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Titans – Deathstroke

Alan Rapp / October 7, 2019 / Television Reviews

Title: Titans – Deathstroke
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“Deathstroke” picks up from the cliffhanger of “Ghosts” with the Titans learning of Jason Todd‘s (Curran Walters) kidnapping, although it isn’t until after they discover Dr. Light‘s (Michael Mosley) body that they will learn who has Jason, and what he wants in return. Tensions continue to rise within Titans Tower with the abduction of Jason, Deathstroke‘s (Esai Morales) offer to trade the new Robin for Rose (Chelsea Zhang), and Dick (Brenton Thwaites) continuing to keep people in the dark. The arrival of Koriand’r (Anna Diop) helps with the later, but there still plenty of problems for the team to work out. Although Raven’s power issues have been put on the back burner this year due to the Deathstroke arc, it looks like they are poised to have a larger impact in the remainder of the season.

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Stumptown – Forget It Dex, It’s Stumptown. / Missed Connections

Alan Rapp / October 3, 2019 / Television Reviews

Title: Stumptown – Forget It Dex, It’s Stumptown. / Missed Connections
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Cobie Smulders stars as a good, if slightly fucked-up, former soldier who falls into the life of an unlicensed private investigator over the first two episodes of Stumptown. “Forget It Dex, It’s Stumptown.” introduces us to Dex Parios (Smulders), her best-friend Grey (Jake Johnson), and her brother Ansel (Cole Sibus). When the daughter (Blu Hunt) of the love of her life, whose death Dex still blames herself for, goes missing, the grandmother (Tantoo Cardinal) hires Dex to find her. What Dex discovers first looks like a pair of teens running off together but turns out to be something far more sinister as the boy’s boyfriend turns out to be one of three criminals wanting to ransom the girl back to her grandmother for a big payday.

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NCIS – Into the Light

Alan Rapp / October 2, 2019 / Television Reviews

Title: NCIS – Into the Light
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“Into the Light” concludes the two-part season premiere featuring the resurrected Ziva David (Cote de Pablo). The episode includes quite a bit of misdirection as the soldiers of the captured Sahar (Mouzam Makkar) attempt two suicide bombings on members of Congress, although it is discovered that neither one was ever meant to be successful. It also raises some suspicions against Ziva who makes some questionable choices in order to put her own plan in action and take down Sahar’s complete cell in one move.

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Bull – Fantastica Voyage

Alan Rapp / October 2, 2019 / Television Reviews

Title: Bull – Fantastica Voyage
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Elizabeth Alderfer guest-stars as an entrepreneur facing fraud charges when her partner, and the head scientist in the company’s proposed water filtration process, accuses her of lying to investors about the feasibility of it ever being completed. Despite everyone else raising doubts about defending a client who admittedly lied, repeatedly, in order to sell the dream of tomorrow, Bull (Michael Weatherly) takes the case insisting he can find a jury that can look pass the smaller lies in order for the greater good, and truth, being the potentially revolutionary technology. Benny (Freddy Rodríguez) is far less optimistic in their chances.

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Prodigal Son – Pilot/Annihilator

Alan Rapp / October 1, 2019 / Television Reviews

Title: Prodigal Son – Pilot/Annihilator
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Tom Payne stars as Malcolm Bright, a FBI profiler fired in the show’s pilot episode not for his inability to solve cases (which he excels at) but his inability to get along with others and concerns about his mental stability. Picking up a new job with the NYPD, Malcolm’s first case involves a serial killer who is a copycat of Malcom’s father (Michael Sheen) who killed more than 23 victims before Malcolm turned him in as a child. Still haunted from his own childhood, Malcolm’s nights involve restraints and night terrors stemming from discovering his father’s hobby years before and his days, while not investigating crimes, involve spending time with his ambitious sister (Halston Sage) and doing his best to avoid spending time with his overbearing mother (Bellamy Young).

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