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Hawaii Five-0 – A’ohe pau ka ‘ike i ka halau ho’okahi

Alan Rapp / November 4, 2019 / Television Reviews

Title: Hawaii Five-0 – A’ohe pau ka ‘ike i ka halau ho’okahi
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McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) and Danny (Scott Caan) investigate a computer-controlled car involved in a hit-and-run which uncovers the use of the new technology by a savvy drug ring. In the episode’s B-story, Tani (Meaghan Rath) and Quinn (Katrina Law) investigate the murder of an apartment complex’s most hated tenant which babysitting a pair of YouTubers (Tom Allen and John Parr) who are along for the ride while helping the state with a recruitment video. Other than Danny’s Knight Rider references, neither story is all that memorable in this standalone episode. The return of Caan also allows for the return of the Steve-Danny dynamic, but there’s not much action in the latest episode (and what little there is, in the opening chase sequence and the technician using the car to save her father at the end, doesn’t involve Five-0). The pay-off on the B-story is rather weak as well, as the video made by the stoners (like the rest of the episode) lacks any punch.

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Jack Ryan – Cargo

Alan Rapp / October 31, 2019 / Television Reviews

Title: Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan – Cargo
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Set an indeterminate length after the the show’s First Season, “Cargo” opens with Jack Ryan (John Krasinski) and Greer (Wendell Pierce) both investigating the same case from different angles. In Moscow, Greer struggles to uncover intelligence about a secret satellite launched from a ship in the China Sea. In Washington, Ryan links the same ship to Russian weapons smuggling and a secret government facility in the politically-unstable Venezuela where the two will meet up once more. Benito Martinez guest-stars as Jack’s longtime friend Senator Moreno who, along with Jack, confronts the Venezuelan President (Benito Martinez) who denies any knowledge of the ship, the secret compound, or any smuggling into the country.

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The Flash – There Will Be Blood

Alan Rapp / October 31, 2019 / Television Reviews

Title: The Flash – There Will Be Blood
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The looming Crisis continues to loom large in “There Will Be Blood” as Barry (Grant Gustin) enlists the help of Cisco (Carlos Valdes) and Harrison Nash Wells (Tom Cavanagh) in an attempt to save Dr. Ramsey Rosso (Sendhil Ramamurthy) by stealing an alien cure. Even before learning that the scientist is a crazed killer whose victims turn into zombies, Cisco makes a choice putting Barry’s life before the mad scientist’s that creates some friction between the pair for most of the episode. Don’t worry, they’ll work things out before the credits roll. The cure (itself a call back to an earlier crossover) isn’t successful as goes full on murdery confirming the character’s role as the season’s main villain pre-Crisis (begging the question, what happened to the serum… and will we be seeing it again?).

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Arrow – Leap of Faith

Alan Rapp / October 30, 2019 / Television Reviews

Title: Arrow – Leap of Faith
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Oliver Queen‘s (Stephen Amell) this is your life tour takes him to Nanda Parbat and a reunion with Thea (Willa Holland) where the pair will race both Taila al Ghul (Lexa Doig) and Athena (Kyra Zagorsky) to an ancient tomb. While Talia and Athena are both after a sword each believes can be used as a symbol to reform the League of Assassins, Oliver is after the League’s knowledge of the Monitor (LaMonica Garrett) in order to confirm he is backing the right side in the coming Crisis. After some fun (but really not all that difficult) tomb raiding, Oliver doesn’t get the clarity he hoped (although the show does offer the first mention of the Anti-Monitor – even if the reference is lost on the Queen children).

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Batwoman – Who Are You?

Alan Rapp / October 29, 2019 / Television Reviews

Title: Batwoman – Who Are You?
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Kate (Ruby Rose) learns that vigilante work is Kryptonite to burgeoning relationship in “Who Are You?” This likely means we’ve seen the last of Reagan (Brianne Howey) as a love interest for Kate, which is too bad as Howey and Rose have good chemistry on-screen and the character’s bubbly optimism was a nice (albeit short) addition to the show. For the villain of the week, the show brings in Rachel Matthews as the jewel thief Magpie who steals, among other things, Martha Wayne’s pearl necklace. The pearls mark another instance where the show works twice as hard to set-up an over-complicated series of events rather than Kate simply choose to use the pearls and lure Magpie into a trap.

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