Manifest
“Dead Reckoning”
November 26, 2018
The TL;DR version: Our heroes find the poor guinea pig passengers and save them from the bad guys, but in the process, Beleaguered Federal Agent is killed and Ex-Boyfriend is TV injured (i.e.: he slips into a coma that he comes out of 5 minutes later). Grace kicks Ben out the house because he sucks and the writing sucks and everything sucks.
Ugh. So, today was a hard day. Your trusty blogger’s computer was considerably less trusty, and while I was in the middle of writing my daily Watch This! post this morning, the hard drive decided that it had enough of this cruel world and crapped out on me. (This in the same week that the insurance company totaled one of our cars and our refrigerator died. 2019! It sucks so far!)
R.I.P. hard drive. 2015-2019. The Trump years have been hard on all of us.
Fortunately, I have a back-up computer (unless I kill this one, too, I have been known to be rough on computers) so please do check back in tomorrow for your regularly scheduled TV news and shrill political hysteria. In the meantime, Momma’s gonna see if there’s any wine left in that box and call it a day. Toodles.
The Bachelor
January 21, 2019
Supernatural
“Nihilism”
January 17, 2019
THEN
“This time, he’ll be nice and quiet for a change—buried. And he is. He’s gone.”
NOW
“Now this … just feels right.”
So apparently Michael’s finger snap wasn’t just to activate his monsters. It was also to initiate a costume change. And it bears repeating—great day in the morning Jensen Ackles can wear a suit.
The Real Housewives of New Jersey
“Turkish Delights”
December 5, 2018
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Saturday Night Live
Rachel Brosnahan & Greta Van Fleek
January 19, 2019
Saturday Night Live is back after its long winter break and while last night’s episode wasn’t terrible, let’s just say that it felt like some writers and performers don’t quite seem like they have entirely mentally have returned from vacation? It is not that the episode was lazy, per se — there were a couple of sketches that I think really hit it out of the park, including one that revels in its immaturity, and a surprise visit from the delightful John Mulaney — it’s just that the bad sketches weren’t bad as much as they were half-assed.
As for Brosnahan’s performance, I honestly had forgotten she was the host through much of the episode. That’s not meant to be a knock on her, she fit in well enough that I found myself reminding myself that she was the host and not a “featured player.” (Not a star, mind you, but a featured player.) (OK, maybe that was a dig.)
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