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Pretty Little Liars – Spirit Week

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  • Title: Pretty Little Liars (Original Sin) – Chapter One: Spirit Week
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Starting out with two suicides in the first 5 minutes and closing the episode with a grizzly murder, the first thing you notice about Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin is how strongly it leans into the freedoms offered on HBO attempting to be a bit more bloody and bold than the original. However, I find the set up for the episode a bit confusing. We get a young girl, ignored at a school dance by a group of popular girls, committing suicide in 1999. Flash-forward 22 years at that appears to be the catalyst for the mayhem that will occur, although our new “A” targets only one of the women from that party (our second suicide) and instead targets the rest of their daughters for reasons yet to be revealed.

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Green Lantern Corps #1

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After the fall of the United Planets, a new volume of Green Lantern Corps begins here with the Corps working to restore order in a universe where the emotional spectrum has gone out of whack, replenish its ranks with new recruits, and earn back some respect. With an extensive cast, the comic looks like it will focus on a revolving focus of a main character or main characters every issue/arc. Although we see the likes of Jo Mullein, Guy Gardner, Jessica Cruz, a rehabilitated Sinestro, and Simon Baz (among others), the main character in the first issue is John Stewart.

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Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man – The Parker Luck / Secret Identity Crisis

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  • Title: Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man – The Parker Luck / Secret Identity Crisis
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The second and third episodes of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man focus on  Peter Parker‘s (Hudson Thames) internship as Oscorp which turns out to be nothing more than the machinations of Norman Osborne (Colman Domingo) to identify Spider-Man from the most likely young suspects and thank him for saving Harry‘s (Zeno Robinson) life. Both Peter’s internship and his mentorship with Norman get off to rocky starts, but there are positives as Peter enjoys working with Dr. Carla Connors (Zehra Fazal) on an experiment and, despite initially turning down his offer of help, discovers how useful Norman can be as an ally when fighting a pair of pretty lame baddies in Speed Demon (Roger Craig Smith) and Tarantula (Anairis Quiñones).

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Paddington in Peru

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  • Title: Paddington in Peru
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The first Paddington film in eight years takes Paddington (Ben Whishaw) and the Brown family out of London and into the jungles of Peru. Flipping the fish-out-of-water concept of the series on its head, the third film in the franchise returns Paddington to the jungle while pushing the Brown family, who all choose to accompany him, into unfamiliar surroundings allowing them to react to the strange new world.

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Avengers #23

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While not as fun as stealing her own suit of armor underneath Tony Stark‘s nose, the Black Cat being hired by Kang to steal some important doohickey from the Grandmaster kept in some sort of galactic casino (while outmaneuvering the Avengers) has its moments (most notably in Kang recruiting the thief and in the late reveal of Felicia’s cost for helping the villain).

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