Review: Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender delivers charm and style

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Reader, you can relax: They nailed it. Halfway through the third episode of Netflix’s tremendously anticipated live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender, we’re treated to a slickly choreographed fight through a town square between our title character, Aang (Gordon Cormier), and his self-declared nemesis, Prince Zuko (Dallas Liu). This hand-to-hand combat through a colorful, chaotic street scene ends not with a victor but with a different coup de grâce: a cameo from a fan-favorite produce vendor wailing over his ruined cabbages. Between the rocky history of the franchise and uncertainty about the current production, fans’ anxiety around this Netflix...