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Cleopatra in Space – Do-Over

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Cleopatra in Space - Do-Over

Cleopatra (Lilimar) gets stuck in a shortening time loop in “Do-Over” as she attempts to get events of a stressful day right (and fail miserably each time). There are episodes of the series where Cleopatra embraces her new future home and those where the homesick girl attempts to run from it, “Do-Over” is the latter as her attempts to return home using a time machine still being built lead her to reliving the same day over and over (and struggling to make any meaningful changes). The final time through, Cleo does break the loop and seems to learn some lessons about the trouble she causes her friends (although we’ll see if those stick around longer than a single episode).

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Stargirl – Summer School: Chapter One

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Stargirl - Summer School: Chapter One TV review

Stargirl returns for its Second Season at the end of the school year. Although the town has been quiet since the defeat of the Injustice Society of America, the various members of the new Justice Society of America aren’t without their own issues. Coutney‘s (Brec Bassinger) hyper-vigilance has led her to flunk both English and History, putting a kybosh on the family’s summer plans. Beth (Anjelika Washington) is still struggling with the loss of Chuck, and the discovery of her parents’ divorce doesn’t do anything to help her mental state. Speaking of mental states, Yolanda (Yvette Monreal) is still haunted by Brainwave‘s death and Rick‘s (Cameron Gellman) emotions are still running hot as he blows up at at teacher for suggesting he wasn’t smart enough to pass the final without cheating.

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Fantasy Island – Hungry Christine/Mel Loves Ruby

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  • Title: Fantasy Island (2021) – Hungry Christine/Mel Loves Ruby
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Fantasy Island - Hungry Christine/Mel Loves Ruby television review

Everything is new again. Again. For the second time Fantasy Island is rebooted (anyone remember the 90s version with Malcolm McDowell?). Roselyn Sanchez is cast as the island’s caretaker, although the role of her sidekick won’t be filled until the end of the episode when one of the characters gets a… tattoo. The premise of the original show is kept here with guests arriving at the mysterious island to live out a fantasy (which may not always go as planned). It’s not awful, which is more than I can say for some of these reboots, but I don’t know that there’s much magic here either.

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Leverage: Redemption – The Paranormal Hacktivity Job

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Leverage: Redemption - The Paranormal Hacktivity Job TV review

With the boys out of town, “The Paranormal Hacktivity Job” offers an all-girls episode as Parker (Beth Riesgraf) finds a client (Gillian Saker) scared out of her home by a pair of con men (Mike Massimino and T.C. Matherne). Using the bar as bait for another of their swindles, Sophie (Gina Bellman) tempts the pair in to use the high-tech haunting techniques allowing Parker to explain the pair’s actions to their client. The Halloween episode offers a late twist with the arrival of an assassin (Matt McTighe) whose fear of ghosts, and the methods already deployed in the bar (raised one-hundred fold), become tools to take down another criminal as well and stop an assassination.

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What If…? – Episode One

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What If...? - Episode One television review

Since it first debuted back in 1977, Marvel Comics’ What If…? has asked the question what might have happened if events had turned out differently. With decades of comic history to pull from, the on-again/off-again series examined both big and large changes and what ripples they might have caused. The Disney+ series takes the concept and applies it the MCU (meaning it has far less history to diverge in creating alternative timelines). The first episode asks the question of what might have happened if Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) had received the super-soldier serum rather than Steve Rogers (one of the most prominent characters not voiced by the actor who played him in the films)? It turns out to be a fun idea that the series will repeat in the next episode which uses a very similar set-up of swapping characters.

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