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Skeleton Crew – This Could Be a Real Adventure

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  • Title: Star Wars: Skeleton Crew – This Could Be a Real Adventure
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After producing The Acolyte, what would become the most divisive Star Wars series (and one that I enjoyed for the most part), it appears Disney has retreated to more familiar territory. Skeleton Crew feels like a Disney Channel series with a Disney+ budget. The opening episode, “This Could Be a Real Adventure” introduces us to Wim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers), his best-friend Neel (Robert Timothy Smith), and a pair of slightly older girls in Fern (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) and KB (Kyriana Kratter) who, at least so far, is the only useful member of the foursome. Most of the premiere sticks with Wim giving us the basic dreamer/screwup son disappointing his father (Tunde Adebimpe) who isn’t a bad guy but far from a great dad.

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Black Doves – To Love Then

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  • Title: Black Doves – To Love Then
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The new Netflix series opens with a triple murder and a mystery as to the reason behind it before introducing us to Helen Webb (Keira Knightley), the wife of the British Defense Secretary (Andrew Buchan) and potential future Prime Minister who also happens to be a spy working for a shadowy organization know as Black Doves. On of the three people murdered one turns out to be Helen’s lover. Also, something about the proceedings figures into the death of the Chinese Ambassador and his missing daughter (Isabella Wei). In an attempt to keep Helen alive, and her lucrative cover intact, her overseer (Sarah Lancashire) sends an old friend in roving assassin Sam (Ben Whishaw) who steps foot in his home country for the first time in 7 years.

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Jurassic World: Chaos Theory – Up the River / All Night Long

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  • Title: Jurassic World: Chaos Theory – Up the River / All Night Long
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On their way up the river to find the dino facility, Ben (Sean Giambrone), Kenji (Darren Barnet), Darius (Paul-Mikél Williams), Yaz (Kausar Mohammed), Sammy (Raini Rodriguez), and their new friend Zayna (Anaiya Asomugha) run into trouble first from a hippopotamus and then from a Suchomimus. In the chaos, Yaz gets separated from the group who discover too late she is missing forcing her to stay alive on her own until they return for her creating some of the creepier moments of the season.

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Citadel: Honey Bunny – Spy Game

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  • Title: Citadel: Honey Bunny – Spy Game
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While offering flashbacks to a past mission involving a scientist in which Honey (Samantha Ruth Prabhu) goes missing, “Spy Game” features those after Honey and Nadia (Kashvi Majmundar) catching up to them at their safe house (which it turns out wasn’t all that safe). The sequence provides the bulk of the episode’s action with Honey taking out the attackers by a variety of means. Despite being injured, Honey makes it out with her daughter with the assassins still after them and Bunny (Varun Dhawan) and Chacko (Shivankit Singh Parihar) still too far behind to help.

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