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Hawaii Five-0 – O kela me keia manawa

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Hawaii Five-0 - O kela me keia manawa

McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) calls on Grover’s (Chi McBride) help to find the SWAT Commander’s friend, a missing philanthropic bartender (Karl Makinen) who put one gangbanger (Zeus Krang) in the morgue and another in the hospital (Eugene Shaw) after they jumped him outside the bar. The situation is complicated after Chin Ho (Daniel Dae Kim) learns the gang attack was a hired hit and Five-0 discovers Grover’s pal is a military vet wanted by the FBI for his part in an armed robbery and homicide, a fact he’s kept from his wife (Laurie Fortier) and children.

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The Spoils of Babylon – The Foundling

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The Spoils of Babylon - The Foundling

IFC’s new six-episode mini-series The Spoils of Babylon, written by Matt Piedmont and Andrew Steele, sets out to satirize the ridiculous soap opera nature of TV mini-series of the 70’s and 80’s. Boasting an all-star cast, the first episode, with an intro by the show’s creator Eric Jonrosh (Will Ferrell), introduces us to Devon Morehouse (Tobey Maguire) and his adopted family (Tim Robbins, Kristen Wiig) who strike it rich in oil just as the bank is set to foreclose on the last remnants of the Morehouse clan’s once impressive real estate empire.

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Atlantis – The Furies

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Atlantis - The Furies

Pythagoras (Robert Emms) is not pleased by either the looming mission to guard a caravan and its dowry from Atlantis to Helios nor the arrival of his brother Arcas (Will Merrick) who decides to join the group on the dangerous trek through the desert. After taking refuge in a temple of the Furies on night, Arcas siezes the opportunity to call on the spirits to wreak vengeance on the murderer of his father who has long gone unpunished unaware that Pythagoras is actually responsible.

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The Crazy Ones – Outbreak

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The Crazy Ones - Outbreak

As the office is beset with the flu, Simon (Robin Williams) rallies the troops to come up with a way to change public opinion for a doll whose malfunctioning voice box informed her young owner to kill her mother on Christmas. With Zach (James Wolk) quarantined along with an ever-increasing percentage of the office, Lauren (Amanda Setton) is given her first big chance and allowed to run the apology tour campaign.

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Elementary – All in the Family

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Elementary - All in the Family

The discovery of a mobster’s decapitated body by Detective Bell (Jon Michael Hill) working in his new job with Demographics brings him back into contact with Captain Gregson (Aidan Quinn), Watson (Lucy Liu), and Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller). Making no inroads with Bell over the recent shooting, Holmes tries a new tack by attempting to insert himself into Bell’s new job and force a confrontation with the detective who still harbors anger over the loss of full use of his right hand.

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