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Strike Back: Vendetta: Part 5 (2020)
Intense covert military action
I agree with the previous reviewers, basically my 9 is just me being cautious with giving top ratings, reserved for completely unexpected, never-before-seen experiences. To build on the other reviews, the McAllister solo shootout near the end felt very much like the Gears of War videogames: viewed from close, up and behind our hero/character, giving us pretty much the hero's field of view, moving along a path with lots of covers to use, crouching, switching weapons, picking up weapons from killed enemies etc.
And this was by no means a ripping-of thing. After seeing the scene, I find myself wondering just why they hadn't done it in the show sooner. This kind of shootout fits perfectly in a show called Strike Back.
Murdoch Mysteries: Murdoch and the Cursed Caves (2019)
Major improvement on the Halloween episode a year ago
About halfway through the episode, with the supposedly scary creature in the woods, the pesky kids harassing the Brackenreids, and Higgins going crazy, I was more scared that this would go on like Sir. Sir? Sir!!!, the previous Halloween episode. That one was not just the rock bottom of the otherwise marvelous Murdoch Mysteries, but one the very few things pieces of fiction I've actually hated.
Thanks to the writers, that they apparently learned from the year before. Instead of going horror comedy, this time the events got plausible explanations, and the episode turned into the kind of proper detective story we've come to rely with Murdoch & co.