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NCIS: Origins – Flight of Icarus

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  • Title: NCIS: Origins – Flight of Icarus
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NCIS takes on a case involving the apparent suicide of a general’s son just days before the soldier’s redeployment which have elements that hit home for Franks through a series of flashbacks. While I don’t have an issue with exploring Franks’ past, nor using a current case to provide the framework for those flashbacks, I’m not sure the script of “Flight of the Icarus” was necessarily the best episode to do so (when you think the actions of the dead solider would hit harder for our main character who attempted suicide himself not all that long ago). With so much time focused on Franks, Gibbs (Austin Stowell) and his new romantic relationship with Dominguez (Mariel Molino) gets mostly pushed to the side without an immediate follow up, although one of their colleagues appears to have sniffed out the change in their relationship.

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Charlie’s Angels – Game, Set, Death

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  • Title: Charlie’s Angels – Game, Set, Death
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Wayback Wednesday takes us back to the tale of three beautiful former police officers turned private detectives working for a faceless boss known as Charlie. The Angels are brought in to investigate a series of incidents and attacks on female players in the La Hermosa Women’s Tennis Tournament. Relying on her collegiate experience, Kris (Cheryl Ladd) goes in undercover as one of the players (which apparently had enough withdrawals to allow any unranked player into the tournament) while Sabrina (Kate Jackson) and Kelly (Jaclyn Smith) double-up as a fashion designer and model hocking their wares at the club.

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Arcane – Killing Is a Cycle / The Dirt Under Your Nails

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  • Title: Arcane: League of Legends – Killing Is a Cycle / The Dirt Under Your Nails
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After peaking with “The Message Hidden Within the Pattern,” the Second Season of limps to the finish line with a what if multiverse style story followed by two episodes more concerned with the Noxian army’s collaboration with Viktor (Harry Lloyd), while never truly exploring the moral ramifications of what he has accomplished or Jayce‘s (Kevin Alejandro) obsession which cause the conflict, and their attack on Piltover rather than the characters who have made up the emotional core of the series. The result is an underwhelming finale with some individual moments that ends with a whimper rather than a bang.

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Watson – Watson

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  • Title: Watson – Watson
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Something akin to House with Sherlock Holmes trappings, the opening episode of Watson gives us Dr. John Watson (Morris Chestnut) starting up a cutting-edge clinic six-months after the deaths of Holmes and Professor Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls. The case of the week involves a pregnant woman (Anjelica Bette Fellini) believed to have a genetic disorder that will soon kill her, although Watson and his team begin to investigate alternatives as the episode runs through various false diagnoses before finding the true cause of her symptoms. Along the way we also get glimpses of Watson’s troubled relationship with his ex (Rochelle Aytes) who he abandoned to help Holmes on a final adventure that only Watson returned from.

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The Irrational – Now You Don’t

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  • Title: The Irrational – Now You Don’t
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Love, and magic, is in the air in “Now You Don’t” when Alec (Jesse L. Martin) taking Rose (Karen David) on a date to a magic club ends in murder. The Irrational’s use of psychology is more about explaining magic tricks than solving the case involving a magician friend (Carmel Amit) of Alec’s whose volunteer dies on stage. While I like the magic bits of the episode, including the fun moments from Simon (Max Lloyd-Jones) and Phoebe (Molly Kunz), the writing of the episode (relying mostly on the cops being too dumb to think things through and Alec stumbling into a solution rather than finding it through his talents) leaves something to be desired.

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