Arcane

Arcane – Paint the Town Blue

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  • Title: Arcane: League of Legends – Paint the Town Blue
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Fast-forwarding an indeterminate amount of time (weeks? months? a year?), Zaun has become occupied by the Piltover and Noxian forces harassing the citizens of the undercity searching for Jinx (Ella Purnell) who has retreated from the public eye with Isha (Lucy Lowe). Despite the pleas for Jinx to return, she remains missing until her precocious ward forces her hand by getting kidnapped at a rally along with several others in the undercity leading to Jinx to stage a rescue with Sevika (Amirah Vann) shocking her with the discovery of just how much her legend has grown in her absence.

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Arcane – Finally Got the Name Right

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  • Title: Arcane: League of Legends – Finally Got the Name Right
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Despite promising Vi (Hailee Steinfeld) that the quest to take down Jinx (Ella Purnell) wouldn’t change her, events in the undercity lead Caitlyn (Katie Leung) to putting the life of a child at risk to get her revenge. Unwilling to let her go that far, Jinx escapes, the bombs she placed around the city go off leading the to the toxic gas Piltover has been pumping underground for years to reach the surface, and playing right into the hands of the now quite desperate Ambessa (Ellen Thomas) as the episode teases more of the Black Rose and suggests that Ambessa is after something in the undercity that might offer her a chance to fight back.

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Arcane – Watch It All Burn

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  • Title: Arcane: League of Legends – Watch It All Burn
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The focus of the second episode of the show’s Second Season remains split. Although we see Jinx (Ella Purnell) make peace with Sevika (Amirah Vann) as the chem-barons war amongst themselves for control of the undercity, and breakdowns after she see’s her sister leading a group of enforcers to kill her, her story doesn’t advance much and given that no characters of real importance died in the explosion from last season the focus of the episode is stretched to the limit attempting to work in all the various storylines necessary to keep events moving forward.

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Arcane – Heavy is the Crown

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  • Title: Arcane: League of Legends – Heavy is the Crown
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The Second Season of Arcane: League of Legends picks up immediately after Jinx‘s (Ella Purnell) attack which managed to somehow only kill the minor supporting characters leaving Jayce (Kevin Alejandro), Caitlyn (Katie Leung), and Mel (Toks Olagundoye) largely unscathed and the other counselors only wounded – although Caitlyn does suffer the loss of her mother. Not knowing about his friend’s secret experiments, Jayce blames the attack for Viktor‘s (Harry Lloyd) unusual condition.

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Arcane – The Complete First Season

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  • Title: Arcane: League of Legends – Season One
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Adapted from Riot Games’ League of Legends universe, the First Season of Arcane: League of Legends focuses on origin stories for sisters Vi (Hailee Steinfeld) and Jinx (Ella Purnell) while exploring the class struggles between the utopian city of Piltover and the oppressed underworld city of Zaun. The first thee episodes of the series provide examples of the girls’ childhood and how that life ended badly for all involved while the rest of the season picks up years later bringing the two sisters, each believing the other died years ago, together again. Also explored is the rise of scientist Jayce Talis (Kevin Alejandro) and his Hextech technology which will change the world. 

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