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Rick and Morty – Mortyplicity

Alan Rapp / July 7, 2021 / Television Reviews

Title: Rick and Morty – Mortyplicity
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“Mortyplicity” is more of a bit taken to an absurd extreme than a fully fleshed-out story. The story stems from the fact that Rick (Justin Roiland) has cloned duplicates of the family to act as decoys for his enemies. However, believing themselves to be the real family, those clones have begun making clones of their own and attacking each other in a vicious loop to prove who is the “real” family. “Mortyplicity” certainly racks up the carnage as we see various families killed over, and over, and over again along with some odd style clones (including one set that appears to be wooden and clockwork). The fact the President doesn’t care about the deaths of Rick and Morty (Roiland) is a nice callback to his problems with the pair in previous episodes. The reveal that the “real” family is actually nowhere to be found during the carnage is confirmed in the epilogue.

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Legends of Tomorrow – Stressed Western

Alan Rapp / July 6, 2021 / Television Reviews

Title: Legends of Tomorrow – Stressed Western
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Sara‘s (Caity Lotz) first mission back is to the Old West where the Legends search for an alien in the peculiar town of Fist City in 1891 where outlaw Levi Stapleton (Nic Bishop) has become sheriff and turned the town into a violence-free zone by controlling a giant space worm. While not getting too angry (an emotion that draws out the worm), the Legends work together to take down the sheriff, remove the alien, and return the town to normal. Sara initially hides her new alien makeup from the rest of the crew, but her ability to survive getting shot through the head turns out to be a pretty big clue something has changed with her captain. Other than her healing abilities, and sudden love of cherries, we don’t see much unusual behavior from Sara… at least not this week.

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Loki – The Nexus Event

Alan Rapp / July 6, 2021 / Television Reviews

Title: Loki – The Nexus Event
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Leave it to the most narcissistic character in the MCU to fall for himself (or at least another version of himself). After surviving the literal end of the world and seeing Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino) captured, “The Nexus Event” moves the series back to the Time Variance Authority where Loki is held accountable for his recent actions and Sylvie uses the seeds of her previous encounter with the TVA to arrange for an escape and face-to-face with Time-Keepers. Four episodes in, the show continues to change things up with the death of a major supporting character, the apparent death of Loki, and a reveal that might not show us what is behind the curtain but certainly confirms the curtain’s existence.

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Cornered

Alan Rapp / July 1, 2021 / Television Reviews

Title: Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Cornered
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A much-needed supply run forces the Bad Batch (all voiced by Dee Bradley Baker) to Pantora to restock and give Tech time to scramble the Havoc Marauder‘s signature. The action of the episode comes from the appearance of Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen) who’s showing up everywhere these days. Befriending the lost Omega (Michelle Ang) who got separated from Hunter, the bounty hunter nearly makes off with the clone. The episode is really only notable for introducing Fennec into her fourth Star Wars property (not to mention books and comics) while continuing to foreshadow something special about this young clone.

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We Are Lady Parts – Earth Natives

Alan Rapp / July 1, 2021 / Television Reviews

Title: We Are Lady Parts – Potential Future Spouse
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Amina (Anjana Vasan) struggles to keep her two lives separate as the day of Noor’s (Aiysha Hart) engagement party and the band’s audition arrives. Thanks to some unexpected help from Ahsan (Zaqi Ismail), Amina is able to get through the party without explaining to her friends that the two aren’t dating. The audition, however, is another story. Leading up to the scene, “Earth Natives” showcases Amina’s growing tension keeping two halves of her life separate but also how much more comfortable she’s become with playing with the band in private. But when the venue becomes public her new found courage quickly evaporates. At least she didn’t puke. After the disaster of the audition, where does that leave Amina now?

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