Television Reviews

Daredevil – The Northern Star

  • Title: Daredevil: Born Again – The Northern Star
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Daredevil: Born Again returns with another season. Wilson Fisk‘s (Vincent D’Onofrio) stranglehold on New York City is complete. His propaganda machine is in overdrive, his enemies are scattered, and he’s profiting both legally and illegally while rebranding vigilantes as terrorists. Meanwhile, Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) and Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) continue to fight the good fight from the shadows with their latest opportunity being the tanker crashed in New York Harbor full of weapons Fisk was smuggling in for his black ops CIA contact (Matthew Lillard).

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Will Trent – He Lives!

  • Title: Will Trent – He Lives!
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Believing his uncle to have been captured by one of James Ulster’s (Greg Germann) disciples, Will (Ramón Rodríguez) rushes to Puerto Rico to work with an FBI agent (Mallory Jansen) to rescue him. The episode offers the trademark comedic spots, including Will barging in on Antonio (John Ortiz), who hasn’t been taken yet, and his lady friend, before things get serious in a trek through the jungle and a twist (which, admittedly, is pretty easy to see coming). It’s not the strongest episode, but the story does allow Will to continue working through his complicated feelings about Ulster while also offering the possibility that a number of his crazed fans might be out there to do his dirty work from the grave.

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Murder, She Wrote – Murder Takes the Bus

  • Title: Murder, She Wrote – Murder Takes the Bus
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Murder Mystery Monday takes us back to the most famous mystery writer of Cabot Cove. “Murder Takes the Bus” offers a fun setting for an episode of Murder, She Wrote when Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) and Sheriff Amos Tupper‘s (Tom Bosley) short bus ride is delayed due to bad weather stranding the travelers (Linda Blair, Terence Knox, Rue McClanahan, Larry Linville, David Wayne, Don Stroud, and Albert Salmi) in a small roadside diner where they discover one of the passengers, the paroled convict that joined the bus during their journey, has been killed.

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FBI – Forgiven

  • Title: FBI – Forgiven
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“Forgiven” offers the return of recently paroled Ray DiStefano (Matthew Rauch) who is revealed to be behind the kidnapping of Erin Bell (Adrienne Rose Bengtsson) and later Maggie (Missy Peregrym) as well. The team comes together to help find Maggie’s missing sister, mobilizing across the city, and later Maggie when she is isolated and is taken by DiStefano who plans to give her a star she can’t hide. I’ll give the episode credit for not pulling its punches in the final moments allowing the villain, despite his apparent death, the victory he sought against his obsession who he blamed for the death of his father. “Forgiven” is the kind of episode you would expect to have ripples across the season and beyond.

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Scarpetta – Bridge of Time, Part One

  • Title: Scarpetta – Bridge of Time, Part One
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Focused on stories nearly three decades apart, both Rosy McEwen and Nicole Kidman play Virginia Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta based on the character introduced in Patricia Cornwell’s novels. While Kidman plays the character returning to the job after being forced out years before, McEwen plays the younger version of the character tackling her first big case (which made her career but also appears to be linked to a new murder that calls the old investigation into question).

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