Will Trent – Breathe with Me

  • 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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Night Passage

  • Title: Night Passage
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Stone Sunday takes us north to the sleepy town of Paradise, Massachusetts and the introduction of  Jesse Stone. More stoic, and far less of a smart-ass, than Spenser, talented but also deeply flawed, Stone offered Parker a new character to develop. It’s notable that we meet Jesse while drunk, attempting to sober up before beginning the drive from Los Angeles (where he was fired for drinking on the job) to the small northeastern city of Paradise. Drunk when he applied for the job, the first 50 pages or so of Night Passage involve Jesse’s drive across country thinking over his life, leaving his former job as a Homicide Detective, and his ex-wife, on one coast and begin a new life on the other. 

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Invincible – You’re Not Laughing Now

  • 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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