Week Of December 11th 2015 In Review #Supergirl#ScreamQueens
#XMenApocalypse #NewYearCountdown
All Supergirl pictures courtesy of CBS unless otherwise noted.
With my little mini-vacation over for the next week and a half before
my big year-end finale vacation which goes from the 21st or 22nd
until MLK day in the New Year, I've been biding my time soaking up
all the latest news and events going on in the world of
entertainment. And even though it's two weeks after Thanksgiving--the
time when normally the TV wasteland kicks in--and Star Wars is the
movie that will clearly dominate this holiday season, there is still
plenty else to talk about on all levels. We'll begin with Supergirl
(#Supergirl).
Monday's Supergirl on CBS, while not the winter finale, supplied more
than enough wow, shock and awe for fans to light up the internet and
Twitterverse with mind-blown reactions. The funniest thing is that
much of the episode was rather bland for the titular character. After
overexerting herself fighting Red Tornado, Kara experienced her first
short circuit, temporarily losing her powers. As she suffered through
the throes of being Human For A Day (ha! That was the title of the
episode. I snuck that in there. Huh? In hindsight I don't know why I
thought that was clever. Moving on), National City suffered through
an earthquake.
In her humanity, Kara bleeds for the first time, gets a cold or some
other sneezy disease, breaks her arm and needs rescuing by James.
Sadly, the one lesson she learns comes when she cannot save a man
from dying on the street. Just as the comic book Superman learns, she
can't save everyone.
She eventually regains her powers when she is told by the dork that
likes her (again, not bothering to shoot an email, private message
tweet or phone call her cousin's way) that she can regain her powers
more rapidly by having a burst of Kyrptonian adrenaline. She gets
this burst when she sees James in deathly trouble in an elevator
shaft after having saved some people from the upper levels. Her
powers back, she rescues him from falling to his death and the day is
saved.
The biggest shock for the fans came in the form of gloriously
over-the-top Black guy--that beautiful man of ridiculous looks,
perfectly delivered one-liners and overly awkward protectiveness over
Supergirl and her sister. While at the DEO headquarters (that's the
Department of Extraterrestrial Operations) the earthquake
accidentally knocks out the power temporarily while he and Kara's
sister are in the middle of moving a villain to a different cell.
With the power of mind control, the villain escapes to roam the halls
before they can get back-up generators running.
Now in lock down, over-the-top Black guy orders his crew to stay in
the one safe place they know he isn't while he and two others go
hunting. The alien takes over the brain of the two other soldiers,
making them kill each other. Kara's sister disobeys orders and runs
after her boss, taking another soldier with her who also falls prey
to the mind control. Having learned the previous week that her Black
superior not only worked with her father but was around when he died,
she distrusts him and handcuffs him to a shelf while she tries to go
stop the alien alone.
Bullets not working, her anti-mind-control device about to stop,
Black guy swoops in and saves the day, defeating the rock hard alien
with his bare hands. Now, she has hella questions. How could he
defeat the alien in a game of fisticuffs, and all sorts of craziness.
He tells her the story of her father dying and the real original
Black guy dying while in pursuit of a perceived hostile alien. The
alien turned out to be friendly but in trying to capture him, somehow
the two DEO agents died, but not before the alien tried saving the
life of Kara's adoptive father played by Dean Cain. Cain told the
alien to look after his daughters which Black guy has been doing ever
since. The big reveal came at the end of the story when over-the-top
Black guy revealed himself to be J'onn J'onzz AKA Martian Manhunter.
Didn't See That Coming
For those that don't know, in the comics, Martian Manhunter is a big
deal. While never the most popular on his own, he is most famous for
two things: being the sole survivor of the once thriving Martian race
and being one of the founding members of the Justice League. Yes, he
routinely fights alongside Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash,
and Green Lantern. Unlike the other aliens, he is not humanoid
looking enough to blend in, but does have the power to shape-shift
into anyone.
KGBeast? Looks more like Martian Manhunter
Why is this a big deal? Recently, an article came out
discussing the make-up of the film version of Martian Manhunter and
if he would even be part of the Justice League. A few studio insiders
said they didn't know if they'd include this iconic character because
he may be too difficult to do on screen authentically. Well, if they
needed a format, they just got one in a big way. This leads me to the
rumor that Callan Mulvey pictured there, is actually going to be
playing Martian Manhunter in the new Batman v Superman. I know that
there was a very persistent rumor that he was actually going to be
playing K.G. Beast, however, that was never fully confirmed and in
the spirit of not packing the film with too many Justice Leaguers,
it's no wonder why the producers would want to keep him under wraps,
but to me he naturally looks like the alien and wouldn't have to have
any kind of reveal save for saying his name in the movie since he is
a shapeshifter.
Moving on, FOX's Scream Queens (#ScreamQueens) had its season finale
this week and boy was it... long. For those that remember my initial
three week roundup review on this (click #ScreamQueens up top to read
it), I initially gave this a fairly low grade as it was a little too
ridiculous. While it toned down some, I did skip three or four
episodes at a time only to binge them when I got the chance, as
wasting an hour each week on this wasn't to my liking. I almost
didn't watch it at all during November and binged at least four
episodes on Thanksgiving night, but I digress.
All pictures of Scream Queen courtesy of FOX unless otherwise noted.
Ending the shortened season with a two-hour episode, the first hour
moved along nicely with Grace's psuedo-boyfriend confessing to being
the 4th killer who joined only after non-gay gay Boone caught him
snooping around and was about to kill him. Oh yeah, side note Boone
(played by Nick Jonas) was one of the killers just in case you didn't
know. Back to the boyfriend, he said he believed in what Boone was
trying to do by wiping out the KKT sorority house and only joined
because of that, but then he killed Boone and crazy Gigi (the loon
that raised Boone and his twin sister in a mental asylum) in order to
stop all the killing, but the third killer, Boone's twin sister,
remained.
After sending the missive of all missives (which I thought was
technically done very well with the writing being on the wall) The
Chanel or Chanel #1 or Chanel Oberlin (played by Emma Roberts) became
the most hated person in the world when it accidentally went out to
everyone on campus. Gag! This whole set-up really did nothing but
waste time to me and was a poor lead-in into a ridiculous scene that
had my mouth gaping and asking, "did these fools just try to fit
in an after-school special message on suicide?" Yes. Yes, they
did. Quite possibly the most disingenuous show where everything was a
gag, satire, or spoof on the horror genre, and had almost no real
emotion explored on any level suddenly stopped about 25 minutes in to
give us a PSA on "Suicide is never the answer. You shouldn't
even joke about that." Look, I've dealt with the issue in my
works before too, but never did it not fit the tone of what I was
doing. This whole scene from the missive to the idiotic death attempt
to Zayday trying to make a point that young people shouldn't kill
themselves all could have been cut without anyone noticing or caring.
In fact, I felt this way about half of the episode which had me
questioning why it was two hours long. Listen, outside of the real
King (that guy Stephen King. Maybe you've heard of him), I am the
king of long-windedness. I just finished writing a book during
NaNoWriMo that is 118,000 words long unedited and will probably
increase by 2000 words before the final draft. However, I try to make
every scene relevant in some way that thrusts along either the
character development or the action. On this last episode, there was
more exposition and flashback than anything. Little action, little
killing and scenes that went on and on.
The big reveal came at the beginning of the second hour which
preceded a full half hour accuse-fest to finger each of the remaining
Chanels as the killer (don't shake your head at me. I'll ignore it if
you will). After the first hour of Zayday and Grace going through the
school records of each of the remaining girls--a feat made possible
by a sex scene betwixt Jamie Lee Curtis and Oliver "Dad-bod"
Hudson--they came back to reveal that Chanel number six AKA neck
brace girl played by Lea Michele was the killer. The only reason she
was believed not to be the killer was because she had a stiletto heel
stuck in her eye supposedly put there by Chanel number five played by
Abigail Breslin.
The first half hour became so ridiculous that it was revealed that
Chanel five's parents wanted to disown her and took this opportunity
to throw her under the bus. But apparently Breslin wasn't alone as
Chanel number three played by Billie Lourd (surprise, she's Princess
Leia's real life daughter; didn't know it until I saw this picture.)
helped her. The most ludicrous and convoluted story of them all, she
supposedly had split personality disorder and had been taking killing
advice from her father Charles Manson. Her other dark half would use
the advice to kill her fellow sisters which she would be completely
unaware that she did.
This might have been enough if the show didn't spend another seven
minutes putting The Chanel in a similar scenario, fingering
her as the mastermind behind it all. Why did she do it? Kind of
because she could. All three of them arrested by major
sleuthing all-star Chief of police Denise Hemphill (played by Niecy
Nash who was literally the best part of this show for me), all was
solved and fair.
And then the real killer continued revealing her plan. Yes, the real
killer was Lea Michelle's Chanel number six, the "brainy"
twin of Boone who, not only jabbed the heel into her own eye making
sure not to puncture the actual eye, but methodically planned her
entry into the inner-sanctuary of KKT all to get revenge for her dead
bathtub-birthing mama. After growing up in the asylum, she was only
allowed in because she posed as a handicapped student and Dean Mensch
needed more diversity, unlike her brother Boone who just pretended to
be a Dickie Dollar scholar while never enrolling in the school in the
first place. My god, if you think this review is long you should have
watched the episode.
The Chanels all disowned by their parents (Chanel number one's
parents disowned her after the world-hating thing), all three of them
tried representing themselves in court to which the Black judge
determined they were crazy as they had slept through much of the
trial. He sentenced them to life in the asylum where they each
actually found happiness.
The dean and Grace's father engaged in a real relationship as she
wrote a best-selling book on new new feminism which basically says
the same as current feminism. While she figured out Lea Michele was
the killer she didn't turn the girl in after having killed her
husband and the deceptive minx knowing about it.
Now, Grace and Zayday with the help of Chanel six all turned around
the KKT house to be inclusive. Those two were spared because they
were nice to Chanel 6 on the first pledge day at the beginning of the
year, not to mention Grace is her half sister by blood through their
father. All was well, save for at the very end when the red devil
killer snuck into the asylum as The Chanel slept and lorded
over her with a knife. One last scream of horror for everyone and the
end. Why the episodes felt so laborious, I don't know. As I said, I
think they could have cut out entire scenes and it wouldn't have
mattered. They could also have cut some scenes shorter like the
goodbye between Denise and Chad which wasted four minutes of screen
time on nothing. This honestly felt like they knew they had been
commissioned for a certain amount of episodes and needed a ton of
filler to make that goal.
Can't move on fast enough from that one. Maybe if they have another
season next year as it was originally intended as an anthology like
American Horror Story, it will be better but until then, I am left
with a bland taste in my brain-mouth.
Finally, the week ended today on the release of the new X-Men
Apocalypse trailer. Check it out below if you haven't seen it yet.
Quick caveat, I am not a huge X-Men fan and never was. While I
enjoyed the exploits of Wolverine, the group as a whole was too
varied, too angsty, too everything for me. Not that I hated any of
the movies, books, or cartoons I just always thought, "oh, those
are nice." With that said, I have to say I am very unimpressed
with this trailer. Just as the music for the Batman v. Superman
trailer disappointed me with it's one note-ness, so too did this with
its lackluster ominous tone. If this is the end, why doesn't it seem
like it? Maybe because we know it isn't from the Days of Future Past?
I don't know.
Also, I have to say I never liked the choice of Oscar Isaacs as the
villain. In stature, face, and voice, he never seemed foreboding
enough to me. Forgetting his height as he can grow or shrink to
infinite sizes as shown in the trailer, his voice doesn't instill
terror and his face still looks silly to me like it did in the first
images from the movie. Will this be good? Maybe, but from the first
trailer, I am not impressed nor eager to even see it at this point. What do you think? Were you watching any TV or film this week or were
you too busy with holiday preparations? Did you see the big reveal on
Supergirl? Are you excited to see Martian Manhunter? What about
Scream Queens? Was this show even on your radar? How did you feel
about the finale? And what of the new X-Men trailer? Did it get you
excited to see the movie or are you apprehensive about the visuals?
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Until next time, "he calls them
the four horsemen."
'He got that one from the Bible.'
P.S. A quote from the trailer, but seriously what is up with all the
God and religious references in comic book movies these days,
especially when referring to the villain? Can we stop trying to make
all religion evil? I'll think of a better sign-off next time.
Oh boy. Scream Queens. Fox’s Scream
Queens (#ScreamQueens) is... quite the show. Honestly, I don’t
really know where the heck to begin with this. There is so much right
and wrong with this show that it’s hard to piece out the difference
between either. It both appears as a complete mess at times while
also knowing what it is doing. Its brand of satire of the horror
genre can sometimes be right on while at other times drifts into a
far too over-the-top melodrama that even Liberace or Lady Gaga or
Bjork or any other outlandishly dressed musical artist would sit back
and go, “whoa! Too much.” But before I begin deconstructing the
show, let’s back track a little and breakdown what to expect in
this review/recap.
As was stated in a previous post, this
will be a three week round up post (the same goes for all new shows).
Why? Because I believe in giving a show three episodes to prove
itself and decide whether I’ll continue with it or not. Since
Scream Queens as well as Heroes Reborn gave us a two-hour season
premiere, they have already covered three episodes of the series come
the end of this week. I’ll go more into depth on why I have this
three week rule in a later post but for now just know that I don’t
think most people can adequately judge something in just one episode,
as a TV series (or my episodic novella series) is meant to change
over time. With that in mind, writing a series off that you were
initially interested in after just one episode can be foolish as
plenty of things start slow.
Now that that business is out of the
way, back to Scream Queens. My initial excitement for this show was
based on the fact that this came from the same creator of American
Horror Story and Nip/Tuck and that it would be a comedy (for a recap
of that click #PremiereWeek to go back to that article). Comedy it
is. A little too silly? Definitely.
The story follows a brand new year at a
university that still allows for Sororities and Fraternities. The
best and most popular sorority on campus is the KKT (because
the KKK would have been too obvious? Not likely for this show, but
OK). The president of the KKT happens to be a young white girl by the
name of Chanel played by Emma Roberts. So self-obsessed and
cartoonish in her ego this girl is that she has no time or just lacks
the brain cells to remember and call her fellow sisters by their
proper names, instead naming them Chanel numbers 2-5 (as if that
perfume needed any more free advertising). Far too into the worship
culture of Chanel, the only thing missing from these other girls (one
of which left before the season began) is the yellow Minion color and
strange goggles. I’m surprised they can even speak English rather
than having formulated their own language of Kissass-ese or some
other gobblety-gook. Two of these girls are recognizable as Ariana
Grande and Abigail Breslin (Chanel no. 5 and the first suspect due to
her name alone). Ariana’s time as a TV star is short-lived as she
tweets about her death in the first episode but I’m getting ahead
of myself.
Jamie Lee Curtis as the dean of the
college, she concludes that KKT reflects poorly on college culture
and the university as a whole. This comes after an accident last year
when Chanel was a prime suspect in loading a spray tan machine with
acid, which then sprayed down the president of KKT at that time. Now
that Chanel has moseyed her way into such a position, the dean makes
a decree that any and all people wanting to join KKT must be
permitted to do so—this only after a meeting with a past sorority
sister serving as the lawyer for that branch who is stuck in the 90s
for whatever reason. That’s what’s going on all in episode one to
set up the future shenanigans on the actual college side.
As for the would-be sisters, we have
Grace—a legacy whose overprotective father actually comes to teach
at the college after the murders start. Her mother apparently died a
long while ago but her father regaled her with stories about how much
the woman loved being a KKT sister and the celebration of womanhood
and blah blah blah! Naturally, she wants to follow in her deceased
mother’s footsteps. Her initial roommate, played by Keke Palmer
(excuse me as some people I know by their character’s name and
others just by their real name) is the only black girl to pledge and
really doesn’t want to do it save for it looking good on a resume
one day as she has lofty aspirations.
Filling out the trifecta of
pledges that matter is Lea Michele’s character or neck brace girl
named so because... well, it’s obvious. Outside of her over-creepy
nerd knowledge about death, she calls Chanel mom in some strange
idolatry fetishism that I’m partially convinced the show made up
(apparently young girls without female figures in their lives call a
girl near the same age that they admire and look up to their mom?
What?). There’s a few other pledges—deaf Taylor Swift (she gets
her head run over by a lawnmower toward the end of the second
episode), other strange nerd girl and Asian lesbian chick but they’re
really there just to fill out the cast and to raise the body count
before getting rid of characters you really love. They all move into
the house just as the murders start.
Surprisingly, the first real murder
comes when Chanel dips their house maid’s (since when do sororities
have maids? Don’t they make the pledges do all the gruntwork?),
White Mamie (yeah, you read that right. And as the most awkward and
cringe-laugh-inducing scenes in the opening minutes of the show tell
you, she also don’t know nothin’ ‘bout birthin’ no babies)
into a deep fryer that was on in the sorority house kitchen (since
when does a sorority have a deep fryer? Aren’t the girls always
looking out for their weight? I’ve seen those recruitment videos
online and not a single girl is over 150, tops). Instead of calling
the police, all the girls go along with throwing her body into the
freezer from where she subsequently disappears. This, in turn, bonds
the girls in secret which also leads to Ariana Grande’s death as
she tweets and a hazing situation where all the pledges are buried up
to their heads in soil in the backyard and the red devil—the school
mascot—runs over the deaf girl’s head on a riding mower. Ka-boom!
We got a murder mystery on our hands.
So, outside of the fact that Chanel has
a typical douche, jock, frathouse boyfriend with grades so bad he has
to sleep with the dean to stay in school—her choice, though he
thinks he’s madly in love with her—the only
other suspect in the
first episode is his gay best friend played by Nick Jonas. Yes, that
Nick Jonas... from the Jonas Brothers and now with his own solo
career. In a completely expected twist akin to Scream, it’s
revealed at the end of the second episode that not only did Nick fake
his death in his own frat but that he is most certainly one of the
two killers stalking the campus. Yes, two killers because murder is
only fun if you have a partner. It’s like Scattergory or sex. Side
note: I predict with the ridiculousness of this show that there will
end up actually being three to five killers.
Because the murder happened solely on
KKT property the dean declares that they need to have extra
protection, ending them up with Niecy Nash as the security guard in
her Reno 9-1-1 callback days. She is hilarious for what she brings
and as the Deputy Dewey of the show she gets an old friend killed and
manages to accuse the only other black character of being the
murderer as only good cops would do, right? Right (Eyeroll, sigh,
double sigh!)?
To top it all off there’s a secondary
mystery about the death of a sorority sister from twenty years
earlier who died during a house party in which she gave birth in an
upstairs bathroom and supposedly bled to death. Though her sisters
knew of this birth, she died anyway because they had to go dance to
TLC’s Waterfalls, which, to be fair that was also my Jimmy-jam back
in the day. Hey, sometimes we all need to just listen to the rivers
and the lakes like we used to. Not to move to fast away from this
second mystery, the girls, along with the help of White Mamie (damn,
she was working for them way back then too?) and the dean (not the
dean at the time) covered it up somehow and made the young girl
disappear. The mystery remains.
Coffee Shop Creeper/Reporter
Because of this continuing question
mark, Grace and her new non-boyfriend boyfriend who stalked Chanel
the previous year (they probably had a thing before she became
uber-popular) is investigating this along with the murders as he
considers himself a future journalist/current school newspaper
editor... and part-time mascot. Whaaaaaa..! That’s right, he has a
red devils costume, but is he the killer?
In my estimation, no. In fact, along
with Nick Jonas, I think the person most likely to be the killer is
Grace’s overprotective father, played by Oliver Hudson who had a
steady gig on Nashville last year and a little father drama of his
own over the summer. Why? Because I think either the dead girl from
20 years ago or the second girl who took the dead girl’s baby has
something to do with him: Grace’s mother (making the baby grace), a
good friend of his, or maybe his sister, etc. I also think Nick
Jonas’ character is somehow related to Grace (maybe older brother)
and is doing the killings for the hell of it/father-son bonding.
Crazy, but right up this show’s alley.
So, my diagnosis of this show? Meh! I rate it around a C or C+ at the moment. While it hits its mark on many things including the actual mystery, well-defined
characters and plenty of blood-lust, I think the exaggerated
slapstick-ish humor of the show can wear on the viewer over the
season. Even for an audience much younger than, say, the AHS crowd,
this seems like it could get old fast (probably why this is only a
short run 13-episode season). Emma is great at playing the “B” as
she has been for the past few years (I’d like to see her stretch
and play a nice girl again even in just one thing), Niecy Nash is
Niecy Nash,
Keke Palmer has a little too much sister-girl going on
(a hyper-attitude that some young girls give off
reminiscent of the movie BAPS and falls into the stereotypical black
sidekick role), Abigail Breslin and the others haven’t had their proper time to shine yet (it’s only the third episode) and
Jamie Lee Curtis feels partially wasted here. Honestly, I would have
preferred she do a role on AHS first, maybe fill in the vacancy left
by Jessica Lange as the horror godmother of sorts, but I understand
how she seems to only want to do comedy nowadays. Will I keep
watching? Probably, but this might be a DVR spacer—a show I leave
on the DVR for a really long time until I get enough free time to
binge nearly the entire season and then be done with it. Should you
watch if you haven’t been doing so already? Not if you want real
horror or don’t find teenage and young adult drama/comedy funny.
If, however, you enjoy things similar to Evil Dead 2 and Dale and
Tucker vs. Evil, and can stand a lot of humor in your horror. This is
right up your alley.
What do you think? Am I being too harsh
on this show? Is it only average or do you drop everything to watch
it because it’s your jam, jelly, and secret sauce? Or are you
patiently waiting for American Horror Story to come back October 7th?
And what about the mystery for those that do enjoy it? Who do you
think the killers are? Let me know
what you think in the comments below. Scream Queens airs Tuesdays at 9pm eastern only on FOX.
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Until next time, “This is not a
cheerocracy. This is a cheer-tatorship.”
P.S. Look, if this show doesn’t
remind you of Bring It On at least a little, then I don’t even know
who you are. I probably don’t know you anyway, but you know...
whatever. I'll keep thinking of something else as a sign-off.
The Leaves Are About To Turn Any Day,
The Weather Is Getting Cooler And Hipsters Are Explaining Their
Thesis On Why They Cut The Cord. Brace Yourselves People, It’s Fall
Premiere Week! #PremiereWeek
Picture courtesy of the 2015 Emmys
Ahhh! I am so excited! As I said in an
earlier post, I am back after my summer hiatus to blog and chat with
you about TV with a few movies, books, cooking recipes and pop
culture chat sprinkled in, and did I mention the season 1 finale of my
episodic novella series The Writer (#TheWriter) will be releasing
this Friday? Check it out and catch up on the entire season over at
Amazon. So, with the season premiering, we have a lot to discuss on
TV concerning shows both old and new. Let’s begin, shall we.
Dang it! What should I do first,
people: the old school returnees or the new class of shows? Since
you’re already familiar with the old school, let’s go over the new class (at least the one’s I’m interested in watching).
Out of the over 100 new shows slated
for the 2015-2016 season, CBS seems to have the fewest among the
major channels. This probably stems from the fact that they rarely
seem to cancel anything and still have the blob/goo monster that is
the CSI franchise dominating their network. Speaking of which, it is
slated to have a full season of CSI: Cyber which premiered back in
March. I am not interested in that show unfortunately (or maybe it is
fortunate. Frees up time). The two CBS shows I am interested in are:
Limitless and Supergirl.
Since Supergirl won’t be premiering
until October 28th (what? First they make us wait a year
for Batman v. Superman, then they push Supergirl back to 3 days
before Halloween? Not cool, Warner Bros.), I’ll focus currently on
Limitless.
Picture courtesy of CBS and IGN
Based on the film starring Bradley Cooper, Limitless
follows Brian Sinclair, an average Joe who, like Cooper’s
character, winds up with a super pill that makes him a genius while
he’s on it (think Meth except... well, nothing like Meth. Never
mind). The question for the show, just like for the movie, will be:
what will he do with this power? Do I feel an Uncle Ben reference
coming on? Huh? Is he going to turn into Spider-man? Hey, don’t
criticize my humor and wild assumptions. If you’ve seen the trailer
for the show, you’d know that he has a little fire escape stunt
that seems very familiar to a certain web slinger.
Why I’m Interested:
A sequel of sorts to the movie, Bradley
Cooper’s character will appear in the show from time to time I
guess as a sort of Mr. Miyagi to Brian. In a dual role, he’ll also
serve as a producer to help this thing succeed. As a huge Alias fan
back in the day, I am excited to finally see his return to TV even if
it is only a pop-in every so often.
Aside from that, I find the premise
enticing in that its not your typical genius or typical everyman but
a hybrid mixture of both, whose “powers” fluctuate in and out
depending on how often he takes the pill. Also, in the movie there
was a big deal made about how he’d have to keep taking the pills or
possibly die, so... that’s always fun. And it’s got Jennifer
Carpenter in it whom I have secretly crushed on since she played
Emily Rose during that exorcism movie—not the really famous one,
but the other lesser famous one. No, not that one either, but the
other one. I ain’t got time, look it up.
Hopefully, this can take the procedural
buddy cop show love affair that TV has enjoyed since Moonlighting
(and even earlier), and add a new flair to the case of the week
premise.
Moving ON!
FOX
Speaking of TV series serving as
sequels to films, Fox has Minority Report premiering this week.
“What? But wait, what about the rest of the shows on CBS?” Sadly,
I’ve never been a big fan of most CBS shows, therefore, I’m not
interested in watching Angel From Hell, Code Black or Life In Pieces.
Check back in January for my decision on Rush Hour.
Back to Fox. With a plethora of new
shows, Minority Report looks to be an interesting sci-fi addition to
the network. After quick cancellations of shows like Almost Human,
and the horrific failure that was Utopia, along with a slew of other
bad comedies and some not oft-watched comedies (I’m lookin’ at
you Mindy Project), Fox wants to invest in some of the bigger names
this season.
Starting with Minority Report, they’ll
feed off the fact that it was a Spielberg-directed Tom Cruise-starrer
that drew enough of a fanbase to earn a 7.7 IMDb rating even 14 years
after its release. Spielberg is back, though only as an executive
producer.
Starring Meagan Good as Lara Vega and
Stark Sands as Dash, these two team together to fight crime as Dash,
a pre-cog who can see crimes before they happen seeks to fit into
society as a normal person. If you know anything from the movie,
apparently Dash is the weakest pre-cog of the three used and is now
an adult living in an era where what he used to do as a child is now
illegal. Pre-crime, or arresting someone on a crime they haven’t
yet, but will in the future commit is his everyday reality. Where as
Brian is Spider-man, Dash is Kitty Pryde or Jean Grey from X-Men. You
sneaky shows you, having superheroes without capes and cowls.
Why I’m Interested?
OK, there’s a lot here. To begin, the
movie focused a bright light on not just the imperfect system of the
pre-cogs and what they see, but also on the questionable morality of
this new way of stopping crime. Now that it’s illegal or at least
frowned upon, will that give this show an outlaw/vigilantism feel a
la Batman? Will we want to root for Dash and his female cop friend
for stopping the crimes even if people aren’t given the opportunity
to change their mind and not commit the crime? Or will the show gloss
over those things in favor of buddy cop shenanigans similar to Castle
(I love Castle)?
Admittedly, fans should be leery as Fox
has a habit of quickly axing sci-fi or anything they feel will push
their budget to capacity. On the bright side, they’ve put this in a
prime spot on Mondays paired with the strong Gotham returning for its
second season. We’ll see how much of the futuristic technology they
can incorporate.
Staying on Fox, Tuesdays will be packed
with new shows to fill the slot left by the annexing of the Mindy
Project. They’ll start with Grandfathered, headlined by Uncle
Jesse—uh, I mean, John Stamos, and that fat kid that turned out to
be Hollywood heartthrob hot (so I’ve been told by women), Josh
Peck. Basically, a guy’s life is flipped upside-down when an
illegitimate son shows up and tells him that he is also a
grandfather. I am only hot and cold on this show as I haven’t seen
enough advertisements about it, but I’ll tune in for the first
three episodes when they premiere next week.
After that, they have the Grinder,
starring Ben Savage and Rob Lowe, a show I know even less about
outside of the fact that they’re lawyers in a small town. Someone
mentioned a big fish in a small pond thing and it got me thinking
about Robert Downey Jr.’s The Judge—probably not a good
comparison. I feel the same about it as I do about Grandfathered.
I’ll give it the first three episodes, but I can’t say I don’t
see my interest already fizzling.
But then we go from the “eh!”
category back to, “I’ve got to see this!” Filling out the rest
of Tuesday is Scream Queens (not to be confused with the VH1 reality
series from near a decade ago). You want young starlets? They got
Emma Roberts, Keke Palmer (#Keeks), Lea Michele and Abigail Breslin.
You want older stars? They got Jamie Lee Curtis and Niecy Nash. You
want blood, guts, mayhem and all-around bitchiness? Who-hoooo-hooa!
They got that. Scream Queens is set to follow a new year at Wallace
University’s most popular Sorority house. After an unfortunate
death rocked the campus 20 years ago, a sudden and new string of
murders has come to grip the campus again.
Why I’m Interested?
From Ryan Murphy, creator of Amerian
Horror Story (a favorite) and Glee (never quite got into it) and
Nip/Tuck (loved the first two seasons then it fizzled), comes this
little comedy horror gem (fingers crossed, here’s hopin’!) that,
from what I’ve read will be another anthology series such as AHS
but highly toned down in gore for network TV. I’m also excited to
see it because I recently released my own horror revolving around
sorority house horror entitled DARKER (#DARKER) currently out on
Amazon. Much less humor, I’d like to see what commonalities we’ll
have. And I’m always up for a good scare.
Next, we have Rosewood on Wednesdays
which will have Empire as the follow-up in its sophomore season. More
on that later. What about Rosewood? Well, I’m not really that
jazzed about this show. Starring Morris Chestnut, who I highly enjoy
in many of his movies, it’s a show about a pathologist who works
with the police a lot. The crux or draw to get you to watch: he’s
extremely close to death because of a rare birth defect with his
heart. To that, I react with this:
Yeah, it seems just like another
run-of-the-mill procedural cop show and with Minority Report and
Limitless already on my new show card, not to mention the returning
favorites, I’m not that excited about another case-of-the-week
drama. While I’d love to support more minorities in good roles, I
don’t see myself tuning into this until my mid-season slump/hunt to
see if I missed something good.
Moving on!
Fox Thursdays is pretty much old hat,
bringing back two old favorites in Bones and Sleepy Hollow. While I
completely hate the move of Sleepy to Thursdays (yes, put all the
black shows/female dominated shows on Thursdays as if Grey’s,
Scandal, How To Get Away With Murder and The Blacklist weren’t
already enough), I do thank God and the creator of DVR almost
everyday.
Fox Fridays will be a sort of shuffle
day. They will start with returning shows Master Chef and World’s
Funniest and throw whatever reruns tickle their fancy into those
slots whenever desired. And, of course, Saturday is sports and Sunday
is Animation Domination (yes, I still call it that even though Last
Man on Earth is coming back along with Brooklyn-9-9). Unfortunately,
I stopped watching most of that stuff long ago and only tune into
Bob’s Burgers occasionally because I love the awkwardness of that
family.
To sum up Fox, they seem to be playing
fairly safe with their new shows banking on the cache of certain
names or certain races of people (hint, hint every night has black
people). However, it should be of note that Fox has always skewed
both younger and/or more ethnically diverse ever since the days of In
Living Color, so not much surprise there.
CW
Speaking of younger skewing, next up is
the CW—the dreaded Marcia of the Network TV Brady Bunch. Awkward
and gawkish, the CW will continue to stay true to itself and see many
returning shows including, The Flash, iZombie, Jane the Virgin,
Arrow, Supernatural and a slew of others. Note that I only actually
watch one show on CW which is The Flash—I came into Arrow too late
for me to really enjoy it and don’t have time to catch up with it.
The good news about the CW is that just about all of its shows are
returning, so congratulations to the shows that got viewers to
believe in them. The bad news is that because of all the returns of
hour-long dramas and comedies, most of their new shows won’t
premiere until mid-season or as a replacement of something that gets
unexpectedly canceled. The even worse news is that the only show they
do have coming out new is the show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend which I will
have to do a completely separate post on. Why? Because from the
trailers and commercials I’ve seen of the show, it sounds a lot
like my new book, “Yep, I’m Totally Stalking My Ex-Boyfriend”
slated to come out in early October. I don’t know if I’ll watch
this show yet but wait for a post maybe in a week or two talking
about it more in depth as well as my book and why it matters that
they look so similar.
As for the mid-season shows, again,
wait until January.
Pasar!
NBC
Next, we have NBC. Where to begin with
NBC? They have a slew of shows which are new and look good/are
possible rip-offs of other things, and I cannot wait to see all the
knock-off glory.
They start their Mondays with an old
stand-by, The Voice. You know, that’s the one where the people sing
and there’s the chairs and, uh... like... some other stuff.
Competition! They move into their new show Blindspot at 10pm.
Starring Jaimie Alexander—the
non-Wonder Woman, who should have been Wonder Woman who, instead,
played Lady Sif in Thor—as a tatted-up Jane Doe found in a bag in
the middle of Times Squares (Fabo from D4L would be proud; it’s an
obscure rap reference. I ain’t got time, look it up!). She doesn’t
know who she is or why she’s there but the tattoos are not just
clues to crimes, but tell a story of who she is and her connection to
the FBI agent who has been put in charge of her mystery. A lady
Bourne Identity which was just a more specialized version of Dominic
Purcell’s 2002 show John Doe, this will see the lovely Ms.
Alexander as a kick-butt enigma knowing stuff but not knowing why. A
mystery wrapped in a mystery, topped with a bubbling layer of
cheese... and more mystery, this is sure to keep me guessing for at
least as long as Red’s real identity on The Blacklist did.
Why I’m interested?
Oh! I guess I already explained that,
didn’t I? Did I say that Jaimie Alexander is one of the 252
Hollywood women that I have a crush on and wouldn’t mind having
babies with? I did say that? When? Just now? Gotcha! You readers are
tricky.
Passer!
Tuesdays will see more of The Voice
followed by new shows Chicago Med and Best Time Ever with the
returning Chicago Fire coming back in November to replace the latter
show. While I am highly interested in the city of Chicago right now
(“Yep, I’m totally stalking my Ex-Boyfriend” is set there), I
haven’t watched any of the Chicago shows and am just not that
interested in another medical show. Sorry, Chicago Med, I’m
probably not going to watch you.
Best Time ever will also most likely
get the cold shoulder as variety shows of this nature seem more
YouTube clip-worthy than having me devote a full hour to view it.
Wednesdays will also be filled with
returning shows, including a second season for the Mysteries of
Laura, which I will be watching, and Law and Order SVU which I dabble
in. Chicago P.D. Will end the night.
Then on Thursday is when things get
interesting with two new shows sandwiching The Blacklist into the 9pm
time slot (still don’t like it because it’s against Scandal, but
it did alright there last year and my DVR came in handy). Up first,
they’ll start the night with Heroes Reborn.
To start, I am surprised that NBC
didn’t go for the kill ABC trifecta and switch Heroes Reborn to 9pm
on Tuesday to go against Agents of SHIELD or move it all the way to
Mondays at 10 (the first incarnations original slot) to go against
CBS’s Supergirl come late October. If they had moved it to Tuesdays
against SHIELD and moved Chicago Med to Thursdays, they could have an
almost exact copycat night with ABC.
I digress. Heroes Reborn brings a
renewed spin to the original show in which people were given
superpowers because of some moon/sun eclipse thingy. As with most
things involving superpowered people, it will be dealing with those
who have the powers and those who want to destroy them, or capture
them or do other such terrible things with them. The thing working
against it is that, unlike Marvel’s shows, CW’s superhero
universe, and even DC shows on Fox and CBS, Heroes Reborn neither has
anything to connect it to something else nor does it really have a
rich and long-standing source material. This may have been one of the
reasons it originally got canceled. With the influx of superheroes
now, it is hard to say whether this can stand above the rest of the
crowd.
Why I’m Interested?
OK, by now fans of the original Heroes
show can probably tell I wasn’t much of a fan the first time around
(moon/sun eclipse thingy? Come on, Michael, do your research). You
have to remember that the first one came out back before comic book
adaptation hysteria kicked into overdrive. If felt too much like
X-Men and I was never fully into X-Men. This time, I’m giving it a
chance simply based off the fact that there was such fan support for
it that NBC saw fit to bring it back. That doesn’t happen often,
which means (it better mean!) that there was something good I just
missed the first time around. We’ll see.
As said, The Blacklist follows that,
but then another new show entitled The Player will air. Probably my
most intriguing show of the fall, The Player looks similar to a TV
idea I had way back in the 90s (maybe one day I’ll get to make it)
entitled The Game. This rendition sees Wesley Snipes in all his
Wesley Snipes-black glory returning to someplace other than prison
for IRS and tax fraud. Ha ha ha! #TheShadeIsReal! But seriously, he
doesn’t stray too far from the criminal element as he plays a
broker/game executor who oversees a high-stakes gambling arena where
the super wealthy gamble on crime. Yeah! Crazy, right? It totally
just blew your mind and then you shrugged and said, “eh! I could
actually see that happening.” Now you’re thinkin’, “holy
crap! How is he readin’ my mind?” Hey, it’s just how I roll.
Philip Winchester will play the titular
character who will be forced to complete complex tasks and stop
crimes, while people bet on his ability to accomplish such charges.
Forget figuring out How To Get Away With Murder, he’ll have to
figure out how to save a life, who shot the sheriff, and who’s that
lady week after week. It’s... just... a lot.
Why I’m interested?
Well, I finally get to see Wesley
Snipes on TV—always been a very specific dream of mine. I also like
the concept of the show as it will surely be challenging morally and
seems to have a very Liam Neeson’s Taken kind of feel to it. If it
can keep the intensity and pace each week while building up to a
climax that would see the Player confronting this group of super
wealthy people, I’m all in.
Then, in a strange and unconventional
twist, NBC has decided to put two comedies on Friday after having
abandoned their Must See Thursdays TV slogan they had back since
Seinfeld first premiered, maybe longer than that. To add to the
weirdness, their first comedy will be the returning Undateable, which
I never watched but heard great stuff about. But, in a Drew Carey
late 90s early 2000s spin on things, Undateable will be live... all
season. Teh! Yeah, take that in for a moment. Not that live
television is anything new, but the insignia of “live” is usually
saved these days for award shows and reality competitions, or at the
very least variety shows where flubs and mistakes from the script can
actually endear us to an actor more (Hi, Jimmy Fallon!). Doing this
with a scripted sitcom for longer than two episodes is a big risk,
which could either pay off in massive dividends or crash and burn the
sophomore comedy. Either way, well played Undateable. I am now
intrigued to see where this is going.
The same can’t be said about the one
new show on Fridays, Truth Be Told. Starring Saved By The Bell blonde
kid not playing Saved By The Bell blonde kid (Mark Paul Gosselaar for
you lames) and black bailiff from the highly underrated and even more
under-watched Bad Judge, this show is about... uh... Well, there’s
these two married guys and they... um... I’m sorry, is this a new
age version of Seinfeld? I can’t for the life of me figure out what
the hell this show is really about. It’s not about people falling
in love. It’s not about a modern family. It’s not really about a
group of friends struggling to be single in the big city either. So
what the heck are they doing? A tee-hee, I don’t know but Vanessa
Lachey is on it, so... that’s somethin’.
NBC rounds out the night with Grimm (my
fave) and their usual Dateline which then oozes over into both
Saturday’s and Sunday’s schedule when football isn’t on. From
the list of shows, it seems like NBC is trying to at least appeal to
the current trend of superheroes, as well as inject some more
minorities into their line-up with The Player, Truth Be Told and
Chicago Med. Baby steps.
ABC
And Finally, we have ABC. Oh, ABC, my
beloved. What shows shall you enamor me with this season only to
cancel them before I’ve had time to truly enjoy the bounty of their
stories and the richness of their characters? Why do I return to you,
my love, when ill-will and scars remaining from shows taken before
their time are fated between us? What new heights shall I soar to on
the back of twisty, turning good shows? What unforeseen and
unmitigated depths shall I sink when a show I’ve long anticipated
turns out to be terrible and bland? Only time shall tell, I suppose.
We begin with Mondays slate of shows.
Two old familiars return with Dancing With The Stars #DWTS already
started and Castle (#Castle) premiering tonight. For what it’s
worth I so enjoy both shows but can see how some fans have tired on
both of them. I mean, how long can people make the life of a writer
interesting, am I right? Oh, wait...
Tuesday is where we see our first drop
of new blood, though, technically its just old blood but with a new
and tighter face. The Muppets, after making their movie return a few
years back, return to the small screen and boy is it looking to be
controversial for the first few episodes as news broke earlier this
summer about Kermit and Ms. Piggy breaking up. OK, honestly I am
probably not going to watch the show but, come on, who didn’t see
the two of them breaking up? It’s been how many years he’s been
hoppin’ on that and he hasn’t put a ring on it yet to make her a
Mrs. (that was a little dirty wasn’t it)? With all joking aside,
it’ll be in the half hour time slot right before sophomore comedy
Fresh Off The Boat. Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD is holding steady in
its third season at 9pm as mentioned before while ABC will slot a new
show at 10pm. The new show, Wicked City won’t start until October
after a few weeks of Beyond The Tank, but I’ll talk about it here
as it is supposed to start soon enough.
Admittedly, I haven’t seen or read
much about Wicked City. It doesn’t seem to be that hyped of a show
by the network which is generally a bad sign, but I’ll tune in for
the first three anyway. What’s looking like it could be an
anthology series in the vein of American Crime, it is a modern period
piece set in 1982 LA where music and hard drugs mingle into murder
and mystery. It has a few recognizable names to it if you watch
enough TV/Film like Ed Westwick and Taissa Farmiga, but other than
that it seems to be a big mystery.
Why I’m Interested?
Again, I’m not stoked to see
it but I will tune in as it promises to be a harder, darker-toned
look at crime that will break from the normal cop procedural symptoms
and look at the crimes from all sides like American Crime did. That
is not to say I was enthralled with American Crime but found it
decent for network TV.
Bewegen auf!
Wednesday stays completely the same for
now with every single sitcom coming back and the night ending with
Nashville. Of course, viewers will look forward to ABC’s click and
news-cycle baiting Black-ish premiere that will highlight the use of
the dreaded N-word. To that I say, I enjoy watching Nashville.
Onward to Thursday, which also will see
a seismic shift in absolutely none of its programming. The same
line-up of Grey’s (I wrote something up on that, concerning Ellen
Pompeo’s comments earlier this summer), Scandal (prepare thyself
#gladiators #Scandal) and How To Get Away With Murder. With the
latter going into its second season, each show has proven to be a
ratings juggernaut on Thursdays as compared against NFL numbers.
We’ll see how viewers and Grey’s core fans respond to the
aftermath of the whole Derek fiasco.
Friday also doesn’t show much new
programming as ABC is still trying to rebuild its TGIF of the 90s
with Tim Allen’s Last Man Standing starting the night. While I
thought Reba McEntire’s Malibu Country from, like, two years ago
was a worthy coupling to Tim’s zany aging white man troupe, the
network has decided to add a middle-aged Asian man and his family to
the mix.
Coming to 8:30pm ABC Fridays is Dr.
Ken, replacing last season’s Cristela which felt like it would have
gone great with CW’s Jane the Virgin if made into a one-camera
format. Dr. Ken will follow popular “that one Asian guy in that
funny movie” actor Ken Jeong as he brings a funnier, fantasized
version of his real life before fame when he was just a lowly
super-educated doctor. A “what could have been” look at his life,
it’ll be your standard family sitcom focused on upwardly mobile
Americans.
Why I’m Interested?
Well, out of all the new shows coming
out, I am probably the most mixed about this one. From one vantage
point, I really want to see this to see if Ken Jeong’s humor not
only translates well back to TV (he’s been a little dirtier in the
films and was only a tertiary character on Community) but also to see
if he’ll be able to adequately play both the straight man and the
set-up guy as is generally required in sitcoms. On the other hand, I
feel this show doesn’t have the full network backing as it is being
placed in a black hole of a slot. See, I feel like if ABC is going to
bring back TGIF—as they already have TGIT—then go all out with
it. Move one of the successful Wednesday sitcoms to Friday after Tim,
move Fresh Off The Boat and The Muppets also so that you can then
have Shark Tank earlier in the week. By toe-dipping, they make me
think they don’t have faith in the property.
Saturdays will stay open for films,
sports and specials as usual, but Sundays will see the rise of two
new shows. Just like Last Man Standing, ABC execs have been looking
for something to compliment Once Upon A Time (#OUAT) and Revenge. Now
that Revenge has been served... its walking papers, only OUAT remains
with America’s Funniest Home Videos still in the 7pm spot for those
that watch it. While AFV will have new host Alfonso Ribeiro, he will
not be the only new, black addition.
That’s right, they’re adding black
gold, oil to be precise. At 9pm will follow probably my third most
anticipated show of the fall, Blood and Oil. Centered around a young
couple that travel to North Dakota to strike it rich in oil, and the
preying family they intersect with on their search for riches, this
is bound to be a twisty, turny, backstabbing soap drama that has been
missing since the first season of Revenge (though I enjoyed all 4
seasons). With Don Johnson attached as the baron, rich guy standing
in the way of the young couple’s hustle, I am highly intrigued.
Why I’m Interested?
For the past few years, I have been
watching Dynasty on DVD. One of the two shows to drive the 80s wild
with its opulence, high fashion and over-the-top catfights—sorry,
lady quarrels—it showed that rich people could be just as
deceptive, mean, conniving and cutthroat as the people at the bottom,
they just look better doing it. That, coupled with Dallas, ignited a
need for the nighttime soap outside of procedurals and doctor shows.
If Blood and Oil can channel even a hint of those shows or the modern
day Dynasty (Empire), I’m in for at least half a season. It’s
lily whiteness will not be a problem for me.
Speaking of the whitest show we know,
ABC made an interesting choice following Blood and Oil up with
Quantico. Let me just get my TV exec playing hat out for a second and
say that from everything I’ve seen so far of Quantico, it feels
more like a Tuesday at 10pm show to me for ABC. Listen, if you watch
enough TV and tune yourself into the mood of networks and of the
viewing people, you can tell that some shows should air on certain
days of the week. Quantico finishing off the Sunday schedule doesn’t
seem like a brilliant choice as it looks a little too involved
plot-wise for viewers winding down their weekend and looking to focus
on work the next day. Then again, AMC had Breaking Bad and HBO has
Game of Thrones and True Detectives but it should be noted that those
shows were either in the summer or had far shorter seasons than what
is expected of Quantico. The only way I see this being a good day for
it is if it brings back memories of Alias. But again, I digress.
Quantico, led by the gorgeous Priyanka
Chopra, will follow a new class of recruits to the FBI’s famed
Quantico training facility. You’ll see them grow and becoming the
agents they will be in the future. Then (and this is where a full
season of this might make some viewers weary on Sunday nights), the
show will hit us with a dual narrative as we jump forward in time to
see that one of the recruits has pulled off “the biggest terrorist
attack on US soil since 9/11.” Gasp! Yeah, I know. Similar to
HTGAWM, you’ll spend much of the season trying to figure out who it
is while also getting wrapped up in the romance drama.
Why I’m Interested?
For one, it shows that the networks are
reaching out so far into diversity now that they’ve actually put an
Indian woman as the lead on a show. For that, I applaud them,
especially knowing that at some point a great deal of viewers will
mistake her for Middle-Eastern. I am also interested in the whodunnit
aspect of the show as this will cause me to hate everybody and nobody
at the same time. Paradoxical! And if it does end up having parallels
with Alias, I’m all for that as well. The one thing I don’t want
is for it to become another FlashForward in which the action slows
down to such a crawl mid-season when things are supposed to be
getting more intense that the writers suddenly have no plans for
season two and leave everything too tidy while not solving the main
mystery. Solve the main mystery of who did it, but in doing that,
present us with a secondary mystery for next season.
Well, there it is. There you have it, ladies and gentlemen. A very long post, for a very long season ahead
of us beginning later on tonight. So, what new shows are you eager to
see? What old shows are you going to tune in for? Are there some old
shows that you’ve finally given up on in favor of that new hussy?
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on until later in the season? Don't be afraid to include any new cable shows you think are going to be amazing. I need to know your thoughts. I need to know them now! Questions, comments and, more comments
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P.S. Sure, my sign off just happened to
be lines from Andy Samberg’s Emmys opening last night. So! It still
applies to me. Come on ask me anything? Actually, don’t ask me
about The Walking Dead... or Fear The Walking Dead... or True
Detective... or what happened on Big Brother. Crap! I gotta go see if
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