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The Blacklist – The Troll Farmer: Part 3

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  • Title: The Blacklist – The Troll Farmer: Part 3
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The Wujing (Chin Han) storyline concludes with Reddington (James Spader) outthinking both Wujing and the FBI and forces events to a head enabling him to lure his enemy into the post office and kill him while the task force were waiting at the alternate location they were sure the Troll Farmer (Aaron Yoo) would lead Wujing to. Although the episode tipped its hand a little early in the deception, Reddington’s twist on the game (rather than another small win for Wujing) works well enough and ratchets up the animosity between Red and the task force and returning to the show’s old standby of how much the two sides can trust each other moving forward over the remainder of the show’s final season.

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Dave – Wisconsin

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  • Title: Dave – Wisconsin
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Okay, the middle of a show’s third season may seem a weird place to jump in for the first time but you announce Chloe Bennett as a guest-star and my attention is piqued. Bennett guest-stars as a local photographer who Dave (Dave Burd) immediately falls for when the tour hits Wisconsin. And the attraction is mutual, despite Dave’s various neuroses. The other storyline involves Ally (Taylor Misiak) joining the tour fresh out of her failed relationship and looking for some revenge sex with an old friend that’s had a crush on her for more than a decade.

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The Mystery of the Headless Horse

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  • Title: The Mystery of the Headless Horse
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to a mystery involving the Three Investigators whose mantra of “We Investigate Everything” leads to the search for lost treasure in The Mystery of the Headless Horse. The title of the novel references a statue on the ranch of the Alvaro family which is in danger of foreclosure, which seems only more likely following a suspicious fire on their property destroying items they had planned to sell to the Jones Salvage Yard raising the interest and suspicions of the Three Investigators.

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The Mandalorians – The Return

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  • Title: The Mandalorian – Chapter 24: The Return
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The Third Season of The Mandalorian comes to a close with the battle over Mandalore, and, as I correctly called, not a single hero met their deaths in the action-packed but pretty predictable final episode. Even the most minor of the Mandalorian clan make it out of the battle without a scratch. There’s plenty of action here involving the Mandalorians fighting the Imperial Commandos of Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito) and destroying the Imperial Remnant facility which I’m assuming must have had a greater purpose than just feed Gideon’s ego and secret experiments.

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Abominable and the Invisible City – Chinese Nian Year

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  • Title: Abominable and the Invisible City – Chinese Nian Year (Part 1 & Part 2)
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The two-part First Season finale centers around Chinese New Year. While “Part 1” teases magical creatures being kidnapped around the city, ending with the abduction of Everest, the first-half of the story is more about the various characters perusing their own interests. Yi (Chloe Bennet) obsesses with an upcoming musical performance and Jin (Tenzing Norgay Trainor) is distracted by a minor role in the parade. With no one else to join them, and believing the festival will hide the look of yeti, Peng (Ethan Loh) takes Everest on an eating tour through the city which eventually leads to the others searching for the pair only to find them as they are taken by Nian.

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