If We Controlled Your Remote… 6/2/19

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

Tonight, AMC kicks off the fifth season of Fear the Walking Dead. During the fourth season, we lost a couple of the original main characters but gained some replacements along the way. As the season ended, our band of survivors consisted of Morgan, Strand, Althea, Alicia, Luciana, John, June, Wendell, Sarah, and Charlie. The group had been poisoned with antifreeze by a crazy serial killer, a filthy woman named Martha. However, apparently they just needed to drink a lot of beer to offset the poison, and they managed to find some in the nick of time. Martha ended up getting turned into a walker and was quickly dispatched by Morgan. It looked like the newly reunited gang was all set to head from Texas to Virginia, to the Alexandria community. However, Morgan changed his plans at the last minute, wanting to stay and continue Polar Bear’s work, helping to provide supplies for lost travelers and hopefully prevent someone else from ending up desperate and alone like Martha. The others decided to join him and planned to start by trying to find and help some of the folks that were on Al’s tapes. So they set up shop in an old denim factory, using it as their base of operations.

As the fifth season opens, we are thrust right into the middle of the action/story. Our band of do-gooders is off on a mission to find a man named Logan, who contacted them for assistance, when things run afoul. They now find themselves in a dangerous, unfamiliar new location. Not only are there zombies to deal with, but there’s also some unknown person or group that doesn’t seem want anyone in their neighborhood, and they have put up signs and other roadblocks to keep people out—anyone having flashbacks to Negan? What is this new threat, what do they want, and should our group be concerned?

I checked out the first few episodes of the season, and it’s definitely shaping up to be another exciting one, with many twists and turns. Just in the few episodes I saw, there are several new and familiar faces that show up to shake things up. And the number of threats our group is facing seems to grow exponentially with each new episode. I’m looking forward to learning more about what our survivors are really up against and seeing what else this season holds!

On tonight’s premiere, “Here to Help,” led by Morgan and Alicia, the group lands in uncharted territory in search of survivors to help; everything is not as it seems in this foreboding new land.

Catch up with this group of survivors tonight on AMC at 9/8c.

I’ll also be watching/recording Perpetual Grace, Ltd, NOS4A2, and Worst Cooks in America.

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This Week on TV – 6/2/19-6/8/19

Welcome to a new week of TV! There’s a lot on this week, including a good number of premieres, so be sure to check out the schedule below so you don’t miss anything!

Don’t forget to comment or Tweet @tvismypacifier to let us know what YOU are planning to watch!

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Saturday on TV – 6/1/19

Saturday is the series premiere of Death at the Mansion: Rebecca Zahau on Oxygen at 6/5c. Rebecca Zahau, a vibrant young woman was found dead, hanging naked, bound and gagged, in the courtyard of her billionaire boyfriend’s Coronado mansion on July 13, 2011, just two days after his six-year-old son suffered a fatal accident while under Rebecca’s care. Rebecca’s cause of death was ruled as a suicide, leading to years of endless public intrigue and speculation. This captivating new series follows an elite team of investigators including, former Prosecutor Loni Coombs, Crime Journalist Billy Jensen, and Forensic Criminologist Paul Holes as they take another look this mysterious case.

Also on tonight:

  • *Series Premiere*Death at the Mansion: Rebecca Zahau (#101) – Oxygen @ 6/5c
  • *Special*Ghost Adventures – Travel Channel @ 9/8c (2-Hour Special)
  • *Special*Iyanla: Fix My Life – OWN @ 9/8c (1-Hour “Fix My Life: The Mitchell Family” Special Pt 1)
  • *New*Cake Boss (#1405/1406) – Discovery Family @ 9/8c & 9:30/8:30c (2 New Episodes)
  • *New*Live PD – A&E @ 9/8c (3-Hour New Episode)
  • *New*Nate and Jeremiah (#307) – TLC @ 9/8c
  • *New*Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj (#304) – Netflix @ 3:01AM/2:01AMc
  • *New*The Son (#206) – AMC @ 9/8c
  • *New*Trading Spaces (#1012) – TLC @ 8/7c
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Friday on TV – 5/31/19

Friday features 1 series premiere & 2 season finales. To read more about the new series, click the link below. Otherwise, check out tonight’s schedule!

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Tonight is the series premiere of Swamp Thing on DCU at 9AM/8AMc. The show follows Abby Arcane as she investigates what seems to be a deadly swamp-born virus in a small town in Louisiana but soon discovers that the swamp holds mystical and terrifying secrets. When unexplainable and chilling horrors emerge from the murky marsh, no one is safe. It stars Andy Bean, Crystal Reed, Derek Mears, Henderson Wade, Ian Ziering, Jennifer Beals, Jeryl Prescott, Kevin Durand, Leonardo Nam, Maria Sten, Virginia Madsen, & Will Patton.
 

Also on tonight:

  • *Season Finale*Blindspot (#421/422) – NBC @ 8/7c & 9/8c (2 New Episodes Including Season Finale)
  • *Season Finale*Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men (#104) – Showtime @ 9/8c
  • *Series Premiere*Swamp Thing (#101) – DCU @ 9AM/8AMc
  • *Special*Deadwood: The Movie – HBO @ 8/7c (2-Hour Special)
  • *Special*Masters of Illusion – The CW @ 8/7c (1-Hour “21st Anniversary” Special)
  • *New*Diners, Drive-ins & Dives – Food Network @ 9/8c
  • *New*Gold Rush: Parker’s Trail (#932) – Discovery Channel @ 9/8c
  • *New*Live PD – A&E @ 9/8c (3-Hour New Episode)
  • *New*Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (#604) – ABC @ 8/7c
  • *New*Portals to Hell (#106) – Travel Channel @ 10/9c
  • *New*Real Time with Bill Maher (#497/1717) – HBO @ 10/9c
  • *New*Ridiculousness (#2417/2418) – MTV @ 8/7c & 8:30/7:30c (2 New Episodes)
  • *New*The Graham Norton Show (#2508) – BBC America @ 11/10c
  • *New*The New Negroes (#107) – Comedy Central @ 11/10c
  • *New*Warrior (#109) – Cinemax @ 10/9c
  • *New*Whistleblower – CBS @ 8/7c
  • *New*Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas (#19/209) – HBO @ 11/10c
  • *New*Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell (#407/408) – Cartoon Network @ 12AM/11PMc & 12:15AM/11:15PMc (2 New Episodes)
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If We Controlled Your Remote… 5/31/19

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

Early this morning, Amazon Prime Video released all 6 episodes of the new original series Good Omens, which is an adaptation of the 1990 novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen, The Good Fight, Masters of Sex) and demon Crowley (David Tennant, Doctor Who) have been on Earth since its creation, literally. In fact it was Crowley who tempted Eve with that apple. While they work for opposite sides, the two have come to an arrangement during their centuries of influencing humans, particularly in situations where their efforts would just cancel one another out. This professional respect for one another has grown into a long-lasting friendship – in so much as an angel and a demon can be friends. The two are enjoying their time on Earth and don’t want to see it end anytime soon. So when they learn that the Antichrist has been born, they decide to insert themselves into the child’s life, to mentor him, so that when he comes into his powers at age 11, he will not bring about Armageddon. However, this means defying their superiors, who are looking forward to this long-awaited war between good and evil to play out – but things don’t go quite as smoothly as Aziraphale and Crowley planned.

Meanwhile, Anathema Device (Adria Arjona, Emerald City), an American ancestor of infamous 17th century witch Agnes Nutter, makes her way to the small British town where the Antichrist resides. Agnes had written a book of incredibly accurate prophesies, which has been passed down for generations. All her life, Anathema has been letting these prognostications dictate her actions, and that has led her to cross paths with Newton Pulsifer (Jack Whitehall, Jack Whitehall: Travels with My Father), an awkward young man who seems to break any piece of technology he touches. Newton is the ancestor of the man who executed Agnes Nutter for being a witch, and the latest protege of the head of the Witch Hunter army (of one), General Shadwell (Michael McKean, Better Call Saul). Shadwell has a few screws loose and is focused on his self-appointed duty to rid the world of witches.

As the four horsemen of the Apocalypse make their way to the spawn of Satan, time is quickly running out. Humanity’s last chance to prevent Armageddon lies in the hands of a band of quirky misfits.

I can’t recommend this series highly enough. Over the course of the 6 episodes, you get a complete story, so it’s not a huge time commitment, and you don’t have to worry about being left on a cliffhanger that may never get resolved. Once I started watching the first episode, I couldn’t stop. Who would have thought a show about preventing the apocalypse could be so delightful and entertaining?! The show is filled with bizarre, off-beat characters and extremely smart and witty writing that combines fun pop culture references with a bit of social commentary on the human condition. The style and tone of the series often reminded me of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. The series is extremely faithful to the original source material, and now I can’t imagine anyone else but Tennant and Sheen in these roles. Crowley is like the classic cool rock star, who’s always wearing shades and drives around in his prized vintage Bentley. While he likes being evil, there is definitely some good in him, and he tries to hide this from his superiors. Meanwhile, Sheen’s Aziraphale is constantly trying to do good, but he sometimes breaks the rules when he feels like his superiors – such as the angel Gabriel (Jon Hamm, Mad Men) – don’t have the humans’ best interests in mind. The series’ cast also includes Frances McDormand (as the narrator/voice of God), Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation), Miranda Richardson, Anna Maxwell Martin (Motherland), and Mireille Enos (The Catch, The Killing).

Check out this incredibly fun series now on Amazon.

I’ll also be watching/recording Swamp Thing, How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast), and Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

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