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Arcane – Heavy is the Crown

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  • Title: Arcane: League of Legends – Heavy is the Crown
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The Second Season of Arcane: League of Legends picks up immediately after Jinx‘s (Ella Purnell) attack which managed to somehow only kill the minor supporting characters leaving Jayce (Kevin Alejandro), Caitlyn (Katie Leung), and Mel (Toks Olagundoye) largely unscathed and the other counselors only wounded – although Caitlyn does suffer the loss of her mother. Not knowing about his friend’s secret experiments, Jayce blames the attack for Viktor‘s (Harry Lloyd) unusual condition.

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Murder in a Small Town – Family Concerns

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  • Title: Murder in a Small Town – Family Concerns
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After a couple of weeks with no murders within the town, “Family Concerns” offers two with the unrelated murders of two women found in the woods. The explanation of one turns out to be obvious enough with Karl (Rossif Sutherland) uncovering an affair and an unfortunate escalation of a disagreement between the victim and his lover’s daughter (Natalie Malaika) which left the woman dead. Despite the father’s (Ryan Allen) attempts to take the fall, after failing to pin the crime on the murderer of the earlier victim, the truth is far too easy for Karl to see once the facts emerge. 

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Cross – Ride the White Horsey

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  • Title: Cross – Ride the White Horsey
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While being so riled up with his wife’s killer fucking with him, and working on finding the missing phone which is now in the hands of the dead man’s baby mama, Alex Cross (Aldis Hodge) nearly shoots his daughter. And the poor girl, distrustful of anyone who could actually help her, runs into a hitman staying the same hotel who eventually gets bored of waiting and just kills her. So, it’s not a great week for the master detective. Meanwhile, our serial killer (Ryan Eggold) targets his next victim which will complete the bizarre recreation set by targeting her at a coffee shop and over a dating site. However, a clue found by Cross will allow the actual investigation to get started.

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Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft – Yinyang

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  • Title: Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft – Yinyang
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Well that was anticlimactic. After being bested by Charles Devereaux (Richard Armitage) at every turn, Lara Croft (Hayley Atwell) faces off against the man who has acquired all the stones and (literally) become a monster… and she just beats him rather easily abruptly ending the threat and story in a single episode set within a secret bunker belonging to The Light. Aside from the victory, which Camilla Roth (Zoe Boyle) helps on, the episode is also notable for Lara finding some inner peace (Shifu would be proud) in a short coma at the beginning of the episode. With the threat neutralized, the series moves forward to its final episode of the season acting as both an epilogue and, no doubt, setting up for the show’s next season which may actually see Lara use guns.

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The Irrational – Anatomy of a Fall

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  • Title: The Irrational – Anatomy of a Fall
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The Irrational - Anatomy of a Fall

“Anatomy of the Fall” allows for the conclusion of Phoebe’s (Molly Kunz) separate story and her return to the department. Before that, however, we’ll get a case of suicides on campus which Alec (Jesse L. Martin) is asked to look into. What he finds, with the help of Marisa (Maahra Hill), is the latest suicide was anything but as a young woman’s death was covered up by her sorority sisters attempting to avoid bad publicity. The episode is notable for the experiment playing on how peer pressure can force someone to go against what they know to be true, the case hitting home for Simon (Max Lloyd-Jones) given his brother’s death, and Alec’s interactions with the girl’s father (Blake Robbins) allowing them both a way to honor the young woman’s memory.

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