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Titans – Jericho

Alan Rapp / October 29, 2019 / Television Reviews

Title: Titans – Jericho
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Another flashback episode, “Jericho” finally reveals the events surrounding the Titans befriending and using Jericho Wilson (Chella Man) in order to find Deathstroke (Esai Morales). Long alluded to, fans finally see the sequences of events which led to the end of the Titans. There does seem to be a disconnect between Dick‘s (Brenton Thwaites) admission to Jason Todd (Curran Walters) at the end of the previous episode (saying “non one” knows the truth) and the events shown here (where all of the Titans are aware of what happened). That rather clumsy inconsistency aside (which has shown up before, I’m guessing because the show’s writers didn’t make a definitive decision until this episode), “Jericho” does more than any other episode of the season to frame Deathstroke as a legitimate threat to the team as he is able to take down both Robin and Donna (Conor Leslie) separately.

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Hawaii Five-0 – He ‘oi’o kuhihewa; he kaka ola i ‘ike ‘ia e ka makaula

Alan Rapp / October 28, 2019 / Television Reviews

Title: Hawaii Five-0 – He ‘oi’o kuhihewa; he kaka ola i ‘ike ‘ia e ka makaula
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Halloween comes to Hawaii Five-0 with its usually odd events. This year’s episode includes two strange cases. The first, involves a home robbery, murder, and the escape of a man living in a locked vault for the better part of three decades. While offering a bizarre situation for the team to bicker about, the truth behind the events turns out to be far less interesting than their initial theories. The other case involves the theft of the corpse of a recently-recovered murder victim from the morgue by a killer who wants to prevent an autopsy. The case seems personal to Noelani (Kimee Balmilero), but there’s no set-up to events here (although the episode kinda, sorta, but not really hints at this being more than just a normal case to her), and (other than the body being stolen from her morgue) no apparent motive for the medical examiner to take events so personally. Although it’s unusual to have an episode without Danny (Scott Caan), Hawaii Five-0 does bring back Masi Oka to allow for Max Bergman‘s Keanu-themed Halloween costume (and to make use of his adopted son to wrap-up on of the two cases).

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Legacies – You Remind Me of Someone I Used to Know

Alan Rapp / October 28, 2019 / Television Reviews

Title: Legacies – You Remind Me of Someone I Used to Know
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“You Remind Me of Someone I Used to Know” works as a callback to last season’s “Some People Just Want To Watch The World Burn” as once again the Salvatore School prepares for its annual game against Mystic Falls High, although the new headmaster (Alexis Denisof) has a far more open mind towards his students using their powers, in moderation, to compete (which won’t turn out well for one Mystic Falls student). The episode continues reversal of fortunes between the Saltzman sisters as Josie (Kaylee Bryant) continues down a darker path and Lizzie‘s (Jenny Boyd) bright outlook continues as she searches for clues about the mysterious Sebastian (Thomas Doherty).

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Nancy Drew – The Curse of the Dark Storm

Alan Rapp / October 26, 2019 / Television Reviews

Title: Nancy Drew – The Curse of the Dark Storm
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In a (literally) stormy episode, Nancy Drew (Kennedy McMann) and Nick (Tunji Kasim) will lay their cards on table and do some sleuthing while Nancy mulls over the offer of throwing Nick to the police in order to have her own pending criminal charges expunged. Two more characters get haunted by Dark Alice (Stephanie Van Dyck) in the episode while George (Leah Lewis) gets a visitation of another kind as the “curse” foreshadowed at the end of the previous episode appears to be asserting itself. While the show acknowledges Nancy knowing her father got rid of the old bloody dress (which, why the fuck was he keeping it anyway), it skirts the issue of the older murder for now instead concentrating on more recent events.

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Arrow – Welcome to Hong Kong

Alan Rapp / October 24, 2019 / Television Reviews

Title: Arrow – Welcome to Hong Kong
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The second episode of Arrow‘s final season works better than last week’s premiere as it becomes obvious that the common theme of these early weeks will be putting Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) on a road trip of hitting up various locales important to the show over the years. “Welcome to Hong Kong” takes Oliver, Diggle (David Ramsey), and Laurel (Katie Cassidy) back to Earth-1 on a search for a scientist who fits into the larger plans of the Monitor (LaMonica Garrett. The return to Hong Kong (where most of the flashbacks from Season Three occurred) offers a call-back to the Alpha-Omega virus and the return of both Tatsu Yamashiro (Rila Fukushima) and China White (Kelly Hu). Following this theme, next week offers a return to Nanda Parbat and more familiar faces.

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