The Walking Dead: The writers really got too cute with the
nonlinear storytelling. They should have
shown the Aaron/priest scene first because then we knew what was going to happen
to the red shirt on the horse. And I am
confused by the timeline. So red shirt
runs into Negann, gets a horse, goes back to get shot, then goes to
Hilltop? Huh? Feels like something got messed up. And this is where Negan went? Are we really to believe this super religious
dude who have a wall of evil doer’s skulls was going to is going to let Negan
live there?
Billions: What I really disliked about the whole Olympics plot was that its conclusion was obvious, that Prince was not going to be able to move the games to New York since that would deviate from reality too far. I thought Prince’s attempt to remove Chuck was just as fruitless because there is no show without in a power position. Well, despite the rousing applause, Chuck still got ousted. So is Chuck going to go the way of Bobby and be written off the show? Is Chuck going to be a puppet master to his replacement? I guess he could always run for governor. His first run did not go well.
Super
Pumped: The Fight for Uber: I
am surprised they did not make a bigger deal of Bill getting locked out of
Uber. And while I knew Uma Thurman as Arianna
Huffington was coming, I did not know she had a seat on the board at Uber. But all the boy’s club antics of the show was
kind of gross considering the accusation of Brian Koppleman’s other Showtime
show Billions.
Snowpiercer: So Melanie somehow had enough juice in her suit to walk
to another train that apparently can pierce snow too despite being much smaller,
then survived by going in and out of stasis.
Yet this is more believable than her turning on her daughter to rat out
Layton’s plan to go to the Horn of Africa.
But I guess with Wilford locked up, there needs to be a new antagonist.
The
Endgame: The agents were once again stupid
enough to think they got to the bomb in time.
If they knew the tech guy was in on it with the evil chick, they really
should have known, that it was an act the caught the bomber in time.
Survivor: Yet another episode where the editors spoil
things, at least it was inadvertent this time.
But of course the Tribe that got zero scree time prior to the challenge
was not going to go to Tribal. But really
bizarre that in the opening scene of the season they show us Tori finding the
dumb phrase advantage yet she is going to be the last on the show to find
it.
But, wow, so much bad game play this week. How do you explicitly tell someone you cannot
risk losing your vote and then assume the other people will not risk their vote
so you can get an Extra Vote? Then what
exactly happened with the vote? Did Hai
change his last minute from the guys voting for the guy and the girls voting
for the girl? It did not seem like he changed,
so did they really go to Tribal without the votes correctly working out for
them? But Hai did the one smart thing and
threaten to go the rocks. Had he
switched (and why would he if Daniel was adamant about not going to rocks as
the only other vote) then he is clearly on the bottom of a five member Tribe and
would be gone at next Tribal. Not changing
mean best case scenario, Daniel switches, his closes ally is safe, and Daniel
is the new goat of the Tribe. Worst case
scenario, go to rocks with a one in four change of going home, three and four chance of someone other than
you or your only ally going home. Really
the only thing Daniel said or did this week was that he is not going to
win. I do not think anyone on this Tribe
has a chance at this point.
The Dropout:
My biggest problem with shows about real life people is that I spend way
too much time searching if such dumb, inconsequential events really happened. Like did Tyler Shultz really drop out of
college his senior year to go tour with Dispatch? That was the most excited I have ever seen anyone
talk about Dispatch before.
Big Sky:
Yeah, I was stupid for assuming multiple died last episode, especially
since T-Lock was the only one we got confirmation of. It turned out Ronald was the only one else who actually
died yet. But much like his brother,
Wolf survived a bullet only to be killed by hand latter. I wonder if there is a triplet out
there. Oh, and Scarlette somehow escaped
after being stabbed in the neck. Umm, okay. Then it was bizarre that Ren mock the bomber
for claiming he had information because everyone says that before dying, but
then seemingly believed him after telling her that Stone was cop.
The Blacklist:
When the show is doing hot killer sex robot storylines, it is really
time to end the show. But I missed why
Red wanted to investigate it when the guy with the ruby neckless was poisoned
by his wife.
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