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Watson – The Man with the Glowing Chest

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  • Title: Watson – The Man with the Glowing Chest
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While the title of the episode refers to a geneticist friend of Watson (Morris Chestnut), the patient (Brittany Adebumola) in the episode suffering from multiples issues stemming for sickle cell anemia allows Watson to play with the concept of what doctors should and shouldn’t do to save their patient. Putting his career on the line, while attempting to hide what he’s doing from the team, Watson performs an unapproved medical procedure which saves his patient’s life leaving the team, and his ex-wife, to face the ramifications.

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Daredevil: Born Again – Optics

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  • Title: Daredevil: Born Again – Optics
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As Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) begins his reign as Mayor of New York City, Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) takes on a case involving a good Samaritan attempting to help a man in the subway who ends up being charged with the death of a one of the attackers (who turns out to be a cop). Despite the objections of Kirsten (Nikki M. James), Matt takes the case sure of the man’s innocence. The discovery that Hector (Kamar de los Reyes) is also a street vigilante, known as the White Tiger, now outlawed by Fisk’s new administration, only makes the case hit closer to home.

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Interior Chinatown – Bad Guy / Willis. Willis Wu.

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  • Title: Interior Chinatown – Bad Guy / Willis. Willis Wu.
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Set after the standalone episode structured to take place during a hiatus which focuses on Willis (Jimmy O. Yang) filming various commercials for products he doesn’t really understand, the final two episodes of the series bring the focus back to what’s wrong with the world as Wills asking the same questions his brother did leads to the show painting him as its new bad guy. Meanwhile, having taken Willis’ old job in the restaurant,  Lana (Chloe Bennet) makes a discoveries of her own involving how the citizens of Chinatown are being recycled constantly back into the show (explaining presumed dead characters seen earlier in the season) along with a tie between the lives of Chinatown and the video game at the restaurant from which Jonathan (Chris Pang) has been sending messages to Willis this entire time.

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Running Point – Pilot

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  • Title: Running Point – Pilot
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In what feels like Netflix’s version of a sitcom (with broad comedy and a concerted effort to seem edgy by shoehorning in as much swearing as possible), the “Pilot” episode of Running Point introduces us to Isla Gordon (Kate Hudson) as the least fucked up member of her family, a family that runs a professional basketball team. Thrown into the role of president after her eldest brother’s (Justin Theroux) cocaine bender becomes national news, Isla finally gets to put her basketball IQ to use much to the chagrin of her other brothers (Scott MacArthur and Drew Tarver) jealous they weren’t tapped for the position. The opening episode is mostly about introducing the characters, setting up a new path for Isla and the Waves, and also teasing one more surprise for the family which will be sprung in the season’s second episode.

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Doctor Odyssey – Shark Attack!

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  • Title: Doctor Odyssey – Shark Attack!
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Doctor Odyssey returns from its mid-season break with “Shark Attack!” featuring the cruise ship’s first mate (Marcus Emanuel Mitchell) getting attacked by sharks and, while racing to get him to port, rescuing another small group of survivors also the victims of a shark attack. There’s plenty of emergency surgery here and out-of-the-box thinking in terms of the limited resources aboard the ship keeping their patients alive. Things only get worse at the end of the episode when the ship is attacked leaving it stranded and surrounded by a group of Orca whales. I would expect more ingenuity from the crew to make it through next week’s episode.

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