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MacGyver – Banh Bao + Drill + Burner + Mason

Alan Rapp / January 11, 2021 / Television Reviews

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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Star Trek: Discovery – Unification III

Alan Rapp / January 7, 2021 / Television Reviews

Title: Star Trek: Discovery – Unification III
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With Michael (Sonequa Martin-Green) in search of answers about the Burn, “Unification III” picks up the thread from Star Trek: The Next Generation of a unified Vulcan and Romulan. Discovery travels on a diplomatic mission to Ni’Var where hopes of her connection to Spock may grease the wheels to having the former Federation members release valuable scientific data. When their hosts aren’t obliged to share, Michael invokes the T’Kal-in-ket and must prove her case in front of a panel, although she is unprepared for who their hosts send to be her advocate – Gabrielle Burnham (Sonja Sohn).

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The Truth

Alan Rapp / January 6, 2021 / Home Video

Title: La vérité (The Truth)
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Mothers and daughters. La vérité, or The Truth, is your basic wacky family tale involving Lumir (Juliette Binoche), her English-speaking husband (Ethan Hawke), and their daughter (Manon Clavel) visiting her famous mother (Catherine Deneuve) who has just released an autobiography and is now working on an avant-garde sci-fi film (which coincidentally also deals with the relationship between a mother and daughter).

The cast elevates what is otherwise a rather straightforward film from Hirokazu Koreeda about the little moments between family members, the struggles of an actor, familial disapproval, the burdens of living with a self-absorbed celebrity, and the scars of memory. Deneuve is obviously enjoying herself as the over-the-top Fabienne Dangeville and the supporting cast forced to put up with her is solid. So too is the unexpected relationship with her co-star Clémentine Grenier which, along with the publication of a book that plays fast and loose with the truth, forces both confrontation and reconciliation between mother and daughter.

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The Flight Attendant – In Case of Emergency

Alan Rapp / January 5, 2021 / Television Reviews

Title: The Flight Attendant – In Case of Emergency
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The opening episode of The Flight Attendant introduces us to stewardess Cassie Bowden (Kaley Cuoco) who works and plays hard. After a fun night out in Thailand, Cassie wakes up next to a dead body of a passenger (Michiel Huisman) from their flight to Bangkok and spends the rest of the episode frantic while attempting to cover her tracks and jumping another flight back to the United States before the body can be discovered. Only able to remember fragments of the night, Cassie’s freak-out isn’t helped by the arrival of the FBI to talk with all members of the flight crew.

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Big Sky – Pilot

Alan Rapp / January 1, 2021 / Television Reviews

Title: Big Sky – Pilot
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David E. Kelley‘s latest ensemble is adapted from the novel The Highway by C.J. Box. The “Pilot” episode of Big Sky introduces us to our core characters. We’ve got hot-tempered former cop Jenny Hoyt (Katheryn Winnick), her separated husband Cody (Ryan Phillippe) and his partner at their private detective firm Cassie Dewell (Kylie Bunbury). Much of the drama in the first episode concerns Jenny confronting Cassie about sleeping with her husband. On the road, we’re also introduced to state trooper Rick Legarski (John Carroll Lynch), trucker Ronald Pergman (Brian Geraghty), and a pair of teenage girls (Natalie Alyn Lind and Jade Pettyjohn) traveling from Colorado into Montana.

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