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Line of Fire Episode 2, “A Bigger Picture,” picks up only days after the Hollingsworth family’s carefully controlled world was disrupted at the end of the premiere. Clare refuses to remain at home with her grief and instead throws herself into an FBI investigation that puts her directly against Jane, while Mike’s return to the…
Halloween Baking Championship Season 12 takes its Museum of Unnatural History theme out to sea in Episode 3, Halloween Haunts, with a Disney-inspired challenge that comes with much more than the usual Haunted Heat bragging rights. Host John Henson introduces a heroes-and-villains cake challenge tied to the Disney Destiny, while judges Stephanie Boswell, Aarti Sequeira…
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 18 reaches unusually far back into the show’s history when Mac, Dennis and Charlie become obsessed with a man they have not properly hung out with in years. Season 18 Episode 8, “Mac and Dennis Tear Their ACLs,” reveals that Peter “Schmitty” Schmidt has been sending increasingly elaborate Christmas…
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 18 Episode 8 turns a Christmas card into exactly the kind of elaborate conflict only the Gang could sustain for an entire day. “Mac and Dennis Tear Their ACLs” begins with Mac and Dennis racing through the street in matching Rudolph sweaters because each claims he was the first…
The Split Up Episode 3 puts Aria Kishan in exactly the position she has been fighting for, making important decisions about Kishan Law without waiting for her father’s approval. Unfortunately for Aria, taking control only deepens her conflict with Dhruv. Their disagreement over the firm’s future turns increasingly personal, while a mysterious financial arrangement involving…
Susan Ryeland has spent much of Marble Hall Murders trying to understand the secrets surrounding the Crace family, but Episode 4 suddenly places her on the other side of the investigation. Shortly after Eliot Crace publicly claims that he knows the truth about what happened to his grandmother Miriam, he is struck by a car…
Trespasses Episode 2 gives Cushla and Michael a brief taste of the life they cannot openly have. Their meetings become more intimate, a weekend away offers temporary freedom, and Cushla starts imagining that their relationship might exist separately from the tensions surrounding them. Yet almost every storyline in the episode works against that hope. Family…
Marble Hall Murders Episode 4 pushes Susan Ryeland much closer to the truth Eliot Crace believed he had uncovered about his grandmother Miriam. At the same time, Susan suddenly finds herself under scrutiny after Eliot is seriously injured shortly after publicly claiming that Miriam’s passing 20 years earlier was not what it appeared to be.…
The Simpsons begins Season 38 with the kind of problem Springfield has somehow survived countless times before: Springfield Elementary is in danger. “The Children’s Book Job” starts with Marge taking on a new responsibility as PTA president, only to learn almost immediately that the school could soon be closed. That setup eventually turns into something…
Lanterns Episode 7 introduces the possibility that Hal Jordan may have died by suicide, but it does not confirm that this is what happened. The theory comes from the Halogram after he learns that Hal’s father, Martin Jordan, died the same way and that Hal had spent years wondering whether the painful pattern in his…
Hal Jordan’s mysterious vault does not contain a weapon, secret document or another Green Lantern ring. It hides an Einstein-Rosen bridge, essentially a tunnel connecting Earth to another point in the universe. When John Stewart and the Halogram finally open it in Episode 7, they discover that Hal had been using the vault to reach…
The “Jordan Boys’ Legacy” in Lanterns Episode 7 is not Hal Jordan’s Green Lantern ring or his father’s history as a pilot. It refers to a painful pattern that Hal believes has followed the men in his family from one generation to the next. Hal’s father, Martin Jordan, died by suicide after privately struggling for…
