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The Race Is On Episode 4 of The Politician begins with the police investigating the disappearance of Astrid. Astrid’s father thinks Payton did it and bribes the police into arresting him. Payton meets with James and Mcafee to discuss the damage caused by the recent events. The poll results aren’t good as it shows he will lose the election if it carries on that way. They think they need to replace Infinity as they’ve now lost the gay votes....

Two Worlds We begin episode 2 of The Promised Neverland Season 2 with Emma and Ray confronted by the two hooded demons. They introduce themselves as Sonju and Mujika. Emma eventually catches up with the rest of the orphans too, breathing a sigh of relief when she realizes they’re unharmed. Not long after, the pair eventually sit together with the demons and begin praying. Emma and Ray are understandably sceptical, especially after what happened with Mother last season, and eventually catch up with Sonju in private while the other orphans are asleep....

One Bullet Leela is helping Padma get ready for her C-section at the start of The Resident Season 6 but Padma is obsessing over “the terrible things that can go wrong at any given moment.” I understand Padma, she went through a lot when she nearly lost her pregnancy. It is scary to feel like you have no control, especially when preparing to bring new life into the world. Padma asks Leela to promise her that if something happens to her she will take care of the twins....

Meanwhile, Whitney is partnered up with Andrew for a biochemistry assignment, but Andrew doesn’t want to work with her. He does much of the assignment by himself, only for Whitney to catch him in a mistake. Despite how negative he is towards her in the entire process, she can’t help but be attracted to him. Kimberly worries that Jackson can’t get past seeing her as sickly since she crashed at his dorm after her surgery....

Bart and Milhouse realize if they use the old computers in school, they can become super rich. They collect the nerdy kids from the school and start a video game racquet. Marge plays the game with Maggie. She is thrilled to see Maggie talking in the game with the help of emojis. Principal Skinner busts Bart’s illegal enterprise. However, Bart convinces him that by participating in it, Skinner can make his dreams come true....

Ah-Yi is distracted, partly because the owner of the ON shop has gone missing. After Ri-Eul’s little disappearing trick, Ah-Yi knows he’s responsible but isn’t quite sure how. She deliberates over whether to tell the police or not. Ah-Yi doesn’t, as it turns out, and instead heads to the abandoned theme park to find the magician. She doesn’t find him but does run into a talking parrot that tells her “the boss is a b*stard....

Episode Guide Episode 1 -| Review Score – 4/5 Episode 2 -| Review Score – 4/5 Episode 3 -| Review Score – 3.5/5 Episode 4 -| Review Score – 3.5/5 Episode 5 -| Review Score – 4/5 Episode 6 -| Review Score – 4.5/5 “Do you…believe in magic?” These five words perfectly capture the essence of Netflix’s newest K-drama, The Sound of Magic. These are also the words uttered by the enigmatic magician fronting this series, Ri-Eul....

Chapters Of A Book Episode 2 of Il Processo begins with Elena speaking to Linda again and this time she has a harder tone. In this darkened room, Ruggero tries to plead with Elena to get to the point. We then skip forward to the 18th December, nine months later. Ruggero arrives in prison and implores Linda to stay calm given the trial is coming up. Given they’ve been practicing for such a long time, Ruggero reminds her that it’s showtime and now they need to do this for real....

Day 10 Episode 10 of Them begins with Betty in the underground bunker. Eventually she climbs up the steps and realizes the hatch is actually unlocked. Has it been unlocked all this time? Well, Betty isn’t waiting around to find out. She climbs out and rushes away from George’s farmhouse without looking back. She charges across the countryside, past cows…before she’s shot dead. George fires a deadly sniper from his house and watches her fall to a heap on the ground....

Episode Guide Episode 1 -| Review Score – 4/5 Episode 2 -| Review Score – 3.5/5 Episode 3 -| Review Score – 3.5/5 Episode 4 -| Review Score – 3.5/5 Episode 5 -| Review Score – 3.5/5 Episode 6 -| Review Score – 3/5 Episode 7 -| Review Score – 3.5/5 Episode 8 -| Review Score – 3.5/5 The show makes the most of its surroundings too, boasting a lush, picturesque setting in the town of Three Pines....

The Lake House Anna seems to have made a complete recovery as episode 7 of To The Lake begins. However, the rest of the group are admittedly sceptical. Pavel deduces that his blood must be the reason for her surviving but Sergey decides to remain cautious for now. As he heads out to fix up some food, Ira confronts him and asks whether he’s going to tell Anna what they’ve done....

15 Points Episode 5 of Top Boy Season 2 starts with a video of Sully doing the rounds, with him being beaten down by Cyprus and his boys. Everyone at Summerhouse ends up seeing this, meaning there could be serious ramifications coming their way. Jaq is one of those who sees the video and she hurriedly heads over to Dushane’s place to let him know. In Morocco, Jamie feeds back to Dushane that the situation has been dealt with and he’ll be heading home soon....

Confrontation Episode 5 of Trolley starts with us in the past, as Hye-joo shows up at the police station with blood over her hands and clothes. When an officer questions her, she turns and bolts, grabbing a coat to cover her blood and deciding to change her name to Hye-joo. It’s been 20 years since Jae-eun fled from her old life but now the past is catching up with her. Seung-hee’s scathing words echo in her mind as Hye-joo scrambles....

The Love Triangle Returns Episode 15 of True Beauty begins with Soo-Ho arriving to see his Father, who’s currently in a critical condition in hospital. He apologizes to Soo-Ho, doing his best to breathlessly say the words he’s been meaning to say for a while. He admits he wasn’t sure he’d get another chance, as Soo-Ho does his best to try and help him recover. Time passes and Soo-Ho stays behind to make sure his Father is discharged from hospital....

The Baseball Game We begin episode 7 of True Beauty with Han Joon-Woo arriving at work glowing after his kiss with Hee-Kyung. As he enters the teacher’s office, he finds all the karaoke kids being punished for the brawl that happened the previous night. That is, until Seo-Joon and Ju-Kyung arrive and tell him they’re also to blame… along with Soo-Ho and all the other kids. The punishment is cut short though by Hee-Kyung sending flowers for Jun-Woo at school....

Twenty Five, Twenty One Episode 15 Twenty Five, Twenty One is a classic K-drama romance between two very different souls in the late 90’s, Hee-Do and Yi-Jin. Hee-Do is a member of her high school fencing team but thanks to the financial crisis, she’s forced to switch schools, becoming a member of the sabre fencing national team. Meanwhile, Yi-Jin’s father goes bankrupt, changing Yi-Jin’s life forever and forcing him to eke out a living....

Number 16 Episode 5 of Two Weeks to live begins with Jay revealing to the group that he left the tracker inside one of his customer’s orders. This brings the duo of crooked cops to the wrong house. Meanwhile, Jay sits down and admits what he did and apologises to the group. Unhappy with his betrayal, Tina looks ready to shoot him dead… until Jay receives a call from Beth. Only…it’s not Beth....

The Race Is On Episode 6 of Twogether begins with Seung-Gi jumping off the cliff edge and plunging to the water below. Given Jasper’s phobias though, he has issues taking the dive himself. He overcomes this eventually and takes a leap of faith, splashing down into the water. Jasper cheekily hides Seung-Gi’s keys though, which certainly helps close the gap in time between them, but it doesn’t deter Seung-Gi who takes Jasper’s bike instead....

An Average Summer Flick The beach, Italian sun and a group of early 20’s friends reunited for a summer vacation; Under The Riccione Sun certainly has the right formula for a fun and entertaining young adult movie. Unfortunately, most of the characters follow the usual tropes found in this genre making this a Netflix movie in desperate need of some originality. It definitely has potential though and a couple of characters tease interesting arcs, but the majority feel under-developed which does hurt the narrative of the movie....

The next victim What happened prior to the finale? As the story continues and Nunes steps up his investigative efforts, he teams up with Yara to try and find the person responsible for killing Jorginho. It would seem that everyone has secrets. Patricia is having an affair with Darlison, Thyellen has faked a pregnancy to blackmail Jorginho while we know the culprit is left-handed. The big twist at the end of episode 7 saw Nunes break into Washington’s room while Yara distracted him....