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Hit-Monkey – Return to Sender

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  • Title: Hit-Monkey – Return to Sender
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Hit-Monkey - Return to Sender

Having returned from Hell (agreeing to help his simian sidekick stay on a murderous path), Bryce (Jason Sudeikis) leads the despondent Hit-Monkey to New York City where he starts making a name for himself. Setting up various characters in the new locale, we get Hit-Monkey being hired by Bryce’s old agent (and taking up residence in Bryce’s apartment). Haruka (Ally Maki) also makes the trek to the West bringing along Bonzai Master‘s sword whose power allows her to survive an attack by a creature who was either a giant tiger or a possessed alley cat (or possibly both). The sword, connecting her to its previous owners, is of obvious interest to someone lurking in the shadows. We also see Bryce’s daughter who it seems, like the sword, will play a role over the course of the season.

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Moon Knight – The Complete First Season

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  • Title: Moon Knight – Season One
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Moon Knight - The Complete First Season

The complete First Season of Disney+’s Moon Knight is included in this two-disc Collector’s Edition 4K Steelbook. The season introduces mercenary Marc Spector and mild mannered Steven Grant (Oscar Isaac) and their alter-ego as the avatar of the Khonshu (F. Murray Abraham) defending the travelers of the night.

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Echo – Tuklo

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  • Title: Echo – Tuklo
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Echo - Tuklo

Repercussions of Maya Lopez‘s (Alaqua Cox) recent actions begin to reverberate in “Tuklo” as Vickie (Thomas E. Sullivan) and his idiot white trash friends (Lindsey Moser and Erin Ownbey) attempt to sell Maya to the foot soldiers of the Kingpin (Vincent D’Onofrio) who arrive in town leading to a shoot-out in the bowling alley. “Tuklo” also brings Maya face-to-face with Bonnie (Devery Jacobs) for the first time in years, and later with the one person she never expected to ever see again. The episode’s title comes from another ancestor (Dannie McCallum) of Maya as the sole female member of the Lighthorsemen. The sequence, framed as an old silent movie, is fun but, as with all of these flashbacks, still feels very disconnected from current events.

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Echo – Lowak

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Echo - Lowak

The second episode of Echo is most notable for Maya Lopez‘s (Alaqua Cox) rather ridiculous stunt placing explosives on a moving train (are you telling me this was the easiest method?). The stunt is done well enough, but it takes more than a little disbelief (along with totally oblivious guards working for a man who would kill them for their ineptitude) that you’ll have to overlook in order to accept it. It also puts everyone she’s ever loved in danger, which is perplexing as we learn there were plenty of stops along the rail line which she could have targeted rather than her home town and her choice only furthers the chance of danger finding her family. 

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Echo – Chafa

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Echo - Chafa

Spinning out of the events of Hawkeye, Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox) gets her own five-episode series with Echo. The opening episode “Chafa” feels a bit oddly cobbled together. Following an elaborate opening sequence taking place outside of time and space alluding to the origins of the Choctaw, we’re given an episode focused on the childhood of young Maya (Darnell Besaw) growing up, racing through some individual scenes going into the family business, with the events of Hawkeye oddly jammed in, before picking up the thread of what happened to the character after the events of Hawkeye.

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