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Only Murders in the Building – Twist

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  • Title: Only Murders in the Building – Twist
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While struggling with the revelation that Mabel (Selena Gomez) has hidden her connection to Tim Kono, Charles (Steve Martin) and Oliver (Martin Short) trail their friend and Tie Dye Guy (Aaron Dominguez) to Long Island. The set-up of the episode allows Charles and Oliver to stew and argue while in pursuit (in Oliver’s ridiculous car that overheats and then steal a ride from a Brazos fan). It’s a fun episode that gives us interaction between Mabel and Oscar while teasing us what will happen when the ride stops. The setup forces the confrontation to the end of the episode along with a twist explaining the jewelry that Mabel found in Tim’s apartment and introducing a new suspect. …

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Deadpool: Black, White & Blood #3

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Deadpool: Black, White & Blood #3 offers three more tales of the Merc with a Mouth with this month’s tales bringing the crazy and absurd. “The Worst Convent in the World” is the wackiest of the three tales in which Deadpool takes a job to deal with some cartel gunmen causing trouble for a local hotel leading him to a convent of Nazi skinhead nun drug dealers with assault rifles who are holding the penguin he accepted as payment. 

Both Deadpool and Bullseye are hired for an assassinations and fight through ninjas, sharks with freakin’ lazer beams mounted to their heads, diseased monkeys, and zombies in “The Bet” which includes a surprise appearance of another Marvel character. And in “The Perfect Ones” Usagi Yojimbo creator Stan Sakai shows us how Deadpool found his perfect weapons.

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Leverage: Redemption – The Bucket Job

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  • Title: Leverage: Redemption – The Bucket Job
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The second-half of the season kicks off with an unusual job for the Leverage crew who are hired not to take down a mark but use their skills to give give a small town librarian (LeVar Burton) with stage-four cancer a day as a spy and a hero. Burton’s character is named Robert Blanche for the longtime Leverage cast member who made multiple appearances on the show as Lt. Patrick Bonnano before passing away in 2020. The twist for the episode comes from pulling the thread from earlier in the season as Bligh (Lucy Taylor) and her goons are following the team and discover that the librarian is actually a missing spy with incredibly valuable information.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #121

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Old Hob and the Mutanimals have been defeated… now what? Hob gets a taste of Mutant Town‘s anger towards him and the Mutanimals, as his beatdown is only stopped by a tearful plea from Zanna which nearly allows him to escape leading to a chase, some stabby-stabby action from Raphael, and Hob’s eventual recapture. Whatever happens to Hob at this point, it’s clear that not everyone will be pleased with the outcome.

Sally is safe, and her rise to the first legitimate leader of Mutant Town seems assured. Many questions remain, however. What do they do with Hob and Sally’s old friend Ray? And will the weasels take the decision out of the others’ hands by releasing Hob and possibly even leave with him? Also, just who was Hob talking to on the phone and what other tricks might he have up his sleeve?

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Only Murders in the Building – The Sting

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  • Title: Only Murders in the Building – The Sting
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Needing help on how to deal with a celebrity suspect, Charles (Steve Martin) uses a personal collection to get the three podcasters in from of murder podcast legend Cinda Canning (Tina Fey). Although the Sting lead turns out to be another humous dead end, the episode closes with another appearance by Canning suggesting events in the Arconia are going to take an even darker turn. The episode is also notable for Charles’ disastrous date with Jan (Amy Ryan), forcing him to reveal more about his past than he planned, and someone in the building dropping a bombshell on Charles and Oliver (Martin Short) revealing Mabel’s (Selena Gomez) connection to Tim Kono.

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