The Nevers:
I have been pretty “meh” on this show, but that fight on the river was
one of the most innovative fights I have seen in a while. Unfortunately later in the episode there was
the dumb sequence where the guy with the hand gun was able to gun down the
singer but could only manage to nick the cop running at him. I was assuming there would end up being a
Touched that could reanimate the dead, but the previews suggest there is a burial.
Fear the Walking Dead:
Umm, so what really happened. We
clearly heard Daniel tell Grace to go to the fishing shed. The main show just did an unreliable narrator
episode making this extra annoying. And it
also split up the group into four different settlements just like this show now
has. Meh. So did Daniel actually take the guns. And just how does one man take all those guns
while everyone is with him in a meeting? And why did not one bother to ask how
Strand got his gun? Was that gun part of
Daniel’s delusion too? Way too many unanswered
questions about this episode.
Mare of Easttown:
Well that was a pretty surprising ending. Now, I am really bad at names and I thought
the friend was referring to the dead son being the father. While researching the math trying to figure
out how old the son was, I realize the Sheehan she was talking to was Mare’s
ex-husband, which is even creepier. It also
puts a bigger spotlight on that conversation they had about the girl in the
middle of the episode. Yet, didn’t he have
that engagement party all night? Granted
old people parties do not last as long as teenaged ones so I guess that party
ended by midnight(ish) when the last people say the dead girl. But the best scene was when Mare just went
full spite in arresting the girlfriend in her parent’s restaurant while a
befuddled Ralph Bohner looked on.
City on a Hill:
Well this season turned on a dime.
After going after each other for four episodes, Jackie is now willing to
hunt down who shot Siobhan. Decoursey is
smart not to trust him, but I have a feeling he is going to ask for Jackie’s
help eventually. Then we will get to see
what exactly Jackie’s game is because no wat he is altruistic, he is going to
need a favor in return. I would not be
surprised if it involves taking down Jackie’s boss so he can stay in
Boston. I really cannot see him going
somewhere else.
Debris:
Well that is an interesting take on Groundhog’s Day, one where the
person chooses to reset the time when they do not have to. And I think this may be the first time they attempted
to be funny with the montage of the different partners. But I do not understand why they shoved the
scene with the divorce in it,
Cruel Summer:
I found it interesting that Jeanette and Kate mothers had a reverse relationship
with each other back in high school. At
least according to Jeanette’s mom, I believe her as much as I believe her daughter. As much as I have like these first couple
episodes, I do not see how this set up could go very long. I wonder if they are setting up a future season
with the mothers back in high school in the seventies.
The
mystery of the show seems to be who is telling the truth and Jeanette turned
out to be a huge liar this week. She said
she flushed the weed when she did not and she had been going into the house a
lot without telling anyone. But did she
see Kate? That is still the big
question.
Supergirl:
There is plenty of competition, but this may have been the single worst
episode in the history of the show. And
it is a two part-er. Meh. Maybe not center a whole episode or two on
the two worst characters on the show. I
hope the blue aliens just put them into their zoo never to be seen again.
Big Sky: So the daughter staged a suicide and is still
blackmailing her other brother? She
moved the body. And how did Ronnie get
out of the house with a dead body without anyone noticing? And why did the sister even open the door if
she knew who he really was? And if the
PI’s are not answering the phone, how about calling the police? So stupid.
The Handmaid’s Tale: What really drug down the second and third season
of the show was that they just rehashed the first season, the only changes
being they amped up how tortured the handmaids were. What gave me hope going into the fourth season
was it seemed like they blew up the show.
The Waterford’s were in custody in Canada, and June became a fugitive that
no doubt were be hung if she were caught for rescuing all those children. And then June was captured by the end of the
second episode. Meh.
But then she escapes again at the end of the very next
episode. And it was pretty gratuitous to
murder all those handmaids that way.
First off, why was the guard shooting at them? If you did not hang them in the first place
because you need more babymakers to replace all the kids you lost, maybe do not
murder them. Maybe at least fire a
couple warning shots. And how was June
the last one out of the van by a while, yet was the only one to outrun the trail
besides Janine? Are the other girls really
that slow? And speaking of June running,
what was with the weird, rom-com scene of her running back to Nick to kiss
him.
And one more question, just who is Serena’s baby daddy? It has been two years, so my recollection is
fuzzy. But I do remember Fred was
shooting blanks; that is why June had to hook up with Nick. So did she hook up with the American dude? Could Fred really be the father? If he actually was not shooting blanks, doesn’t
that throw into question of who the father of Nicole is?
The Challenge:
All-Stars: Oh that TJ twist was
cruel. And I loved it. I was pretty suspicious why Kendal did not go
to vote if she did not have the Life Saver.
Instead of the Life Saver she was instead safe from elimination. Although hopefully the duos get sent in
together in future weeks because getting to pick your partner seems like an unfair
advantage. But double eliminations from
here on out will speed things up. Thankfully,
the main show drags on when you eliminate twenty-two players mostly one week at
a time. With only sixteen players left
there will probably only are four or five episodes until the final. But TJ did say he definitely will see Beth and
Cyrus again, hopefully that is a good sign we will be getting more seasons of
The Senior Tour.
Manifest: One of my running jokes is question just how
the blind chick on In the Dark always has straight from a shampoo commercial hairstyle
and I thought of that when Mick was doing that raid. Seriously, why the long glorious hair that can
easily blow into your face why going into a raid. How about a ponytail or a bun? But anyway.
At least we are done with the three shadowy figures; none of them were particularly
strong actors. But kind of silly that Olive was able to decipher that they
would all perish if they did not all pass their trials. At least I got a good laugh at how stupid that
scene was. But was this all a set up that
all the 828’ers have to pass trails for all of them to survive their death dates?
The Blacklist: I feel like I missed something. I remember the last episode ended with Red’s
hook up breaking her skull on the end table as Red tended to her while Lizzie
still has the gun. Lizzie just let Red
leave. And at what point between when
the hook up found out Red was a wanted man and dying did she have time to tell
her daughter to go into hiding. But I
finally figured out what is going to end this death feud between Red and
Lizzie. She is finally going to realize
how bad her new partner is, maybe even find out he was really the secret Russian
asset, and go back to the FBI and Red to stop him.
