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FBI: Most Wanted: Iron Pipeline (2022)
If you're trying to make a point, don't contradict it
It was nice to see the story line about Remy's mom advancing and coming to a somewhat sweet place by episode end.
Once again, we lose another male lead, whose absence is explained witha throw away line about transfer.
Then there's the sloppy, agenda driven writing. We get it, you think guns are bad and are the cause of crime. But when your depraved bad guy, who's so sick he murders children, shouts "Thank God for the 2nd amendment" after killing a cop with a STOLEN (ie not acquired by the laws laid out or the 2nd amendment) its clear you are writing only about agenda and not well thought out.
Then there's the trotting out, over and over again, the term "military style assault rifle" that was invented by media members who thought it could be used to scare anyone who was too lazy to look up what the AR of "AR 15" stands for. It stands for Armalite Rifle, by the way, not assault Rifle, and its not used by the military, at all.
But the cream of the lazy writing, contradicting your own point, crop was when the father of a murdered child, who wants to make a point that that those who push for gun rights are responsible for gun crime, goes and buys a STOLEN GUN, illegally, from a black market arms dealer in his trailer. Because having a guy buy a gun illegally, expressly to commit a crime, definitely drives home your point that having legal guns is a problem.
Yes, I don't agree with the narrative, but the lazy writing that contradicts the point its trying to make is even worse.
Supergirl: Kara (2021)
Mercifully, it's over.
The never ending totem story is over...less than 15 minutes in, in a very anticlimactic battle. We see lots of returning characters, such as Mon El and James Olsen. That was nice. They fight along side Dreamer, who's super powers are.....what ever is needed for the story...including shooting beams out of her hands....because that has to do with dream powers because..... reasons... And Alex who's super power is....guns? Oh and of course we got out woke commentary! In the midst of battle, while dodging a strike from a huge monster Alex exclaims "No touching without consent!" Because, you know, magical monsters always ask consent before trying to kill someone.
The wedding was nice, especially the musical number from Kara. The return of Cat Grant was spectacular.
The actual ending moments, the big announcement to the world, makes very little sense.
All in all, I stuck it out because I've been watching since the beginning, but it jumped the over the top woke shark a long time ago and it's better that it ended, even if it wasn't an end worthy of the characters that started the show.
Blue Bloods: Hate is Hate (2021)
A great first episode back
Once again, Blue Bloods give an accurate look at what's really happening in NYC. Police being handicapped by over regulation, hate from uneducated public, and lack of support from witnesses. As per usual, they show multiple sides of the same issue, and they showed things from the perspective of the cops, which qe never see or hear about. Looking forward to another great season.
Supergirl: Blind Spots (2021)
More virtue signal than story
In the least subtle metaphor in Supergirl's history (and that's saying something) a powerful white woman senator takes a shortcut that literally steals the energy of her black constituency in order to heal faster and gain power. In order to save the day, we need a new superhero that, more importantly than anything, looks like the black people they're rescuing. Because you know, white superheros don't save black people. Then, in her heroic debut, the new black woman hero helps to literally redistribute (actual word used) the power the white senator stole from her black constituents. Among the most subtle part of the metaphor there. And or course, once she saves the day, all the young black girls jump up and start pretending that they are Guardian, our new black superhero, because, you know, kids can't pretend to be superheros that dont have the same color skin as them. So overwhelmingly racist. So overwhelmingly about their political agenda and not about the story. I'm sticking it out, because I've been watching since episode 1 but when this shoe ends, it will be a mercy.