2.5 Razors

Andor – Episode 7

  • Title: Andor – Announcement
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Andor shifts back into a low gear for an episode where the plot isn’t noticeably advanced for much of the episode. We get multiple scenes of the Imperials talking about action (but not really doing much) following the heist, the disgraced Syril Karn (Kyle Soller) getting to work at his new job, squabbling amongst the Rebels concerning the heist, and Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) returns home for a brief moment for final goodbyes. While there’s some nice moments in the latter, nothing of note happens here. Then, bizarrely, the episode jumps forward an indeterminate amount of time to a different world with Cassian arrested for walking while not Imperial. For an episode determined not to do much, these final few minutes can give you whiplash setting, I almost thought the episode had put me to sleep an I missed a full half-hour of plot. Nope, that’s just Andor‘s attempt at “story telling.”

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Stargirl – Chapter Six: The Betrayal

  • 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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Locke & Key – Irons in the Fire

  • Title: Locke & Key – Irons in the Fire
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Two separate plotlines are at play in “Irons in the Fire.” Josh‘s (Brendan Hines) investigation into the journal which  Nina (Darby Stanchfield) provided allows for flashbacks to fill in some of the backstory of the Locke family and their history with the portal to the other dimension, demons, and keys. Elsewhere, Kinsey (Emilia Jones) and Tyler (Connor Jessup) gather their friends and prepare for a fight with the new turned minions of Gabe/Dodge (Griffin Gluck) which ends with one of their friends being turned into a demon leading to the need for a new key.

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NCIS: Hawai’i – Primal Fear

  • Title: NCIS: Hawai’i – Primal Fear
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A couple weeks too early for Halloween, “Primal Fear” offers a search for a serial killer who scares his victims to death after spiking their adrenaline and causing a coronary. The less-than-scary visage of the killer (i.e. random guy in a Halloween mask) doesn’t help sell the premise nor does the rather obvious suspect who is immediately identifiable as the likely killer after showing up on-screen. The episode also sees the return of Coast Guard Special Agent Neil Pike (Mark Gessner) and delivers on the breadcrumbs with Tennant (Vanessa Lachey) meeting his son’s older girlfriend (Sierra Swartz) leading to concerns she decides not the share.

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