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G.I. JOE – Cobra C.L.A.W.s Are Coming to Town

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  • Title: G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero – Cobra C.L.A.W.s Are Coming to Town
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G.I. JOE - Cobra C.L.A.W.s Are Coming to Town

Wayback Wednesday takes us back to a Christmas episode of G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero which starts with Firefly making use of a Cobra distration and loading a special sack into the Joe’s holiday toy drive which includes a variety of toys (such as a “Trojan rocking horse”) filled with miniaturized Cobra soldiers who emerge inside the Joe’s headquarters only staffed with a skeleton holiday crew managing the base. With the Cobra soldiers enlarged by Firefly, the Joes are quickly overwhelmed falling to Cobra who then plans on attacking the nearby town in the Joe’s own vehicles framing them as terrorists.

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Reacher – What Happens in Atlantic City

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  • Title: Reacher – What Happens in Atlantic City
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Reacher - What Happens in Atlantic City

As Reacher (Alan Ritchson) continues to look into the death of an old friend, he gets the band back together by tracking down those members of the 110th Special Investigators Unit he can find before heading off to Las Vegas in search of two more old friends who have gone missing. “What Happens in Atlantic City” is most notable for the addition of Dixon (Serinda Swann) to Reacher’s posse and for Reacher taking strong measures towards the man, and his car, who has been tailing them not realizing it’s a cop (a thread which will be picked up in the next episode). Considering what Reacher and Dixon do to the other men they catch following them later in the episode, the cop got off easy.

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Yu Yu Hakusho – Episode 1

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  • Title: Yu Yu Hakusho – Episode 1
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Yu Yu Hakusho - Episode 1

Adapted from the manga of the same name, Yu Yu Hakusho introduces us to troubled but honorable teen Yusuke Urameshi (Takumi Kitamura) who dies in the first episode and returns to life as a spirit detective to investigate appearances of Yōkai and demons escaping from the underworld through a giant pit. Given that so much of the episode focuses on Yusuke’s life prior to death, we get to know far more about him than the odd circumstances he finds himself in. Originally fine with moving on to heaven or hell and forgoing the offer to return, our protagonist agrees to help save those he left behind.

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Obliterated – Born in the U.S.S.R.

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  • Title: Obliterated – Born in the U.S.S.R.
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Obliterated - Born in the U.S.S.R.

So it’s like The Hangover, but spies. I would bet that was the pitch for Obliterated which takes the now drunk, high, and hungover special forces crew on the hunt for a missing nuclear weapon. Despite being obvious to everyone, except apparently their superiors (who appear oblivious their drunken behavior), that the group are not up for the challenge the misfits are back on the case with even more infighting, bickering, and getting in each other’s way while stumbling, mostly through dumb luck, on a lead. What I can say is that two episodes in, Obliterated knows what it is and doesn’t feel the need to be anything more than raunchy fun (with more obligatory nudity to try and save a lagging story) against the backdrop of a terrorist attack and humor that is nowhere near as funny as it thinks it is. With writing this lazy, it’s heard not to feel a little sorry for everyone involved.

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Reacher – ATM

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  • Title: Reacher – ATM
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Reacher 1 - ATM

The unbending justice of former military investigator Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson) continues with the show’s return for a Second Season. The episode gets its name from the short introductory interlude which reminds returning viewers just who Reacher is and also works as an introduction to new viewers when our good Samaritan helps out with a situation involving a carjacking and an ATM machine. Reacher’s time in the military was referenced multiple times in the show’s First Season, but the mystery he’ll find himself in the middle this time around will allow for flashbacks to those days in with the 110th Special Investigators Unit filling in more of the character’s backstory.

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