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Leverage: Redemption – The Mastermind Job

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  • Title: Leverage: Redemption – The Mastermind Job
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The mid-season finale for Leverage: Redemption hits close to home for the team when they discover the existence of a tell-all book that would reveal secrets about the team and their clients to the world. Worst of all, the writer of the book is pretending to be Nate Ford. While I was expecting some nefarious purpose here, possibly an old enemy bringing the team into the light to spring a trap, that’s not what writer Kate Rorick has in mind for us. Instead of finding a con man or villain, the team comes across an accountant (Joey Slotnick) and former friend to Nate.

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The Big Leap – I Want You Back

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  • Title: The Big Leap – I Want You Back
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The Big Leap - I Want You Back

As I avoid reality-TV like the plague, the idea The Big Leap wasn’t an easy sell. However, with a number of likable stars in Piper Perabo, Teri Polo, and Scott Foley, I decided to give the series’ opening episode a chance. And I’m glad I did. Built around a new reality-TV series about giving dancers a second chance, the drama introduces us to a handful of the key players including Foley as the showrunner Nick Blackburn, Polo as an aging social media influencer, Jon Rudnitsky struggling with depression after being laid of and seeing his marriage fall apart, and Simone Recasner as a talented dancer whose life was derailed by teenage pregnancy and being the last to discover that her high school boyfriend (Raymond Cham Jr.) was gay.

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Subnormal

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  • Title: Subnormal
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SubnormalThe British documentary from director Lyttanya Shannon looks back at a time when immigrant children with dark skin were being disproportionately labeled “educationally subnormal” and sent to special ESN schools where their chance at a proper education was drastically reduced. Including interviews from former students, their parents, educators, and advocates who helped bring the situation to light, Subnormal offers an intriguing look back a story that cuts to the heart of racism and disenfranchisement.

Although short, and a times a tad dry given the shocking subject matter, the documentary is informative delving into  the schools which started in the 1940s and only stopped because of investigation and activism in the 1960s and 1970s that the British Government eventually could no longer ignore.

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Harley Quinn: The Animated Series – The Eat, Bang, Kill Tour #2

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  • Title: Harley Quinn: The Animated Series – The Eat, Bang, Kill Tour #2
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  • Writer: Tee Franklin
  • Artist: Max Sarin

Harley Quinn: The Animated Series - The Eat, Bang, Kill Tour #2The second issue of Harley Quinn: The Animated Series – The Eat, Bang, Kill Tour features Harley and Ivy together one-step ahead of the obsessed Gordon which leads the pair to Catwoman (a character with plenty of space to grow given her short appearance on the show). Ivy’s internal conflict at the happiness she feels for giving into her love for Harley and the utter panic when she is reminded just how truly crazy Harley is continues to be the main focus of the story.

We do get an appearance from Batman, and some confirmation about Selena’s romantic history with the hero in this universe, but he remains a tertiary figure to the larger events playing out in Gotham City (which has been abandoned by the United States).Fans of Batman: The Animated Series will get a kick out of the hyenas’ role in the story here (as well as Harley’s obliviousness why Catwoman wouldn’t be the best babysitter for them).

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Darkwing Duck – Dirty Money

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  • Title: Darkwing Duck – Dirty Money
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Darkwing Duck - Dirty Money

Throwback Tuesday takes us back to crime-ridden streets of St. Canard and a hero who flaps in the night. After a robbery at a bank leaving all the cash without ink and the kidnapping of SHUSH Director J. Gander Hooter (Danny Mann) by Ammonia Pine (Mitzi McCall), Darkwing Duck (Jim Cummings) is forced to work under Vladimir Gryzlikoff (Ron Feinberg). In an episode notable for a giant vacuum cleaner and mop-wringing death trap, much of the story centers on Darkwing attempting to prove himself worthy to Gryzlikoff who puts our hero through a series of tests. Despite never earning Gryzlikoff’s respect, Darkwing and Launchpad (Terence McGovern) manage to save the SMUSH executives before they are, er, smushed, and save the day once more.

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