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If We Controlled Your Remote… 3/26/19

Posted on March 26, 2019 by and

Have you ever been at a loss as to what to watch? Too many shows to pick from? We’re here to give you our opinions on what we feel is worth watching. Check it out and then let us know in the comments below what you’re choosing for tonight!

Jenny’s Choice

Last week’s The Rookie was a good one. While on a disturbance call at a restaurant, Officer Nolan was putting handcuffs on a crazy young woman who went after a valet with a knife, and her dress accidentally ripped, exposing her (ugly) undergarment (bra or whatever). Unfortunately, she turned out to be the baby mama of a big gang leader (the son of the original leader, who was currently in prison), and neither of them liked that Nolan “disrespected” her. So the guy put out a “greenlight” on Nolan, and he was very nearly killed that night after picking up dinner to take home. After talking to Captain Andersen, he decided to go in to work the next day, although she told him that he would be riding with her instead of Bishop, who would be working with the rest of the precinct to shake up the gang. Sergeant Grey then visited the leader’s father in prison to get him to order his son to drop the greenlight. It worked…but then it didn’t.

The son was a complete idiot and lured Nolan and Andersen to a house with a false break-in call and then kidnapping them, not caring when he learned that he’d taken a police captain in addition to the rookie and had her zip-tied to a chair. The guy then pushed Andersen into the pool, still tied to the chair. She was able to dislocate/break her thumb and get out of the restraints, pulling one guy into the pool and shooting him after grabbing his gun and then shooting the other sidekick while Nolan struggled to get out of his restraints. The leader ran off, shooting back at them as he ran, and he got in a lucky shot that hit Andersen in the neck, killing her almost immediately. Nolan finally broke free and dived in to grab her as she sank to the bottom of the pool, but there was nothing he could do. The others arrived as he sat there with her head in his lap. Sergeant Grey then stormed into the guy’s prison cell and got him to give up his son’s location or where he’d be heading, and they were able to set up a road block and stop him. He surrendered without a fight, which was kind of a pisser, honestly. LOL

It was a really sad episode, and I have no doubt Nolan is going to feel guilty about it for a while. If he hadn’t come to work, she’d be alive. It isn’t his fault, really, but he’s going to feel that way, I’m sure. It’ll be interesting to see if that plays out in future episodes.

On tonight’s episode, “The Shake Up,” a massive earthquake rocks the city and throws everyone’s patrols and its citizens into chaos. Meanwhile, Agent Russo recommends Officer Nolan for a protective detail of Brad Hayes, a man whose dealings have put a target on his head. Sarah Shahi & Joel McHale guest star.

To see how the earthquake affects the city and our favorite officers, tune in to ABC at 10/9c.

I’ll also be watching/DVRing American Housewife, Ellen’s Game of Games, MasterChef Junior, NCIS, The Kids Are Alright, Chopped, FBI, Mental Samurai, NCIS: New Orleans, & Miracle Workers,
 
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If We Controlled Your Remote… 3/25/19

Posted on March 25, 2019 by and

Have you ever been at a loss as to what to watch? Too many shows to pick from? We’re here to give you our opinions on what we feel is worth watching. Check it out and then let us know in the comments below what you’re choosing for tonight!

Kyle’s Choice

Last week, 9-1-1 returned to FOX, and it didn’t waste any time getting into the craziness, as the team was called to assist a women whose doctors passed out in the middle of her facelift procedure. Afterwards, they assisted with a shark that was stuck in the middle of a highway, chomping away on one of its handler’s arms. Meanwhile, Maddie and Athena teamed up to look into a suspicious 9-1-1 call from a boy who claimed nothing was wrong – it turns out that he and his new brother had both been abducted by their so-called father. This reminded Athena of a little girl who went missing in her own neighborhood when she was young, and it was these events that had inspired her to become a cop.

When not at work, Athena was dealing with a visit from her parents. Her mom Beatrice wasted no time in letting her daughter know how disappointed she was in her. She was particularly upset that she decided to marry Bobby, a white man, and that he was already acting like a parent to her grandchildren. Meanwhile, before the winter break, we saw that Doug, Maddie’s crazy ex, had made his way to town and had secretly befriended Chimney in order to get some intel on his ex. This week, he followed Chimney on his way to a date with Maddie, stabbed him multiple times in the courtyard, and left him bleeding out, and then made his way into the apartment to a shocked and frightened Maddie.

Chimney has already had rebar go through his forehead, and now he’s been stabbed several times in the chest. Will he get lucky and survive yet another devastating injury, or is this it? I’m a little nervous that tonight’s episode appears to be a Chimney origin story. Are we going to get one final look at how he became the fireman and paramedic he is, just to then say goodbye, or will he miraculously pull through? And what about Maddie? Can she escape from Doug and either have him arrested, or better yet, more permanently disposed of?

On tonight’s episode, “Chimney Begins,” look back at how Chimney joined Station 118 and became the firefighter and paramedic he is today.

To see how why Chim joined the fire department, tune in to FOX at 9/8c.

I’ll also be watching/recording The Fix, The Resident, and Arrow.
 
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If We Controlled Your Remote… 3/24/19

Posted on March 24, 2019 by

Have you ever been at a loss as to what to watch? Too many shows to pick from? We’re here to give you our opinions on what we feel is worth watching. Check it out and then let us know in the comments below what you’re choosing for tonight!

Phoebe’s Choice

Midway through last season, we knew that American Gods was going to be a major departure from the novel it is based on. I say this mostly because of how they made Shadow’s dead wife a revenant (undead) main character, whereas in the book she came back for 3 seconds at the end of a six-hundred-page epic after being dead the whole time. This latest episode was predominantly invented for the show, with some elements that came from the book. We started last week with Shadow being held captive by Mr. Town, who was trying to figure out why one human could be so important to Mr. Wednesday, the ancient Norse God Odin’s modern identity. In the aftermath of the battle at the Carousel, an actual scene from the book, Wednesday sent the Jinn to retrieve his magical spear. Since Laura Moon, the undead wife, wanted to find Shadow, the Leprechaun Mad Sweeney tagged along with her – she had his lucky coin and was using it to keep from rotting, as seen last season.

A surprise team-up saw Mr. World, the leader of the New Gods, meeting the ancient love Goddess Bilquis to discuss an alliance. As the Leprechaun & Laura tracked Shadow’s location, the Irish beast offered her an alternative means to maybe get resurrected: a devil in New Orleans that he knew. Meanwhile, Techboy was on a mission from Mr. World to retrieve Media, who was obliterated in season’s finale at the Easter battle. Media was reforming herself, slowly, mostly as an online voice. He found her at Times Square in New York though. She would return to help when she was healed, she said.

The torture Mr. Town was subjecting Shadow to was sending him through a series of memories. We saw that Odin once met him as his mother was being diagnosed with cancer. He gave him a coin then vanished. Laura and the Leprechaun followed Shadow’s trail to the site of the Easter battle then determined he was on a train. She hopped right on it, determined to rescue her man. Mad Sweeney followed, determined to eventually get his coin back. In the flashbacks, Shadow relived his mother’s death. Crazy-assed Odin parked his car on train tracks while giving a big speech about sacrifice. Sweeney & Laura battled their way to Shadow and were just about to free him when the train hit Odin’s car.

WTF?!?!? Well, that wasn’t in the book, but okay, let’s see where we go from here. As usual, the production value and the acting in this are amazeballz. The season is only eight episodes long, and tonight is number three, so #ketchup.

On tonight’s episode, “Muninn,” as he is tracked by Mr. World, Shadow makes his way to Cairo, thanks to a ride from Sam Black Crow; Mr. Wednesday slyly gains Laura’s help in forging an alliance with a powerful god.

To see how Mr. Wednesday gains Laura’s help, tune in to Starz at 8/7c.

I’ll also be watching Bob’s Burgers, Black Monday, Supergirl, and America’s Lost Vikings because Sundays are always the best for TV!

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If We Controlled Your Remote… 3/22/19

Posted on March 22, 2019 by

Have you ever been at a loss as to what to watch? Too many shows to pick from? We’re here to give you our opinions on what we feel is worth watching. Check it out and then let us know in the comments below what you’re choosing for tonight!

Phoebe’s Choice

The past two episodes of Doom Patrol have pitted the team of miserable misfits against a weird doomsday cult called the Cult of the Unwritten Book, which anticipates the ascension of a boy covered in ancient script into the bringer of the Apocalypse – the Decreator. With Mr. Nobody as the overall Big Bad for this show, the episodic villains are of a 1990s X-Files Monster of the Week caliber at the very least, in an early 90s DC Comics kind-of-way.

We opened last week with a weird flashback to the late 1970s, with Crazy Jane beating serious Nazi ass at a Punk show. This landed her back in an asylum. Meanwhile in the FWD→now, we saw a giant eye had opened in the sky, the form the Decreator was supposed to take. Almost immediately people were being “undone” as reality was slowly destroyed. The Decreator’s once human parents, the Archons, held Robotman and Crazy Jane captive in Numheim; little did anyone seem to understand the snowy city itself was in a snow globe at Doom Manor.

Meanwhile, in a cozy little pocket dimension, Mr. Nobody was pissed that the Universe was about to end and that he hadn’t been featured in two episodes. (His nuance with the 4th wall was sublime.) He conferred with his captive, the Chief, on how they might defeat this cult and their already succeeding Apocalypse. They hatched a scheme to travel back in time to form an anti-cult led by Crazy Jane. Nobody targeted her in 1977 when she was in that asylum after the Punk show. He coaxed her Dr. Bertrand persona, who was blessed with charm that bordered on mind control, to form this Recreator cult. She started by recruiting all the other crazies in the asylum. In the present, the Chief returned to recruit the help of his team. Rita tried to get Elliot, the boy who was becoming the Decreator, to abandon his fate, but it was beyond his will.

As the giant eye in the sky undid reality, the Doom Patrol tracked the location of the Recreator, who was a dog not a human. Inside the snow globe, Crazy Jane rang the church bell, which made the glyphs on the Recreator active. Trusted ally of the Chief, Willoughby Kippling, read the glyphs and BAM. Recreation canceled Decreation. The world was then redone, resetting back to 1977 for the timeline to happen again, this time sans the Cult of the Unwritten Book.

This show continues to deliver, maybe the best comic hero show airing week-to-week right now. But you gotta get on that elusive DCU platform to watch, so consider that investment.

On today’s episode, “Doom Patrol Patrol,” Jane, Larry and Rita visit a school where the original Doom Patrol has retired. Meanwhile, Cliff & Vic bond over their mutual “father issues.”

To see how the visit goes for Jane, Larry, & Rita, tune in to DCU starting at 9AM/8AMc.

I’m not watching any other “new tonight” shows, but the only other recent comic book adaptation to come close to (or surpass, tbh) this show is the recent Netflix release The Umbrella Academy. Don’t sleep on that if you haven’t seen it yet!

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If We Controlled Your Remote… 3/21/19

Posted on March 21, 2019 by

Have you ever been at a loss as to what to watch? Too many shows to pick from? We’re here to give you our opinions on what we feel is worth watching. Check it out and then let us know in the comments below what you’re choosing for tonight!

Megan’s Choice

For the People returned for its second season, and the writers haven’t missed a beat. These characters make every case interesting, and the heart of this show keeps me coming back for more. Last week’s episode shone a light on the immigration disaster that is going on in the States right now, when a man was taken by ICE after he came in to be a witness in a case. The man had a son they tried to take, but Tina refused to let them, which caused a standoff at the courthouse, with both sides of the courtroom trying to save this family. I applaud Shonda Rhimes for being brave enough to take on such huge issues during this politically messed-up environment we are in right now.

On tonight’s episode, “Minimum Continuing Legal Education,” Seth becomes committed to taking an immune international diplomat to trial so he can get out of general crime and onto a more senior unit. Sandra works on a kidnapping case and is convinced the kidnapping was an accident. Meanwhile, Jay is certain that taking a different route to work will determine how successful he will be in the courtroom.

To find out if Seth can make a name for himself, tune in to ABC at 10/9c.

I’ll also be watching Station 19, Grey’s Anatomy, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and Beat Bobby Flay.

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