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Terminator Zero – Model 103

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Terminator Zero - Model 103

In the closed catacombs the Terminator finally catches up with the kids. Luckily for them,  Eiko (Sonoya Mizuno) arrives soon after to buy them time to escape. Those segments in the closed down underground shop are pretty boilerplate Terminator while the thread of Malcolm Lee (André Holland) continuing to discuss humanity to his AI which he hopes will save humanity, but in Eiko’s timeline fails to do so, continues to feel like filler as nothing can advance in that subplot without either Ekio reaching Malcolm or Malcolm turning his AI loose.

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The Umbrella Academy – Six Years, Five Months, and Two Days

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The Umbrella Academy - Six Years, Five Months, and Two Days

While offering some interesting aspects, “Six Years, Five Months, and Two Days” turns out to be an odd choice for the penultimate episode of the series. Had there been more room to play with the looming finale spending a full episode on Five (Aidan Gallagher) and Lila (Ritu Arya) getting lost in subway to alternate realities or having Luther (Tom Hopper) and Diego (David Castañeda) waste their time with the CIA would certainly be worth exploring. However, that means everything else is put on hold leaving only a single episode to deal with Ben (Justin H. Min) and Jennifer’s (Victoria Sawal) badly-rendered CGI merging, the explanation for motives and events, and the final mission of the Umbrella Academy.

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The Old Man – VIII

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  • Title: The Old Man – VIII
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The Old Man - VIII

The Old Man returns for its Second Season with Dan Chase (Jeff Bridges) and Harold Harper (John Lithgow) attempting to work together. Having successfully infiltrated Afghanistan, things quickly go wrong leaving them with few allies to find and save Emily (Alia Shawkat). The episode stays with the old couple pairing of the two, and sharing thoughts on Emily and the steps Dan went to to hide the truth from her, with the action coming from dangers they run into including a friendly face who turns out to be anything but and nearly ends the pair’s adventure before it gets started. Good stuff here, although Emily’s own thread isn’t picked up on just yet and I do miss Amy Brenneman.

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LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy – Part One

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LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy - Part One

Shaking up LEGO Star Wars and mixing and matching to create something new, the first episode of the four-part mini-series LEGO: Star Wars: Rebuilds the Galaxy introduces us to brothers Sig (Gaten Matarazzo) and Dev (Tony Revolori) whose discovery of a Jedi Temple on Fennesa leads the outgoing brother to needle Sig into removing a block from the temple, shattering it (and all of reality). Although neither Sig nor Dev offer much in the way of interesting characters, they do the job into getting the ball rolling. Once Sig emerges from the ruins of the temple, everything has changed.

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Spenser: For Hire – Rage

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Spenser: For Hire - Rage

Spenser Saturday takes us back to the mean streets of Boston and the travails of a smart ass private detective. After a school dance he was chaperoning with Susan (Barbara Stock), Spenser (Robert Urich) breaks up an altercation between two students in the parking lot leading to questions about an attack and rape. Later, when the girl runs away, her parents hire Spenser to find Jill (Christie Mossman) who gets into further trouble when she witnesses a murder while pawning her Grandmother’s broach and is hunted the recently-released con (Brad Dourif) who kidnaps the girl and commandeers a bus, later abandoning it after a shoot-out with Spenser.

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