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Night Court – Pilot / The Nighthawks

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  • Title: Night Court – Pilot / The Nighthawks
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Hollywood’s love affair with reboots continues with this modern take on the 80s sitcom Night Court. The Big Bang Theory‘s Melissa Rauch stars as Judge Abbie Stone, the daughter of Harry, who in the “Pilot” episode takes over her dad’s old stomping grounds. The only character brought back from the original show is John Larroquette as Dan Fielding who is lured back to the courtroom by the spunky younger Stone as the court’s new public defender. Both the first two episodes are about Abby and Dan struggling to fit into their new roles as the show itself attempts to find its footing.

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Faster

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  • Title: Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Faster
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I’m all for one-off episodes of The Bad Batch. Saying that, they aren’t all going to be winners. “Faster” isn’t a bad episode, but there’s not much more to it than a racing episode as Omega (Michelle Ang), Tech (Dee Bradley Baker), and Wrecker (Baker) head off with Cid (Rhea Perlman) to the races where they are forced to get her out of a tough jam when she makes a bet with an old rival she can’t pay. The episode does allow Tech to get a little more time, becoming the hero of the episode by flying the winning speeder. The episode ends with a warning about Cid from a less-than-reliable source that doesn’t really tell the clones anything they didn’t already know about their partner of convince.

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Moon Knight #19

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Moon Knight #19 offers a back-and-forth between parallel stories. We get Moon Knight and Hunter’s Moon deep in the subterranean tunnels below the city fighting the definition of a throwaway character in Commodore Donald Planet. The fight is reallly just an excuse for the pair to discuss the limitations and costs of Khonshu’s resurrections of his hand as Hunter’s Moon cautions Moon Knight to be less cavalier with his life.

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NCIS: Hawai’i – Rising Sun

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  • Title: NCIS: Hawai’i – Rising Sun
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“Rising Sun” offers the return of CGSI Neil Pike (Mark Gessner) whose undercover mission to recover smuggled guns ends in bloodshed when put between various sides of the local Yakuza when the upstart son of one of the most powerful families starts up an old rivalry for his own gain. Pike seems to get passed around to someone in every episode and this time he’s Ernie‘s (Jason Antoon) problem (although the pair do manage to forge a bond by the end). Other than Team Nernie, the episode is notable for Tennant (Vanessa Lachey) and Whistler (Tori Anderson) having each other’s backs and for stirring up the ongoing B-story involving Kai‘s (Alex Tarrant).

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Cleopatra in Space – Rescue

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  • Title: Cleopatra in Space – Rescue
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In the First Season finale, Cleopatra (Lilimar), Akila (Katie Crown), Brian (Jorge Diaz), and Khensu (Sendhil Ramamurthy) head out to the planet Hykosis to rescue Zaid‘s (Xolo Maridueña) parents leading to Cleo’s first face-to-face confrontation with Octavian (Jonathan Kite). The comedy from the first-half of the episode centers around Cleo being the team leader (which ends up in half the team being captured). The final-half of the episode involves Cleo’s confrontation with Octavian who is in possession of the tablet which caused her time travel and which she chooses not to use to return home leaving her friends at the villain’s mercy. Her understanding of the tablet, and its twin, sets up further storylines to be explored in the next season of the show as well.

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