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Doctor Odyssey – Casino Week

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  • Title: Doctor Odyssey – Casino Week
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Angela Bassett guest-stars as a cop who gets stuck aboard the Odyssey while looking for thieves who plan to rob the ship during Casino Week. Although one thief is caught while attempting to board, his two accomplices are still on the ship allowing the episode to offer up an eclectic list of red herrings including a pair of card sharks (Robbie Silverman and Angela Zhou) working the tables and a young woman named Daphne (Jade Pettyjohn) in desperate need of a heart transplant choosing to make the best of what little time she has left. The medical escapades are mostly minor, such as keeping Daphne in comfort as much as possible while Max (Joshua Jackson) helps Grant (Bassett) search for the robbers. And, in terms of ongoing storylines, Avery (Phillipa Soo) makes the first big decision regarding her future.

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The Irrational – Suddenly Alec

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  • Title: The Irrational – Suddenly Alec
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“Suddenly Alec” is a fun episode of The Irrational that allows the show to play on the musical theatre backgrounds of both Jesse L. Martin and Karen David when Alec and Rose go undercover working for a community theatre company looking for a killer. We’d seen the show make use of David’s musical chops in a previous episode, but “Suddenly Alec” pushes the professor under the spotlight stepping in for the murder victim to provide the voice of Aubrey II in a production of Little Shop of Horrors. While the professor gets a bit too good to fast for someone with no experience (why not give him a bit of background like the show has done for Rose) it is quite fun to see Alec play the murderous plant while also using the play to solve a murder and a separate case for a client which Rose was hired for.

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Scooby-Doo! – A Scary Night with a Snow Beast Fright

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  • Title: Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! – A Scary Night with a Snow Beast Fright
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Scooby Saturday takes us back to Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! for another mystery involving some meddling kids and their talking dog. Before disappearing, Professor Kreuger (John Stephenson) flies Mystery, Inc. to an Inuit village at the North Pole. Once arriving the find only a half-demolished village and Chief Manook (Vic Perrin) who informs them a giant Snow Beast of local legends appeared and carried the professor off. Despite warnings from both Manook and the professor’s assistant Jean Pierre Baptiste (Alan Oppenheimer), the gang decide to remain and investigate the new mystery which involves giant totem poles in the snowy wasteland.

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Invincible – You Were My Hero

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  • Title: Invincible – You Were My Hero
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After confronting Cecil (Walton Goggins) about the surveillance drone watching the family, which Cecil isn’t responsible for, Mark‘s (Steven Yeun) day only gets crazier when his date with Eve (Gillian Jacobs) is interrupted by the pair of time travelers that whisk him away to  the far future where an insane Immortal (Ross Marquand) is ruling over a dystopian future with an iron fist (what this has to do with the pair stealing the Declaration of Independence in an early episode is never made clear).

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Reacher – Smoke on the Water

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  • Title: Reacher – Smoke on the Water
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Things finally do go to shit for Reacher‘s (Alan Ritchson) undercover mission, although not as quickly as you might expect. The run-in with Xavier Quinn (Brian Tee) doesn’t immediately blow his cover. Nor does Richard (Johnny Berchtold) blow Reacher’s cover and discovering his kidnapping was staged and Reacher is working with the DEA. However, Quinn’s men investigating those who have been looking into his business lead to attacks on Powell (Owen Roth) and Neagley (Maria Sten) whose connection to Reacher will blow his cover. Neagley fares better than Powell.

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