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Goosebumps – Stay Out of the Basement

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  • Title: Goosebumps: The Vanishing – Stay Out of the Basement, Part I & Part II
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Disney’s Goosebumps series returns for a Second Season under the subtitle “The Vanishing.” The two-parter to kick off the season introduces to a group of kids who go missing after discovering something ominous in the deserted bowels of Fort Jerome. Thirty years later the nephew of one of the missing kids will take a similar journey. Our main characters here are Cece (Jayden Bartels) and Devin (Sam McCarthy) who are relocated to live with their father Anthony (David Schwimmer) for the summer. The younger brother of one of the missing children, Anthony is better with plants than people, locking himself up with his basement focusing on his scientific research whenever possible.

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The Irrational – Lost Souls

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  • Title: The Irrational – Lost Souls
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With Alec (Jesse L. Martin) stuck in the hospital after emergency surgery, Rose (Karen David) and Marisa (Maahra Hill) head into a national forest searching for a missing tennis player (Davida Williams). The pairing of current and ex proves to be an interesting one. Meanwhile Simon (Max Lloyd-Jones), Owen (Arash DeMaxi), and Phoebe (Molly Kunz) work an experiment to discover how the missing woman might react to getting lost in the woods which proves helpful in finding the missing young woman. However, dangers continue to rise with the addition of a forest fire and the discovery that someone has followed the tennis star into the woods with the intention of doing her harm.

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Skeleton Crew – We’re Gonna Be In So Much Trouble

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  • Title: Star Wars: Skeleton Crew – We’re Gonna Be In So Much Trouble
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After a somewhat shorter tour through space than expected, both the kids and the pirates arrive at At Attin. The arrival of the children actually saves Jod (Jude Law) from the pirates’ wrath as he turns circumstances to his advantage once more landing on the planet with the children to find a larger stash of gold than he could ever dream. The episode also gives us Wim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers), Neel (Robert Timothy Smith), Fern (Ryan Kiera Armstrong), and KB (Kyriana Kratter) outthinking the pirates on last time and their reunion with their parents, but ends with everyone still in danger from the greedy Jod who only needs to force the barrier down to allow the pirates access to pillage the planet which has remained hidden for years.

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Will Trent – I’m a Guest Here

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  • Title: Will Trent – I’m a Guest Here
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Months after the end of Season Two, the retiring , who has relocated to Tennessee taking odd private investigator jobs, Will Trent (Ramón Rodríguez) is pulled back into the department to help investigate the shooting of a cop whose prime suspect demands Trent’s involvement in the case. There’s a lot of Trent struggling to fit into his old life while yearning to return to his new one here, getting the cold shoulder from the friends he disappeared on and the cops who blame him for Angie (Erika Christensen). Even Nico (Cora Lu Tran) is less than inviting.

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Interior Chinatown – Chinatown Expert

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  • Title: Interior Chinatown – Chinatown Expert
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Willis (Jimmy O. Yang) continues down the rabbit hole looking further into his uncle (Archie Kao) who he now suspects knows something about his brother’s disappearance. Looking to get into his uncle’s office leads to Willis and Lana (Chloe Bennet) attending family dinner as something more than friends and an ill-conceived night out afterwards with Fatty (Ronny Chieng) whose ill-tempered waiting continues to draw in large audiences. The episode is notable for a nice moment between Lana and Lily Wu (Diana Lin), which continues to suggest a personal connection to the case for Lana that hasn’t yet been revealed, and the ripples of Willis’ tampering with the natural order which lead Turner (Sullivan Jones) to question the nature of his reality and his true place in the world.

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