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Charmed (Reboot) – Season 4 Premiere (Not That Girl)

The job of a season premiere is to establish new story arcs and subplots for the season, as well as expand on any story arcs and subplots established in the previous season’s finale, this premiere mostly did its job. What makes this premiere different to any other is that it has to deal with the metaphorical elephant in the room,

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Ms. Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries – Season 2, Episode 5 (Death Alley)

This episode was a mixture of “rockers and mods”, racism and forbidden love. The episode kicks off with Sparrow, his wife, Mavis, Steed and Sally going bowling together. A fight breaks out at another lane between Rex and Milo, who are part of the rockers and the mods respectively. Steed and Sparrow break up the fight, with Sparrow taking Rex

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Upload – Season 2, Episode 2 (Dinner Party)

Now that the premiere has aired and set up the new season, the real fun can begin by going deeper into the emerging story arcs and subplots. The episode kicks off with Matteo and Nora kissing and Pastor Rob watching on, unpleased. We then cut to Nathan and Luke in the schvitz bath discussing Nathan’s situation, with Luke pointing out

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Ms. Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries – Season 2, Episode 4 (A Killer Unleashed)

This episode was all about the world of dog shows. The episode kicks off with Samuel and Peregrine at a dog show at the Melbourne Kennel Club, as Samuel loves dogs and Peregrine has declared that she’s sworn off men and is considering getting a dog. Meanwhile, one dog owner, Lavinia, is grooming her dog, Milady, backstage. When she turns

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Ms. Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries – Season 2, Episode 3 (Blood Wedding)

This episode is all about love, family and Steed’s past. The episode opens at the Osborn Estate in Hartford where the body of Eddie, a farm hand, is found in a rose bush by another employee, Bill, Steed’s father, with a knife sticking out. Sparrow sends Steed out to investigate. Meanwhile, Peregrine is at the Adventuresses’ Club and copping questions

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Ms. Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries – Season 2, Episode 2 (Come Die With Me)

This episode explores the world of flight attending. The episode opens with Australian Imperial Airlines (AIA) trainee flight attendants in the middle of their training, being instructed by the face of the company, June Montgomery Jones (Diana Glenn). When the trainees are about to practice doing an emergency evacuation on the training plane, the life raft is released and the

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Ms. Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries – Season 2 Premiere (Death by Design)

The job of a season premiere is to establish story arcs and subplots for the season, and revisit any story arcs and subplots established at the end of the previous season. I felt that this premiere did its job. Full disclosure, I had to re-read the reviews I wrote of the first season to reacquaint myself with the show, its

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My Life Is Murder – Season 2 Finale (Pleasure and Pain)

The job of a season finale is to wrap up the season’s story arcs and establish new ones for the next season (if there is another one). In that sense, the finale technically didn’t do its job, however this series isn’t really obligated to, as each episode is self-contained and there were never any story arcs. This episode has Alexa

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My Life Is Murder – Season 2, Episode 9 (Wild Life)

This week’s case is more personal, well personal for Harry at least. This episode has a unique start, showing Alexa dangling off a cliff, we then go back a week earlier where Alexa meets Harry at a zoo. Alexa can immediately tell something is up with Harry as he seems more passionate and angrier than usual. Harry gives her the

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