The Orville Season 2 Episode 1 "Ja'loja" Review

The crew faces personal challenges on their way to witness Bortus perform a Moclan ceremony on his homeworld.

This was a really fun episode that did a really nice job of reintroducing all of the main cast and establishing where they left off last season and showing some potential growth for them throughout this coming season. Everything around Bortus and the Ja'loja was really fun with how each of the different crew member sort of took the idea of going through this ceremony for Bortus and how they each chose to approach it was really interesting to see. Especially around Alara and Gordon where they needed dates to go to the ceremony otherwise, it would be seen as rude to show up alone to this kind of ceremony so both of them working to figure out who they can potentially take as a date and what all that means for them was really exciting to see. Then everything with Commander Grayson and Ed was really great with them sort of moving on to their own personal relationships away from each other. And Ed is grappling what that means now that Kelly is moving on with someone new and him not necessarily agreeing with that at first but then went to grow and except it to some degree. Then just overall this was a really entertaining and fun episode and I'm so excited to see what the season will bring.

Manifest Season 1 Episode 10 "Crosswinds" Review

Michaela's next-level callings are accompanied by hallucinations. Ben exploring Michaela's calling leads him to a new alliance and a powerful new adversary.

This was a very interesting episode that took a bunch of different directions and did a good job of setting up for where the story is going to lead with all the mystery surrounding the missing plane. Everything with Michaela in this episode was interesting with her looking into these weird callings she has that are going completely overboard, versus the weird voices and visions that she's had in the past and her trying to link it to different things. And she eventually makes this discovery around one of the missing but now found passengers were interesting with how she took it when this passenger started talking and her trying to figure out his whole back story. Then everything with the missing passengers that have now been found was great with them still being comatose and Saanvi sort of working to find a way to care for them until they are stable enough to take care of themselves again. Then Autumn Cox coming in and working against Ben and Michaela but also somewhat for them was interesting with how she initially wanted to get away and be friends with them but this mysterious Major and all the forces bring her back in to be their enemy was fun to see what's going to happen there once the truth comes out. Then everything with Jared was just odd with him still trying to grapple whether or not he loves Michaela or Loudes more. Then just overall this was a really fun and entertaining episode and I'm really excited to see what they're going to do next.

Midnight Texas Season 2 Episode 6 "No More Mr. Nice Kai" Review

An unknown force threatens to reveal all the Midnighters' secrets; Manfred's suspicion towards Kai intensifies; Fiji embraces Dark Magic to save Bobo.

This was a really interesting and somewhat of a fun episode that had a really great concept to it and the way they chose to create so much chaos in the town was just really great. Everything with Fiji finally embracing her dark magic was so much fun with how much her personality changed and how cunning and clever she became. The return of Creek was great with her and Manfred trying to work out whether or not they should move on from one another. Looking into if Kai had anything to do with the secrets coming out and what he is doing with all these stored up supernatural powers made for some really great scenes. I especially loved the scene where Manfred and Joe confront the head in Kai's office. The love triangle coming out between Joe, Walker, and Chuy was so much fun to see Walker and Chuy going after one another and Joe working to try and keep Chuy calmed down. Then the truth coming out that all the chaos going on was because of a Trickster was such a great reveal and made for a really great moment when the whole town finally teamed up against him. Then just overall this was a really fun and great episode to watch and see how everything played out.