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Dead Hot: Season of the Witch

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  • Title: Dead Hot: Season of the Witch
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The unscripted drama Dead Hot: Season of the Witch follows Vanessa Hudgens and Georgia Magree on their journey into the mystical involving learning more about ghosts and witchcraft. While you can tell the subject is important to both Hudgens and her real-life friend, the results are mixed. In the end you can’t help but wonder if a bit more scripting or a more traditional documentary style would have served the pair better in the personal interests they want to explore.

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True Lies – Independent Dependents

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  • Title: True Lies – Independent Dependents
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In an episode centered around the team attempting to save hostages from terrorists who have taken control of a weapons manufacturing plant, the focus of both the A & B plots involves characters resistant to asking for help needing help. Of course the framework is more than a bit forced when neither situation were setup prior to this episode as suddenly Harry (Steve Howey) apparently doesn’t ask for help and the other pairing involves Gib (Omar Benson Miller) and a character created solely for this episode. Despite the hostage situation, the late twist involving deadly nerve gas secretly created by the company, and Harry being temporarily blinded, nothing about the episode is at all memorable.

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R(eally).M(eh). Renfield

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  • Title: Renfield
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Renfield, which puts Dracula‘s (Nicolas Cage) long-suffering familiar R. M. Renfield (Nicholas Hoult) in the starring role, is a clever concept and about half a good movie. Playing on themes of codependency, unhealthy relationships, and being stuck with the worst boss ever, the film gives us Renfield in a support group, struggling with Dracula’s demands, and beginning to find the courage to stick up for himself after meeting a local cop (Awkwafina) in a police force so corrupt it makes the GCPD look respectable.

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The Flash – Partners in Time

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  • Title: The Flash – Partners in Time
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“Partners in Time” offers a time-loop episode. Well, sort of. The characters involved in the loop are aware of events, and time does seem to pass, but neither Barry (Grant Gustin), Iris (Candice Patton), nor the inspectors checking on S.T.A.R. Labs can leave the speed lab. There’s plenty to nitpick about this episode such as why Barry and Iris remember events from the loop but no one else does (conveniently forgetting Barry is the Flash), the extremely early clue as to which inspector (Diana Bang) was the super-villain from the future, or how a time magnet turns people into random objects from history.

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The Lost Symbol – The Complete Series

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  • Title: The Lost Symbol – The Complete Series
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Adapted from Dan Brown’s 2009 novel, The Lost Symbol provided a single season with Ashley Zukerman taking over the role of Professor Robert Langdon and getting involved in a convoluted mystery involving riddles, historical mysteries, conspiracy, secret crypts, and a cult seeking God-like power they believe was hidden from the world by the Freemasons. Over 10 (mediocre to downright bad) episodes, Langdon will attempt to solve a mystery that involves his former mentor (Eddie Izzard), a tattooed man, and the woman who got away (Valorie Curry).

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