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NCIS: Hawai’i – Legacy

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  • Title: NCIS: Hawai’i – Legacy
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“Legacy” offers one night of romance for Tennant (Vanessa Lachey) and the departing Joe (Enver Gjokaj) while offering a case of the week involving the death of a protestor on an uncooperative tech billionaire’s (Rob Benedict) land. Stonewalled by the tycoon and his lawyers, the team investigates the protestor and uncovers an unexpected connection between him and both their suspect and his wife (Jenna Leigh Green). The murder of the week is solid with various B-stories offering peeks into core characters such as Kai (Alex Tarrant) siding with the protestors and a revelation of Lucy‘s (Yasmine Al-Bustami) family wealth. I’d expect to see each of these threads to be developed further, and I’m not so certain we’ve seen the final departure of Captain Joe.

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Alex Rider – Hunt

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  • Title: Alex Rider – Hunt
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An attempt by Alex Rider (Otto Farrant) to find the Department of Special Operations and convince them that Gregorvich (Thomas Levin) is responsible for the attack in Cornwall is only partly successful. With the help of  Tom (Brenock O’Connor), Alex is able to find and track Blunt (Stephen Dillane) at his private club. However, instead of leading him back to spy headquarters, Alex accidentally stumbles into a stakeout and the attempted capture of a cyber-hacker who recently made an attack on the Pentagon.

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Hit-Monkey – Bright Lights, Big City

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  • Title: Hit-Monkey – Bright Lights, Big City
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The second episode of Hit-Monkey takes our unlikely duo of a murderous monkey and his ghostly sidekick Bryce (Jason Sudeikis) into Tokyo in search of those responsible for the death of the assassin and the monkey’s tribe. “Bright Lights, Big City” reveals how Hit-Monkey acquires his suit and introduces him to Akiko (Olivia Munn), who has convinced her father (George Takei) to run in the election in place of the assassinated candidate, at the man’s funeral (which quickly devolves into a bloody shoot-out between Hit-Monkey and the Yakuza).

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The Flash – Armageddon, Part 2

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  • Title: The Flash – Armageddon, Part 2
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“Part 2” of the season’s opening arc offers an explanation for Despero‘s (Tony Curran) claims that the Flash (Grant Gustin) will soon lose his mind and cause Armageddon with the appearance of a new meta-human in Central City known to cause insanity in her victims. Barry’s work to find Xotar (Kandyse McClure) is hampered by new attacks on Team Flash. First, Barry’s credentials with the Central City Police Department are suspended and second S.T.A.R. Labs is shut down due to an unmanaged radiation leak. While the team might not see the connection between the various events, it’s obvious someone is screwing with Barry’s life.

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In the Heights

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  • Title: In the Heights
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Adapted from the stage musical, In the Heights follows the lives of several characters in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood. In a reverse of an immigrant chasing the American dream, our main character is a bodega owner (Anthony Ramos) saving his money to leave New York and return to the the Dominican Republic to restart his father’s beach-front business. Other characters include his crush (Melissa Barrera), Olga Merediz as the neighborhood’s matriarch, and the neighborhood’s brightest star (Leslie Grace) returning in failure from Stanford who can’t articulate her problems to her father (Jimmy Smits).

In the Heights is a story about dreamers. Each character is chasing a dream or trying to help others achieve their own. The eclectic neighborhood of Dominican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, and other nationalities is punctuated by vibrant musical numbers around dreams, love, and everyday life.

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