Fantasy

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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Wicked

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  • Title: Wicked: Part I
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Mean Girls with a side of fantasy? Adapted from first act of the Broadway play, Wicked: Part I covers the childhood of Elphaba Thropp (Cynthia Erivo) and her enrollment at Shiz University where she’ll be partnered with the mean but popular Galinda (Ariana Grande). It’s also where Elphaba will discover that her magical ability is even rarer than her bright green skin eventually leading to trip to the Emerald City and an audience with the Wizard of Oz (Jeff Goldblum).

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Wizards Beyond Waverly Place – Mortal Vibes Only

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  • Title: Wizards Beyond Waverly Place – Mortal Vibes Only
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Wizards Beyond Waverly Place - Mortal Vibes Only

The second episode of Wizards Beyond Waverly Place is a by-the-numbers episode of Billie (Janice LeAnn Brown) screwing up with magic, accidentally revealing their father’s magical past to Milo (Max Matenko) and Roman (Alkaio Thiele) and then making half of each invisible, all while attempting to fit in leading to various shenanigans. Meanwhile, in attempts to cover up everything,  Justin Russo (David Henrie) lies to his wife (Mimi Gianopulos), badly. 

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