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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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Invincible – You’re Not Laughing Now

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  • Title: Invincible – You’re Not Laughing Now
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Keeping to the series’ trademark of overstuffing its episodes with plot, but somehow still managing to end in a cliffhanger, Invincible returns with a new season kicking off with Mark (Steven Yeun) all-in with training under Cecil (Walton Goggins) for months to expand his abilities. We get a couple of early fight sequences for Invincible that are otherwise disconnected from the plot including taking down the Giant (Fred Tatasciore) in the desert and, alongside Rex Splode (Jason Mantzoukas), failing to stop two thieves from stealing the Declaration of Independence when Multi-Paul (Simu Liu) shows up blaming Rex for his sister’s death (except she’ not exactly dead). The latter of these seems like it’s important but it’s dropped almost immediately to pivot to the reveal Dupli-Kate (Malese Jow) is still alive.

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