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Goosebumps – Monster Blood

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  • Title: Goosebumps: The Vanishing – Monster Blood
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“Monster Blood” offers a Blob episode with Cece (Jayden Bartels), and later Devin (Sam McCarthy) and Frankie (Galilea La Salvia), chased around the city and subway by something grown from drippings of the killer car and her kombucha. It’s basic horror, with all kinds of questions such as why the subway is completely abandoned aside from the three kids, but there’s fun to be had. The episode also fills in Cece’s backstory revealing the rather large lie she’s been keeping from everyone. Elsewhere, Anthony (David Schwimmer) continues to struggle to find the missing specimen finding no help from Trey (Stony Blyden) who isn’t sure what happened to him. The two stories converge in the final few minutes as Anthony’s kids find their father in the ruins of Fort Jerome raising new questions for all about what is going on and who is responsible.

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Interior Chinatown – Detective

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  • Title: Interior Chinatown – Detective
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“Detective” offers a big change for the show and a new path for Willis (Jimmy O. Yang) as the department begins looking into his brother’s disappearance in earnest. Willis, teamed with Turner (Sullivan Jones) shows off a knack for the job while Lana (Chloe Bennet) being paired with Green (Lisa Gilroy) provides the missing background of her relationship with Jonathan (Chris Pang) and events surrounding his disappearance. Together, Green and Lana discover the crashed boat which Jonathan had apparently been using to flee the area providing a potential end to the case (although the show is far from over).

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The Irrational – Straight from the Heart

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  • Title: The Irrational – Straight from the Heart
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“Straight from the Heart” gets into fringe science as Alec (Jesse L. Martin) is approached by an old friend with dreams of a murder that happened to victim who died and provided the heart she is now using. The show doesn’t go as far to confirm events witnessed by the previous heart’s owner got transferred to the new one, although it certainly doesn’t shy away from the possibility with minimal effort spent to an alternate explanation for events. While once again the experiments don’t really tie-into the main case, a disturbing trend and growing concern, the show does open with Alec teaching his students a lesson. The episode is also notable for Marisa (Maahra Hill) meeting the child (Fritzy-Klevans Destine) she gave up for adoption several years ago. 

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Matlock – Crash Helmets On

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  • Title: Matlock – Crash Helmets On
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The cases of the week involve Olympia (Skye P. Marshall) defending a senior living facility after one of the residents dies and the return of Autry Tucker (Hal Williams) who is being forced out of his apartment and comes to Madeline (Kathy Bates) for help. While not arguing either case herself, Maddy does plenty of snooping in the nursing home unexpectedly bonding with Sarah (Leah Lewis) in the process and is given the choice of which of the assistants can argue Autry’s case in court. 

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Will Trent – Breathe with Me

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  • Title: Will Trent – Breathe with Me
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While staying with Faith (Iantha Richardson), Evelyn Mitchell (LisaGay Hamilton) is abducted leading to an episode that explores the strained mother/daughter relationship of the pair as Faith, Will (Ramón Rodríguez), Angie (Erika Christensen), and Ormewood (Jake McLaughlin) all work the case. The focus on Faith and her mother allows the show to put some emotional distance between Will and Angie who are both completely dialed in to finding Faith’s mother. “Breathe with Me” also shows Evelyn’s mind is sharp as ever an she still has a few tricks up her sleeve managing to stay alive long enough to be found. No tragedy here as Evelyn is returned safely and mother and daughter become closer  than they have in years.

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