Television Reviews

Will Trent – Capt. Duke Wagner’s Daughter

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Will Trent - Capt. Duke Wagner's Daughter

My only real complaint about “Capt. Duke Wagner’s Daughter” is this feels like a longer arc that was condensed into a single episode and, as a result, feels a bit constrained. A little more time to breathe could have led to one of the show’s best arcs. After seeing a couple of extremely fleeting suggestive hints that someone is coming after Wagner (Sonja Sohn) we get an episode that brings that story to the forefront, delves into troubled secrets in her past, reveals a nasty piece of work in Chuck Murray (Michael Papajohn), explains his motives, tease the end of Wagner’s career, ends the threat, and wraps up everything in time for the closing credits without much fallout other than a bit of a tiff between Wanger and Faith (Iantha Richardson).

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Zorro – The Three Funeral Mask Dance

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Zorro - The Three Funeral Mask Dance

The final episode of the season resolves the long-running subplot of Guadalupe Montoro (Cecilia Suárez) without much fanfare. Given the number of episodes this thread was teased, Diego (Miguel Bernardeau) simply turning over land to his fake half-brother  (Joel Bosqued) feels underwhelming as there is no real payoff, at least not this season. More impactful is Diego’s public duel with Monasterio (Emiliano Zurita), fulfilling his task from the Bear Clan to kill their enemy (albeit with a bit of trickery that actually allows for the still living Monasterio and Diego to flush out all of the traitors and end their would-be coup d’etat).

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Delicious in Dungeon – Giant Frogs/Aboveground

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Delicious in Dungeon - Giant Frogs/Aboveground

The final episode before the party reaches the Red Dragon, “Giant Frogs/Aboveground” features the party making it to the Orc Village after using the skins of Giant Frogs to bypass some tricky Tentacles. Marcille (Emily Rudd) is notably not fond of the plan despite the time it saves the group.  Senshi (SungWon Cho) also manages some pasta and cutlets out of the tentacles and frog meat. Now so close to the goal, the party discusses how to survive their next run-in with the dragon planning to lay a trap as the episode concludes on a cliffhanger heading into a multiple-episode arc of the group’s attempts to best the dragon and free their friend from its stomach.

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NCIS: Hawai’i – Operation Red Rabbit

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NCIS: Hawai'i - Operation Red Rabbit

Our case of the week involves a con artist (Noah Bean) pretending to be a Naval Intelligence officer while conning a slew of female entrepreneurs. After abandoning his latest mark (Brianna Brown), making her believe he is in danger allowing him to move on to another scam, his most gullible victim yet shows up in NCIS and it doesn’t take much time to realize nothing about his story is true. While it never really sells the idea that our con man could actually be a spy, “Operation Red Rabbit” is nevertheless a fun episode with an equally goofy B-story involving the growing bromance between Kai (Alex Tarrant) and Hanna (LL Cool J).

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Alex Rider – Widow

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Alex Rider - Widow

Adapting events from the fifth novel, Alex Rider returns for its Third Season. We open with Alex (Otto Farrant) in Malta, along with Tom (Brenock O’Connor) and Kyra (Marli Siu), seeking the SCORPIA operative known as the Widow (Sofia Helin) and answers about his father. We get some new faces in this episode, some like Tom’s big brother Jay (Emmet Byrne), an extreme sports athlete, won’t play prominent roles in the season. However, our Widow will eventually provide Alex with more answers than he’s ready for.

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