Fantasy

The Sandman – Season of Mists

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  • Title: The Sandman – Season of Mists
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“Is the rescue of a single soul worth risking your entire kingdom?”

Making reference to several events from the show’s First Season,  the Second Season of The Sandman opens with a summoned meeting of the Endless called by his brother Destiny (Adrian Lester). Despite the sequence being a bit stilted, and the characters hilariously awkardly dressed, things go progress thanks to Death (Kirby Howell-Baptiste) who, unintentionally goading him into it, will lead Morpheus (Tom Sturridge) back into Hell with, or without, Lucifer‘s (Gwendoline Christie) permission. It seems the warning Destiny received from the Fates portending upheaval and change for the Endless has begun as the show kicks off its second, and final, season.

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Sketch

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  • Title: Sketch
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In what feels like a special extra-sized Goosebumps story, writer/director Seth Worley expands on his own short film to deliver a tale of a child’s grief brought to life in vibrant color. Following the death of his wife, Taylor Wyatt (Tony Hale) struggles with raising his two children alone. While Jack (Kue Lawrence) buries his grief like his father, his sister Amber (Bianca Belle) puts her dark thoughts into drawings of monsters in her private notebook allowing her to release her grief on to the page rather than hold it inside. However, when her notebook falls into a magical pool (don’t you just hate it when that happens?), and those creatures come to life, the entire town is attacked by bizarre monsters from a young girl’s imagination created from marker, ink, graphite, and chalk.

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The Librarians – And the House of Cards

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  • Title: The Librarians: The Next Chapter – And the House of Cards
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Coming back from the retrieval of an artifact, Lysa (Olivia Morris), Charlie (Jessica Green), and Connor (Bluey Robinson) find themselves redirected through the Door to a classic Agatha Christie mansion where a party, and series of murders, are underway. The Christie trappings, the importance of the tarot card reading (both in the real world and inside the prison), and the absence of Vikram Chamberlain (Callum McGowan), forcing them to work through the mystery themselves without the knowledge of their Librarian, are a some fun pieces to one of the season’s more memorable episodes.

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Escape to Witch Mountain

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  • Title: Escape to Witch Mountain
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back 50 years to the Disney adaptation of Alexander H. Key’s novel. The film, which whitewashes the protagonists and tones down the violence for a younger audience, is an odd tale of two orphans (Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann) with paranormal powers who are adopted by rich industrialist Aristotle Bolt (Ray Milland) obsessed with the subject. Bolt’s interest in them causes the pair to flee to a spot known for bizarre phenomena called Witch Mountain. Eventually revealed to be extraterrestrial witches, the two kids are reunited with their people at the end of the film flying back into space.

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Ironheart – We in Danger, Girl / Bad Magic

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  • Title: Ironheart – We in Danger, Girl / Bad Magic
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“We in Danger, Girl” and “Bad Magic” are where Riri Williams‘ (Dominique Thorne) life takes a turn. More interested in investigating the Hood‘s (Anthony Ramos) than doing her part in the next heist, for no real reason other than curiosity, Riri nearly botches another robbery and her actions not only cause to be killed (Manny Montana) but also throw the life of Joe (Alden Ehrenreich), who it turns out isn’t really Joe, into chaos allowing the Hood to recruit him as well. The two episode arc is all about bad decisions and regret and Riri creating a number of enemies who now want her dead. Of course what this means is that Riri doesn’t get to make a hero turn but will be forced into becoming on due the fallout of her own actions.  That’s not the most intriguing hero’s journey.

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