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MasterChef: Global Gauntlet cut its field from eight to six in Episode 14, and “The Wall” proved particularly unforgiving for Foo and Tkaiya. Dave and Heidi dominated the challenge with two remarkably similar pork dishes, while Jake and Julia did enough to secure the next safe position. The real danger emerged from the remaining two…
Joe Washington does not get much of a recovery period in the Season 2 premiere of “Average Joe.” Episode 1, officially titled “67 Days Later,” finds him separated from Angela and Jennifer, drinking heavily at a motel and still dealing with everything Teddy Washington dragged into his life. Then photographs of Angela and Jennifer arrive…
Reacher Season 4 Episode 4 finally makes sense of Anna Merrick’s strange final journey, but every answer pulls Jack Reacher deeper into the conspiracy surrounding the missing government files. Anna’s son Ben is found dead, Reacher reconstructs why Anna boarded the subway without the flash drive, and the episode closes with a chilling connection between…
AFC Richmond’s women’s team finally plays its first match in Ted Lasso Season 4 Episode 3, and what begins as a fairly disastrous debut ends with exactly the kind of unlikely hero Ted was hoping to find. Gemma Jay joins the team at the last possible moment, comes off the bench with Richmond still stuck…
Apple TV’s Lucky reaches roughly the same emotional destination as Marissa Stapley’s novel, but it takes a radically different road to get there. Both versions end with Lucky gaining something she has spent her life chasing: the possibility of deciding who she wants to be rather than letting criminals, family or circumstance decide for her.…
Lucky spends the entire Apple TV thriller running from criminals, the FBI and consequences created by other people’s decisions, but the person she finally walks away from is her father. In the ending of Lucky Episode 7, Lucky anticipates that John will make another play for the $10 million and leaves him a recorded goodbye…
Four seasons of Outer Banks have taken the Pogues from a missing-father mystery on Kildare Island to treasure hunts involving the Royal Merchant, the Cross of Santo Domingo, El Dorado and the Blue Crown. Along the way, John B and his friends have survived shipwrecks, betrayals, family deaths and more than a few encounters that…
Markie spends almost all of Busboys convinced that becoming a waiter will fix his life. By the ending, he actually gets the promotion, only to turn it down. The decision is not another example of Markie accidentally ruining a good opportunity. After the drug operation surrounding Murderball collapses and the authorities raid the restaurant, Markie…
Furious Episode 6 finally puts Alice and Catherine in the same room long enough for the case against Jay Easton to become more than suspicion, only for Marshall to turn their fragile understanding into a violent confrontation. The episode ends with Catherine shooting Marshall after he attacks Alice, but Marshall is still breathing and groaning…
Lanterns spends most of its premiere convincing viewers that Hal Jordan and John Stewart are beginning an uneasy partnership. Then its final minutes reveal that the partnership already has an expiration date. After following their investigation in Rushville, Nebraska, in 2016, Episode 1 abruptly jumps ten years forward to 2026. John returns to the same…
Big Brother 28 finally handed power to someone willing to disrupt the house’s comfortable structure. In Season 28 Episode 20, which aired August 16, Yash Patel becomes the new Head of Household and nominates Angela Murray, Dee Valladares and Haley Thogmartin for eviction. The nominations are particularly important because Angela and Dee had avoided the…
Clark Kent gets his powers back in the My Adventures with Superman Season 3 finale, but “The Return” makes sure his victory over the Eradicator is not simply about becoming stronger again. Clark reaches a surviving descendant of Rao, Krypton’s living sun, and uses its energy to restore himself before returning to Metropolis in new…
