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NCIS: Los Angeles – Raising the Dead

Alan Rapp / December 10, 2020 / Television Reviews

Title: NCIS: Los Angeles – Raising the Dead
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NCIS gets played big time in “Raising the Dead.” When two dangerous convicts escape, NCIS must deal with the prisoner who is quickly captured in order to find the other who is obsessed with assassinating the President. However, the criminal with information is a sociopath (Frank Military) who used the breakout solely to maneuver his way to a Presidential pardon allowing him the freedom to terrorize the object of his obsession, Kensi (Daniela Ruah), once more. The episode attempts to sell a master criminal and set-up an entire backstory for one of its regulars with mixed success in a very short period of time.

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Scooby-Doo! – Mystery Mask Mix-Up

Alan Rapp / December 8, 2020 / Television Reviews

Title: Scooby Doo, Where Are You! – Mystery Mask Mix-Up
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to Scooby Doo, Where Are You! for another mystery involving some meddling kids and their talking dog. After Daphne (Heather North) buys a golden mask in a Chinatown shop, the gang is followed by a pair of zombies who eventually make off with both Daphne and the mask taking them to a temple in the hills. The episode is unusual in how Mystery, Inc. is dragged into the mystery, it also features some questionable racial elements that likely wouldn’t get the episode on the air today. “Mystery Mask Mix-Up” includes a ridiculous car chase in which the zombies follow the Mystery Machine through a hotel and over the rooftops of several buildings before it eventually crashes at the wharf (because of a banana peel) and the zombies have a chance to grab Daphne who refuses to give up the mask.

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Star Trek: Discovery – Forget Me Not

Alan Rapp / December 7, 2020 / Television Reviews

Title: Star Trek: Discovery – Forget Me Not
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Hoping to find answers locked away in the symbiote of Discovery‘s new passenger Adira Tal (Blu del Barrio), the ship travels to Trill in hopes that Adira’s memories could be accessed and answer questions about her past as well as Starfleet. What they find is divided civilization on decline, a faction of which is disgusted by the mere thought of a symbiote being joined with a non-Trill (which, until the previous episode, was as likely as a human male spontaneously giving birth). However, Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Adira are able to find a sympathetic ally to help Adira make a connection with the former hosts.

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The Mandalorian – The Tragedy

Alan Rapp / December 7, 2020 / Television Reviews

Title: The Mandalorian – The Tragedy (Chapter 14)
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Directed by Robert Rodriguez, “The Tragedy” is primarily an attempt to make Boba Fett (Temuera Morrison) cool again (albeit and older and fatter version, maybe we can call him Boba Fatt?). While the character had quite a history in the Star Wars Expanded Universe, with the introduction of the sequel trilogy all of that history was wiped away. While on Tython, allowing Grogu to make a connection through the remains of a Jedi Temple, the Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal) is surprised by unwanted guests in an episode that marks a turning point for the season from returning Grogu to the Jedi to saving him from the Imperial remnant. Teased in an earlier episode, it was expected that Fett would eventually show up for his armor (although you wonder, if he could get his ship back why did he need to wait so long to retrieve his armor?). The surprise here is the not-so-dead Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen) who was saved by Fett.

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The Hardy Boys – Welcome to Your Life

Alan Rapp / December 7, 2020 / Television Reviews

Title: The Hardy Boys – Welcome to Your Life
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“Welcome to Your Life” is all introductions. We meet the athletic Frank (Rohan Campbell) and his younger brother Joe (Alexander Elliot) who are whisked away to the town of Bridgeport following the sudden death of their mother (Janet Porter). On the first couple days in the small town, the Hardy boys are introduced to some new friends (Keana Lyn, Adam Swain, and Riley O’Donnell) and a pair of mysteries. The first involves the destruction of their grandmother’s boat for something valuable found at sea. The second involves the circumstances of their mother’s death which may not have been a car accident after all.

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