Mystery

Found – Pilot

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Found - Pilot

NBC’s Found falls into the genre of increasingly bizarre police consultant shows. Prodigal Son offered us an unstable profiler making some questionable calls by often making use of his serial killer father. Found goes even further down the rabbit hole with Gabi Mosley (Shanola Hampton) secretly keeping her childhood kidnapper (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) chained up her basement using his experience to help with her team who operate with, but outside of, law enforcement in their search for missing children. While the “Pilot” episode keeps the reveal of her house guest a surprise for its final scene, every commercial and promotion gave away this pair being the primary dysfunctional relationship on the show.

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Only Murders in the Building – Sitzprobe

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Only Murders in the Building - Sitzprobe

The big rehearsal for the musical arrives and with it so too Detective Williams (Da’Vine Joy Randolph) and the police to interrogate every member of the play as a potential murder suspect. “Sitzprobe” also offers some revelations about Loretta‘s (Meryl Streep) scrapbook and her connection to someone tied to the play who, when they come under scrutiny by the police, decides to throw herself on the sword and admit to Ben’s murder. By the end of the episode the police will have a suspect in custody, but likely not the murderer.

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The Irrational – Dead Woman Walking

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The Irrational - Dead Woman Walking

The concept of a poisoned client hiring a detective to solve their murder comes up more often than you would expect in detective fiction. Elementary played with versions of the idea more than once including “Possibility Two.” In “Dead Man Walking,” Alec Mercer (Jesse L. Martin) is hired by a well-known investigative journalist (Amy Aquino) to discover who has poisoned her with a radioactive biproduct for which there is no known cure. The case is hampered by a lack of suspects making it all too easy to guess her partner (Fred Ewanuick) is our killer, although it takes our characters longer to come to that conclusion. The story hits home for Alec’s assistant Phoebe (Molly Kunz) allowing the show to fill in a bit of her backstory as well. A fine, if not too memorable, episode (although the grizzly bear experiment is a nice use of the show’s concept).

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NCIS: Hawai’i – The Complete Second Season

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  • Title: NCIS: Hawai’i – Season 2
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NCIS: Hawai'i - The Complete Second Season

The Second Season of NCIS: Hawai’i brings more challenges for Jane Tennant (Vanessa Lachey) and her team, crossovers with the other NCIS shows, and a prolonged absence for Lucy (Yasmine Al-Bustami) who takes a temporary assignment as agent afloat. The show does check in with her from time to time, including giving her a mystery to solve on her own in “Misplaced Targets,” but her absence from Hawai’i is felt over a number of episodes before her eventual return.

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Scooby-Doo! – Ghastly Ghost Town

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  • Title: The New Scooby-Doo Movies – Ghastly Ghost Town
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Scooby-Doo! - Ghastly Ghost Town

Scooby Sunday takes us back to another mystery involving some meddling kids and their talking dog. Premiering in September 1972, the first episode of The New Scooby-Doo Movies restructured the show into double-sized episodes written around celebrity guest-stars. The results were mixed, and the consistent quality of the animation does suffer as well. “Ghastly Ghost Town” was not one of the stronger episodes in which the gang run into the Three Stooges who have bought an old ghost town and are having trouble turning it into a theme park because of several odd events one of which includes an out-of-control robotic dinosaur.

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