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    Transition Time on ‘Transplant,’ ‘Poker Face’ Wedding Mayhem, Return of the Sandman, ‘Duster’ Finale

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    The end is near for NBC‘s medical drama Transplant, as members of the hospital staff consider new opportunities. A hitman crashes a wedding in the first part of Poker Face‘s two-part season finale. Netflix‘s The Sandman wakes up to begin the first half of its second and final season. HBO Max‘s raucous action romp Duster wraps its first season.

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    Transplant

    This episode of the Canadian medical drama is one fans will be talking about for quite some time. It’s becoming more obvious that the end of the series is looming — the series wraps its fourth and final season on July 17 — as our favorite staff members at York Memorial Hospital are considering life-changing opportunities. June (Ayisha Issa) makes an announcement that rattles her bosses, while Owen (Jim Watson) and Bash (Hamza Haq), whose residency is about to end, each give serious thought to new career paths. Medical metaphor of the week: an elderly couple who are literally stuck to each other, causing Bash and Mags (Laurence Leboeuf) to take stock of their own relationship while she continues to recuperate from her recent heart transplant.

    Natasha Lyonne as Charlie Cale, Patti Harrison as Alex in 'Poker Face' Season 2 Episode 10

    Poker Face

    The stars keep coming out for this delightful Columbo-esque mystery-comedy, with the first of a two-part Season 2 finale taking place at a lavish wedding, where a hitman who looks an awful lot like Justin Theroux (there’s a twist) stalks the obnoxious groom (Haley Joel Osment), who’s related to someone who Charlie (Natasha Lyonne), the human lie detector, knows all too well. Which explains why FBI agent Luca (Simon Helberg) is on the scene, with colleagues including Lili Taylor and Taylor Schilling. Proving that it’s always a calculated risk to get too close to Charlie, her ditsy new friend Alex (Patti Harrison, terrific) is working the gig as a caterer, which makes her a perfect patsy when things go awry.

    Tom Sturridge as Dream in 'The Sandman' Season 2 Episode 3

    Netflix

    The Sandman

    Wake up, fantasy fans. It’s the beginning of the end for the luscious adaptation of Neil Gaiman‘s comics, with the second and final season broken into two parts. The six-episode first volume finds Dream (Tom Sturridge) continuing his epic quest to save the nocturnal realm that he oversees by righting the wrongs of his past. This is no fly-by-night operation, because the story concludes with five more episodes on July 24, with a bonus episode a week later following his sibling, Death (Kirby Howell-Baptiste).

    Josh Holloway and Rachel Hilson in 'Duster' on Max

    HBO Max

    Duster

    There’s plenty of peril and action in the Season 1 finale of the 1970-set action romp, with Jim (Josh Holloway) rushing to save undercover FBI partner Nina (Rachel Hilson) after her cover is blown. She’s also in danger from Chad (Dan Tracy), a dirty fellow agent ordered by the mysterious “Cowboy” (J.R. Yenque) to take down the troublesome young woman. And then there’s the matter of the all-important Watergate tape, with Jim as a pawn between rival mob bosses Saxton (Keith David) and Sal the Greek (Jack Topalian). The body count is high as the series races to its twisty conclusion. Let’s hope there’s more.

    Will Smith in Independence Day, 1996

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    Independence Day

    Hard to believe that next year, this blockbuster summer sci-fi hit turns 20 years old. Will Smith, Bill Pullman (as the president), Jeff Goldblum, and Judd Hirsch top a first-rate cast in director Roland Emmerich‘s thriller about American heroes who launch a counterattack against an invading alien army on our country’s birthday. Not the worst way to spend the evening before the holiday (airs at 8/7c).

    INSIDE THURSDAY TV:

    • Rod, White & Blue: A Twilight Zone Celebration (6 am/5c, Heroes & Icons Network): Take a respite from the madness of our times by retreating into Rod Serling‘s world of fantasy and allegory, with a four-day marathon of classic Twilight Zone episodes from 1959-64, airing through Monday at 6 am/5c.
    • Bob’s Burgers (8/7c, Fox): Bob (voiced by H. Jon Benjamin) participates in a Bachelor-style competition to inherit Mr. Fischoeder’s 100-year-old tortoise. Also new: Family Guy (9/8c), where canine Brian (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) wins a boat on The Price Is Right and sails it to Texas, where he goes full throttle at upsetting the locals.
    • Revival (10/9c, Syfy): A new order targets the “Revivers” in the small Wisconsin town where the recently deceased have returned to the land of the living. For Em (Romy Weltman), the sheriff’s daughter, this unearths memories that set off a chain of events with brutal results.

     ON THE STREAM:

    • Criminal Minds: Evolution (streaming on Paramount+): In the season’s penultimate episode, the network of serial killers closes ranks as the BAU takes new steps to unmask the “Disciple.” But first they’ll have to protect former cult leader Voit (Zach Gilford), who Rossi (Joe Mantegna) now sees as “a psychopath who’s grown a conscience.”
    • And Just Like That… (streaming on HBO Max): Charlotte (Kristin Davis) isn’t the only one facing mortality close to home, when Lisa (Nicole Ari Parker) suffers a family tragedy. In less momentous news, Seema (Sarita Choudhury) makes the mistake of taking on the impossible Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) as her first client in her new real-estate venture.
    • Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League (streaming on Max): A sequel to 2018’s anime film Batman Ninja returns the caped crusader to feudal-era Japan to confront the Yakuza League, a new force comprised of the warped remnants of his greatest allies.
    • Countdown: Taylor vs. Serrano (streaming on Netflix): Uma Thurman narrates a documentary that follows boxers Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano as they train for their Madison Square Garden bout, airing live on the streamer on July 11.
    • Binge Alert: Hulu begins streaming six seasons of the comedy hit Community, while four seasons of the brain-teasing Mr. Robot arrives on Netflix.





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