The Irrational – Another Man’s Treasure

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  • Title: The Irrational – Another Man’s Treasure
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The case of the week involves someone with a good understanding of psychology and how to manipulate crowds involved in a series of art thefts under the guise of political activism which also gets played out in specific characters fighting for the return of stolen artifacts back to their home country some of who also get manipulated by the mastermind. There are some interesting layers to the case including the FBI dealing with someone using Alec’s (Jesse L. Martin) kind of knowledge against them. Given how well the mystery perpetrator does at the job, I wish they hadn’t wasted the premise on a one-off episode and perhaps teased the possibility of a more morally flexible version of the professor working for the other side popping up causing problems multiple times over the course of the season.

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The Substance

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  • Title: The Substance
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Part body horror and part treatise on societal pressures of women over the age of 40, The Substance stars Demi Moore as a fading Hollywood celebrity now host of a morning exercise hour about to be replaced by the lecherous producer (Dennis Quaid). Learning of an experimental procedure where she might recapture her youth, Elisabeth (Moore) takes “the Substance” and emerges from the husk of her body as the distinctly different Sue (Margaret Qualley) whose beauty quickly reopens all the doors closed to her older self. However, in order for this miracle to work, Sue and Elisabeth share consciousness, each a week at a time when the other is unconscious with any negative or selfish action by one potentially hurting the other.

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Black Doves – The Cost of It All / In the Bleak Midwinter

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  • Title: Black Doves – The Cost of It All / In the Bleak Midwinter
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Most, although not quite all, of the threads are wrapped up in the final two episodes of Black Doves. “The Cost of It All” gives us shit hitting the fan, Helen (Keira Knightley) finding herself behind the eight-ball with few cards left to play, a violent confrontation with her would-be replacement (Agnes O’Casey), and trouble for Sam (Ben Whishaw), Eleanor (Gabrielle Creevy), and Kai-Ming (Isabella Wei) all of whom are scooped up by the Clarks. However, Helen also finds the missing footage, providing answers to the ambassador’s death and leverage to save her friend and get the answers she’s been seeking concerning Jason’s (Andrew Koji) death.

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Jenny Sparks #6

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As the war of words continues between Jenny Sparks and Captain Atom, Jenny Sparks #6 continues to explore what it means to be a hero. We get references to not one but two pandemics Jenny lived through, first in 1918 and then in 2020 where her frustration boiled over that not even Superman could help. There’s a really nice moment between the pair in a flashback driving home the point of mask mandates and social distancing that far, far too many Americans missed.

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