57 Channels and Only This Is On: November 16, 2025

 

Survivor:  Thar really worked out well for the minority. Savannah and Soph are safe and Rizo is on a tribe with himself and is able to scare everyone else to scramble so they are not the one Rizo vote if he plays his Idol which let Rizo to not play his Idol.  Really could not have played out any better for them.  Now those three have an Idol, and Extra Vote, and Knowledge advantage.  Though a small part of me was hoping the chaos at Tribal was a big show to make Rizo seem safe.  And what exactly did MC say to get everyone so flustered?

 

The Challenge: Vets and New Threats:  Ooo, another Stake a Claim.  But does Yeremi really want to be stuck with Olivia for the rest of the season?  I think I would rather risk it with Aviv in a potential elimination than stuck with Olivia.

 

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.

57 Channels and Only This Is On: September 7, 2025

  

Alien: Earth:  We finally got the flashback to explain how the spaceship ended up so ill-fated.  Though, my new question is just how did all these incompetent workers manage to grab all these seemingly very intelligent aliens as a specimen.  As we saw in the prequel movies, those people did not have very successful run-in with the aliens they met.

 

The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox:  Again, I did not follow this story when it happened, but it is completely wild they continued to prosecute Knox when the black dude was quickly convicted and said she was not there when he was there.  There is absolutely no connection between the two.

 

The Challenge: Vets and New Threats:  I know CT is a legend and all, but how can they accuse of him of tanking?  Look at him.  There is a good reason why he was one of the few guys who skipped climbing the wall earlier in the season.  But I do not know why his team was disqualified.  They still finished.   But Leka has no one but herself to blame for going home.  How does a former collegiate athlete gas out before the five-minute time limit was over?  Five-minute suicides seem like something any athlete, even at the high school level, should be able to do.

 

Peacemaker:  Did I miss where they said which universe that opening scene took place in?  Did it happen in both?  And just why is Rick Flag alive?  Was there no Starro mission in that universe?  That is why I hate multiverse stories.  Too many questions.  But is the main Peacemaker really that stupid to say, “Best universe ever” right into Harcourt’s ear.  That is going to be very suspicious.

57 Channels and Only This Is On: August 31, 2025

 

 Alien: Earth:  Yeah, Raylan is definitely going to let one of these aliens kill the annoying trillionaire.  I would bet all him money on it.  But the question coming from this week (well, after, wait, doesn’t the baby alien look like the alien from Spaceballs?) is, what exactly is inside the redhead?  Does she know something is inside her and think she is pregnant, or is this just a coping mechanism? But like I said after the first week, it was extremely stupid to send a bunch of ten-year-olds on this mission.

 

The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox:  How incompetent are these investigators?  They found a bloody fingerprint that does not belong to the victim or the three people they arrested and continued with their trials?  That is infuriating.

 

The Challenge: Vets and New Threats:  Oh no, we lost Cara Maria.  Oh well.  Kind of weird they had Jonna on standby but just let Nia float in the wind before sending her home.  But now that most players have exhausted members of the opposite standings, are we just going to get vet-vet; newbie-newbie pairs for a while?  Then what happens when they run though all those players?  This format was not well thought out.

 

Peacemaker:  Does Eagly have superpowers?  How else can he take out a bunch of federal agents, even if one of them has bird blindness?  But how long until the other world people realize that he is not their Peacemaker?  My guess is maybe twenty minutes.

57 Channels and Only This Is On: August 24, 2025

Alien: Earth:  So, is no one going to notice the lady robot entering the quarantine area and collapses?  But I had to be told afterwards that they were putting the baby xenomorph into the brother’s lungs.  That cannot possibly end well for him.

 

The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox:  Well, that started weird.  It is a shame it does not keep that weirdness once the murder happens.  I will admit, this was not a case that I particularly cared about, but the whole African hair seems like something that would exonerate Amanda, not make her a suspect.

 

The Challenge: Vets and New Threats:  Always a good episode when Johnny gets backpacked again.  But the vets, especially the guys, are looking really old all of the sudden.  It may be a steady stream of vets going home from here on out.

 

Peacemaker:  The new DCU just rebooted and they are already doing a multiverse story?  And doing why while goes into free fall during their multiverse saga.  But extremely weird they are doing a multiverse story and yet reconned the season one finale instead of using the multiverse to explain why season one Peacemaker is not exactly part of the current DCU.

57 Channels and Only This Is On: August 17, 2025

 

Alien: Earth:  I am confused, how is a runaway space ship just allowed to crash into Earth?  Are there not early detection systems?  Why not destroy it before it enters the atmosphere?  And why exactly are they letting a bunch of ten-year-olds go to the crash site?  Sure, they are super-human, but they still have the brains of children and children are forking stupid.

 

The Challenge: Vets and New Threats:  I missed talking about the first couple weeks because there was not anything else on so I signed up for a month of Netflix (Happy Gilmore 2 was great even though the antagonist was bad (why not just have Happy vs. Shooter on the Senior Tour?); Sirens was great, The Hunting Wives was stupid in a highly entertaining way, everything else was… well, there is a reason why I only sign up for Netflix for one month every other year. See you again for the 2027 World Cup Netflix).

 

I do like the swapping of partners as it will shake up voting, though I am slightly disappointed we did not get a full season of Turbo and America as partners.  That would have been very entertaining.  But this episode was a bit boring.  It became quite obvious that Nia would not be cleared, especially when they went to commercial with not enough time to come back and do a full elimination.  Now I wonder what they were going to do with all those logs.

57 Channels and Only This Is On: April 6, 2025

 

The White Lotus:  Gary seemed very guilty for the longest time, but could he really be telling the truth.  Does he really just want to chill in Thailand where he can watch brothers fork his girlfriend?   Oh yeah, there is just one and we have a murder to solve.  There were quite a lot of monkeys in the promo who certainly plays into the theory that monkeys will be involved.

 

Grosse Point Garden Society:  The show moved to Friday, but I feel like I missed an episode.  Alice got her job back?  Huh?  Was that the favor she asked the head of the garden society.  But after teasing Gary dying, we saw him in the future timeline.  So what exactly Catherine mean that he would not have worry about him?

 

Daredevil: Born Again:  I know it is silly to nit-pick a show about a blind man who can beat everyone one up, but c’mon, Daredevil can feel a picture and know it was his girlfriend… really?

The Last Anniversary:  So this is a story about a woman that dies and gives her house to not anyone in her family but to a chick who left her grandson at the altar… I mean at an airport right before the wedding.  Kind of sounds like an idea for a wacky sitcom.  A idea so weird for a drama I am interested where this goes even if all the shows based on Lane Moriarty seem to go nowhere.

 

The Challenge All Stars: Rivals:  That had to be one of the weirdest eliminations ever.  But I am pro weirdness on the show.

 

Survivor:  Wait, are the less annoying players actually going to team up to vote out the annoying players?  It seemed like a long time ago they realized if you just sit next to the next annoying people, they can easily win.  Yet, somehow Sai seems to skirt by every episode, so I am still a little worried she will somehow make it to the end somehow.

57 Channels and Only This Is On: March 30, 2025

 

The White Lotus:  Well, they did it.  They did the incest.  Except the sister was not involved.  Not sure where that ranks on the WTF Power Ranking with Boyd Crowder’s buddy’s monologue last week.

 

Grosse Point Garden Society:  Um, so they went from looking like the husband was dead, directly into the side piece.  Are they just going to tease a new person who died every week until they actually reveal which one it was?  But the side piece does not seem like someone who would kill a stranger’s dog, so I do not think it was him.

 

The Righteous Gemstones:  I have been slowly watching Deli Boys and finally realize this week the January 6 guy is BJ without the mustache.  Both shows are pretty weird.

 

Daredevil: Born Again:  If we do not get Matt in Jersey City this season, I will be thoroughly disappointed.  Of course, this begs the question, what exactly what is Ms. Marvel doing in California?  Cassie Lang seems like the most likely answer.  Will they actually give us a Young Avenger’s update on this show?  Could Cassie and Kate Bishop also show up to this dinner party?

 

But we finally got Matt back in the suit.  Only took six episodes.  I guess the final two episodes will be Daredevil and The Punisher against the new vigilante taskforce.  But will anyone else show up?  I am guessing Ms. Marvel will sit this one out since she is in Jersey.

 

The Challenge All Stars: Rivals:  This is the type of challenge this show should be doing.  TJ thinks this should be some athletic show, but if you are bringing in a bunch of old people, they should be silly, like human shuffleboard through suds.  Though I would quibble with the rules suggesting the points should have been cumulative. 

 

Survivor:  There is nothing dumber on this show than when someone gives up their Immunity.  But in the non-giving up your Immunity power ranking, we had back to back entries in recent weeks.  Last time we had Cedrick keep on voting for Sai before saving her at the last minute if she promised to play nice.  This week we had Briana, who all she had to say to Cedric was that Sai was targeting him for trying to vote her out, or just not say anything else and let there be a tie and hope someone switches, gets voted out for stupidly telling Cedrick she had no vote.

 

Or we have to assume that would have been the outcome because the editors did not bother to let us know when Cedrick and Chrissy teamed up to get rid of Bianca seemingly unbeknownst to their original tribemates.  Blindsides are awesome in this game, just not when the editors blindside the audience.  They have to let us know every possibility.

 

 Between the messy Tribal and the emotional Immunity Challenge, it may be easy to forget that Star gave up her Immunity Idol.  Wait, what?  Plus she gave it to someone she was targeting two weeks ago.  While I just said giving up Immunity is extremely dumb, this actually kind of makes sense.  An Immunity Idol that everyone know about is kind of worthless and puts a target on your back.  Then if what the editors did not show that led to the elimination this week was Cedric and Chrissy teaming up to target the old Lagi tribe, that would put the biggest target on Eva's back.  It will interesting how all the alliance pan out at the Merge.

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

 

The White Lotus:  Well, the Full Moon Party got wild with the two brothers making out, but who could have guessed that two brothers kissing would not be the wildest part of any episode?  Now, I do not think that Boyd Crowder is going to be inspired to find his out lady boy, but I have a sinking suspicion that he is going to ask Chelsea to fork him sometime this season.

 

Grosse Point Garden Society:  Wait?  Did we just witness a murder?  But my TV brain tells me it is way too early for that to happen.  I think the husband just disappeared after the fight to collect himself, he is not really dead.  Plus, it makes no sense that the ladies, who were not involved, would cover up that murder for him.  It would make more sense that the murder would implicate all of them, not just one of them.

 

Daredevil: Born Again:  Seeing The Punisher, I was reminded how much I missed those character recaps Marvel used to put on Disney+.  I forgot what happened to him.  I thought he left NYC.  I did watch a lengthy Daredevil recap I found on YouTube but did not think to find one for The Punisher.  I guess I should find one before the next episode.  Now I am wondering if I should look for Luke Cage and Jessica Jones recaps too just in case.  I know I would rather forget Iron Fist (though I vaguely remember thinking the second season was a vast improvement).

 

The Challenge All Stars: Rivals:  This show really live driving things off cliffs.  But kind of a boring challenge.  Solve a boring puzzle and just drive off a cliff.  Not so coincidentally, all the female-female teams failed.  Challenges are much more entertaining when everyone can participate at once… or trivia.

 

Survivor:  A wise man once said, “I love it when a plan comes together.”  But for a random swap, there were some conspicuous parings aside from Kamilla and Kyle being with a very strong alliance but multiple advantages.   Sai being stuck with Cedrick who just tried to vote her out.  As well as Star and Eva who have been targeting each other and the lone original Lagi’s on their new Tribe.  It is also pretty convenient that Star is on the same beach where all her clues to her Idol are.  Though this begs the question, will any of her new Tribe members help her solve the puzzle which she still has not gotten.

 

Harley Quinn:  For a second there, I thought they might actually kill everyone off.  I forgot that Lois sent an SOS to Superman.  Now I worry for the future of the show, which started off on DC Universe and has so far survived the transition from HBO Max to just Max.  Does Max even have originals anymore?  I did see a trailer for a show starring Sawyer from Lost (who I have not seen in a long time) and I think that is the first new show since the Harley Quinn spinoff last summer.  Hopefully the penny pinchers forget the show exists and somehow gets renewed.

 

Happy Face:  This is a pretty generic serial killer show.  Though, the teenage daughter storyline is starting out a little weird. 

57 Channels and Only This Is On: March 16, 2025

 

The White Lotus:  Well, the boat ride was not the bombshell I thought it was going to be.  Hopefully the Full-Moon Party will bring out the craziness.  And now that Greg and Belinda are cyber stalking each other, that storyline will pick up.

 

Grosse Point Garden Society:  Well, if the husband is acting guilty of keeping the gate open, I guess we can cross him off the list of potential dog killers. 

 

The Righteous Gemstones:  Interesting way to start a season, without any of the main cast.  So does Bradly Cooper start going by the Gemstone name again while continuing to be a preacher? 

 

The Hunting Party:  They should lean more into how The Pitt “cured” these criminals.  This was probably the best episode as it showed how the fixed that one guy’s issues, but at the same time created new ones.

 

Daredevil: Born Again: Is Matt good at his job?  Outting his client without his knowledge sounds like grounds of disbarment.  And it ended up getting his client murdered.  Cue the Catholic guilt. But I guess the writers needed a way to get him back in his suit.    

 

The Challenge All Stars: Rivals:  As annoying as it was for Fessy to be cast, especially for an All-Star season, it was satisfying to see him go home fairly early.  Dude went home without even getting a Star.  Though the outcome was spoiled by the This Season On… as we knew there was going to be a Nany-Turbo blow up.  It is really annoying when the promo monkeys do things like this.

 

Survivor:  I read this week that Probst said they no longer do the school yard pick for tribes because they do not want them to become lopsided.  Yet when production picks tribes, they end up with some extremely lopsided tribes.  This tribe may have gone down as the most pathetic if there was not a swap next week.  There were no physical threats and they do not even seem to be that bright either.  Seriously, you have a guy who just voted for the same person twice and switched his voted on the promise she would place nice with the third person in the Tribe.  Um, if they mend things up, does he not realize that if they start getting along, they would possibly vote him out?  Of course that is moot because of the swap, but now his two former tribemates left in the game have absolutely no reason to be loyal to him if they end up on the same tribe or make the merge.  This may have been a top five dumbest move in Survivor history.  But we got a historic tribal, yet I was a little disappointed because we were teased a 1-1-1 vote, which would have ended up someone being a wilder way for the Tribal to go.

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.