The World Series, ‘The Diplomat,’ ‘Martha,’ a bunch of finales, and everything else you don’t want to miss on TV this week.
Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (AMC)
Do Not Obey in Advance.
‘The Golden Bachelorette’: Stripping it all away
Let’s get in formation: Queen Bey will be with Vice President Kamala Harris in Houston tomorrow
How fucking dare he.
Bret Baier attempts to defend how rude he was to Kamala Harris, fails.
LOTS of TV stuff, but first: GO VOTE!
The World Series, ‘What We Do in the Shadows,’ ‘Somebody Somewhere,’ ‘Poppa’s House,’ and everything else you don’t want to miss on TV this week
Somebody Somewhere (HBO)
Love is Blind (Netflix)
Territory (Netflix)
Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC)
Michael Keaton Beetlejuice’s his way into a so-so ‘Saturday Night Live’
Saturday Night Live
Michael Keaton and Billie Eilish
October 19, 2024
Michael Keaton is 73 years old, only a year or two younger than my own parents but that’s neither here nor there except to say that he’s one of our acting treasures and I’m glad he’s having a moment with Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and he looks great for his age and that he was not the thing that dragged down this episode.
What I am saying is that SNL has run for four weeks in a row, which, at least in recent years, is not the norm (it’s usually 3 episodes on, 1 off); and maybe the writing staff needed a break. (I’m guessing the idea was to be off the week before Halloween so that they could be on both the week before and after Election Day.)
ANYWAY. Michael Keaton, who has hosted in 1982; 1992; 2015; and now in 2024, wasn’t the problem: he was nimble and funny and game. The problem lay more in the writing and the concepts of the sketches that fell short. Hopefully, everyone gets a nice week off and comes back refreshed ahead of the MOST TERRIFYING ELECTION SEASON OF OUR LIVES.
No pressure.
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