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Archer – Keys Open Doors

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  • Title: Archer – Keys Open Doors
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Archer - Keys Open Doors

When a mission to destroy a cocaine factory goes off the rails, Archer (H. Jon Benjamin), Cyril (Chris Parnell), and Pam (Amber Nash) all go native leaving Lana (Aisha Tyler) to attempt to salvage the mission herself unaware the local drug lord is aware of her and the entire team. Ray (Adam Reed) and Cheryl (Judy Greer) are given a short B-story in which they discover the easiest way to screw with the office workers is pretend everything is normal. Highlights include a coked-out Lana on a murder spree and Archer’s rants on self-care and his short run as local fisherman Domingo.

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NCIS: Hawai’i – The Complete Second Season

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  • Title: NCIS: Hawai’i – Season 2
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NCIS: Hawai'i - The Complete Second Season

The Second Season of NCIS: Hawai’i brings more challenges for Jane Tennant (Vanessa Lachey) and her team, crossovers with the other NCIS shows, and a prolonged absence for Lucy (Yasmine Al-Bustami) who takes a temporary assignment as agent afloat. The show does check in with her from time to time, including giving her a mystery to solve on her own in “Misplaced Targets,” but her absence from Hawai’i is felt over a number of episodes before her eventual return.

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Miranda’s Victim

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Miranda's Victim

Based on actual events, Miranda’s Victim examines the court case which created the Miranda warning. Prior to the ruling by the Supreme Court, criminal suspects had no legal protection or recourse before eventually walking into a court of law. However, while the ruling led to the creation of those rights and broad protection under the law, its origins are less well known and such a ruling did put one young woman in the crosshairs of history.

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The Lost City of Z

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The Lost City of Z

2016’s The Lost City of Z is a stylish period drama set in the early 20th Century centered around the life and explorations of surveyor Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam) who grew obsessed with discovering the ruins of an advanced civilization hidden deep with the Amazon jungle. The film does capture the drive behind exploration. Despite the personal cost to his family life, and the dangerous conditions of each expedition, the film sells us on Fawcett’s obsession and eagerness to return to the Amazon to prove his theories which were initially dismissed by other explorers of the time.

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The Wrath of Becky

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  • Title: The Wrath of Becky
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The Wrath of Becky

Set three years after the events of Becky, our sociopathic teenager has found some relative peace after going to war with the Neo Nazis who murdered her father. Successfully running from every foster home offered to her, Becky (Lulu Wilson) has found a new home with the elderly and unprying Elena (Denise Burse) and a crappy job as a waitress at a local diner. A run in with a trio of assholes, however, will change the course of Becky’s path once more in this dark comedic thriller that proves one of the oldest rules to be true: never mess with people who serve you your food.

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