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True Lies – Pilot

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  • Title: True Lies – Pilot
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Inspired by the 1994 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis, the “Pilot” episode of True Lies introduces us to super-spy Harry Tasker (Steve Howey) whose wife Helen (Ginger Gonzaga) and children (Annabella Didion and Lucas Jaye) believe he works as a travelling computer salesman. Lacking the goofiness of the film, or its stars, the series goes for more straightforward approach to the material as Harry invites his frustrated wife to Paris on work trip with his spy team (Erica Hernandez, Mike O’Gorman, and Omar Benson Miller) which inevitably leads to his two separate lives to crashing into each other when the pair are kidnapped from a Paris restaurant.

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Spider-Gwen: Shadow Clones #1

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For a comic full of lighter tones and banter, Spider-Gwen: Shadow Clones #1 gives us a pretty dark super-villain origin story to kick off the series when a scientist, ignoring all danger to herself and her significant other, remains in her lab with Ghost-Spider battling transplanted Spidey-villains the Sinister Six. Gwen is successful in leading the battle away and defeating the villains, but our scientist isn’t so lucky and blames Gwen, rather than her own stubbornness and stupidity, for what follows. Her plan for vengeance… is unique.

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Kung Fu – Loss

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  • Title: Kung Fu – Loss
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Xiao (Jennifer Khoe) puts her plans into action using both Mia (Vanessa Yao) and Henry (Eddie Liu) to find and steal the power of the bloodline. For an episode that sees the death of a supporting character and puts the lives of everyone in Nicky‘s (Olivia Liang)  family at risk, “Loss” should not be as bonkers as it is which undercuts any possible emotional weight. There’s too much plot for the single episode and it lacks time for characters to grieve over Mia’s death or their own mortality, although, thankfully Zhilan (Yvonne Chapman) is given a couple of nice scenes early on (before disappearing under a pile of blankets like the majority of the cast for the rest of the episode).

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Metamorphosis

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  • Title: Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Metamorphosis
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It’s always weird to watch any Star Wars property try their hand at horror which was, at the very most, a minimal part of the original movie trilogy in something like the Sarlaac Pit (which still had a comic slant). The concept provided one of weakest episodes of Star Wars Rebels in “The Mystery of Chopper Base” and doesn’t fair much better here when the squad chases a monster around a crashed ship and woods for most of “Metamorphosis.” The concept is also a bit baffling as apparently Emperor Palpatine wasn’t going to use cloning technology to bring him back from the dead (which he does in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker) but to make giant energy-sucking monsters. Um… okay? Not sure what this is going, but the Imperial B-story does set the Empire back to looking for Omega (Michelle Ang),

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Animal Control – Weasels and Ostriches

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  • Title: Animal Control – Weasels and Ostriches
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Your basic paint-by-number sitcom, with animals thrown in, the first episode of animal control introduces to the motley crew of animal control workers dominated by the sarcastic Frank (Joel McHale) who is no happy about being assigned a new partner , former snowboarder Shred (Michael Rowland), and attempts to get him to quit multiple times over the course of the episode before showing the smallest glimmer of compassion. If you think all this sounds like Community-lite, well of course it does.

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