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

 

It: Welcome to Derry:  The problem with prequels is we known the Air Force is ultimately going to fail because Pennywise still shows up in the eighties.  So, any of the adult storyline seems worthless.  Then the kids storyline just seems to be a rehash of the movies.

 

Only Murders in the Building:  This was my favorite finale since the second season.  The chained-up scene was so funny (oh, he chose stripper) I will forgive that they conventionally forgot Detective Williams also knew about that room and that they did not bother to loop Williams in on the plan when they knew crooked cops were involved.

 

While I got the mayor right as the murderer, I was very wrong thinking they only brought back Teddy Dimas for the last couple episodes to kill him for the next season mystery.  Instead, we get the shocking reveal that the girl with the curl is actually Cinda Canning… or is it just someone who looks like Cinda Canning?  Could she have been looking into a family member from the across the pond and that is who it was? 

 

I just hope that the news they are filming in London next season turns out like season four where they just filmed one episode in Los Angeles before heading back to the cozy confines of the Arconia.  We do have a bunch of new neighbors to meet.  Maybe we will finally get my fantasy casting of Anna Kendrick. it will also be interesting if they manage to kill Paul Rudd for the fourth straight season.

 

Chad Powers:  I did not realize that the season was only six episodes until I got the push notification saying all episodes are now available.  I guess I just assumed that the season would last the entire football season like every other sports show ever.  But at least the coach’s daughter finally figured out that Chad is actually Russ.  Which means she knows Russ forked her step mom in his cyber truck.  Oof.  Should make for an interesting second season… if there is one.

 

The Lowdown:  Um, how exactly is Lee going to get out of this?  Is all his black and Indian friends going to show up and have a stand off where no bullets are fired?

 

Survivor:  Well, editors made this elimination extremely obvious considering how much they focused on Sage’s irrational hatred of Shannon.  Geeze, no wonder why she had no friends in school.  But once we saw the new tribe breakdown, I knew they would be the team that went to Tribal and it certainly was not going to be Steven going home. But it was ironic that everyone on Uli thought Jawan would be the one to turn, but he was extremely loyal until his name was thrown out there.  Now the former Uli members when from a dominate force that could have easily picked off former Hina, but now it looks like turning on Jawan will be their downfall.

 

The Challenge: Vets and New Threats:  So, why does the winning team not get to vote?  Winning Immunity on Survivor does not void your vote.  I guess it made a little sense earlier in the game when the winning team got to either save someone or put a team up for the vote. Not being able to vote is a bit of a disadvantage.  But kudos to Theo for being the only one to figure that out.

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

 

Task:  They really pull one over on us with the scene with Tom telling DJ Grossanova he was coming for him and the later urging him to come only for DJ Grossanova to grow a conscience.  Then the guy was extremely lucky that the biker shot the dude without a gun first instead of him.  But I guess there were a lot of dumb people on this show.

 

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon:  Oh joy, looks like we are getting another season in Spain.  But why are they acting like this was the last remaining boat in the world?  Fix up some of the other ones.  There seems to be no shortage of cars, motorcycles, and gas to power them when they need to travel long distances on land, but that was apparently the only boat that can be fixed up.

 

Only Murders in the Building:  Another good and like the last episode, it was because we got a bunch of rotating groups playing well each other.  Welcome back Dimas’s though I am pretty convinced Teddy will be the next victim.  I was a little disappointed that Detective did not stay for The Last Supper.  But now I am wonder who at the table is the Judas and do they tie into this mystery or next season’s murder?  I also have to say, it was a simple sight gag, but I did laugh pretty hard at Randall running away leaving the two old men and woman in non-running shoes standing there unable to do anything about it.

 

I was also beginning to wonder, is there even going to be a next season?  It is weird we have not gotten a formal announcement yet.  Could they pull a Penny Dreadful and announce the show is ending with a title card after the final scene?  If it does come back, will they somehow implicate Camilla and everyone will be able to move back in?  Will just the 49% that did not sell be allowed to stay?  It does feel like they might be setting up big changes next season or they are just going to end it without the usual farewell tour.

 

As for the murders at the heart of this season, the new information made things more confusing.  Lester was holding a bloody elevator crank, but Nicky was found with a meat cleaver in his chest.  My first though was maybe he chopped off the finger, but that does not seem like something that is sharp enough to chop off a finger.  I am still fairly convinced the mayor was involved in one if not both murders and that it is his finger.  Then whoever has it has the key to blackmailing him into building their casino.  One final prediction: Jay Fuig will be the narrator for the finale as he explains what exactly happened in the casino that night and does so to help Mabel stay in the Arconia.

 

Chad Powers:  Again, I have to ask, how many times does Russ have to show up around the team before people start putting two and two together?

 

The Lowdown:  So, Dinklage was one and done?  That is a little disappointing.

 

Survivor:  I am so paranoid so any blindside I have to yell at the screen, how could you not see that coming?  Even worse is situations like this week when someone is clearly on the bottom and they still are able to convince that person not to play any advantage or their Shot in the Dark.

 

The Challenge: Vets and New Threats:  Leroy really should have stood there and let America do everything, they may have one that way.  Or at the very least focus on one puzzle at a time.

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

 

Task:  Well, that was a tense opening scene; if an opening scene can last twenty minutes.  But what exactly was Robbie’s plan?  Was he trying to get the jump on the gang and hoping to take out as many as he could before he got got?  Why not just hang out at that lady’s place, then take your half and go to Canada after she sells it?  But now we get a big showdown between Tom and DJ Grassanovs.  Though, now that we know that the show will be competing for Best Drama and not Limited Series, it has to be asked, will we get a conclusion or is catching DJ Grassanova the second season.

 

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon:  It took me a while to remember who that lady was.  But why not just join Daryl when he left?  It is weird for her to just tail him and completely miss him while he was wandering the desert and running into lepers.  But of course, they were not able to rescue who they went there for; there is still one episode left.

 

Only Murders in the Building:  This may have been my favorite episode of the season.  The round table of bad ideas was great.  The blackjack table was great.  The therapy session was great.  I just wish they were longer.  There has to be some outtakes somewhere.  It is a shame this show has never released any.

 

As for the mystery, the two most intriguing tidbits we got this week was Sofia was having an affair (or at least Nicky thought so) and Randall was there when Lester died.  As for the latter, I think Randall was cleaning up after someone and was not actually the killer.  As for who Sofia was seeing, I guess the mayor has to be a part of this. Maybe he was teaming up with Sofia as a way to make sure Bash did not get the casino deal.

 

Chad Powers:  So, is Russ going try to hook up with the coach’s daughter as Russ?  Is the coach’s daughter going to put two and two together as to why Russ just happened to be staying at the same hotel as the team in random southern city?

 

The Lowdown:  Why isn’t this a buddy show between Hawke and Dinklage?   I think I would like that show more than what we got.  Now I wonder if Dinklage will be sticking around of was this just a one-episode thing.

 

Survivor:  I thought it was strange that they still had the vote out which would make the swapped tribes of three.  They switched things up and gave us two tribes. But really cruel that they made the best tribe and the worst tribe the two tribes and left it to the luck of the draw as to where you ended up.

 

But, oh my, we actually got a new challenge and I like this a lot better than the same boring puzzle they have been doing for decades.  This was much more entertain watching each tribe trying to figure out the best way to tackle then seeing players just place puzzle pieces.  Hopefully they keep switching these challenges up.

 

The Challenge: Vets and New Threats:  Ok, that was a brilliant plan keeping Theo and his partner from staking a claim.  Though it will likely only work this time and will not work again as Theo came back.  I do wish both men and woman did a couple rounds standing up before going to sudden death in this elimination.

57 Channels and Only This Is On: October 12, 2025

 

Task:  We finally got a face to face with Tom and Robbie.  Though I guess it was more face to back of the head for most of it.  We also got a fairly anticlimactic reveal of the mole.  There has to be another shoe to drop otherwise why do cryptic with the Martha Plimpton phone call last week?

 

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon:  Wait, there are still lepers in the world?  That seems like something that got cured a while ago.   Or maybe it is something easily curable with modern medicine, but without it, leprosy has returned.  Kind of sucks in a zombie apocalypse you contract a disease that kind of makes you look like a zombie.  But I get Carol not coming, but maybe Daryl should have taken someone else.

 

Only Murders in the Building:  I am not a fan of starting a episode and then giving us "x amount of time earlier" title card.  That trope seemed very unnecessary here.  The Silver Alert bit would have been just as funny if we did not know it was coming, probably funnier.  But what a way to realize that Dylan and Becky Ann Baker are married.

 

I am shocked that I have spotted all the title sequence easter eggs so for this season.  Though this one was pretty obvious as the creepy kid showed up (at least) four times.  I was wonder how they could possibly incorporate that in the show and it did not disappoint.  I am surprised that none of the trio got locked in the basement with the kid.  Maybe that will happen in a future episode.

 

Speaking of Bash Steed offspring, the most interesting clue this week may be that the mayor’s assistant is Bash’s niece (or, more likely his great grandniece).  My mayor prediction seems to be looking better every week.  I am pretty sure he wacked Nicky, but I think there could be someone else who did Lester.

 

But the big money wrench into any theory is why did the billionaires steal the finger?  That was extremely suspicious.  And why would that be a prize?  It has to tie into the casino plans, but what could a rotting finger have to do with that?  But the Celebrity Game bit with all of the Oliver stories helping them win is the highlight of this season so far.

 

The Lowdown:  Hooking up with the widow.  That is an interesting way to work on the case.  I cannot image it will end very well though.

 

Survivor:  It is really time to stop it with these three tribes nonsense.  One team always loses most, if not all, of the Immunity Challenges and it is just boring seeing the same team going to Tribal every week.  Then why even do the Immunity Challenge this week?  Now you are going to have unbalanced tribes with the swap next week.

 

The Challenge: Vets and New Threats:  Okay, the Stake a Claim makes more sense seeing it in practice.  But it is weird that the participants did not get to change their clothes into something more athletic.  Almost as weird, everyone else just had to sit there for what had to be over an hour if it took them 35 minutes to make it up the mountain.  I wonder if they will switch it up if anyone else stakes a claim later this season.  It was kind of a boring competition.

 

Peacemaker:  So, every DC project for the next couple years it just going to have the big bad (and maybe a few good guys) of every movie and show joining Peacemaker in that dimension until their inevitable attempt at Infinity War / Endgame. Oh joy.  That just made an already lackluster finale worse.  And what the fork was up with the random Nelson cameo?

57 Channel and Only This Is On: October 5, 2025

 

Task:  Um, what happened to the phone and when did it get swapped?  And who was Grossanova texting with?  I guess it is very obvious that Martha Plimpton is the mole at this point and she did something with the phone.  Now the question is: does she have any help on the inside.

 

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon:  There is no why that did catch up to the carriage.  So, what did that and what happened to him and who he was looking for.

 

Only Murders in the Building:  Between Loretta’s apartment being burned (the window being broken makes it seem like it was not an accident), Oliver’s backstory, and Mabel reconnecting with Thé, this felt like a very special episode.  But two lines really stood out to me.  The petition guy talking about turning buildings into casinos.  So, are the billionaires paying off the mayor to make this happen?  Is that who Oliver’s buyer is?  Are they trying to turn all of the Arconia into a casino.  But if Oliver is going to sell his apartment, my guess is that he will sell it to Rainey.

 

The other line that stood out was Sofia mentioning her husband had many businesses at The Arconia.  “Many” seems to imply more than the two we know of.  I wonder what other businesses he had.  But it looks like we will be going back to the billionaires as suspects next week.  Though, with all the businesses that Bash Steed has, I doubt he know everything that is going on with them and someone else exploited the footage and was catfishing Charles.

 

Chad Powers:  So, did they have to get permission from Tesla to have Chad drive one of their trucks to show just how big of a douche he is? But overall, the first episode was kind of dumb, but I will admit I laughed multiple times.  But it feels like the blind chick from the show where she solves crimes with her dog is doing the same thing, just she can see.  Did no one tell her this is a comedy.

 

The Lowdown:  Um, so did the Wildlife guy never look for his jacket?  And what did the dudes who kidnapped Lee have to do with that boat?  And is Lee going to get kidnapped every episode.

 

Survivor:  Oh wow, two of the most annoying players when home the first two weeks.  Though I did not understand the theory of voting out your ally’s number one in hopes they become your number one.  That would just be annoying them and turn on you.

 

The Challenge: Vets and New Threats:  That new stake a claim twist was confusing.  I guess I have to see it in action to fully understand it.  But I felt bad for Tay, how about take her mask off once she ran out of balls. And to add insult to injury, she had to sit there blindfolded having to only hear that the other team won.

 

Peacemaker:  So white supremacist Auggie actually did not like the Nazis in his world?  Was the guy to a contrarian is every universe.  But just how is Peacemaker going to fit into the finale if he is in prison? Will he get a cell next to Lex?  How will his imprisonment effect a third season?  Will we have to wait another three and a half years for a new season?

57 Channels and Only This Is On: September 28, 2028

 

Task:  So, there is a mole in the task force.  Lizzie is too much of a mess to pull that off, DJ Grossonova seems too obvious, so I will go with Aleah who seemed like the fourth wheel until they gave a monologue this week. I was kind of waiting for her to say she made that up just to get the lady to talk.

 

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon:  I missed why Justina took the place of the other lady.  Hopefully they recapped that in the Previously On next week.

 

Only Murders in the Building:  I predicted LESTR would not make it to the end of the season, but I was not expecting him die the very next episode.  Or die so hilariously.  But with a new one coming, are they just going to kill LESTR every week?  They will have to run out of money at some point. It is a bit disappointing that in the fight between the upstairs and downstairs, Nina Lin is nowhere to be found.  But hey, we did get Tye-Dye Guy’s dad (at least I think he was The Super).

 

But we have new suspects: the widows. What side hustle were they pulling?  And why was Lester throwing away the invoices at work.  I do not pin them as the killers just yet.  The person who seemed the most suspicious this week was the mayor.  As someone who watches too many mysteries, that guy has to be showing up periodically and played by a recognizable actor for a reason.  Then after the second season twist, the assistant is also sneaking up my murder board.

 

Two more things from this episode: it was nice we got the brothers back (“Mom, I tried salad” might have gotten the biggest laugh of the episode from me), and after getting an offer on his apartment, will Oliver soon become Westie too?  Will Charles also follow them?  If they are all in the West Tower next season, I think Vince Fish may end up being the victim.

 

Alien: Earth:  Um, why did they give the hybrids too much power?  Opening locks, freezing other robots, no auto shutoff.  This just seems like a horrible design which just ruins the show for me.  I know you have to put of with some stupidity when watching horror, but this is a bit much.  And the xenomorphs basically becoming pets is just weird.  Who wants to see domesticated killing machines in a horror show?

 

The Lowdown: Ethan Hawke in this show remind me of his performance in Good Lord Bird, the show is good, but wish Hawke would dial it down a notch or three.

 

Survivor:  Oh, my goodness, Rizgod is quickly moving up the most annoying characters in this show’s history.  And how did he win his challenge.  Keep digging in place.  It is not a hard challenge.  But I cannot believe they do not have rules about looking at other’s progress.

 

The Challenge: Vets and New Threats:  Speaking of cheating, I wish TJ was this passionate about all forms of cheating.  This is another show that does not care if you cheat off your neighbors.  Or help your buddies in elimination.  And contestants have been spitting out food right after going in their mouths for a long time now. Hopefully this is the start of crackdown on all cheating.

 

Peacemaker:  They revealed something that everyone already figured out, they are in Nazi world.  Though we did not figure out what became of Judomaster.  I am guessing when the mob catches up to Adebayo, they will throw her in whatever camp they are keeping Judomaster.  But the question is how will Peacemakers rescue them and get John away from his father?  Hopefully the Sons of Liberty have a big network in this universe.  Thankfully they put Superman on The Max just in time for that cameo to make sense.

 

57 Channels and Only This Is On: September 21, 2025

 

Task:  I was not ready for Marial from The Great to show up in modern day Philadelphia with those bands.  Or for Sir Cristin Cole to be a Catholic School DJ.  What a weird show. 

 

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon:  Oh yeah, the tale as old as time.  Someone in this franchise happens upon an oppressed group and they have to help them before moving on.  I really need to quit this franchise.  They just recycle the same storylines over and over again.

 

Only Murders in the Building:  Paul Rudd is back!!!  But I guess that means LESTR will most definitely be killed at some point this season.   But what was up with Howard being Team Machine?  That shot him up my murder board. 

 

C’mon Mabel, I do not expect much from the olds, but you gotta read that contract.  I knew Jay Pflug was going to buy that company the moment she brought it up.  I guess she was too blinded by her lie to Thé to think to read it before signing it.  I still do not think the billionaire trio killed Nicky or Lester; they probably just bought it to keep their name out of the news.

 

Now the big question is, if that is not Jay’s finger, whose finger is it?  And just what happened to Jay’s finger.  Camilla White was conspicuously wearing gloves which could hide a missing finger. Though how did those two lose their fingers, but Bash Steeg still had all his digits.

 

Oh, and much like the brother’s mob podcast, I hope we get more “Drunk Slut Do Murder” this season.  Though, if Only Murders in the Building cannot talk about the billionaires on their podcast, they are setting up a bunch of possible alternatives.

 

Alien: Earth:  Why are these people going into a room with escaped aliens without more protection.  Protect your face people.  But know that Boy Cavalier wanted a human specimen for the Eyeball Monster, it is definitely going to end up in him by mistake (or more likely a plan by Raylan).

 

The Challenge: Vets and New Threats:  Is there a more mismatched elimination for these two?  All CT had to do is sit his old bum on Derek and crush him.  I think Derek may have also been able to win a Hall Brawl unless CT grabbed him and carried him.

 

Peacemaker:  Does ARGUS not have some black site to take Peacemaker?  But poor Judomaster, heading to a new dimension where there is noticeably no minorities and a white supremist is one of the biggest superheroes.  Maybe it would be better if he got stuck in the pocket dimension.    It is not like he should be able to guess the password.

 

57 Channels and Only This Is On: September 14, 2025

 

Task:  Some wild characters in this one.  The girl from CODA is a hillbilly with a mullet.  The girl from Conversations with Friends has no filter and a bad hair dye, Ward Meecham grew his hair out.  Who would have guess that Sir Criton Cole would end up being the most well-adjusted character?  But you really need some interesting character if you are going to stretch for seven episodes when it bis pretty obvious how it is going to end.

 

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon:  Always disappointing when the title of an episode spoils what is going to happen.  Considering Costa da Morte is in Spain, it was pretty obvious that were not going no make it back to America.  And they killed of Stephan Merchant way too early.  These Walking Dead shows could really use some comedic relief.

 

Only Murders in the Building:  So, the police ruled Lester’s death an accident.  What if they are right?  This could a fake out like the season two finale murder that turned out not to be a murder.  We did get another death that could satisfy the title of the podcast.  In the limited flashbacks, we saw Lester running from something and then hit his head on the fountain.  Granted it is had to explain why exactly Lester went into the fountain.

 

As for the other death, the autopsy scene was hilarious.  I wonder if the crooked cops tie back to season one where Tim Kono’s toxicology report was conveniently not done.  Speaking of Tim Kono, it was nice seeing him again and other dearly departed residents (it was also nice seeing the therapist after taking two seasons off).  I wonder if we will get more flashbacks and if Tye-Dye Guy and/or Zoe will return for them.  Of yeah, and we finally got a Three Amigos reunion in the flashbacks, just not the one I was expecting.

 

Then we leave on the cliffhanger where it looks like Logan Lerhman’s character might be missing a finger.  We know Nicky “the Neck” has all his fingers, and Charles thinks he felt 11 fingers on Lester (I cannot imagine what fingers 10 and 11 were if Lester was missing a finger; I do not even want to think about the 11th finger is if he was not missing any).  Just how does a billionaire’s finger end up in wedding shrimp?  We all know what the mob does when you do not pay your debts, but is a millionaire going to have a hard time paying debts? 

 

Oh, and I hope we get more of the brothers this season.

 

Alien: Earth:  Sigh, more extremely dumb character actions done basically just to move the plot forward.  I get these are ten-year-olds and inherently stupid, but c’mon, why is that dude going all the way into the zoo?  Crack the door open and slide in the tray and close it as fast as possible.  But no excuse for the actual adult trying to rescue the robot by himself.  He is leaking milk; the damage is done.  Call a cleanup crew, do not try and do it yourself.  But if the eyeball monster is so smart and keeps getting these humans and robots killed by his fellow aliens, how did it, or any of these other aliens get caught by these incompetent morons?

 

The Challenge: Vets and New Threats:  Meh, if you are going to do go-karts, at include Mario Kart type obstacles instead of puzzles.  But now that the rookies have devoured one of their own, I do wonder if there will be further cracks.  That seems to happen a lot on shows like this.

 

Peacemaker:  This just felt like filler since we know ARGUS is going to get into the dimensional pocket thing.  We also know Peacemaker is going to survive the ambush next week.

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)

The Twentieth Annual Scooter Television Awards

 

Best Drama: Shōgun

 

Best Comedy: Only Murders in the Building

 

Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Show: Extraordinary

 

Best Comic Book / Video Game Adaptation: Fallout

 

Best Period Show: Shōgun

 

Best Animated Show: Everybody Still Hates Chris

 

Best Reality Show: Selena + Restaurant

 

Best Remake, Reboot, or (non-comic book) Adaptation: Shōgun

 

Best Miniseries: A Gentleman in Moscow

 

Best Talk Show: Pardon the Interruption

 

Best New Show: Shōgun

  

Guiltiest Guilty Pleasure: Tell Me Lies

 

Worst Show I Made Though an Entire Season Of: Pretty Little Liars: Summer School

 

Best Hour of TV: Did Your Dirty Words Come Out to Play (Tell Me Lies)

 

Best Half Hour of TV: Two for the Road (Only Murders in the Building)

 

Biggest Shocker: The return of Ben Glenroy… sort of.  (Only Murders in the Building)

 

Best Line: "You, sir, are a silly little man! And your hair looks like the tail of a pony!"  (Blackthorn, Shōgun)

 

Worst Idea: Password sharing crackdown (seriously, who cares if you share your password with family members especially if you are on the ad supported tier?)

 

Worst Moment: I do not remember the exact moment, but whenever I realize The Acolyte was a complete mess.  

 

Biggest Disappointment: Era 1 being wiped out early on The Challenge

 

Best Musical Moment: The Perfect Strangers Theme (Only Murders in the Building)

 

Best Karaoke: The Witches’ Road (Agatha All Along)

 

Best New Title Sequence: Shōgun

 

Best GIF: (where are all the GIF’s from the Slapsgiving episode of Tell Me Lies; c’mon Hulu, get on that.)

  

Best Character: Dorothy Lyon (F argo)

 

Best Recurring Character: Glen Stubbins (Only Murders in the Building)

 

Best Guest Appearance:  Scott Bakula (Only Murders in the Building)

 

Best Cast Addition: Death (The Marvel Cinematic Universe)

 

Best Duo: Mariko and the Anjin (Shōgun)

 

Best Trio:  Mabel Mora, Charles Hayden Savage, and Oliver Putnum (Only Murders in the Building)

 

Most Entertaining Male Reality “Star”:  Nicholas "Sifu" Alsup (Survivor)

 

Most Entertaining Female Reality “Star”:  Selena Gomez (Selena + Chef)

 

Most Annoying Reality:  Josh (The Challenge)

 

Most Anticipated New Show of the Next Season: Apple Cider Vinegar

 

Most Anticipated Reboot:  Daredevil: Born Again

 

Show That Should Be Brought Back: Interior Chinatown

 

Biggest Question for 2025: Who could possibly want to kill Leonard?  And what does Téa Leoni have to do with it?

 

The 10 Best Shows of 2024

1. Shōgun 

2. Only Murders in the Building 

3. Tell Me Lies 

4. Extraordinary 

5. Fargo 

6. A Gentleman in Moscow 

7. Fallout 

8. Rivals 

9. Say Nothing 

10. Ghosts 

 Shows must have finished a season in the past year to be eligible.

57 Channels and Only This Is On: November 3, 2024

 

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon: The Book of Carol: Oh yeah, eye guy is still around.  And I forgot he is a good guy now after not murdering a child.  Welcome back I guess.

 

Only Murders in the Building:  “I still haven’t watched The Wire yet” is probably something I might say if someone had a gun to my head.

 

But season four made the same mistake season three did in the killer reveal was a bit too melancholy instead of laugh out loud funny like the first two seasons.  Sure I chuckled a little at the bit on the ledge and let out a laugh when they zoomed in on Jan (for a second there, I thought they might be setting up Marshall as the murder for the next season which could have been interesting halving the killer be the next victim, oh well).  But neither was so funny I had to rewind because missed what came next because I was laughing so hard like with Charles being drugged or the Killer Reveal Party.

 

It was also disappointing with all the doubles this season and with all the mentions of the plot holes in the first season that the twist was Marshall killed Sazz and disposed of her body by himself while the potholes seemingly were just Sazz trying to tighten up her script.  I wonder if the references to the potholes were just the writers winking at their mistakes or are they just toying with us and will finally let us know who wrote Jan’s note and who poisoned Winnie (who finally made her triumphant return to the show; more Winnie next season) by the final season?

 

We also got our usual set up to the next season.  Poor Lester.  But there was also the Téa Leoni cameo as the wife of “The Neck” (I guess Nina Lin’s husband being called “The Neck” back in season  two is just a coincidence and one of the writers really like calling people “The Neck”).  So here is my prediction, Lester is somehow tied into “The Neck” and Téa Leoni had him killed to get the New Three Amigos on the case. 

 

Survivor:  Oh wow, another vote out where the person leaving had a mental breakdown.  Where are they finding these people?  It is time to go back to casting regular people with regular jobs instead of these annoying superfans.  And what a horrible advantage where you have to secretly give the advantage to someone else.  And the choice made it even more lame.

 

The Challenge: Battle of the Eras:  So we are just going to bounce back and forth between alliences every week, aren’t week?  It is time for a shake up.

 

Agatha All Along:  Oof, those last two episodes were horribly paced.  First we got the unnecessary gratuitous big fight, then a way too long flashback that just killed the finale.  But it ended up being much like WandaVision, great premise that just sputtered out at the end.

57 Channels and Only This Is On: September 27, 2024

 

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon: The Book of Carol: So they killed off the big bad and the mother in the same episode.  So what now?

 

Only Murders in the Building:  Well, my prediction that Paul Rudd wanted to return so he could be the killer after being killed off last season turned out to be off… unless my evil twin theory turns out to be right because we know the writer needed help. Poor Paul Rudd, was fed rat poison, pushed down an elevator shaft, shot in the head, and suffocated.  Now I have to wonder if they will try to find a way to bring him back and kill him again next season. 

 

As for that partner, with all the clues that tie back to the beginning, it seems like the accomplice would have been around from the beginning.  Speaking of things that have been around since the beginning, the tie-dye sweatshirt was conspicuously very visible when Mabel went to talk to Bev Melon.  I still hold on to the prediction that the other big reveal of the partner will happen at the wedding… followed by a death for them to solve next season.

 

Survivor:  It is always an entertaining episode when the most delusional person finally gets voted off.

 

The Challenge: Battle of the Eras:  I guess if you have a shot to take out Johnny if you can, but when he will be going against someone the size of a pencil, maybe do not potentially give him all the power in the game.

 

Agatha All Along:  So we get confirmation that all the nerds have been saying all along, that Aubrey Plaza is playing Death.  Cool, hopefully being such a big character, she shows up in other Marvel properties.  But RIP Patti Lupone.  But I do wonder if all the fallen witches are dead-dead or if they will somehow be brought back.  And I guess the Salem Seven were not as important as I made them out to be.

 

The Old Man:  Oh joy, another season ending in a cliffhanger.  But how exactly does the ex-wife kidnap a grown man?  And if Maeby can find the couple in section, how is she not able to find a kidnapped grown man?  This will be a painful third season.  Hopefully there is not one.

57 Channels and Only This Is On: October 20, 2024

 

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon: The Book of Carol:  So to find Carol she is cozying up to the lady who kidnapped him and is searching for him.  What could possibly go wrong?

 

Only Murders in the Building:  So did Paul Rudd make a deal that they could kill him off last season as long as he could come back and be the killer the next season?  Though will two episodes left, it is likely Glen Stubbins will just be the last red herring of the season.  On the other hand, with so many doubles this season, there is bound to be an evil twin out there.  So I would not be surprised if there is an extra Stubbins and that is the one Sazz was talking about.

 

But then again, they brought up Winnie being poisoned for the second week in a row making it seem like the killer has been around since the first season.  So that is another clue that it is probably not Glen Stubbins or a potential evil twin.  Also, it sounds like we are getting a wedding this season and I am guessing there will be a high probability that it will turn into a killer reveal party with one of the guests.  Well, either that or someone will die at the wedding… or maybe both.

 

 Tell Me Lies:  It became fairly obvious as the first season went along that Drew was not at the engagement party because he was either dead or in prison.  Though, I always assumed if it were the former, that Drew killed himself.  Drew dying because Wrigley gave him too many painkillers is rough.  If Wrigley was having a hard time coping in season two, I fear for him during season three.  Granted the bartender giving the obviously underage kid alcohol has some liability too.

 

The Bree-Lucifer storyline was the weakest of the season, but at least it ended hilariously.  At east I was laughing as it was explained to Bree what was really going on.  I guess it will not take very long for her to get back Evan next season.  The biggest question for me all season was does Bree know in the future that he hooked up with Lucy and we did get than answer in dramatic fashion.  You knew something big was about to go down when the wedding string quartet started playing Mr. Brightside.

 

Now the biggest question is how did Evan and Stephen stay friends for long enough so Stephan could sabotage his wedding?  That was an extremely long and petty grudge Stephan held.  Man, it was extremely cathartic watching Leo beat Stephan to a bloody pulp.  I really hope a renewal notice is coming soon.  

 

Survivor:  That was one of the most brutal blindside in a long time.  I do not remember the last time someone got that mad at getting voted off.

 

The Challenge: Battle of the Eras:  Oh wow, it seemed like all Rachel needed was to compete by herself.  But it will be interesting how alliances fall into place now that it is an individual game, especially after two members of the vacation alliance got sent home.

 

Agatha All Along:  Sigh, Ralph Boehner is back.  And for no apparently reason, Agatha was wearing a Boehner Family Reunion shirt with the tagline: Pitch a Tent.  Sigh.

 

The Old Man:  In what was the least shocking plot twist, Maeby is not actually dead.  I think I had that.