Television Reviews

How I Met Your Mother – Last Forever

  • Title: How I Met Your Mother – Last Forever (Part One & Part Two)
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How I Met Your Mother - Last Forever

After nine years and more than 200 episodes, How I Met Your Mother concludes with an episode that bounces around quite a bit showcasing the various futures of each member of the group beginning with Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) and Robin‘s (Cobie Smulders) wedding reception and ending with Ted (Josh Radnor) finally finishing his story to his two kids (Lyndsy Fonseca, David Henrie) who offer their father the needed encouragement to go after what he’s always wanted one more time.

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The Mentalist – Violets

  • Title: The Mentalist – Violets
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The Mentalist - Violets

When Jane (Simon Baker) decides to loan the unit out to help another FBI agent (Pedro Pascal) catch a gang of murdering art thieves every member finds a role to play in an elaborate con involving misdirection, stolen art, Cho punching a suspect in a crowded bar, and a marching band. The team only knows a small fraction of the overall plan to entrap the leader of the crew (Charles Mesure), which is revealed to them as it is to the audience, by first using Abbot (Rockmond Dunbar), Fischer (Emily Swallow), Cho, and Lisbon (Robin Tunney) to bait one of his subordinates (Sean McGowan) and offer the crew a job too good to pass up.

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Once Upon a Time – Quiet Minds

  • Title: Once Upon a Time – Quiet Minds
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Once Upon a Time - Quiet Minds

Magic has a price. The return of Rumpelstiltskin (Robert Carlyle) in the major thread in both the current storyline in Storybooke and the flashbacks to the Enchanted Forest where Neal (Michael Raymond-James) raises his father from the grave unaware of what will be taken from him. An injured Neal’s arrival in Storybrooke, unaware of the events which happened over the past year, leads him to joining the search for his missing father, but the closer Emma and Neal get to finding him the more obvious it is that something is quite wrong. Before the end of the episode both Emma and Rumpelstiltskin will loose someone they love.

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Teen Titans Go! – Missing

  • Title: Teen Titans Go! – Missing
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Teen Titans Go! - Missing

In an episode that references both DuckTales and The NeverEnding Story, “Missing” provides a get-rich scheme for Robin (Scott Menville), Cyborg (Khary Payton), and Beast Boy (Greg Cipes) by returning Silkie to Killer Moth (Menville). Although Starfire (Hynden Walch) is heartbroken to find her beloved pet missing, Raven (Tara Strong) is relieved – at least until Starfire turns her unwanted affection, and tongue baths, onto her.

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Once Upon a Time in Wonderland – To Catch a Thief

  • Title: Once Upon a Time in Wonderland – To Catch a Thief
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Friendships will be tested and new partnerships formed as Once Upon a Time in Wonderland sets the stage for the next week’s series finale (ABC had deciding against bringing back the spin-off or a Second Season). The Red Queen (Emma Rigby) is dead, but Jafar (Naveen Andrews) offers the Knave (Michael Socha) a chance to bring her back to life – if the genie can get his hands on the sorcerer’s missing staff and help him change the laws of magic. Betraying Alice (Sophie Lowe) and Cyrus (Peter Gadiot) to get his hands on the staff, the former thief eventually relents and agrees to help Alice and Cyrus put an end to Jafar.

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