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Futurama – How the West Was 1010001

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  • Title: Futurama – How the West Was 1010001
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“How the West Was 1010001” is one of those one-joke episodes, this one featured around the group mining for Bitcoin in Futurama‘s version of the Old West (despite that making absolutely no sense). While I’m all for the show taking some cheap shots at Bitcoin, there’s not much else here. The episode is notable for the Mexican standoff we get near the end between several characters in the middle of main street and some usual goofiness by the characters in a different setting than normal, this time in the obligatory cowboy hats.

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The Lazarus Project – Episode 7

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  • Title: The Lazarus Project – Episode 7
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After resetting the timeline in the last episode, we see the next year in the life of George (Paapa Essiedu). Although successful in bringing Sarah (Charly Clive) back to life, and hiding his actions by framing Shiv (Rudi Dharmalingam), the couple don’t manage to make it even a year together. Eventually breaking up, George is left alone again. We jump in and out of this year, never getting a reset only for new trouble to pop-up just after midnight in the new checkpoint with a problematic death in George’s apartment leading into the show’s season finale.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Charades

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  • Title: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Charades
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One of the oddest and most unexpected aspects of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is the running theme of wacky Freaky Friday-style romcoms centered around Spock‘s (Ethan Peck) love life. And both times it has produced some wonderful television. As in “Spock Amok,” events swirl around engagement to T’Pring (Gia Sandhu) and a Vulcan ceremony to cement their engagement. Also at play here is Nurse Chapel‘s (Jess Bush) feelings for the Enterprise’s science officer who has been noticeably avoiding her of late, unsure how to deal with the feelings he harbors for her. When a shuttle accident leaves Spock injured, and then healed improperly by aliens, a now fully human Spock needs to master his human emotions and prepare for the arrival of T’Pring… and her parents.

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Futurama – Children of a Lesser Bog

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  • Title: Futurama – Children of a Lesser Bog
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“Children of a Lesser Bog” offers one of those episodes of Futurama more memorable for specific moments that an overall story. The episode is the follow-up to the Fourth Season episode involving involving Kif (Maurice LaMarche) giving birth. Now, 20 years later, he and Amy (Lauren Tom) head into the swamps of his homeworld to collect his children (those that aren’t massacred in the episode’s most gruesome joke). With the children developing in different parts of the swamp the two parents end up with a baby, a teenager, and middle in-between child. The episode plays on the usual tropes of early parenthood and on Leela‘s (Katey Sagal) role as the biological mother of the children who are drawn to her. It’s not one of most memorable episodes of the series, but it does have a nice message about non-biological parenting while giving us a minimum amount of Zapp Brannigan (Billy West) zaniness as well.

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Darth Vader: Black, White & Red #4

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The Star Wars anthology following the adventures of Darth Vader in black, white, and red concludes in this final issue. The ongoing storyline, “Hard Shutdown,” told across all four issues wraps up here with Vader breaking out of Sendvall’s trap, wiping out his minions, and then taking his revenge on the man who temporarily successfully immobilized Dark Lord of the Sith but couldn’t kill him.

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