Bob’s Burgers – The Place Beyond the Pinecones

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“The Place Beyond the Pinecones” gives us a Tina (Dan Mintz) episode as she goes on an overnight wilderness retreat with her Thundergirls troop. Chosen to spy on a rival troop notorious for cheating at the yearly competition, Tina gets lost in the woods with Patty (Betsy Sodaro) and Rena (Sarah Baker) with the trio eventually making it out of the woods for a bizarre night at Donna Dane’s Etiquette Camp for Good Girls where the trio do not fit in. It’s a crazy night for Tina, including getting tied to a posture chair and setting a pinecone on fire, but a relatively uneventful one for the rest of the Belchers who spend it screwing with Tina’s stuff before she gets back.

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The Umbrella Academy – Plan B #1

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“He only told the world about seven.”

In the rubble of their former home, the Umbrella Academy is attacked by another team, a team built and trained in secret, a team of Sparrows. Rather than present the group as from an alternate timeline (as was shown in the Netflix series), this group has been together for years as seven additional children born on the same day and found by Sir Reginald Hargreeves. However, this group of heroes, even as children, play a bit harder than the Academy.

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Sherlock & Daughter – The Last Dance

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  • Title: Sherlock & Daughter – The Last Dance
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With no word on if the characters will return for another season, Sherlock & Daughter comes to a close with an episode wrapping up most of the season’s threads, although it does leave one dangling should the show get picked up for another season. The question of Amelia’s (Blu Hunt) paternity is put to rest once and for all as Holmes admits his relationship to Amelia’s mother.

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Materialists

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  • Title: Materialists
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I had some trepidation walking into writer/director Celine Song‘s Materialists. On one hand, Song provided my favorite film of 2023. On the other hand, the set up of a beautiful matchmaker, starring my least-favorite mainstream actress, who just can’t seem to find her own Mr. Right, sounded like the kind of bargain-basement romcom that would normally make me want to run quickly in the opposite direction. Thankfully, that’s not what Materialists turns out to be. However, what we do get is only somewhat more successful.

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