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Uglies

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Uglies

Based on the young adult novel of the same name, Uglies offers a dystopian world where children are raised in orphanages before coming of age where they are offered advanced plastic surgery in order to fit in and join the lavish city ending their life as “uglies” and beginning their lives as “pretties.” Wearing its themes on its sleeves,  Tilly’s (Joey King) conception of the world is challenged by both her best friend (Chase Stokes) changing more than just his outward appearance after leaving the city and also by a new friend (Brianne Tju) choosing to abandon civilization rather than go through the procedure.

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The Umbrella Academy – Six Years, Five Months, and Two Days

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The Umbrella Academy - Six Years, Five Months, and Two Days

While offering some interesting aspects, “Six Years, Five Months, and Two Days” turns out to be an odd choice for the penultimate episode of the series. Had there been more room to play with the looming finale spending a full episode on Five (Aidan Gallagher) and Lila (Ritu Arya) getting lost in subway to alternate realities or having Luther (Tom Hopper) and Diego (David Castañeda) waste their time with the CIA would certainly be worth exploring. However, that means everything else is put on hold leaving only a single episode to deal with Ben (Justin H. Min) and Jennifer’s (Victoria Sawal) badly-rendered CGI merging, the explanation for motives and events, and the final mission of the Umbrella Academy.

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Terminator Zero – Model 102

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Terminator Zero - Model 102

While suggesting creating an unsympathetic artificial intelligence to stop the rise of a separate unsympathetic artificial intelligence may have not been the smartest move to save the human race, “Model 102” gets Eiko (Sonoya Mizuno) back to 1997 to track down Malcolm Lee (André Holland) and prevent him from helping create the hellscape of her reality in 2022. The twist in the early part of the series is the scientist’s big dreams of stopping Skynet with his own AI apparently only help bring about the disastrous future of the Terminators.

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Star Trek: Prodigy – First Con-tact

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Star Trek: Prodigy - First Con-tact

Star Trek Sunday gives us another episode of Star Trek: Prodigy. “First Con-tact” introduces DaiMon Nandi (), the Ferengi conwoman who raised Dal R’El (Brett Gray) and convinces him to help her in what she describes as a victimless scheme of acquiring a valuable gem from a nearby world. Under the guise of first contact, our rag-tag crew and Nandi encounter the harmonic aliens of the planet who need the crystals to survive. Out for herself, Nandi steals one of the crystals almost getting away with the theft and revealing Dal wasn’t kidnapped. She sold him into servitude. 

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Smallville – Kinetic

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Smallville - Kinetic

Superman Saturday takes us back to Smallville, Kansas, and the time Clark Kent (Tom Welling) fought criminals who could walk through walls. In terms of all parts of the episode being tied together and progressing both the individual episode and season-long arcs, “Kinetic” is one of the best designed episodes of the show’s First Season. We start with Kryptonite-tattooed goons (David Lovgren, Kavan Smith, and David Coles) stealing from Lex and injuring Chloe (Allison Mack) in the opening scene. With a damaging disc being included in the theft, Lex isn’t in any hurry to report details of what was taken to the police. 

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