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Superman & Lois – Fail Safe

Alan Rapp / July 21, 2021 / Television Reviews

Title: Superman & Lois – Fail Safe
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With Smallville still reeling from the machinations of Morgan Edge (Adam Rayner), the Kent boys ditch some school for cute girls, Lois (Elizabeth Tulloch) has a crisis of faith over hiding the details of Edge’s plans to keep her family’s secrets safe, and the Lang family continues to feel the backlash of their friends and neighbors who appear all too willing to lay the blame of recent events at their feet. “Fail Safe” is a mostly transitionary episode focusing on bringing the troubles of Smallville to light while getting its name from Superman (Tyler Hoechlin) suggesting Project 7334 should continue as the world needs protection from its greatest hero if something like this happens again (something his wife is less than pleased with).

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Rick and Morty – Rickdependence Spray

Alan Rapp / July 20, 2021 / Television Reviews

Title: Rick and Morty – Rickdependence Spray
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Remember that time Morty‘s (Justin Roiland) masturbation nearly destroyed the world? Starting out with one of the most contrived setups in the show’s run, Morty discovers the joy’s of using the horse hospital’s horse breeding mount for his own sexual gratification just days before Rick (Roiland) plans to used borrowed horse semen to create a weapon to use against cannibalistic horse people known as Chuds (who have apparently being warring with humanity for some time… off-camera). Of course Morty’s DNA leads to complications and mutated monster sperm attacking humanity. Unaware of his grandson causing the failure of his experiment, Rick assumes his invention is to blame and easily coerces Morty into a fabricated lie involving “Space Sperm.”

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Leverage: Redemption – The Panamanian Monkey Job

Alan Rapp / July 19, 2021 / Television Reviews

Title: Leverage: Redemption – The Panamanian Monkey Job
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The team follows Fletcher Maxwell (Reed Diamond) to Panama in the second episode to stop their mark from accessing family funds kept in a private bank catering to unscrupulous clients. Since the bad guy remains the same, “The Panamanian Monkey Job” doesn’t require as much time in the way of setup. Instead that time is used to introduce the show’s other new cast member in Hardison‘s (Aldis Hodge) foster sister Breanna Casey (Aleyse Shannon) who will take over for Hardison as the team’s new hacker with Hodge’s exit due to other contractual responsibilities. The episode offers up the idea that the work Hardison does outside the team is more needed than being present on their individual jobs while leaving Breanna in the hands of Parker (Beth Riesgraf).

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Battle Scars / Reunion / Bounty Lost

Alan Rapp / July 19, 2021 / Television Reviews

Title: Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Battle Scars / Reunion / Bounty Lost
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The trio of episodes, “Battle Scars, “Reunion,” and “Bounty Lost” lead into each other starting with the Bad Batch (all voiced by Dee Bradley Baker) hastily working to remove Wrecker‘s implant before he turns like Crosshair. The location of the surgery, in which the other clones also get their chips removed, provides the backdrop of the following episode in which bounty hunters and the Empire catch up to the clones on Bracca. Both episodes allow for the show to pull in familiar guest-stars with Rex appearing in “Battle Scars” and Cad Bane (Corey Burton) showing up to abduct Omega (Michelle Ang).

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The Flash – Heart of the Matter (Part 1)

Alan Rapp / July 15, 2021 / Television Reviews

Title: The Flash – Heart of the Matter (Part 1)
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As expected, The Flash pulls in several familiar faces for the show’s 150th episode which also acts as the first-half of the season finale. The various Godspeeds continue to war across the city. Team Flash’s plan to take them down fails and alerts Barry (Grant Gustin) to the fact that the Godspeeds have an added hate for Bart (Jordan Fisher). The episode does offer the return of John Wesley Shipp as Jay Garrick, although he’s mostly used as a hostage, as well as the return of one of the show’s recently departed cast members. Suffering defeat, with Bart in a coma and no plan on how to defeat the Godspeeds, Barry prepares to enter the mind of an amnesiac time-traveler (Karan Oberoi) hoping to find answers on how he can save his city and perhaps alter the future to keep his children safe.

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