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#Blessed After a week’s hiatus we’re back as Hightown (which has already been renewed for a second season of course) bows out with an open ending and lots of unanswered questions. At the heart of this though are our two protagonists who, as we see from this episode, haven’t really learned anything or grown as characters across this season. The season 1 finale of Hightown begins with a flashback to the past as Jackie and Junior sit together drinking and discussing his baby....

Episode Guide Episode 1 – | Review Score – 4.5/5 Episode 2 – | Review Score – 4/5 Episode 3 – | Review Score – 4/5 Episode 4 – | Review Score – 3.5/5 Episode 5 – | Review Score – 3.5/5 Episode 6 – | Review Score – 3.5/5 Episode 7 – | Review Score – 4/5 Last year’s adaptation of His Dark Materials was one of the bigger surprises to come from the TV calendar....

The Cave With the journey to Will’s world about to begin, episode 2 of His Dark Materials Season 2 begins with Lyra getting dressed in inconspicuous clothing and Pan hiding in a rucksack. As she heads through the portal to Will’s world, she races into the road and is immediately hit by a car. It’s only a scratch thankfully but as she gets back up and walks with Will, tellingly Boreal happens to watching from a car nearby....

Another Big Twist! Episode 4 of I Know What You Did Last Summer begins with Allison checking her computer and finding numerous messages and videos. Now she believes Lennon is out to get them. Allison immediately speaks to Margot, sharing her concerns as the pair contemplate whether Lennon is the killer here. Well, later that day Allison checks her phone, following the instructions to meet by the shed. Once there, a picture message blinks through from a guy called Fred Phillips....

The old man leaves after mocking Gyeo-re a bit. Joon-kyung is at a sauna hostel where she spends her days playing phone games waiting for Gyeo-re to answer her calls. Seok-joon finds her there and makes a scene threatening to kill them if she is unable to tell him where Gyeo-re was. She triggers him by calling him mentally ill and he is furious with Joon-kyung. He gives her his card and asks her to get a hotel room and live there instead of in the sauna....

The Referee’s A W**ker Being a football referee is a tough, daunting job. From every decision being scrutinized to players swarming around you in the face of a crunching challenge shouting for (or against) giving a red card, it takes a certain personality to do the job effectively and without falling into the limelight for the wrong reasons. So what happens behind the scenes during big games for the referees? Step forward Inside No....

Surprise Box Episode 10 of Inspector Koo begins with Kyung-Yi laughing hysterically. Opening up the box outside their apartment, Kyung-Yi organizes the team to bring it inside. So who is inside? Well, prior to this package arrive, news of Seong-Tae’s disposal spreads. Yong Sook turning her son into kimchi is big news and K happens to be listening in, camouflaged while hiding in a café. She sneaks into the journalist’s house that night, tying him up and reading his report....

Like Angels Put in Hell by God Episode 6 of Interview with the Vampire begins with Louis assessing his damages. After his fight with Lestat last week, Louis has bad dreams about falling, remembering Lestat’s flying as a rare gift that very few vampires actually possess. Despite living with him for 20 years, Lestat never showed that he had this gift of flight. Louis deduces that Lestat restrained this on purpose to try and keep them even and level in the relationship....

First Day How were the aliens defeated? Episode 10 of Invasion begins with big news. The aliens have been defeated, at least according to news reports across the world. Mitsuki heads home, wallowing in her own grief, while the rest of Japan celebrate the aliens being destroyed. There are big celebrations in the streets, as we hear through broadcasts that aliens have just collapsed in the street. It seems the nuclear strike has done the trick and killed them all....

The Sleepover It’s Okay To Not Be Okay returns with another interesting episode as both Moon-Young and Kang-Tae are slowly starting to reveal their feelings and the pain they have been through. It has definitely been an intense and dark series so far and has managed to build its characters and story very well. Episode 5 of It’s Okay To Not Be Okay starts where we left off with Kang-Tae putting his jacket around Moon-Young....

He beseeches to her moral conscience and she agrees to set up a meeting but not until she escapes Vienna. Mike asks Ryan to call someone at the agency to make sure that he is not in danger. At the US Embassy in Rome, an FBI Extraterrestrial Squad scampers for clues to get to Ryan. They are charging Ryan with the violations of Espionage Act – i.e., they are calling him a traitor....

Goblin Fire Episode 10 of Jirisan starts in the year 1991 as Dae-jin and Gye-hee escort Geun-tak to Black Bridge Valley. Geun-tak seeks permission to build the cable car where the village currently stands. The village’s mayor, Kim Jae-gyeong, outright refuses. That night, Jae-gyeong’s young son wanders outside through the dark when he sees a floating light in the distance. Meanwhile, someone wearing black gloves dumps an animal carcass into the village well, polluting the water source....

Bohemian Ecstatic (2) Episode 26 of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean Part II begins with Anastasia tracking down Weather Report and his cloned body. Anastasia worries that the Stand user wants to slay his body because it’s vulnerable without his Stand. Anastasia chases his clone and spots Weather Report standing near a wall. He realizes that Weather isn’t influenced by the enemy’s Stand power. Even if Weather can’t hear him, Anastasia requests for him to track down the Stand’s user while he chases his body....

Netherworld Episode 29 of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean Part II begins with Weather Report and Anastasia arriving at the hospital. Weather senses three people and declares that two of them are Pucci and Jolyne. Meanwhile, Jolyne gives Ermes a piece of her thread to hold onto as she plans to knock out Versus. Jolyne leaps out of the plane but gets trapped inside a fighter jet with someone. Ermes tries pulling Jolyne up, but her thread rips....

By Dawn’s Early Light Episode 1 of Jupiter’s Legacy Season 1 begins with a brief prologue to set the scene for our superhero tale. A girl called Chloe starts to lose control of her powers until her Father, Sheldon, arrives. He touches down and reminds her that bad guys are people too. As a hero, they live by a simple code of service, compassion and mercy. We then jump forward to the present, with Brandon living up to his Father’s legacy and working as a superhero....

Violet Kaleidoscope’s Violet episode starts 24 years before the heist, way before the events of the rest of the series. Leo breaks into a house and begins cracking the safe while Roger works to distract the guests downstairs. After cracking the lock, they take as much money and jewellery as possible. Leo is forced to wait it out inside the safe until the coast is clear. It’s touch and go for a while but they do manage to get out in one piece, thankfully!...

14 Years In The Making When Kingdom Hearts 2 came out back in 2005, I was 16 years old and in college. Skip forward 14 years past one marriage, two kids and one subsequent break-up later it feels like a lifetime ago since this franchise first launched back on PS2. For many people, it almost seems unfathomable that the long-awaited third chapter in this franchise has finally come out. Now that the hype and excitement around the game has died down somewhat, how does the game fare in comparison to the others?...

Welcome to the Spectacle of Life Episode 3 of La Casa De Papel Season 5 begins with Stockholm giving CPR to Arturo. He’s down and out, with all hope seemingly lost. Thanks to some quick thinking from the group though, they manage to revive him and bring Arturo back…yay? Anyway, with them in desperate need of a doctor, Arturo is taken out on a stretcher and away in an ambulance. The somber crowd watch on from afar while Stockholm ends up wracked in guilt over what’s happened....

Another Suspect Episode 7 of Law School begins in April 2016 with Professor Seo in a sauna with Assemblyman Ko. Prosecutor Yang is there for Ko though, and wants to get to the bottom of what happened with Kang Dam. Now we cut back to the present, as Sol-A answers the phone to Kang Dam, prompting her to hang up. When she does, Sol-A has questions for Yang but he remains tight-lipped and refuses to disclose anything....

Link: Eat, Love, Kill Episode 11 Link: Eat, Love, Kill is a fantasy mystery K-drama about a man and woman who share the same emotional state. Eun Gye-Hoon is a chef who sets up a restaurant in town where his twin sister went missing 20 years back. Gye-Hoon finds himself randomly experiencing emotions one day, spontaneously crying and laughing. But why? Well, it turns out these are the emotions of a woman named Noh Da-Hyun....