The Most Anticipated Question of 2025-26 Television

  

1.  Who killed Lester on Only Murders in the Building?  The one problem with the format of the show is that we are likely going to lose a beloved character every season (unless we get another Ben Glenroy situation).  Last season the carousel stopped for loveable doorman.  So, who killed and publicly left him in the Arconia’s fountain?

 

The most we ever learned about Lester was during the killer reveal party in season two where we got a lot of Lester’s backstory including a rivalry with Tracy Letts.  Did noted playwright Tracy Letts murder Lester?  Though in the penultimate episode of last season, there was a peculiar scene where Mabel learns that Glen Stubbins had died and weirdly the camera pans to a television report about the disappearance of the gangster Nicky “The Neck.”

 

It seems safe to assume that the case Téa Leoni wanted the trio to investigate Mr. Neck (the characters share a last name).  Are Lester and Nicky’s deaths related?  Did Téa have Lester killed to convince the trio to work the case?  Whatever the answers are, it is a given that hilarity will ensue.  Only Murder in the Building returns tomorrow with three episodes on Hulu.

 

Bonus Question: Who Will Be Murdered at the End of Season 5?  The way Steve Martin, Selena Gomez, and Martin Short have been talking during press in the lead up to the new season, it seems safe to assume there will be a season 6.  If there is a season 6, that means we are getting yet another death.  After taking a season off, Teddy Dimas is back and my money is on him.  Though the show has alternated male and female deaths so we would be due for a lady to die.  Maybe klepto Uma will steal from the wrong person.

 

2.  Will Jay Manage to Get His Soul Back on Ghosts?  Now that is a cliffhanger.  Will Jay get to live out his life and go straight to hell whenever he dies?  Okay, the easy answer to this question is yes.  The harder question, is just how will Samantha get Jay’s soul back?  Will she have to trade it will someone?  Can she trick Elias into giving it back?  Ghosts premiere October 16^th on CBS.

 

 

3.  What Happens in New Vegas, Will it Stay in New Vegas?   We got a very interesting tease at the end of season one of Fallout, when we saw Hank in a power suit fly past a sign letting us know he was entering New Vegas.   New Vegas, of course, being the setting for the fourth game of the series and set sixteen years prior to the events of the television show.

 

What is most interesting about this development is that for anyone who played the game (which I currently doing), there is no definitive ending to the game.  For those that have not played the game, there are multiple factions and who you side with will give you very different endings.  Is House still alive even though I recently bludgeoned him to death with a nine iron?  Is Ceaser still alive even though I just blew him up with a grenade?  Does the Brotherhood of Steele still have a presence in New Vegas even though I blew up their base?  It will be interesting what they choose to be cannon.  I am guessing all the main players are still alive and have been fighting ever since despite the multiple definitive endings in the game.  Fallout season two premieres December 17^th on Prime Video.

 

4.  Will We Get More Later Timeline on Tell Me Lies?  The first season, we only got two scenes of the later timeline, the very first and very last scene.  We got a little more in the second season, including a bombshell that Stephen dropped on Bree’s wedding.  That may be the most interesting timeline now, so will we get even more of the later timeline in the third season?  Though there will clearly still be plenty of plot in the college timeline considering Iris Apatow is joining the show as a freshman, and of course one with a secret.  Mmm, could she be related to Macy?  No date for the third season yet, but filming recently finish so it is likely to premiere later this year or very early next year.

 

5.  What Is Going on with Marvel TV?  After announcing Disney+, the House of Mouse quickly canceled all Marvel television shows and folded the Marvel TV division into Marvel movie side to streamline and connect everything going forward on their streaming service.  Except outside of Loki, Wandavision, and its spinoff Agatha All Along, those shows mediocre to bad and viewership steadily declined.  Adding insult to injury, Marvel started to tank at the box office too.

 

So maybe big budget television shows that are requirement for their movies was not the best idea.  Now what?  The shift has already begun, going back to street level shows with the Daredevil reboot.  But there still remains two shows made under the old system.  But Wonder Man, coming in December, and Vision Quest, set to release next year, will likely come and go as quickly as Ironheart. 

 

After that?  The only other live action show currently in production is the second season of Daredevil.  If I were to guess, those other Netflix shows will also get rebooted.  Well maybe not Iron Fist, unless they do a Heroes for Hire. I just hope they also bring back Cloak and Dagger.  But it does feel like the entire MCU is in a holding pattern until they reboot the entire thing after Secret Wars. 

 

Here is everything I will be watching this fall (Premiere dates in parentheses):

 

Mondays

8:00: The Neighborhood – CBS (10/13)

8:00:  St. Denis Medical 0 NBC (11/3)

8:30: DMV – CBS (10/13)

 

Tuesdays

Only Murders in the Building - Hulu (Tomorrow)

The Morning Show – Apple TV+ (9/16)

Loot – Apple TV+ (10/14)

Star Wars: Visions (10/28)

Fallout – Prime Video (12/17)

9:00:  Alien: Earth – FX/Hulu (3 episodes left)

9:00: The Lowdown – FX (9/23)

9:00:  Percy Jackson and the Olympians – Disney+ (12/10)

 

Wednesdays

The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox – Hulu (4 episodes left)

Gen V – Prime Video (9/17)

Marvel’s Zombies – Disney+ (9/24)

8:00:  The Challenges: Vets and New Threats – MTV (already started)

8:00:  Survivor – CBS (9/25)

8:00:  Shifting Gears – ABC (10/1)

8:30: Abbott Elementary – ABC (10/1)

10:30: Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butt-Head (already premiered)

 

Thursdays

Nobody Wants This – Netflix (10/23)

A Man on the Inside – Netflix (11/20)

8:30: Ghosts – CBS (10/16)

9:00: Peacemaker – HBO Max (already started)

 

Sundays

9:00: Task – HBO (Yesterday)

9:00:  The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon – AMC (Yesterday)

9:00:  Welcome to Derry – HBO (10/26)

10:30:  I Love LA – HBO (11/2)