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Ironheart – Will the Real Natalie Please Stand Up?

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  • Title: Ironheart – Will the Real Natalie Please Stand Up?
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The second episode of Ironheart gives us  Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) freaking out about her successful artificial intelligence which her subconscious crafted off of the memories of her dead best friend Natalie (Lyric Ross). We also get Riri meeting, and blackmailing, a black market tech collector (Alden Ehrenreich) for pieces necessary to patch her armor heading into her first job with the Hood‘s (Anthony Ramos) crew (which is successful, but a bit more complicated than necessary with N.A.T.A.L.I.E.’s continued distractions). It, like the first episode, is largely fine, and Riri’s interaction with a character who is more important than he initially appears gives us some fun moments, but the heist is rather bland and I’m still waiting for things to pick up which we probably won’t get until Riri’s eventual hero turn that seems pretty far off at this point.

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The Wheel of Time – The Shadow in the Night

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  • Title: The Wheels of Time – The Shadow in the Night
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The most memorable moment of “The Shadow of Night” doesn’t come from Egwene (Madeleine Madden) eventually confronting Rand al’Thor (Josha Stradowski) about seeing him with Lanfear (Natasha O’Keeffe) nor the tragedy at the end of the episode where Rand struggles at how helpless the one power is even against death. Instead, the best moment of the episode is courtesy of Elayne (Ceara Coveney), covering for herself after being recognized in the bar, with the help of Mat‘s (Dónal Finn) old friend Thom Merrilin (Alexandre Willaume), by delivering a rowdy rendition of “The Hills of Tanchico” which is so good the episode reuses the song for the outro and credit sequence. Also of note, Perrin (Marcus Rutherford) and Faile (Isabella Bucceri) finally admit their feelings for each other on the eve of an army about to hit the Two Rivers.

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Human Target – A Problem Like Maria / Communication Breakdown

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  • Title: Human Target – A Problem Like Maria / Communication Breakdown
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The two episodes which involve the return of former flame Maria (Leonor Varela) and the return of troublemaker Harry (Tony Hale) are tied together by the B-story involving the rapidly disintegrating relationship between Christopher Chance (Mark Valley) and Ilsa (Indira Varma) whose plane is shot down at the beginning of the second episode. “A Problem Like Maria” features Maria tricking Chance in the others into a kidnapping in South America to save the life of her husband. In doing so, they make themselves an enemy of a local criminal figure Hector Lopez (Jordi Caballero) who shoots their plane down in the jungle. Luckily, while attempting to avoid the blowup between Chance and , the others weren’t on the flight. Unluckily for them, the arrive home in time to get drawn into Harry’s latest trouble involving the Armenian mob who storms the offices shortly after he arrives.

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Bob’s Burgers – The Shell Game

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  • Title: Bob’s Burgers – The Shell Game
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An invitation by Mr. Fischoeder (Kevin Kline) to his tortoise‘s birthday party puts Bob (H. Jon Benjamin) in the strange situation of competing against the other guests for guardianship of the animal should anything befall the host. Louise (Kristen Schaal), Gene (Eugene Mirman), and Tina (Dan Mintz) are far more into the idea of having a tortoise than their father (even going so far as to help cheat to make Bob believe the animal likes him), but eventually the most obvious suitor is the correct one. Memorable moments involve the various competitions shown, and alluded to, and both Bob’s joy, when he believes he’s made a connection to the animal, and despair, after realizing the truth.

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Phineas and Ferb – Dry Another Day

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  • Title: Phineas and Ferb – Dry Another Day
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Attempting to beat the heat, Phineas (Vincent Martella) and Ferb (David Errigo Jr.) build a giant ice luge wheel which they roll around town with Isabella (Alyson Stoner), Baljeet (Maulik Pancholy), and Buford (Bobby Gaylor) which not only cools them off but leaves a cool breeze for all who pass. Of course Candace (Ashley Tisdale) attempts to catch them but, as always, is a step too slow (although she does earn a momentary second of fame skiing after the boys). The Doofenshmirtz (Dan Povenmire) plot, involving the villain attempting to dump his oil in a water park, isn’t a strong, and somehow makes even less sense than usual, but the two stories do eventually collide at the water park.

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