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Sherlock & Daughter – The Challenge

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  • Title: Sherlock & Daughter< – The Challenge
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Introducing them first separately before throwing the two characters together, we witness Sherlock Holmes (David Thewlis) refusing to take several cases in the notable absence of Dr. Watson. We also witness the resilient Amelia Rojas (Blu Hunt) make her way from New York to London and, through a bit of quick thinking and subterfuge, find her way to the great detective as his new maid. What Amelia is really after is for Holmes, who she believes to be her father, to help solve her mother’s murder. Also, in the coincidence that keeps them together long enough for Holmes to get a feel for the young woman, she is determined to help solve the disappearance of a wealthy young girl (Gia Hunter) she met on the ship from America (apparently one of many targeted by the mysterious “Thread”).

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Doctor Who – The Robot Revolution

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  • Title: Doctor Who – The Robot Revolution
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Doctor Who returns for a new season by introducing us to The Doctor‘s (Ncuti Gatwa) new companion Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu). You can feel the writers trying to pull a bit from Clara Oswald here with Sethu having already been introduced as a different character (a distant relative of Belinda) in last season’s episode “Boom.” And like Clara, there’s some mystery for The Doctor to unravel about how he’s linked to Belinda who has a very bizarre day when she’s kidnapped from Earth by a race of robots (the best thing about the episode) and taken to a solar system named after her where, to her surprise, she’s a queen. 

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G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero – Silent Missions (Beach Head)

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Honoring the original “Silent Interlude” issue from G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero #21 from 1984, Image and Skybound are putting together a series of silent issue one-shots featuring different characters. While I didn’t enjoy it as much as G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero – Jinx #1, this one-off issue featuring a wounded Beach Head crashing down in a DMZ and being helped by a local woman and her child who he in turn helps with Cobra comes for him, has some nice moments by working around the need for foreign dialogue in an issue without any dialogue and then saving most of the action until the end with the Joe fighting to hold out long enough for his friends to arrive.

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The Amateur

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  • Title: The Amateur
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Half Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan and half revenge fantasy, The Amateur stars Rami Malek as CIA cryptographer Charlie Heller who blackmails his way into the field with some incriminating evidence against his boss (Holt McCallany) after the death of Charlie’s wife (Rachel Brosnahan). Out of his element, but not without some skills of his own, Charlie gets a crash course by another operative (Laurence Fishburne) before disappearing and chasing down those responsible for his wife’s murder.

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Tracker – The Mercy Seat

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  • Title: Tracker – The Mercy Seat
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Colter (Justin Hartley) runs into some trouble helping a friend (Diego Klattenhoff) search for a pair of missing snowboarders (Madison Lawlor and Lexi Simonsen) on top of a mountain. Although he finds the girls, Colter loses them by handing them off to a group he mistakes for helpful locals who are actual a fucked-up group of mountain folk (Sean Depner, Jedidiah Goodacre, and Ariana Guerra as a victim made part of the family) who turn them over to the head of their family (Sean Bridgers) and plan on torturing the girls for their pleasure. 

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