Television Reviews

Will Trent – Floor Is Lava

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  • Title: Will Trent – Floor Is Lava
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In an episode that involves Will (Ramón Rodríguez), Angie (Erika Christensen), Faith (Iantha Richardson) and Ormewood (Jake McLaughlin) all awkwardly trying not to disturb evidence (in the sequence which provides the episode its title), “Floor Is Lava” is most notable for walking Will and Angie through a series of meetings from some awkward on-the-job discussions to a tearful confrontation after hours to an honest break in their relationship that leaves the two firmly separated. Going along with this theme is another appearance of Marion (Gina Rodriguez) confirming her as Will’s new love interest.

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Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man – Amazing Fantasy

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  • Title: Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man – Amazing Fantasy
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Set in one of the many spider-verse realities, the opening episode of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man introduces us to incoming freshman Peter Parker (Hudson Thames) who gets bit by a radioactive spider from another dimension on his first day at high school. The episode is a mix of modern and throwback, giving Peter a nostalgic look while replacing the older supporting characters with slightly different choices. Speaking of different choices, the moment from Captain America: Civil War arrives, but its not Tony Stark talking to Aunt May (Kari Wahlgren) when he walks into the apartment but Norman Osborne (Colman Domingo) instead. Although Osborne is there with a legitmate internship offer (not asking for his helping in taking down Captain America). Yes, a different world indeed.

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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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