57 Channels and Only This Is On: March 9, 2025

 

The White Lotus:  Oh no did Boyd Crowder not remember wait happened to the snake preacher on Justified?  I guess that was some very strong weed.  But otherwise this was a fairly slow episode.  Hopefully things start to pick up on the yacht.  Unfortunately the blonde blog does not seem to be on it but still plenty of mischief for the douchebag to get in to.

 

Mayfair Witches:  I scoffed at the trigger warning about violence, but I guess I kind of needed one for children drinking demon blood.  But is Lasher dead-dead, or can Rowen give birth to him again?

 

Grosse Point Garden Society:  So Birdie is so in deep with the cop he is willing to cover up a body?  Well, that relationship escalates quickly.  But my new suspect as to who killed the dog is Alice’s husband.

 

Paradise:  So last week, no moody cover of a cheesy 80's song to close out the episode and this week, they just recycled Another Day in Paradise. Meh. Let's be honest, the moody covers of cheesy 80's songs and the assassin who is weirdly obsessed with the Wii are the best (only good?) parts of the show.

 

Then nothing spoils a mystery quite like starting an episode with a bunch people we have never met (or at least thought we never met). Of course one of them turned out to be the killer.

 

Daredevil: Born Again: The really felt like an uncanny valley version of the Netflix show.  Sure, it kind of looks and feels like the old show, but something felt a little off.  And it may get worse with Foggy dead (though it seem like a lot of people think that is a misdirect; I guess he would not be the first comic book character to be resurrected) and Karen in San Francisco.  And I had to ask myself while watching these episode, just how old does Vincent D’Onofrio have to get before he is no longer physically imposing in the way Kingpin is supposed to be.  I feel like we are getting really close.

 

The Challenge All Stars: Rivals:  Finally, Steve and Adam win; time to shake things up.  Sigh, but unfortunately they did not make any big moves and just threw in one of the weaker teams.   Though the switching up how vacant stars were interesting.  But I guess if they cannot be gifted a star, there is almost no chance Katie and Veronica are going to TJ’s final.

 

Survivor:  Sigh, we almost had two of the most annoying people go home the first two weeks.  We almost had one of the funnier moments in Survivor history.  If only that one guy had destroyed the Beware Advantage the other one suggested, that would have been great.  I really hope she does not end up getting it and then getting her wish of getting rid of the autistic hockey player.  She is one of the few interesting players this season.

 

School Spirits:  Um… so is Simon dead?  Is someone else in his body?  It would be funny if football player stole it so he could be with Maddie.  But it was completely absurd that Maddie risked her body to help a bunch of people who were already dead.

 

Ghosts:  Two new dead bodies in two years, at what point does that hurt Jay’s business.  But of all the people who could have died, the Australian stripper is kind of annoying.  Hopefully he gets sucked off soon… or just disappears and is forgotten like Pete’s wife usually is.  Though I have to admit, a It’s Raining Men stunt going horribly wrong is pretty funny.

57 Channels and Only This Is On: March 2, 2025

 

The White Lotus:  So are we just going to have a new pairing of the blonde blog every week trashing the missing one?  Granted there is only one pairing left.  I guess after that, somebody is going to have to fork someone outside the trio… unless they will start hooking up with each other.  At what point in the series are we going to learn that happened in college?  Is Leslie Bibb going to hook up with one of Parker Posey’s kids out of spite?  This does feel like a hornier season, so it seems like any iteration of these people could hook up at any point, even two of Posey’s kids.

 

Mayfair Witches:  Well, that was an… um, interesting wedding ritual.  But are they actually suggesting Lasher is a good demon?  Dude has literally killed multiple people.

 

Grosse Point Garden Society:  That was fun in a shameless rip-off of Desperate Housewives kind of way.  It is weird how trashy, nighttime soaps have almost gone away since that show went off the air.  I guess trashy TV has morphed into reality shows.  But the dead body better be the dog killer, who I am not convinced is the student who the show is wanting us to believe did it.

 

The Hunting Party:  Oh wow, they killed the lady agent.  Kind of bold for episode four even if she was revived.  I am surprised none of the escapes have tied to kidnap her daughter yet.  Maybe they are saving that for the finale.

 

Paradise:  So Xavier has been holding a grudge with the president this whole time, but he just looks petty now.  The president literally told him to stop letting his wife go to Atlanta.  If you know something bad is coming, and the guy who knows more about it than anyone on the planet tells you to put your foot down with your wife, it is on you to make sure she stays close.

 

But I am confused with the nuclear football with the EMP code.  Umm, were they not on the plane when the president put in that code?  And how does the EMP not affect all the electronics in the bunker?  Those seem like massive plot holes.

 

The Challenge All Stars: Rivals:  Oh joy, another week and another week where Adam and Steve are the house vote, and another week they send someone home.  Does no one want a star>  I get not going in early, but it is time for non-star holders to think about ways to get one. 

 

Survivor:  You know, maybe it is not the best idea to take a bunch of people we do not know and instantly covering them in mud, making it even harder to figure out who these people are.  But at least this is one of the rare season where one of the most annoying people went home first.

 

57 Channels and Only This Is On: February 23, 2025

 

The White Lotus:  C’mon, how are you going to fly Natalie all the way out to Thailand and not have anyone ask to borrow her jacket?  Or maybe they are saving that moment for the finale and she is the one that goes off.  Well, it is either her or the armed guards get in a shootout with the monkeys who somehow get their hands on a gun.  I am also wondering if those gunshots are a red herring because we do have Chekov’s poison fruit.   I have to guess that is going to factor into the season somehow.  Speaking of Natalie, she and Mike White were in a Tribe with Nick, who would go on to become a legislator in Kentucky who introduced legislation that would legalize sex between first cousins.  I cannot help but think the weird sexual tension between those siblings might be inspired by it.

 

Mayfair Witches:  This show going to Scotland made me think of the time Sons of Anarchy went to Ireland which made that show jump the shark.  Granted this show has always been bad.  Maybe it will somehow reverse jump the shark and manage to get better.

 

The Hunting Party:  You can almost hear the NBC execs saying, “The Blacklist was successful for about a decade, let’s just run that back.”  Except this show is severely missing a James Spader type to chew up the scenes.  The chick from Manifest certainly is not cutting it.  Then, this week, the writers seemed proud of the plot twist of the serial killer being the women when they wanted us to expect the dude to killer, expect the title of the episode was a women’s name.  So that just killed that twist.

 

Paradise:  In another obvious twist, Xavier’s wife is still alive.  It is also fairly obvious that she went to Atlanta to do something for Sinatra.  I wonder if there is another bunker there.  Though the Appalachia Mountains are on the western part of the state.  And the eastern seaboard seemed very flooded.  So that may hurt my theory.  But I am also sensing the show is going towards the same ending of Silo season one.

 

The Challenge All Stars: Rivals:  Yawn, are we really just going to get Adam and Steve eliminating a new team every week?  Does no one else want to go to the finale?  They really need a rule that you cannot be nominated every week so stop this monotonous.  But it was sad that Steve was the only one smart enough to point his shield at the other team to get some extra water in their bin.

 

57 Channels and Only This Is On: January 26, 2025

 

Mayfair Witches:  Sigh, so Rowen threw this party to lure the evil guy there to kill him, but not only did she not kill him, she threw herself in front of someone who actually was going to kill him.  Ugg.

 

The Head:   I am glad the old guy did not show up alive, that would have been a little silly.  But I was right that the car explosion was staged, I just did not realize where the body would have come from.  I did not like the disciple of the old dude would just kill his daughter.  But after a sophomore slump, they really back with a season worthy of the first.  Now the question is where do they go next?   Space?  Deep in the rain forest?  Atop a mountain?  Are Maggie and the Norwegian dude from the first season stuck somewhere?

57 Channels and Only This Is On: January 19, 2025

 

Mayfair Witches:  Wait, does Rowen really have a pull light switch right next to the switch in her basement?  Seems kind of redundant.  But just as I predicted, the evil spirit has grown to his adult self by the second episode.  But what I could not predict was that he would go on and fork someone to death.  Maybe when the tarot cards are telling you someone bad is coming, maybe do not bring a stranger back to your house.  And wasn’t that Rowen’s cousin?  Is that not incest if he sort of her kid?  I am beginning to think it is not best to put much thought into this show.

 

Skeleton Crew:  Enjoyable finale and show as a whole, but something felt off about Jude Law the whole time.  It felt like he was going to be on a redemption arc, but that went out the window when he straight up murdered the cheap werewolf mask guy.  Then he went on a weird tangent to talk to the computer when he had plenty of credits he could have bailed a long time ago.

 

Harley Quinn:  So we are in Metropolis this season.  Cool.  Hopefully they find a way to work in King Shark.

 

The Head:   Wait, so everyone is dead now except the two chicks from last season?  How did the care blow up?  Though, considering two bodies were burned beyond recognition makes me wonder if one or both are not the people we think they are.  Granted, where do you get a charred body in the middle of the desert that quickly?

 

But kind of an annoying fake-out with the boyfriend being the one in the prison just for him to rebuke punishing Maggie.  Now we have to wait to see if that guy survive and is doing his payback.  Though, if not him, then who did all this.  Granted, it would be hilarious if they just assumed this was part of some evil plan that just turned out to be a comedy of errors, well aside from the sabotage we already know about.

57 Channels and Only This Is On: January 12, 2024

 

Mayfair Witches:  Wait, Rowen was pregnant and gave birth to the evil dude from season one that is now aging so quickly, they will probably be able to bring back the actor by next episode?  This is why you do not wait two years in-between seasons.  I do not remember any of this crap.  But if they are going to rip off the What We Do in the Shadows’ storyline, they should have put that actor’s head on a baby’s body.  That would have been much more entertaining.

 

Skeleton Crew:   I have been saying that Jude Law will turn on the kids only to save them in the last minute because it seemed clearly he was on a redemption arc, but it is hard to redeem him when he straight up murdered extremely cheap looking werewolf mask guy.

 

The Challenge: Battle of the Eras:  Poor Michele, all she had to do was be more likable than Tori and she wins.  How exactly did Tori have a higher karma vote than Michele?  Was it simply the vacation alliance?

 

Shifting Gears:  If you told me there was a show starring Kat Dennings, Stifler, and the dude from Ed, I would get excited for it.  Unfortunately that show is top-lined by Tim Allen.  Sigh.

 

The Head:  Our long national nightmare is finally over, I have The Max again, and just in time to catch up on this season of The Head.  I was surprised to see the show is being released weekly because the previous two seasons were all at once.  Not only that, The Max usually releases two to three episode at once. 

 

This season is an upgrade from season two.  Maggie is the most interesting character and it is nice having her back in middle of anything instead of just trying to find where Arthur is.  Speaking of Arthur, I have to assume he is not dead, otherwise, why have his flashback?  I am also assuming at this point he is corresponding with Maggie in some mind game.  But is he behind the current timeline?  His daughter has been conspicuously safe so far and I think he gave the playbook of what he would do earlier this season.  As for now, I am going with him, but hoping for a more interesting twist.

57 Channels and Only This Is On: March 5, 2023

 

The Last of Us:  Oh joy, another dead person of the week episode.  But I wonder if we will revisit this scene because you know that Ellie ended up killing that chick and it would be weird if they never show it.

 

Your Honor:   Wait, the mayor is evil?  Was this a plot twist that happened this episode or have I not been paying attention?  And he called the crooked cop to get rid of the car?  I thought he got the kid’s brother to get rid of the car.  And now the mayor wants the kid dead too?  I feel like I missed an episode or five.  None of this makes complete sense.

 

Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches:   I did not go into this show expecting it to be high art, but I still was not expecting it to be a complete incomprehensible mess.  Does anyone know what is going on?

 

La Brea:  Why were they so concerned with the portal closing?  They just went back four hours.  If it closes, just wait out the four hours then go back to the time machine then.  But a pretty wild finale, no more time machines and the mom is lost in history.  Maybe she goes to the future where time machines exist and travels back.  Oh, and the dad has a sister.  Could it possibly be the shady German chick who pretended she did not know English we just met, or possibly her mom?

 

The Mandalorian:  I feel bad for the people who skipped Boba Fett.  Though I did watch and that opening scene had me fooled.  I thought that was young Din being inducted into the order until adult Din showed up.  But I do wonder if Bo Katan will ever challenge Din for the Dark Saber.  She clearly want to rule Mandalore but will she be willing to take the Dark Saber from Din in battle when he does not want to fight her for it?

 

Wu-Tang: An American Saga:  Why are we expected to care so much about Masta Killa.  It seems like dude just showed up last week on the bus and now he is the focus of a third of an episode.  But poor Inspectah Deck, had to share an episode with the two least important members of the Wu.  I do even remember that song from Tales from the Hood.

 

Survivor:  The show needs to do away with the two hour premiere because they are a complete drag.  Well, this one was until the end with the most chaotic premiere episode Tribal Council ever.  I always watch the show and wonder how these people are not so paranoid that they are not just constantly playing their Idols and advantages.  Finally a bunch of contestants playing like I would.  Four of the six members played something.  But I wonder if anything else gets played if that first chick did not get extremely paranoid.  When two people play their shot in the dark, especially when you thought they were voting with you, you really have to play your Idol.  Hopefully this chaos continues because this show has gotten stale with too many gamebots.

 

The Challenge: Ride or Dies:  Okay, that Turbo video was great.  More Turbo in future seasons and less pussy chickens like Johnny, Devin, and Jordon.

 

57 Channels and Only This Is On: February 26, 2023

 

The Last of Us:  They really just yadda yaddaed half the country.  Did they really walk all the way from Kansas City to Wyoming?  But I do not understand why the brother was willing to go to Colorado but then just did not go when Joel decided he would go.  Why not both of them go if the brother knows the way?  He would have come in handy with the raiders at the university.

 

Your Honor:   So I was right, the judge was not able to cover up his wife’s murder.  But I had a good laugh when the detective, who has been trying to nail the judge all season, seemed so quick to believe his, another detective was the one that killed his wife theory.  The detective should have believed that as much as a one-armed man theory.  Then you had the little kid with the gangster’s kid, who he tried to kill last season, dead to rights, and just walked away.  Then was murdered trying to leave town.  Geez.  These people are so stupid.  So is this going to start a war between the gangster and the queenpin?

 

Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches:   I have no idea what is going on with the dude who was watching over Rowan and the spirit dude.  Is he attached to the watcher guy and that is why he did not show up when the other witch got captured?  Where exactly are the watcher and the spirit dude?

 

La Brea:  I had to laugh when the one sister said the other one never left her.  Well, aside from the time she went 10,000 years in the future and did not come back for thirty years.  But I guess for the other sister, it was only a couple days.

 

Wu-Tang: An American Saga:  I did not get around to it until this week, but that blacksplotation film with the ODB was quality entertainment.

57 Channels and Only This Is On: February 19, 2023

 

The Last of Us:  So is this show going to be the people who Joel and Ellie meet and then die of the week kind of show? 

 

Your Honor:   Wait, are they implicating the judge in the murder of his wife?  That is coming out of nowhere.  So is the cop grasping at straws or did he really did that too?  Probably the former because as we saw last season, he is very bad at covering up crimes; there is no why it is taking the cops years to catch him.

 

Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches:  I have been paying less and less attention to this show and then all of the sudden I look up and a circle of women are kissing what looks to be a skeleton baby.  What the fork?

 

How I Met Your Father:  This reminded me of the time in college where I swore off taking the elevator for health reasons.  But I had to drop off paper work in the twentieth floor of a building.  Around the tenth floor, I realize that maybe I should change the elevator ban to just if I need to go five flights or less at around the tenth floor.  Except when I decided to finally go the rest of the way in the elevator, I leaned that the middle floors were blocked off to the general public and it was not until the eighteenth floor when the doors were unlocked.  Well, at least I got my steps in that day.

 

La Brea:  Wait, that dude had a wife?  And just when did the Exiles find a way to blackmail him? 

 

The Challenge: Ride or Dies:  How nice that they brought back the two teams that were medically eliminated to come back and watch the ending of the final.  Though, maybe they should realize if half your teams cannot even complete your final, that maybe your final is not say.  They have a similar issue on The Challenge: USA.  This franchise really needs new producer before someone dies.

57 Channels and Only This Is On: February 12, 2023

 

The Last of Us:  So what exactly did the black dude do to Shauna from Yellowjacket’s brother?  Was he just simply a rat?  But shooting a doctor in the middle of a pandemic seems really extreme even if he was a rat too. 

 

Your Honor:   Okay, so there is a bigger gangster than Jimmy, his father in law.  If Jimmy and the judge team up to take down his father in law and they end up living as one big happy family by the end of the season I am going to be mildly disappointed.

 

Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches:  I have dream sequences.  They are a complete waste of time and I can never figure out what exactly what we are supposed to make of them.

 

The Challenge: Ride or Dies:  Wait, so this is a three episode finale?  Ugg, why do they drag these things out?  This was a complete waste of an episode unless you really enjoy watching people throw up.  And if you enjoy watching people throw up, you have real problems.

 

57 Channels and Only This Is On: Februvry 5, 2023

 

The Last of Us:  Oh joy, another “very special episode” of a prestige TV show.  But when every prestige TV show has a “very special episode” they just become less special.  And why would I spend almost an entire episode with two people we have never met and will be dead by the end of the episode when we barely know the two leads?  This just killed any momentum before they could even start any momentum.

 

Your Honor:   So the gangster is just now wondering how the judge got out of prison?  But I guess it was best to have the conversion in a public space because who know what would have been said or done had no one else been around.

 

Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches:  Who dreams of having sex fully clothed?  I know this is basic cable, but c’mon.  And I still have no clue who the lurker dude is and why he keeps tying himself to whoever wears that key.  They need to explain him soon.

 

Quantum Leap:  Way to just ruin the set rule that if a leaper dies during a leap, they die in real life.

 

La Brea:  I have no idea who that dud who died was.  They turned him over and I was like… okay.  But really, I do not really remember anyone not in the main cast except the dude with the wild hair.  I guess I vaguely remember the guy with the knife.

 

The Challenge: Ride or Dies:  Is Olivia unlucky or does this show need better safety requirements?  She pulled apart her finger why tossing something and then almost put her eye out during the slingshot.  Then the inconstant rules on this show just continue.  Devon can drink all the sabotage fish drinks, but Horatio could not do all the sling shots.  Maybe if they would stop making things up on the fly, people will not constantly get seriously injured.  

 

57 Channels and Only This Is On: January 29, 2023

 

The Last of Us:  It was obvious that lady was not going to last long, but man, that maybe the creepiest television death of all time with the infected kiss. 

 

Your Honor:   I was wondering after the first episode just who knew about that baby.  Clearly the judge did not.  But what exactly did they talk about in prison if not that?  It is not like they were together very long.  I did not even realize they got so close that they were having sex.  Now the question is do her parents now?  They have yet to mention their grandkid.  But how awkward that the kid has the first named of a person killed by the person who provided the last name?  Though I forget if she knew about that whole thing.  If not, does the judge tell her?

 

Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches:  It is hilarious that even though they are speaking English, they put on subtitles for the Irish ladies.

 

The Challenge: Ride or Dies:  Good riddance Fessy, please never come back.  And take all those Big Brothers with you.  But with the 100 hour finale, hopefully that not mean they do not stretch out the two episode finale is already too much.

57 Channels and Only This Is On: January 22, 2023

 

The Last of Us:  Did this really need to be 80 minutes?  The season is 9 episodes, why not do ten episodes with shorter run times?  This episode could have ended with Joel disposing of the body in Boston and that would have been an interesting end to the episode and leaving you wanting more.  Are these long episode just done to screw people who are paid by the episode? 

 

Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches:  Um, why was the hot brain surgeon having an orgasm at the same time her mother was having sex?

 

Leverage: Redemption:  Ooo, the Leverage team got got.  Except I only vaguely remember the guy who entrapped them.

 

The Challenge: Ride or Dies:  Well, at least two of the three most annoying people went home this week.  Now if on Fessy follows his Big Brother brethren out the door next week.

 

Big Sky:  I actually did not even realize this was the finale until it was over.  Here is hoping ABC puts everyone out of their misery and finally cancels the show.

57 Channels and Only This Is On: January 15, 2023

 

 

Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches:  Nothing will ever top Denise Richards: nuclear physicist, but Alexandra Daddario: brain surgeon comes really close as most unbelievable occupation for an actor.  But at least that James Bond movie was campy, it seems like we are supposed to take this show seriously.

 

Leverage: Redemption:  That was a fun detour where the team gets scooped on a target.  I wonder if we will see that lady again.  It would be fun to see other Leverage teams.

 

The Challenge: Ride or Dies:  So in the past five weeks, one whole team has gone home?  What a stupid forking twist this has been.  Unfortunately Fessy won the elimination to stay in the game, yet for some reason the other two teams have not been completely eliminated yet.  Ugg.

 

Big Sky:  I guess I cannot say this show has gone off the rails because that would imply it was on the rails at any point, but this whole Buck being the big bad has just gotten absurd.  This is definitely not a story worthy of a full season.

 

Ghosts:  After his introduction last week, I was not expecting the new guy to be around very long.   In two episodes he has been fired and quit.  Now I wonder if he will flee after learning about the ghosts.  He has already seen a keyboard type by itself, what else will he see?