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Doctor Who – Empire of Death

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Doctor Who - Empire of Death

Wrapping up the first Disney season of Doctor Who, Sutekh (Gabriel Woolf) wipes out most life across the universe. The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa), Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson), and a corrupted Mel (Bonnie Langford) slowly falling under Sutekh’s control, survive to find a way to undo Sitekh’s wave of death following backwards through time everywhere the Time Lord’s T.A.R.D.I.S. has traveled. One thing keeping The Doctor and his companion alive is the mystery surrounding Ruby’s mother which even Sutekh can’t uncover and becomes obsessed with the answer.

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Jurassic World: Chaos Theory – Down on the Ranch

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Jurassic World: Chaos Theory - Down on the Ranch

The theme of reuniting the band continues in “Down on the Ranch” as  Darius (Paul-Mikél Williams) and Ben (Sean Giambrone) arrive in Texas to collect Sammy (Raini Rodriguez) from the Guitierrez Cattle Ranch. We also get a reunion with Bumpy who has been living on the ranch since Sammy’s return (much to the displeasure of her neighbors). Their reunion is cut short by another run-in with the raptors as the three barely make it out alive and hoping Bumpy can survive on his own. There are several questions of course (why not target the extremely isolated Sammy before the boys could warn her?) but the format, racing for their lives and dealing with the fallout of their shared experiences, continues to be the backbone of the show.

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Scooby-Doo – Wednesday is Missing

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Scooby-Doo - Wednesday is Missing

Wayback Wednesday takes us back to another mystery involving some meddling kids and their talking dog. Often referred to as the “lost” episode of the series because Warner was never able to get the rights to release it on DVD, Blu-ray, or streaming, “Wednesday is Missing” is an odd episode that attempts to be both a Scooby-Doo mystery and a backdoor pilot of sorts for the eventual The Addams Family cartoon. It serves the latter better than the former and in many ways is probably best forgotten as its certainly one of the weakest classic Scooby-Doo episodes ever made. 

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My Adventures with Superman – The Machine Who Would Be Empire

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My Adventures with Superman - The Machine Who Would Be Empire

Leaving events on Earth alone (although we may catch up with those a bit in the next episode), “The Machine Who Would Be Empire follows Kara (Kiana Madeira) and Clark‘s (Jack Quaid) adventures in space where she eventually leads him to her “father” Brainiac (Michael Emerson) who wishes to rebuild the Kryptonian Empire. Through some sort of mind-control Brainiac has been using Kara not to bring planets in peacefully to the empire but to wipe them out completely (including Thanagar which the cousins visit). By the end of the episode Kara understands how she has been duped, but she need some help to save Superman (and the universe) from the AI.

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Mr. Monk and the Other Woman

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Mr. Monk and the Other Woman

Monk Monday takes us back to San Francisco and the toils of the defective detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub). Over nearly the entire episode, Monk fights Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine) over the identity of the person who broke into an office building, burned a file, and killed a lawyer. Stottlemeyer is fixated on the man (Nicholas Campbell) whose file was burned, however the facts don’t line up for Adrian (who is proven correct after he turns up dead). Suspicion then turns to the man’s neighbor, who again Stottlemeyer is 100% certain of, and that’s where things get interesting.

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