I do not know what it is, but Damien Lewis always stays a season
or four too long on a Showtime show.Maybe
he is just a great hang.But he spent
three seasons on Homeland even though had he blown himself up on the season finale
of the first season, it may have made that one of greatest season in the
history of television.But he stuck around;
the second season was fine but had some diminishing returns, though season
three was one of the worst seasons in the history of television.
Shortly after being written of off Homeland, Lewis then
showed up on Billions and once again, the show would have been much better in
the long time had it written him off after a season or two.The cat and mouse routine between his hedge
fund manager Bobby Axelrod and Paul Giamatti’s District Attorney was fine for
the first two season but, once again, diminishing returns for subsequent seasons.The show would have been much better off had
Chuck had a new antagonist each season (or even better, had it been a limited
season where they both ended up in prison cells next to each other at the end
of it).
Though this time it feels like it was not a creative reason as
to why Lewis was written off the show because nothing really has changed for
the new season except for the person sitting in Bobby’s chair and the name on
the side of the building.Dollar Bill and
McPhee took off at the end of last season, but everyone else returns whether
they like it or not.
Sure, the show wants you to think there are big changes, the
season starts with Chuck on a tractor, Wendy looks like she is working as an
ice cream maker, Sacker is doing combat training, Taylor is watching The Bachelor
(or maybe random engagement videos), Wags is actually exercising, and Bobby’s
replacement Mike Prince is, well, that is hard to explain.
Okay, there is a slight difference between Bobby and Mike Prince;
Bobby would cut every corner to win.Mike
Prince on the other hand is a Boy Scout (or wants you to think that) who wants
to do things with honor and want you to know just how on the straight and narrow
he is.Basically the worst kind of foe
for Chuck, a guy who is not going to slip up because he cannot be tempted in doing
something illegal.Or so we are led to
believe, he did double cross Chuck to get Bobby out of the way.
While the show wants you to think there are big changesby the opening montage, it is still the very
same Billions at its course and even pull off their way overused “One week earlier”
trope and even doubles down on that trope by dropping a “Two weeks ago” title card
while we were already a week in the past.And really, nothing says Billions more than starting the episode with a
classic rock song and then ending it with a rap song that samples the exact same
classic rock song that opened the season.
Well, there went my two biggest theories for Yellowjackets: that
Lottie was pit girl and that Jackie was left for dead but has come back to haunt
the remaining girl and that Lottie was the Pit Girl.The thing is, Jackie was my back up for Pit
Girl and she seemed to be the consensus for the top two for most people (the
person was wearing her necklace).Stupid
casting red herring.Those predictions
were basically made mostly because Ella Purnell was a full cast member while
Courtney Eaton (kind of wonder if she was cast solely for her name) was just
recurring.Though Coach Ben is a cast
member and I am shocked he made it this far.But they better sign up Eaton for future seasons soon now.
But I guess I can just slide Lottie into my Jackie theory that
she was left for dead and also stole Shauna’s wilderness baby.But how many people stayed with her?There were four people who kidnapped Nat,
including one dude.Javi?Wilderness baby?Has Lottie recruited more people to her
cult?I did not notice any of the chicks
having facial scares though we saw Van worship at the altar of Lottie.But then again, so did Misty and she apparently
left.Or did she?Tai is still doing ritualistic killings; I am
guess to help win her election.Of
course, this begs the question; Simone is just now noticing there was a draft
in the basement?
So we do have confirmation of one other survivor who made it
to 2021.But another of my predictions,
that there would be another survivor that would turn up at the reunion also
turned out to be wrong.Though we did
get a surprise attendee in Allie who I believe was just a freshman in
1996.That actress just kept on throwing
heaters.The Rewatchables Podcast has
something called the Dion Waiters award for the character who puts up a lot of
shots in a little amount of times and that actress really was gunning for that award.One nit-pick about the reunion, the trophy case
only had fifteen players on the team.The show has been fast and loose with the numbers, but there were
nineteen survivors, minus Coach, Travis, Javi, and Misty, plus the three that can
be seen dead in the cabin, plus Allie who was not on the flight should be
nineteen.
Misty Psycho watch:I
knew there was no way Misty was going to let the fixer go even though it seemed
like she was Stockholming her.She
definitely showed she knew how to get rid of a body earlier in the episode, but
lacing the cigarette that she threw away was some next level planning.Then Nat asking Shauna if she remembered how
to cut up a body was chillingSpeaking
of dead bodies, Callie was weirdly stone-faced was Adam’s missing report came
on television.Besides Pit Girl’s
identity, that was the big hanging thread from this season, who was that
dude?That he had no digital footprint
seems like a huge thing.But why drag that
mystery into season two?Or is there no
reveal coming and he was just some dude.There were people thinking he was working with Callie and they were the
blackmailers.Other people thought Misty
sent him but she had no such reaction to his body.Either he is nobody or part of Lottie’s cult.Probably the latter.
Despite getting everything wrong so far, that is not going
to stop me making more predictions for season two.Like I previous suggested, I will slide
Lottie into my Jackie was left for dead in the wilderness and also stole Shauna’s
wilderness baby prediction.Pit Girl
kind of has to be Mari at this point because she is the only dark haired girl
left in 2016 that we do not know is alive in 2021 yet (while I love it, the Callie
is Pit Girl theory makes no sense since Van clearly looks down on the dead body
in that scene).Unless they bring one of
the background girls to the forefront, by my math, there are still six unnamed
Yellowjackets that are still alive as of now.
Then, who else joins Lottie cult?We learned last week, Lottie is the Antler
Queen.We have always known Misty was a part
of it.It also tuned out Van’s Co-Ed Naked
Soccer shirt was not a red herring, but that is really her.That leaves four other people from the dinner
scene in the premiere.Could it be
simply the four other people we knew survived: Shauna, Tai, Nat, and Travis?Could it be the four people who abducted Nat?Considering her shrine and her ties to Van, Tai
seems like a lock.Nat asks Shauna if
she remembers how to cut up a body so they seem like a possibilities.Unless Javi, who was last seen running away
from Shauna, ended up like Jackie, seems like he would be willing to join a
cult too.Yet, I am not entirely
sure.It is going to be a long wait
until season two.
Dexter: New Blood:So we are never going to learn just how Kurt found out that Dexter
killed his son?That is something fairly
big to yada yadda.But I guess that was a
fitting to Dexter Morgan’s story.Well,
having his son kill him so he could not kill anyone else.Not the part where Angela being so adamant
for Dexter to be locked up for killing the evil people, but letting Harrison go
and acting like she killed Dexter.I
just hope they do not try and spin off a Harrison show with Dexter talking to
him, that actor was really boring.
Claws:My prediction of a Desna and Jenn split really had
a roller coaster.First Desna let Jenn
run the new show.Expect one of the
first things Jenn does was assault a rival which set them up for blackmail.Oh, to avoid getting sued for assault, Desna
just shot her son.Huh.She is willing to sue you for assault, maybe
she will report you for murder.But
since Desna is the star, of course that did not hvppen.
Yellowjackets:So Lottie said something is coming and they will not be hungry for
long.Well, that was ominous.She also said he doesn’t belong to her about
Travis to Jackie, but her visions can be fairly vague so maybe not.But if it is those two, who does Travis
belong to?By the looks of it, everyone
else.But a letdown with the ritualistic
killing because we know Travis was not going to die (though it cross my mind
for a half a second that maybe Javi was posing as adult Travis, but alas).
I was halfway
through the season by the time everyone got to watch the first episode and I was
surprised with how obsessed Reddit was with whom they dubbed the “Antler Queen”
was and they finally got that reveal.Though
that does not necessarily mean Lottie will still be the one wearing antlers
when we get to that scene in the Pilot, but my theory that Lottie is the girl
in the pit is not looking very good.One
thing that may complicate things is it looks like Misty’s wheels were spinning and
maybe she does more drugging and tries to out Lottie as she looks to be the leader
of the Wild Bunch clan.I got strong leader
vibes from her in that scene from the Pilot.
Another
theory that went up in flames this week was that Jackie was sending the postcards
(as well as another Reddit theory that Adam was really Javi).While I found the reveal that Jeff was behind
this the whole time because he owed Loan Sharks disappointing, I weirdly
enjoyed Adult Jackie’s storyline for the first time this season.I loved how Jeff said she could not get away
with the murder because they watched too much Dateline to know she could
not.But still, all of this does not add
up.Like Nat brought up, why would Jeff
murder Travis?And who cleared out his bank
account?If Jeff cleared it out, why
would he still need to blackmail Tai and Nat?So maybe my Jackie theory is still in play.
I also have
a prediction that Jackie steals Shauna’s wilderness baby and if that baby is what
Lottie says is coming that will make them hungry no more, I could see Jackie
being the one sane person not tripping on shrooms and heads off into the
wilderness to keep it from being eaten.I do wonder if Jeff knows about the wilderness baby.After reading Shauna’s diaries, I was
expecting he would bring that up.Did
she tell him already and claims it died out there?
Misty
psycho watch:has she actually become
friends with the person she kidnapped?I
thought maybe the reporter was just playing along hoping being nice would get
her released but maybe she has been successfully Stockholmed because she did
not even call for help when Nat was at the door.That would have been fun, Misty saying she
would help clean up the body if Nat did not tell anyone about the person in her
basement.But we should definitely get
the reunion in the finale and hopefully we learn of another survivor or
five.Though, who else graduated with
them?Van seems like the only other
Senior on the team, maybe Lottie.
The Book of Boba Fett:Oh wow, bringing in the guest stars.First Steven Root.Then Young Nat
from Yellowjackets pops up still sporting that mullet with bangs, but at least
it was one color.But maybe not wise to
make her do an accent.Which was
confusing because this is Luke Skywalker’s planet and he had an American
accent.Then the guy who brought in the
monster for the Hutt’s really looked like Danny Trejo and when they finally gave
him a close up I realize, oh, wait, that really is Danny Trejo.
The Real World Homecoming: Los
Angeles: Poor David,
could not make it to the end of another season.But two straight seasons where a cast member did not make it to the
end.Maybe for season three, stop goading
them in to these past traumas until someone breaks.Just let them have fun.
The Challenge: All-Stars: That was some weird editing, Darrell
and Janelle were in second place while Nehemiah and Melina were dead last and wasted
a lot of time going to the caves first.Sure Darrell and Janelle went to the memory game not realizing they read
the wrong directions, but then got the full memory board the very next
try.So how exactly did Nehemiah and
Melina, who twisted her ankle, edge out Darrell and Janelle?Did the bike just really gas you out for the
rest of that part and just one team doing it first and the other doing it last
make the difference.
But it
seems like production did not expect everyone to take that long to run TJ’s final
because they had to use headlights to provide lighting because the sun went
down before anyone could finish.It
seems like production forgets these are middle aged people doing these challenges.But the team that came in third (and only because
the other team quit) ended up winning because Darrell still did not learn to read.
The Blacklist:One thing that never crossed my mind was how was Dembe involved with
Lizzy’s murder.I really rather they not
go back to that storyline because it was bad enough the first time.
I have gotten a plethora of cool press releases have been flooding my inbox recently that you may find interesting. This post includes blurbs on Dollface, The Legend of Vox Machina, Attica, The Great, Betty White, Adventure Time, The Reboot, Dexter: New Blood, The Plot, Eddie Vedder, Glass Animals, and Bastille.
- Check out the official trailer and key art for the upcoming season of Hulu’s original comedy series "Dollface"! “Dollface” returns with 10 all-new episodes Friday, February 11, on Hulu. Season two follows Jules (Kat Dennings) and her best friends - post pandemic, post heartbreak, heading toward turning thirty. Having successfully reunited with her friends (Brenda Song, Shay Mitchell, and Esther Povitsky), Jules must now balance keeping their group together as the women navigate work, love, and a deeper relationship with each of themselves.
- Prime Video starts off the new year with the release of the official trailer for The Legend of Vox Machina, the upcoming highly anticipated adult animated fantasy-adventure series from Critical Role and Titmouse. The first season will consist of 12 episodes, with three episodes premiering every week starting January 28 in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. Based on the beloved characters and adventures of Critical Role’s first livestreamed tabletop role-playing game (RPG) campaign, The Legend of Vox Machina is an animated fantasy-adventure series for adults that follows Vox Machina, a band of misfits with a fondness for boozing and brawling. In a desperate attempt to pay off their mounting bar tab, these unlikely heroes end up on a quest to save the realm of Exandria from dark magical forces. From a sinister necromancer to a powerful curse, the group confronts a variety of obstacles that not only test their skills, but also the strength of their bond.
- Leading into Martin Luther King Jr. Day, SHOWTIME is releasing itsOscar-shortlisteddocumentary featureATTICA for free, beginning today. Available for viewing through the end of Black History Month,ATTICA is onSho.comandYouTube,as well as across multiple SHOWTIME streaming and on demand platforms. SHOWTIMEdelves deep inside the bloodiest prison rebellion in U.S. history withATTICA, a feature-length documentary from Emmy®-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson (Freedom Riders,The Murder of Emmett Till)and co-director Traci A. Curry. Named one of the National Board of Review’s Top 5 Documentaries of 2021, the film recounts in vivid detail the five-day 1971 prison rebellion at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York, which took the lives of 29 inmates and 10 hostages – the deadliest single day of violence Americans inflicted on each other since the Civil War.
- Hulu has renewed The Great, from Tony McNamara (THE FAVOURITE), for a 10-episode, third season. The critically acclaimed second season debuted on Hulu on Friday, November 19, 2021 and is certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes at 100%. The series is currently nominated for three Critics’ Choice Awards.
- To honor and celebrate what would have been Betty's 100th birthday, on Monday, January 17, starting at 9 a.m. ET, Game Show Network will air a 4-hour marathon of $25,000 PYRAMID episodes featuring the golden girl of game shows.
- h My Glob! Get ready embark on a magical journey through the Land of Ooo and beyond when Warner Bros. Home Entertainment brings the Emmy-nominated Max Original, Adventure Time: Distant Lands to Blu-ray and DVD on March 8, 2022. Binge all four specials from the limited series and explore the unseen corners of their world with characters both familiar and brand-new.Adventure Time: Distant Lands is priced to own on Blu-ray for $19.98 SRP ($24.98 in Canada) and on DVD for $14.98 SRP ($19.98 in Canada).
- Hulu has ordered the Original comedy Reboot, from creator and executive producer Steve Levitan and 20th Television to series. Judy Greer will star opposite previously announced Keegan-Michael Key and Johnny Knoxville, replacing Leslie Bibb in the role of BREE. Steeped in the irony of the television industry’s continuing inclination to “reboot” hit shows from the past, the series begins when Hulu reboots an early 2000’s family sitcom, forcing its dysfunctional cast back together. Now they must deal with their unresolved issues in today’s fast-changing world.
- With its finale on Sunday,DEXTER: NEW BLOOD wrapped up a record-shattering season for SHOWTIME. For its 10-episode run,DEXTER: NEW BLOOD is averaging over 8 million weekly viewers across all platforms, becoming the most-watched series in SHOWTIME history. With a total of3million viewers on Sunday alone, this was the biggest SHOWTIME finale in more than eight years, surpassing the season-three finale ofHOMELAND in 2013. The finale – written by series showrunner Clyde Phillips – also set a new SHOWTIME record with 2 million viewers from streaming and on demand platforms on Sunday. Thanks in large part toDEXTER: NEW BLOOD and new drama seriesYELLOWJACKETS, SHOWTIME delivered the most signups in its history during the fourth quarter of 2021.
- After a highly competitive bidding war across multiple streaming platforms, Disney’s Onyx Collective has ordered the limited series “The Plot”from Endeavor Content. The eight-episode series will stream on Hulu in the U.S., Star+ in Latin America and Disney+ in all other territories. The series is an adaptation of the best-selling novel of the same name by Jean Hanff Korelitz. Korelitz’s book “You Should Have Known,”was also adapted into HBO’s “The Undoing” in 2020, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant. “The Plot” stars and is executive produced by Oscar, EmmyⓇ, BAFTA and NAACP Image Award-winning actor and producer Mahershala Ali (“Swan Song,” “Green Book,” “Moonlight”). Ali will produce along with executive producers Mimi Valdés and Amatus Karim Ali through their Know Wonder production company. Know Wonder recently produced the critically acclaimed feature film “Swan Song” and the Emmy-winning documentary “We Are the Dream: The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest.”
- Eddie Vedder releases a new single entitled “Brother the Cloud.” It heralds the arrival of his highly anticipated new album, Earthling, available on February 11th via SeattleSurf/Republic Records. The digital pre-order/pre-save for Earthling just went live on all streaming platforms—HERE and physical pre-order (cd, vinyl & cassette HERE). Listen to “Brother the Cloud”—HERE.Earthling,which was produced by Grammy Award® winning producer Andrew Watt, is Vedder’s first album since 2011’sUkulele Songs and his first solo tour in over a decade.
- he distinctive nature of Brandon Boyd’s forthcoming album, ECHOES AND COCOONS (pre-order at https://orcd.co/echoesandcocoons ), is as evident in the newest single “Dime In My Dryer” as in the other singles that have been released thus far - “Pocket Knife” and “Petrichor.” SPIN describes the newest track as ‘curiously textured’ and today you can hear it for yourself. “Dime In My Dryer” is a tale of discovery of what is important in life when forced to slow down. “It was in the relative silence of a world mostly shut down that I noticed how loud things had been in the before-times,” explains Brandon. “Not the obvious part of my life that is governed by big sounds and traveling, no, but that chatter or noise that emits from our shared experience as people. All of a sudden it would stop for brief intervals and in those gaps is where I began to see the parts of my life and my general experience that offered more signal and less noise.”
- Critically acclaimed GRAMMY® Award nominated global sensations Glass Animals have started off 2022 with a recording-breaking milestone and first in their career—today, “Heat Waves” climbed to #3on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, breaking the record for the longest climb to Top 5 in Hot 100 history at 51 weeks. Not to mention, “Heat Waves” rose to #3 on the Top 40 Radio Chart and #6 on the Hot AC Radio Chart this week, and over past two weeks, it peaked at #1 on Spotify US Top 50 Chart, surpassed 1 billion Spotify streams, and amassed a new peak of 969K streams on the platform in a day. In addition to their GRAMMY® Awards Nomination for Best New Artist, the band was also recently nominated for two BRIT Awards for Song of the Year (“Heat Waves”) and Best Rock/Alternative Act. They celebrated the announcement with a performance at “The BRITs Are Coming 2022”—watchHERE.
- Bastille drops their latest single “Shut Off The Lights” from their fourth studio album Give Me The Future out February 4th—listen to “Shut Off The Lights” HERE. To celebrate the upcoming album, today, Bastille announces their 2022 US tour dates as part of their upcoming “Give Me The Future Tour.” The US leg kicks off on May 14th in Memphis, TN and makes stops in Los Angeles on May 20th, New York on June 7th, and more—see the full list of tour dates below. Tickets will be available via pre-sale starting on Tuesday, January 18th and via general on-sale on Friday, January 21st at 10AM local time at https://www.bastillebastille.com/.
There is a running joke that once Showtime picks up a show,
they will run it into the ground.This
is mostly thanks to Dexter and Weeds which premiered a year apart and both went
on for eight seasons (and while the Dexter reboot just wrapped up, a Weeds reboot is also coming soon, albeit on Starz, not Showtime).Over the next five
years they would premiere shows like Homeland, Shameless, Californication, and
Nurse Jackie that would go on for at least five seasons.But the thing is, shows that premiered after
that have not lasted that long.In the past
decade, there have been six one and done shows, while I’m Dying up Here, Dice,
SMILF, and Kidding all got canned after two seasons.The only shows that premiered in the past decade
that Showtime let run forever like the old joke are Billion, about to start its
sixth season, and Ray Donovan which went to seven season, but Showtime was
trigger happy in canceling the show, ending the show without giving it the
obligatory final season that most long running shows are afforded.
But after some outcry, the show will be able to wrap up
properly with a two hour movie.Now, the
movie will be premiering almost two years to the day the finale aired.To give you a sense as to how long ago that was,
in January 2020, very few people were worried about COVID-19 back then.By season seven, Ray and the rest of the
Donovan clan had been in New York for most of the previous three seasons.By my estimate, Ray and Mickie had tried to
kill each other and reconciled a couple hundred times by then.The season ended with a shootout between the
Donovan’s and the Sullivan’s (Jimmy Sullivan raped Ray’s sister Bridget years ago
resulting in Bridget taking a nose dive off a roof and the knowledge recently came
to light) with Ray’s daughter’s husband Smitty dying as a result.
Thankfully the show starts off with a lengthy three minute
recap but done like recent episode “Previously On” montage where it is just
quick clips and very little dialogue.Then in the first scene, Ray tells someone, “I killed my father.”Wait, did I really forget Ray killed Mickie and
they did not even put that part on the recap?Well, no, and he did not kill him off screen either as Mickie shows up
on screen, and like for much of the seventh season is trying to sell off papers
worth multi-million dollar.The “I
killed my father” line is just a set up for the movie.
The movie is split up in two parts, and continues the trend
of the seventh season where they flashback to the early life of the Donovan clan
back in Boston.Much how the modern day
storyline picks up after the events of the shootout and starts with Smitty’s
funeral, the flashback also start with a funeral, this time of Bridget’s.The flashbacks also tie back into the events
of season one as we see many things that are the catalyst of the beginnings of
the series.
The whole Donovan clan is back.Well, not Ray’s son who I guess is still in
military school and does not even get one mention.While not gratuitous, we do get to see a
bunch of familiar faces, well in the case of some of the flashbacks; the names are
familiar even if the faces are different.While it takes some time to remember just where the last season left off
(it may be wise to re-watch the finale before the movie) the movie does a good
job tying up loose ends and should leave longtime fans satisfied.
Ray Donovan: The Movie airs Friday at 9:00 on Showtime.
Dexter: New Blood:I believe this was the very first time Dexter took down the Big Bad
before the finale… unless he is the Big Bad and Angela takes Dexter down in the
finale.That would be a fitting end to
the series… except they are definitely going to do another season eventually.I thought we were going to get a full flashback
episode like a lost episode of the original show, maybe with the whole gang
returning, but alas.Dexter cut that
story short and waited to give the full story until they got into Kurt’s
dollhouse.
So that
is where the podcaster at.But much like
how we never learned just how Kurt figured out Dexter killed his kid; we do not
know how she ended up down there.We
know Kurt lured runaways to his hotel and locked them up, and he did try that
once with the podcaster, was she actually dumb enough to go with him again?Not that Kurt is very bright either.Did he really think he would roll up on
Dexter’s cabin in a large and loud tanker, spray the entire cabin with gasoline
and wait for them to come out after the cabin was on fire?Has anyone was actually there, they would have
heard the tanker pull up.Not that Dexter
has a great plan either, alerting Kurt that he found his underground
bunker.What if he was close and locked
them in?And again we are treating that
screw as some sort of smoking bullet.How could that possibly tie back to Dexter?
Claws:So the judge kept on
bring up how Brice was not the biological father and then gives custody of the
children… to his uncle who is not biologically related to the children.Huh?But I still think Jenn will eventually joining Uncle Daddy and Quiet Ann
and eventually the whole group will turn on Desna.
Yellowjackets:So Van was not the first to die and managed to survive having a wolf
chew off half her face and make it back a couple of miles back to the cabin
where they only have rudimentary antibiotics, most of which was used on coach’s
leg.Though there was something weird
with her POV; could something mystical have kept her alive?But we did not have to wait long to have an actual
first death… assuming Laura Lee did not manage to survive that plane exploding
the way Van survived being mauled.I must say, when Nat talked to her sponsor,
my first though was, oh, that is adult Laura Lee based solely on her
looks.C’mon Lottie, you saw Laura Lee
encased in red a couple episodes, why are you letting her fly that plane?Maybe give the talisman that she gave to Van
that Tai stole and give it to Laura Lee.
We also
got the big reveal that Adam was the blackmailer and has no digital
footprint.That really leans into the
theory that Adam is really Javi.Though
I never bought into that theory because Javi have been very insignificant to
this point, basically Shauna gave him a few pages of her diary and that was about
it.Plus the timeline does not really
line up if Adam graduated in ’04, which would have made Javi about ten in
1996.Javi at the very least looks like a
middle schooler if not an underclassman.But of course Adam could be lying about when he graduated.If that really is Javi, then is he really
behind the postcards and killed his brother?The keep on pointing out that only family can get banking information so
seems very likely he emptied the account.But that would be a huge letdown if Javi was behind everything.
Psycho
Misty update:she did blow for the first
time.And a lot of it.Aswesome.Then she had to profusely apologize to her bird.But just how long is she going to keep that
reporter down there?Until she solves Travis’s
murder?Then what?Is she actually going to kill her or let her
go?
But just
how much time does Callie spend at her friend’s house?She just came home to get a change of
clothes.She then eats with her parents
but then Shauna said Tai could stay in her room because she was going back to
the friend’s house to spend another night.Things do seem like they are going to pick up next week with Homecoming
(unless they save that for the finale).Will we finally get to learn of some of the other survivor?Will One Eyed Van show up?It will be annoying if of the other survivor
besides the main four decide to skip the event and we are still left
guessing.And Jeff was Homecoming
King?Was Jackie the queen then?This may be as awkward as that dinner with Jackie’s
parents.
The Book of Boba Fett:Holy Hutt sighing.But those
twins are giving off big time Lannister vibes.Do they really need to be that close to each other?It does seem like maybe the Hutt’s are behind
the assassination plot from last week and are in cahoots with the Mayor.
The Challenge: All-Stars: Well, there goes my prediction
of Jodi and Brad winning,I thought they
might pull I out because it seemed like Brad had the much better strategy than Darrell,
but on the flip side Janelle seemed to have a better strategy than Jodi and Darrelle
managed not to keep hitting Janelle on the head with cinderblocks.
The Blacklist:
I do not think I really needed to see what happened to Ressler between
the seasons, but after watching this episode… I still think I did not need to
see that.
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- Check out the all-new trailer and key art for Hulu's "Pam & Tommy." The limited series premieres with three episodes on February 2nd. New episodes stream weekly.Set in the Wild West early days of the Internet, “Pam & Tommy” is based on the incredible true story of the Pamela Anderson (Lily James) and Tommy Lee (Sebastian Stan) sex tape. Stolen from the couple’s home by a disgruntled contractor (Seth Rogen), the video went from underground bootleg-VHS curiosity to full-blown global sensation when it hit the Web in 1997. A love story, crime caper and cautionary tale rolled into one, the eight-part original limited series explores the intersection of privacy, technology and celebrity, tracing the origins of our current Reality TV Era to a stolen tape seen by millions but meant to have an audience of just two.
- Check out the official trailer and key art for the Hulu Original Film "Sex Appeal." The film premieresFriday, January 14th. Avery Hansen-White doesn’t do things she isn’t excellent at. So when her long-distance boyfriend hints at wanting to take their relationship to the next level, she sets out to master her sexuality, employing her oldest friend, Larson, as a test subject. In this hilarious teen comedy, Avery's study results in the realization that there's more to sex, and love, than mechanics. Relationships require both head and heart.
- The Weeknd has officially dropped his latest album, Dawn FM (XO/Republic Records). The surprise release began with a compelling trailer for the project and the reveal of the album cover and track list earlier in the week. The album, deemed a “sonic experience” by The Weeknd, showcases a unique cast of features from Tyler, the Creator, Lil Wayne, Quincy Jones, Oneohtrix Point Never, and Jim Carrey. Listen to Dawn FMHERE. As a part of the rollout, The Weeknd appeared in “103.5 Dawn FM”, a live stream experience which aired exclusively on the Amazon Music channel on Twitch and in the Amazon Music app.
- Celebrating the pioneer of funk James Brown, Urban Legends, a division of UMe, Universal Music Group’s global catalog company, has teamed up with multi-instrumentalist and member of The Roots, Stro Elliot, to create Black & Loud: James Brown Reimagined by Stro Elliot, out February 4, 2022. The album, consisting of ten remixes of classic James Brown songs, will be available digitally on DSPs, physically as an LP on black vinyl, and will also have a clear vinyl color variant available as an e-commerce exclusive on the Urban Legends website HERE. Listen to the first single, "Machine No Make Sex," now HERE.
- Foxes shares her latest single "Absolute," taken from her highly-anticipated upcoming album,The Kick,due for release on February 11 2022 via [PIAS] Recordings. An ode to freedom and late-night euphoria, the disco-infused track was produced by Ghost Culture (Daniel Avery, Kelly Lee Owens). Discussing the track, Foxes (Louisa Rose Allen) says: “'Absolute' is about the middle of one of those nights, when everything around you feels perfectly aligned. The people, the sound and the freedom to be exactly who you are.” Foxes’ first album in over five years, The Kickfeatures recent singles‘Sky Love’,‘Dance Magic’and‘Sister Ray’. It was written and recorded remotely via zoom during the height of the pandemic, offering a form of escapism. Inspired by the desire for freedom that the world collectively shared over the last 18 months of lockdowns, the near-animalistic desperation to socialise, and a longing to dance again, Louisa naturally pivoted the sonics to feed that escapism and create a record that simultaneously feels close to her euphoric, dancefloor-filling pop roots that brought us hits like ‘Let Go For Tonight’, ‘Youth’ and ‘Body Talk’, while still feeling completely fresh. Unafraid of the art of the well-loved melancholic-banger, lyricallyThe Kick touches on themes of loss and heartbreak, narrating painful places and soundtracking new beginnings to create an album for the post-pandemic world and a summer of never leaving the party early.
- This SATURDAY, January 8 starting at 9 a.m. ET, Game Show Network will air an 8-hour marathon of MATCH GAME episodes featuring the golden girl of game shows and America's sweetheart, Betty White. Join us to celebrate a lifetime of laughter and pay tribute to the one and only Betty White.
