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She Rides Shotgun

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  • Title: She Rides Shotgun
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Adapted from the novel of the same name, She Rides Shotgun opens with Polly Huff (Ana Sophia Heger) being picked up from school not by her mother or stepfather but her biological father Nate (Taron Egerton) who was released from prison that morning. And he’s had something of a day. In a choice that pays off beautifully, we don’t learn anything before Polly does. She’s a smart enough girl to know something is wrong with Nate showing up in a hotwired car but also scared enough to not push the issue with the most dangerous man in her world.

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Bob’s Burgers – The Dead Bo-ats Society

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  • Title: Bob’s Burgers – The Dead Bo-ats Society
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“The Dead Bo-ats Society” offers a Saturday morning adventure for Tina (Dan Mintz), Louise (Kristen Schaal), and Gene (Eugene Mirman) who explore a boat in a scrap yard out of town only to become trapped when the owner leaves and releases his guard dog. With time becoming an increasingly important factor, due to the bet they made with their parents that they would be back by 11, the trio end up having exactly the kind of crazy adventure they were waxing poetically about just that morning (albeit a more chaotic and dangerous one than they had planned).

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Good Cop / Bad Cop – Peace in the Valley

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  • Title: Good Cop / Bad Cop – Peace in the Valley
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Good Cop / Bad Cop stars Leighton Meester as Lou Hickman, the lead detective on an underfunded small town police force run by her father (Clancy Brown) in desperate of help. In the opening episode, Lou’s brother Henry (Luke Cook), who left home after a dust up with his father years ago, is failing yet again to earn his detective badge in Seattle due to his woeful interpersonal skills. Killing two birds with one stone, Big Hank offers Henry a detective badge if he returns home and joins the force (which of course isn’t the kind of help Lou had in mind).

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Ballard – BYOB

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  • Title: Ballard – BYOB
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Investigation into other cases is largely put on hold as Ballard (Maggie Q) and her team are ordered to reopen a different cold case involving the death of a young man at a fraternity given the victim’s sister and her most recent stunt getting play on social media. In that aspect, “BYOB” is mostly a case-of-the-week episode where the truth behind the crime isn’t what anyone initially expects. There are scenes here and there tied to the larger mystery including Martina (Victoria Moroles) being stalked by one of the lower-ranking members of the conspiracy and Ballard and confirming evidence from years ago was destroyed until suspicious circumstances including forgery of a retiring cop to hide who within the department wanted the bullet destroyed. And we get several scenes involving Parker (Courtney Taylor) agonizing over if she really wants to return to duty (despite all outward signs showing she’s pretty much all-in at this point).

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Rick and Morty – The CuRicksous Case of Bethjamin Button

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  • Title: Rick and Morty – The CuRicksous Case of Bethjamin Button
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As Rick (Ian Cardoni) takes Morty (Harry Belden), Summer (Spencer Grammer), and Jerry (Chris Parnell) to an alien theme park based on Earth which if far less bizarre and crazy than he claimed, the episode’s B-story features Beth (Sarah Chalke) and Space Beth de-aging themselves back to kids in an attempt to rediscover the joy that both have lost. The main story is a thin excuse for the show to get as crazy as possible when the park beneath the park is revealed. It’s the Beth storyline of the pair working out their ennui and pained frustrations to both their lives and their father that has a bit more meat on the bone. It also provides a couple of interesting nuggets in revealing how batshit-crazy-awful Beth was as a kid and the lengths Rick takes to try and control their neighbor Gene‘s (Tom Kenny) response to the number of bizarre and crazy things he’s seen over the years.

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