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Star Wars: The Clone Wars – The Bad Batch

Alan Rapp / October 30, 2020 / Television Reviews

Title: Star Wars: The Clone Wars – The Bad Batch
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“The Bad Batch” catches up with Mace Windu (TC Carson) and Anakin Skywalker (Matt Lanter) on the planet Anaxes where Clone forces are slowly being overtaken by the Droid Army. Believing the Droids have learned to counter Republic’s battlefield strategies, Commander Cody (Dee Bradley Baker) and Captain Rex (Baker) lead a commando unit of genetic mutated clones known as Clone Force 99 to learn more. Action is fast and furious here, and the mutated clones (each with certain advantages over “Regs”) offer a fun twist to the usual proceedings. Hoping to find and destroy an algorithm, what the troopers actually discover seems to point to Rex’s fears being true that Echo is alive and prisoner on Skako Minor where his knowledge is being used against the Clone army.

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The Queen’s Gambit – Openings

Alan Rapp / October 29, 2020 / Television Reviews

Title: The Queen’s Gambit – Openings
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I was intrigued by the trailer for Netflix’s new show The Queen’s Gambit. I’m a little less so after the first episode. Don’t get me wrong, “Openings” is well made. It is however largely an origin story absent of what I was sold on. Series star Anya Taylor-Joy gets only a cameo here on an opening scene teasing where the series will eventually lead. The rest of the episode takes place years earlier with Isla Johnston playing the 9 year-old version of Beth Harmon who is sent to an orphanage after the death of her mother where she discovers her two great loves: chess and drugs. Based on Walter Tevis’s 1983 novel of the same name, the mini-series will follow Beth’s rise from the orphanage to unexpected heights in chess while struggling with the addictions which begin here.

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Scooby-Doo! – That’s Snow Ghost

Alan Rapp / October 29, 2020 / Television Reviews

Title: Scooby Doo, Where Are You! – That’s Snow Ghost
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to Scooby Doo, Where Are You! for another mystery involving some meddling kids and their talking dog. A trip to the nearly abandoned Wolf’s End Lodge ski resort almost immediately becomes a case for Mystery, Inc. when they discover the existence of a Snow Ghost haunting the area. The Tibetan hermit Fu Lan Chi tells the gang the history of the creature. It’s an odd sequence, both because the find the man living in a cave in the wilderness and because at the end of the episode he isn’t involved at all in the current hauntings making him a rare red herring for the series.

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Spenser: For Hire – When Silence Speaks

Alan Rapp / October 29, 2020 / Television Reviews

Title: Spenser: For Hire – When Silence Speaks
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to the mean streets of Boston and the travails of a smart ass private detective. After breaking up a diamond heist, Spenser (Robert Urich) is hired by an advice columnist (Phyllis Frelich) who hopes Spenser can find a man she has never met and whose real name she doesn’t know. While writing under the pseudonym of an older man, Spenser’s client is an attractive deaf writer who started a correspondence with a man who has suddenly gone missing after taking the writer’s advice, leaving his fiancé (Caitlin O’Heaney), and refusing to help in some kind of nefarious scheme.

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Samurai Jack – Episode XXII: Jack vs. the Five Hunters

Alan Rapp / October 27, 2020 / Television Reviews

Title: Samurai Jack – Episode XXII: Jack vs. the Five Hunters
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to the adventures of the time-displaced samurai and his quest to make his way home. Looking for a solution to his samurai problems, Aku (Mako) enlists the help of the galaxy’s greatest hunters known as the Imakandi who arrive on Earth and then begin tracking down the samurai.

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