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Only Murders in the Building – The Stunt Man

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Only Murders in the Building - The Stunt Man

The investigation into Sazz‘s (Jane Lynch) murder leads Charles (Steve Martin), Oliver (Martin Short), and Mabel (Selena Gomez) to a stunt man bar which Sazz visited before her death. While it doesn’t offer new clues to his friends murder, spending some time with the stunt people does bring Charles a sense of peace and help him find an old memory concerning his friend’s retirement dream which leads to an entirely different kind of confrontation at the end of the episode.

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A Discovery of Witches – Episode 3

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A Discovery of Witches - Episode 3

Witches, apparently, are quite stupid. Despite saying the don’t want Diana Bishop (Teresa Palmer) spending time with Matthew Clairmont (Matthew Goode), the continue to make bad decision after bad decision with regards to Diana only further pushing her into trusting the vampire. The witches attempts to scare, threaten, and bully Diana into giving them the book backfire spectacularly, that and the fact that her fascination with Matthew has turned romantic makes an easy choice for the witch when she literally has no one else she can trust.

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Terminator Zero – Model 103

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Terminator Zero - Model 103

In the closed catacombs the Terminator finally catches up with the kids. Luckily for them,  Eiko (Sonoya Mizuno) arrives soon after to buy them time to escape. Those segments in the closed down underground shop are pretty boilerplate Terminator while the thread of Malcolm Lee (André Holland) continuing to discuss humanity to his AI which he hopes will save humanity, but in Eiko’s timeline fails to do so, continues to feel like filler as nothing can advance in that subplot without either Ekio reaching Malcolm or Malcolm turning his AI loose.

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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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The Old Man – VIII

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The Old Man - VIII

The Old Man returns for its Second Season with Dan Chase (Jeff Bridges) and Harold Harper (John Lithgow) attempting to work together. Having successfully infiltrated Afghanistan, things quickly go wrong leaving them with few allies to find and save Emily (Alia Shawkat). The episode stays with the old couple pairing of the two, and sharing thoughts on Emily and the steps Dan went to to hide the truth from her, with the action coming from dangers they run into including a friendly face who turns out to be anything but and nearly ends the pair’s adventure before it gets started. Good stuff here, although Emily’s own thread isn’t picked up on just yet and I do miss Amy Brenneman.

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