Television Reviews

Tales of the Underworld – A Way Forward

  • Title: Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld – A Way Forward
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Following the format of Tales of the Jedi and Tales of the Empire, the opening episode of the new Star Wars animated series focuses on Asajj Ventress (Nika Futterman), her resurrection on Dathomir and the new life she makes for herself staying under the radar until she’s drawn back into the fray in her attempts to help a young Jedi named Lyco (Lane Factor). Keeping the kid safe and one-step ahead of the Stormtroopers and Inquisitor (Daniel Ross) after him, forces Ventress to reveal herself and leave her new life behind in favor of the unknown.

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Leverage: Redemption – The Hustler Job

  • Title: Leverage: Redemption – The Hustler Job
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When Harry‘s (Noah Wyle) mother falls victim to a Grandmother Scam, the crew looks to take down those responsible. While Harry and Sophie (Gina Bellman) attempt to distract Donovan Keyes (Michael Masini) in a pool hustle, with the help of Breanna (Aleyse Shannon), Eliot (Christian Kane) and Parker (Beth Riesgraf) break into the company in an attempt to steal back the money which is being protected both by a high-tech vault and members of an Eastern European mob.

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Will Trent – Push, Jump, Fall

  • Title: Will Trent – Push, Jump, Fall
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“Push, Jump, Fall” offers two new cases. Will (Ramón Rodríguez) and Faith (Iantha Richardson) investigate a murder and theft of a horse at a black rodeo that initially points to a problematic missing rider (Yolonda Ross), however there’s something much bigger going on involving someone using the animals of the rodeo as drug mules. Angie (Erika Christensen) and Ormewood (Jake McLaughlin) look into a man’s fall that might have been accidental or suicide. Not able to deal with her own grief, and carrying around her mother’s ashes in a cardboard box, Angie instead puts her energy into helping Ormewood reaching out to Josiah (Kenneth Mosley) and Bon Bon (Jonny Beauchamp) to help her partner gets his affairs in order prior to his surgery.

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Matlock – The Judge

  • Title: Matlock – The Judge
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Matlock Monday takes us back to the legal practice of the folksy defense attorney Benjamin Leighton Matlock (Andy Griffith). Dick Van Dyke guest-stars as Judge Carter Addison, and old associate of Matlock from law school days, who plans the perfect crime in murdering his mistress (Bobbie Eakes) and framing her new lover (Brian Lane Green). Then he becomes the presiding judge of the murder trial and steers the case towards a guilty verdict after failing to get Matlock to give up the case to another lawyer (which is the first moment to raise Matlock’s suspicion and tie circumstantial evidence back to the judge).

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Watson – The Dark Day Deduction

  • Title: Watson – The Dark Day Deduction
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“The Dark Day Deduction” introduces a classic piece of the Watson (Morris Chestnut) character by confirming his military service with the arrival of a new patient (Robert Bailey Jr.) who served with the doctor overseas and whose worsening delusional condition both blame Watson for (although the patient has also been carrying his own guilt around for more than a decade). Complications in the case involve a patient who doesn’t want Watson to treat him and the patient disappearing from his hospital room during one of his hallucinations believing he is still in Afghanistan. The thread also ties into the relationship between Watson and Mary (Rochelle Aytes) revealing that the start of the marital troubles came from Watson’s return after the traumatic events which he could never forgive himself for.

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