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Speechless Ep. 3 Bonfire

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Strike three!  I am not going to get started it on the title. I have exempted the dashes because they have overused that joke. Good news: we've gotten pass Maya's compulsion to smother JJ. He meets some cool friends and hears about a bonfire everyone is going to but JJ can't go due to the inaccessible condition of the  outside venue. Predictably,  Maya embarrasses her son by requesting the social gathering be canceled, straining JJ's bonds between him and his classmates. Soon, the students speak out against JJ. But when Maya realizes she was wrong, the two stage a fake prank to encourage his classmates to have a change of heart. Meanwhile, Jimmy helps Ray settle into the new home. Once again, JJ comes across as a burden because he's in a wheelchair. It's human nature to feel self-conscious, especially if you are the new kid. Here, the show had a choice. once again, we see Maya meddling. When I was in grade school, I would talk to my OI teacher (which is no

Still Life With Crows

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Medicine Creek, Kansas is a quaint town where Main Street spans the length of two blocks and everyone knows everyone. Townsfolk are content with their quiet lives - which is why they were stunned when word spreads that a murder has happened, drawing FBI Agent Pendergast to the dreary town. within 24 hours, reporters flock to the little town, in the August heat, where Pendergast confirms that the deceased were - in fact - killed. Soon, neighbors begin to disappear - and reappear - as counter-top pieces.with eighteen year-old misfit Corrrie Swason, Pendergast digs up secrets swirling around the cursed community from its buried past - the Ghost Warrior Massacre of 1853 - and the truth about  Medicine Creek's biggest enigma, coming face to face with unfathomable evil lurking beneath the surface. Childs' masterful storytelling and shady characters drive the story forward, slowly building the suspense in his page-turner which should soon join the classics, like Frankenstein and

Speechless Ep. 2 - New AidE

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Okay, they've got to stop with spelling out the titles of the episodes . We get it, JJ speaks through an augmentative communicator. This joke was cute the first go-around, not so much the second. In this episode , JJ (Micah Fowler) gets a new aide, but his overbearing mother isn't too keen on the new sidekick. Of course, the personal assistant makes some mistakes, including getting into the van and driving away without JJ (the funniest scene in the episode). Maya's fears about allowing Kenneth to be J.J.'s full-time aide is confirmed when J.J. chooses to skip out on a physical therapy appointment to watch cheerleaders in practice as they pander to him; Jimmy shows Dylan how to be un-neighborly. Irritatingly predictable, Maya finds out about J.J.'s extracurricular activities and scolds Kenneth for allowing this to happen. Predictably, the mother and son have a fight about who Kenneth should obey - a very quiet one , at that. I have to admit, I sympathized with J