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Miss Sherlock – Stella Maris

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Miss Sherlock - Stella Maris television review

A severed ear and finger, from separate victims, sent through the mail to a politician (Yuki Saitô) piques Sherlock’s (Yûko Takeuchi) interest in an unusual case. Each body part is traced back to a member of the police force, but each is adorned with an item that does not belong to either victim. Instead they belong to a hit-and-run victim of the politician years before, and it’s the victim’s father who has come after those responsible for covering up his crime. The unusual case is interesting to see unfold, although the episode is more memorable for Sherlock discovering that Dr. Wato (Shihori Kanjiya) can be useful on a case and the final scene in which she uncovers the existence of Akira Moriwaki who is the head of the secret organization known as Stella Maris.

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Prodigal Son – It’s All in the Execution

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Prodigal Son - It's All in the Execution television review

Prodigal Son returns for its Second Season with Malcolm (Tom Payne) even “more brightish than usual.” Still feeling the effects of helping his sister get away with murder, it’s not until the final scene where the Surgeon (Michael Sheen), now reinstated back to the asylum, correctly diagnoses the true cause of his son’s guilt. With Gil (Lou Diamond Phillips) still recovering from his wounds, JT (Frank Harts) has done a solid job running the unit which catches a new case in a justice killer dispatching the guilty by obscure means (one by guillotine and walling another inside a literal dungeon while still alive).

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All In: The Fight for Democracy

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  • Title: All In: The Fight for Democracy
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All In: The Fight for Democracy movie reviewAll In: The Fight for Democracy tackles voter suppression in a documentary that examines both the racial roots of a practice to disenfranchise voters over the color of their skin and specifically Stacey Abrams‘ defeat in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election which led to her becoming a national voice on the subject. Tied both to Abrams’ own account, who produced the film and appears multiple times on camera, while also tackling the larger historical look and voter suppression, at times the documentary from Lisa Cortes and Liz Garbus feels a bit fragmented.

Like Slay the Dragon, All In: The Fight for Democracy examines gerrymandering, but here the subject is tackled along with several other aspects of voter suppression including poll taxes, literacy tests, and modern examples such as Voter ID laws. The former feels a bit more targeted with time to go into further depth. However, the film is still quite informative and works as intended – as a rallying cry to fight for your right to vote and be aware of those who would try to take it away for their own selfish ends.

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MacGyver – Jack + Kinematics + Safe Cracker + MgKNO3 + GTO

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  • Title: MacGyver (2016) – Jack + Kinematics + Safe Cracker + MgKNO3 + GTO
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MacGyver - Jack + Kinematics + Safe Cracker + MgKNO3 + GTO television review

“Jack + Kinematics + Safe Cracker + MgKNO3 + GTO” picks up the long-dormant thread of the missing member of the team: Jack Dalton (George Eads). Eads, who left the show in the middle of the show’s Third Season, doesn’t appear in the episode other than in previously-shot footage to open the show in which Jack leaves the team to join a task force to hunt down terrorist Tiberius Kovac. The episode opens with Jack’s body returned to the United States and the team’s wake for their fallen friend. Nearly two-years since Dalton’s exit, this episode has been coming for awhile. The only real surprise is how quickly things are wrapped-up in a single-episode storyline (rather than kick-off a longer arc).

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MacGyver – Banh Bao + Drill + Burner + Mason

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  • Title: MacGyver (2016) – MacGyver – Banh Bao + Drill + Burner + Mason
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“Banh Bao + Drill + Burner + Mason” offers two stories. In the first, MacGyver‘s (Lucas Till) uncomfortable meeting Desi‘s (Levy Tran) parents (Michael Paul Chan and Page Leong) turns into a mission to save Desi’s brother (Paul Yen) from those attempting to scare the medical examiner into falsifying a report. The storyline features your basic meet the parent moments while also cluing them in on both what Desi really does for a living and her boyfriend’s unusual skill set. The other involves Russ (Henry Ian Cusick) and Matty (Meredith Eaton) attempting to woo the next generation’s MacGyver, Eli Brown (Ben Wang), and then enlisting some unlikely support (Peter Weller) when government agents target the kid. I’ll be curious to see if we’ll get more of Eli or if this was a just a one-off performance. The idea of Team MacGyver introducing a talented kid into the group, and someone for MacGyver to mentor, offers some new avenues for the show to explore.

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