delusions and uncovers a connection to a truth that he will share with the world. Sadly for Dr. Mosley Shamai (Brendan Hunt), his attempts at proving the truth fair no better than that of Candice as Doofenshmirtz’s latest invention, with the help of Perry, erases all proof just seconds before his big presentation. Highlights of the episode include the patients’ duet of “No One Understands Me,” Phineas (Vincent Martella) and Ferb‘s (David Errigo Jr.) giant disco blimp (which goes unnoticed by hundreds of people), and the good doctor’s nervous breakdown on stage (which oddly comforts Candice).

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Countdown – Happy Birthday Final

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  • Title: Countdown – Happy Birthday Final
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Things start to get silly in “Happy Birthday Final” as Meachum (Jensen Ackles) puts together a ridiculous plan involving a fake prison escape to get more information from a guy who might, might, have connections to attack being planned on U.S. soil. And, surprise, surprise, something goes wrong providing a turning point where two members of the team are shot (for questionable intel) allowing the local Attorney General (Merrick McCartha) to put some added pressure on the team when the tension should be coming from preventing the attack. Also of note, Violett Beane is pretty cute her planning a surprise party for one of her teammates (even if that thread seems to come from an entirely different show).

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Ballard – Library of Lost Souls

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  • Title: Ballard – Library of Lost Souls
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Spinning off from the Bosch series, the opening episode of Ballard introduces us to Maggie Q as LAPD Detective Renée Ballard who fits the classic mode of a smart and tough cop whose obsessive search for the truth rubs some the wrong way. Something, alluded to multiple times in the episode but not yet revealed in full, got Ballard shunned to the ass-end of the LAPD. Newly demoted to head of LAPD’s Cold Case unit, Ballard works mostly with retirees and volunteers attempting to solve older crimes everyone else has given up on.

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Foundation – A Song for the End of Everything

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  • Title: Foundation – A Song for the End of Everything
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It doesn’t take long into the first episode of the new season of Foundation to remind me of my problems with the series. “A Song for the End of Everything” isn’t centered around the Foundation, although we do get one scene involving a single character (Alexander Siddig) taking with the Hari Seldon AI (Jared Harris), which ultimately doesn’t add anything to the story (other than get the Star Trek actor on-screen), the focus almost entirely on the decaying Empire which David Goyer has used as a throughline for the series continually returning us to the inbred clones of Trantor. While less involved, other than her narration, the show also brings back the overused crutch of Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell) as well who awakes from cryosleep in time to interject herself into events as Goyer’s deus ex machina rather than allow the next generation of the Foundation to fight their own battles.

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Rick and Morty – Ricker than Fiction

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After an extreme reaction to the latest sequel in the Maximum Velocitree franchise, Rick (Ian Cardoni) and Morty (Harry Belden) set out to prove they can do better. However, after the pair are pulled into Movie-lizer Rick creates to fix the movie script they are forced to make all their changes make sense and find a way to get back to a reasonable ending which is the only way they can escape the movie. With more of nod to Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s “Elementary, Dear Data” than the movie it steals its title from, a simple misspoken sentence by Rick leads to the trouble the pair find themselves in leaving Jerry (Chris Parnell) to try and right the script from the real world.

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