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Tales of the Underworld – Friends

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  • Title: Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld – Friends
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While Lyco (Lane Factor) is stunned to learn his protector is Asajj Ventress (Nika Futterman), he continues on with her as the former Sith looks up an old acquaintance who might help them find other Jedi. Attempting to trade their skills for the info, the pair agree to help out the bounty hunter Latts Razzi (Clare Grant) and her droid in stealing from the Empire, at least until the heist goes sideways and Lyco learns the former Jedi-killer is far more trusting than a bounty hunter will to do whatever she can to make a buck. While providing a bit of action, the episode’s purpose to provide some trust between the unlikely pair is successfully.

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Watson – My Life’s Work

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  • Title: Watson – My Life’s Work (Part 1 & 2)
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While the show has been renewed for a Second Season, the two-part finale does wrap up several threads from the season and suggest at least one cast member won’t be back at the Holmes Clinic next year. Things start off with Adams (Peter Mark Kendall) being poisoned by Moriarty (Randall Park) using a customized virus which also eventually infects his twin brother Stephens as well. Not realizing how it ties into his plans, Ingrid (Eve Harlow) destroys some genetic samples which could have been used to save the twins, although the good doctor scrapes enough together to save one of them.

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Leverage: Redemption – The Grand Complication Job

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  • Title: Leverage: Redemption – The Grand Complication Job
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The return of the reboot’s first villain, Alexandra Bligh (Lucy Taylor), offers the opportunity for an all-girls episode with the team stretched across the globe. The fact that the team is never stretched this thin, with everyone working separately, is simply a conceit you’ll have to allow in order for events to play out. After kidnapping Sophie (Gina Bellman), Bligh pits nemeses Parker (Beth Riesgraf) and Astrid (Alexandra Park) against each other commanding one to steal a priceless treasure on display and the other to prevent the theft. The costume ball, in honor of the displays of Marie Antoinette, prevents the pair from running into each other for most of the episode until they finally do in the vault leading to the confrontation Bligh has been hoping for.

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Will Trent – Why Hello, Sheriff

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  • Title: Will Trent – Why Hello, Sheriff
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A double-homicide in a rural county leads to Will (Ramón Rodríguez) and Faith (Iantha Richardson) butting heads with the local Sheriff (Yul Vazquez) and the discovery that one of the victims was a member of a domestic terrorist cell who was attempting to prevent the group’s next attack. It’s also an episode for bombshells as the aftermath of Angie’s (Erika Christensen) drunken night leads to Seth (Scott Foley) learning about Angie’s tumble off the wagon and both discovering she’s pregnant. As for Will, he gets a shot in the gut as well when a blood test confirms the territorial Sheriff Caleb Broussard is his biological father.

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Doctor Who – Lucky Day

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  • Title: Doctor Who – Lucky Day
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One of the concepts Doctor Who has explored over the years, with select companions, is what happens to those people after they leave and attempt to go back to a normal life. With The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu) still stuck unable to reach the present, “Lucky Day” instead gives us a Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) episode that isn’t what it initially appears. The first-half of the episode deals with Ruby attempting to move on from her time-traveling adventures and beginning a hopeful relationship with Conrad (Jonah Hauer-King) who it turns out also had a short encounter with The Doctor as a child and is not what it seems.

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