The Old Man – IV

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  • Title: The Old Man – IV
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Nothing goes exactly as planned for Dan Chase (Jeff Bridges) in the fourth episode of the series. After arriving in Los Angeles, his business dealings in hopes of putting him in touch with an enemy of his enemy are stymied, Zoe (Amy Brenneman) discovers she has some leverage in the situation after all and makes an outrageous demand, and our super-spy is unable to talk Emily (Alia Shawkat) of getting on a plane with Harold Harper (John Lithgow) for a face-to-face meeting with the boogeyman of our story.

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Prey

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  • Title: Prey (2022)
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Boys are so dumb. And Predators are cool again. With themes that simple, how can you go wrong? It only took 25 years, but someone finally found a way to make a really good sequel to 1987’s Predator. Set in the 18th Century, our protagonist is a Comanche healer (Amber Midthunder) who wants nothing more to become a hunter for the tribe like her brother (Dakota Beavers). Struggling to prove herself, Naru (Midthunder) will come across our Predator cutting a bloody swath through forest creatures, the disbelieving Comanche, and the scummy French fur-trappers before turning its attention on our young warrior.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – A Quality of Mercy

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  • Title: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – A Quality of Mercy
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After getting off-track for a couple of episodes, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds rights the ship for the season finale that touches on one of the major themes of the season as well as explore one of the original series episodes in a new way. In something akin to Marvel’s What If…, “A Quality of Mercy” examines what might happen if you removed the Enterprise’s most famous captain from one of his biggest moments of his early career and instead left Captain Pike (Anson Mount) in command. The time travel is made possible by the arrival of Pike’s older self letting him know the consequences if he attempts to change the outcome of his accident several years in the future.

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The Boys – Payback

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  • Title: The Boys – Payback
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It’s been awhile since I sat down and watched The Boys. A few minutes into Third Season premiere reminds me why. I’ll admit, the show works as gritty fun of awful people doing awful things to each other, but it’s hard for me to stay invested in a show that doesn’t have a single likeable character. Following the events of the previous season, Hughie (Jack Quaid) has a desk job and is now running Butcher (Karl Urban) and The Boys, Starlight (Erin Moriarty) is offered a major promotion, and Homelander (Antony Starr) is still in damage control mode for dating a Nazi. 

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The Mystery of the Coughing Dragon

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  • Title: The Mystery of the Coughing Dragon
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to a mystery involving the Three Investigators whose mantra of “We Investigate Everything” leads them to not only investigate the missing dog of a longtime friend of Hector Sebastian but also their client’s claim of seeing a coughing dragon on the beach below his home. Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw, and Bob Andrews go to work investigating the caves in the cliffs along the shore and find a series of clues including tire treads rather than tracks made by any extradentary creature. However, after the see the dragon, the Investigators will be forced to reconsider the facts.

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