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Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Raph Thinks It Through

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  • Title: Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Raph Thinks It Through
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Following the same format of the first two episodes of the series, “Raph Thinks It Through” offers a standalone tale for Raphael (Brady Noon) who spends most of the episode strung up by the Purple Dragons who fish him out of the river following his fight with a Mechazoid. Unable to use his brawn, Raph is forced to use his brains (especially after the killer robot tracks him to the gang’s lair). While the dimwitted Hun (Carlin James) was okay, I didn’t love the show’s interpretation of the Purple Dragons, particularly the animation for Angel (Jamila Velazquez), but the episode works well-enough for another one-off focused on one of the Turtles working outside their usual comfort zone while not being able to rely on their brothers.

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Goosebumps – Monster Blood

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  • Title: Goosebumps: The Vanishing – Monster Blood
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“Monster Blood” offers a Blob episode with Cece (Jayden Bartels), and later Devin (Sam McCarthy) and Frankie (Galilea La Salvia), chased around the city and subway by something grown from drippings of the killer car and her kombucha. It’s basic horror, with all kinds of questions such as why the subway is completely abandoned aside from the three kids, but there’s fun to be had. The episode also fills in Cece’s backstory revealing the rather large lie she’s been keeping from everyone. Elsewhere, Anthony (David Schwimmer) continues to struggle to find the missing specimen finding no help from Trey (Stony Blyden) who isn’t sure what happened to him. The two stories converge in the final few minutes as Anthony’s kids find their father in the ruins of Fort Jerome raising new questions for all about what is going on and who is responsible.

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The Irrational – Straight from the Heart

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  • Title: The Irrational – Straight from the Heart
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“Straight from the Heart” gets into fringe science as Alec (Jesse L. Martin) is approached by an old friend with dreams of a murder that happened to victim who died and provided the heart she is now using. The show doesn’t go as far to confirm events witnessed by the previous heart’s owner got transferred to the new one, although it certainly doesn’t shy away from the possibility with minimal effort spent to an alternate explanation for events. While once again the experiments don’t really tie-into the main case, a disturbing trend and growing concern, the show does open with Alec teaching his students a lesson. The episode is also notable for Marisa (Maahra Hill) meeting the child (Fritzy-Klevans Destine) she gave up for adoption several years ago. 

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Red Sonja #18

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The war of wizards and gods comes to a close in Red Sonja #18 as Sonja rejoins the fight and eventually comes face-to-face with Kulan Garth. Her first attempt to kill the wizard doesn’t take, but she is able to eventually put him down to the delight of the shadow powers he had forced under his control. Those powers give Red Sonja leave to return home with the cost that no one remembers her actions or heroism in the war, which, for the She-Devil with a Sword is no price at all.

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The Irrational – Ghost Ship

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  • Title: The Irrational – Ghost Ship
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Aside from exploring family dynamics of Alec (Jesse L. Martin) with his father (Ron Canada), “Ghost Ship” feels like a story that could have been written for any number of procedurals that was adapted for The Irrational. The idea of unraveling a ship with a missing crew is an interesting setup, but the mystery turns out to be rather straightforward (even if it was fun to see Monk‘s Jason Gray-Stanford, albeit in a mostly thankless role). In terms of psychology, Alec is able to get a key witness to relax enough to provide answers, but the show is largely geared to Alec’s damaged relationship with his father and a necessary first-step to remedy that.

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