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Stargirl – Shiv (Part One)

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Stargirl - Shiv (Part One) television review

The first half of Stargirl‘s first two-part episode offers a closer look at the life of mean girl Cindy Burman (Meg DeLacy), the daughter of the Dragon King (Nelson Lee). Revealed to be even more of a terror than the previous episodes had foreshadowed, “Shiv Part One” introduces us to the first super-villain of the younger generation. While different in a number of other ways, the episode exposes one common similarity between both Cindy and Courtney Whitmore (Brec Bassinger) in their impatience at being asked to slow down and wait by their father figures. An order both ignore, leading Stargirl to discover the hidden pathways within the school and have a run-in with a villain her own age for a change.

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Stargirl – The Justice Society

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While the road is a bit rocky, by the end of “The Justice Society” Courtney Whitmore (Brec Bassinger) and Pat (Luke Wilson) come to an understanding about her attempt to recreate the Justice Society with her friends from school. Pat is less than pleased to discover his step-daughter is putting together her own crew, a crew that doesn’t have any interest in walking away from what Courtney has given them when Pat demands the return of the artifacts. Perhaps the best aspect of the latest episode of Stargirl is how the show presents the mystical and scientific gadgets which Courtney has given her friends as not toys or weapons but a piece of themselves that each was missing. In the goggles Beth Chapel (Anjelika Washington) finds understanding and connection, in Wildcat’s cowl Yolanda‘s (Yvette Monreal) rediscovers a sense of purpose and belief in herself, and in the hourglass Rick (Cameron Gellman) makes a connection to his father and is given an outlet for his rage.

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Stargirl – Hourman and Dr. Mid-Nite

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Stargirl - Hourman and Dr. Mid-Nite television review

On Halloween, Courtney Whitmore (Brec Bassinger) gets two more recruits in “Hourman and Dr. Mid-Nite” as Beth Chapel (Anjelika Washington) sneaks into Courtney’s room and gets Dr. Mid-Nite‘s goggles to work and Courtney learns that the son of an original member of the JSA lives in town. Beth discovering Courtney and Yolanda‘s (Yvette Monreal) secret last week is immediately followed-up here. While Beth wasn’t chosen by Courtney, she proves her worth by identifying the brooding Rick (Cameron Gellman) as the son of Rex Tyler who we see murdered at the beginning of the episode in a flashback after stashing his son with a no-account brother. Pat (Luke Wilson) also sees a connection between the angry young man and the original Hourman leading him to discover just what Courtney has been up to the past two weeks.

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Stargirl – Wildcat

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Stargirl - Wildcat television review

Courtney Whitmore‘s (Brec Bassinger) search for allies begins in “Wildcat” which is also the first episode of the series to devote a large section of the story to someone other than Courtney or Pat‘s (Luke Wilson) point of view by filling in the recent past of Yolanda Montez (Yvette Monreal) teased earlier in the series. A flashback offers us a look at more confident and happy Yolanda whose decision to send a sexy selfie to her boyfriend (Jake Austin Walker) has disastrous consequences both at school and home. Exposed and slut-shamed by both family and friends, it becomes obvious fairly quickly why the Yolanda walking the halls today bares little resemblance to the one Courtney finds in the school yearbook. The episode handles the subject matter well, especially in showing the stark difference to Yolanda’s family life as well as her reputation and standing at school.

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Stargirl – Icicle

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Stargirl - Icicle television review

“Icicle” brings back the deadliest member of the Injustice Society of America to Blue Valley, Nebraska while continuing to hint at his larger plans for a “New America.” And neither friend nor foe appears to be safe from his icy wrath. Along with Stargirl‘s (Brec Bassinger) first encounter with the ice villain (who publicly calls out the new hero by putting a large icy star in the middle of Courtney’s walk home), the episode also delivers her first trip to the Justice Society of America’s headquarters where Pat‘s (Luke Wilson) plan to talk Courtney out of super-heroing backfires setting up the next several episodes with Courtney recruiting a new society to take down Icicle and company.

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