2.5 Razors

Abominable and the Invisible City – Jin’s New Look

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  • Title: Abominable and the Invisible City – Jin’s New Look
  • IMDb: link

The title of the episode references both the white doctor’s coat delivered to Jin‘s (Tenzing Norgay Trainor) and his new view on life after the end of the episode choosing to stay with a magical creature (whose saliva can turn thing invisible) in need rather than attend a ceremony for his pre-medical program. While there’s a nice message there, and Peng (Ethan Loh) finds a moment to stand-up to both Jin and Yi (Chloe Bennet) who both get distracted (Jin by his coat, and later being turned invisbile, and Yi from the creature not appreciating her music), “Jin’s New Look” is the weakest episode of the series so far.

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Professionals – Snipe Hunt / Entanglements

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  • Title: Professionals – Snipe Hunt / Entanglements
  • IMDb: link / link

The first two episodes of Professionals give us the pairing of a talented soldier of fortune (Tom Welling) and a good-natured billionaire (Brendan Fraser) who get teamed up through a woman (Elena Anaya) and the destruction of a recent rocket launch. Neither of our two stars is asked to do all that much. Fraser can sleepwalk through playing the goofy nice guy which was his bread-and-butter for decades with a scruffy Welling getting to play the bad ass, but still principled, leader of a band of soldiers.

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Darth Vader #28

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Darth Vader #28 is an odd comic. In what felt like the natural conclusion to the Sabé arc, instead we get a confrontation between the former Handmaiden and the Emperor, without any payoff either way halfway through the comic, before shifting gears in lightspeed directly into Sabé and Vader continuing to work together on a new mission. I certainly understand wanting to milk more out of the character’s appearance, but the choices here don’t so much subvert the narrative as make an unexpected U-turn into oncoming traffic.

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Monster High: The Movie

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  • Title: Monster High: The Movie
  • IMDb: link

Based on the 2010 doll franchise that’s spawned various web-series, novels, and video games made over the years, Monster High: The Movie introduces us to half-human Clawdeen Wolf (Miia Harris) who after being sheltered in the human world is now a Freshman at Monster High where she must hide her human heritage or face expulsion which becomes more difficult when her monster side begins disappearing during times of stress.

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NCIS: Hawai’i – Changing Tides

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  • Title: NCIS: Hawai’i – Changing Tides
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NCIS traces the death of a Marine due to fentanyl due to a crashed plane full of the drug and the missing members of a local tour company with a drug cartel company after them. The episode’s plot, which at some moments is one step away from an anti-drug PSA with some of its dialogue, is notable for NCIS’ takedown of the drug lab operating near the cover of an active volcano in which one member of the team is exposed to the drug. The episode’s B-stories involve Tennant (Vanessa Lachey) reacting to another bombshell from her teenage son and Lucy‘s (Yasmine Al-Bustami) reaction to learning that Ernie (Jason Antoon) father has died, news he hasn’t shared with the rest of the team.

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