Stargirl – Chapter Six: The Betrayal

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  • Title: Stargirl – Chapter Six: The Betrayal
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Yolanda (Yvette Monreal) shares her discovery with the team, but gets caught by Cindy (Meg DeLacy) while putting back to laptop as the years of animosity between the pair boil over leading to more dirty laundry aired by the increasingly dysfunctional team. Feeling appropriately betrayed and her privacy invaded, Cindy to have little interest in helping the JSA moving forward. Mike (Trae Romano) and Jakeem (Alkoya Brunson), unaware of what has happened within the JSA, continue their attempts to recruit Cindy to get their own team off the ground. Will Cindy’s split with the JSA be their opening?

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The Redeem Team

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  • Title: The Redeem Team
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After a disappointing showing in the 2004 Olympics, director Jon Weinbach‘s documentary takes a look at changes to Team USA and the rededication of NBA players to bringing home the gold medal. The film touches on several subjects including Mike Krzyzewski taking over as head coach, the struggles for the team at the 2006 World Championship, the rise of LeBron James and Dwayne Wade as superstars, and how the addition of Kobe Bryant was the final piece of the puzzle for the 2008 team who would go on to dominate in Beijing.

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Andor – Episode 6

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  • Title: Andor – Episode 6
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The sixth episode of Andor finally gets to the heist, although the show’s method of drawing events out unnecessarily continues even during the heist itself often flashing to events elsewhere on the military base or with the locals amassing to view the celestial event. The choice would seem to be done in attempt to draw out the tension of events even longer. However, the result is actually the opposite as editing of the episode continually undercuts and distracts from the events the show has finally gotten around to delivering. If Andor was a comic book series it would be a three-issue story stretched thinly over an entire year’s run where you could easily miss two or three months at a time and still have no trouble staying caught up with the story.

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Silk Stalkings – The Sock Drawer

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  • Title: Silk Stalkings – The Sock Drawer
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to the unsolved crimes of passion in the wealthy playground of Palm Beach, Florida. William Lucking guest-stars as a prominent police commander who enjoys taping his wife (Patsy Pease) having sex with other men. Through a bit of a convoluted set-up, Stonewell (Lucking) gets into a public shoot-out with Chris (Rob Estes) and Rita (Mitzi Kapture) while killing one of his his wife’s lovers who discovered he was being recorded. Stonewell attempts to sweep up everything under the rug, which includes throwing and under the bus who were the ones at fault in the shooting.

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