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If We Controlled Your Remote… 10/29/20

Posted on October 29, 2020 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!

Kyle’s Choice #1

Tonight, Superstore returns to kick off its sixth season on NBC. Star America Ferrera was supposed to exit the show at the end of last season, but due to the sudden production shutdowns last spring, Amy didn’t get her proper sendoff. When we last left off, Amy was planning to take a position with Zephra corporate, as Director of Customer Experience for Cloud 9. However, this would mean that she would have to relocate to California. She was nervous about telling Jonah, but it turned out that he was on board to move as well. Just like how the TV season was interrupted, so were Amy’s plans. As the new season opens, COVID has hit, and Amy’s transfer has been delayed — just two episodes for the viewers but several months in Cloud 9 time.

While several new/returning shows (including comedies) have taken a more heavy-handed, somewhat political approach to incorporating the events of the past several months into their storylines, I appreciate that Superstore has managed to keep things much lighter, comedically paying tribute to those essential workers who keep our grocery stores going and have to deal with the unruly customers who try to hoard during product shortages or refuse to wear masks. I thought the writers did an excellent job of incorporating the pandemic into the series in a way that felt natural and organic. I’m curious to see if they continue to incorporate the workplace changes throughout the season or if tonight’s premiere is just a one-off. Next week we finally get part 2 of what was supposed to be last season’s finale, and it will be interesting to see how Amy leaves and if Jonah does join her—right now their relationship appears to be trouble-free, however, there has been no mention that Ben Feldman would also be leaving the series. I’m just going to enjoy these final two episodes with Amy and look forward to seeing how the series fills the void left by America Ferrera’s departure.

On tonight’s sixth season premiere, “Essential,” during the coronavirus pandemic, Amy and Jonah try to bring order to the chaos in Cloud 9 while being pulled in multiple directions; the employees learn what it means to be “heroes,” while Amy and Jonah’s impending move to California looms large.

Check out the season opener tonight on NBC at 8/7c.
 
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If We Controlled Your Remote… 10/24/19

Posted on October 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

I’m not sure how great the rest of the content is, but Shudder’s 2019 iteration of Creepshow has been a rock-solid rendition of the franchise. The 1982 movie was both Stephen King’s first original screenplay and an homage to Golden Age horror comic books like Tales from the Crypt & The Vault of Horror. In the stead of the legendary Crypt Keeper, this show has the Creep. The Creep is similar to the Keeper, in that he is a skeletal undead being in tattered robes prone to cackling maniacally, but the Creep never has any dialogue, so copyright intact, I guess? Each episode features two horror stories bookended by an appearance by the Creep that is somehow tangent to the tales.

Last week featured “The Companion” & “Lydia Layne’s Better Half.” In the first tale, a young boy named Harry was on the run from his bully of an older brother, Billy. Billy was determined to kick Harry’s ass once again, but the younger brother ducked into an abandoned property at night while being pursued. He pulled a cane out of a gruesome scarecrow, and the beast came to life. Double trouble! Deeper in the house, Harry found a corpse with a note by it. It was the former owner of the farm. After his wife died, he built the giant monster out of bones and a Valentine’s heart his wife had knit. At first he appreciated the company the Companion brought, after a Girl Scout was killed by the monster. The man knew they both must die. After impaling the scarecrow with his cane, he went inside to shoot himself. When Harry used the cane to defend himself, the beast relented, surrendering to whomever wielded it. Harry returned to his home then and sewed Billy to his bed. Lastly, he unleashed the Companion on Billy.

Next we watched as Lydia Lane gave away the big promotion to some other guy, not Celia her secret lover who had cultivated her position in the industry for years. Celia freaked out on Lydia, and a minor scuffle ensued. Celia fell over the couch backwards and impaled her skull on a crystal statue on the table. Dead. Pouring blood everywhere, dead. Lydia decided to try to sneak the body out of the building since everyone else had gone home for the night. Celia’s eyes kept opening, freaking Lydia out as she got her onto the elevator. Then an earthquake hit, stranding the couple in the elevator. The tension in the suspended metal box was like being in an emotional pressure cooker, with Celia’s corpse often opening eyes and eventually hissing Lydia’s name. We had a Tower of Terror freefall moment, but the cables didn’t totally snap yet. Firefighters were in the building and coming to rescue Lydia now. We saw that the crystal stabbed in Celia’s head was a “Woman of the Year” award. Getting the door partially open, Lydia tried to climb out. Celia came to life then and grabbed her hair while her head was still in the box. The cables snapped and Lydia was decapitated. The firemen found Celia in the bloody elevator car holding Lydia’s head in her hands. This show is so sick! Don’t sleep on it, especially this holiday season.

On tonight’s episodes, “Night of the Paw; Times Is Tough in Musky Holler,” a killer gets stranded in a funeral home with a mortician and his monkey paw; a former mayor and his followers who controlled a town through fear and intimidation get a taste of their own medicine.

Don’t miss the creep factor tonight on Shudder’s streaming network at 9/8c.

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If We Controlled Your Remote… 9/26/19

Posted on September 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 #1

My first pick tonight is the series premiere of Evil. If you know me, you know I’m not at all into dramas or even most supernatural shows, but this is different. It’s a bit of a cop drama mixed with the supernatural, and I couldn’t help but watch when they made the screeners available.

From Michelle & Robert King (The Good Wife/The Good Fight & BrainDead), this is a psychological mystery that examines the origins of evil along the dividing line between science and religion. Kristen Bouchard (Katja Herbers) is a skeptical psychologist basically single mother of four (her husband is off supervising climbing tours of some big mountain overseas, so he’s rarely home). She starts off the show as an expert witness for the District Attorney, but after being pushed to lie on the stand, she quits and a little reluctantly joins forces with David Acosta (Mike Colter), a former adventure-seeking journalist now studying to be a priest and tasked by the Church to assess unexplained phenomena – possessions, miracles, etc. Their job is to figure out if it’s supernatural or if there’s a logical explanation. Along with Kristen and David is Ben Shakir, another skeptic who uses his computer and carpentry skills to figure out/prove that what seems to be supernatural is, in reality, something done by humans or naturally in the environment.

Kristen begins having night terrors, which are SUPER freaky, and one of the more scary characters is Leland Townsend, a man who (CBS’s words but oh so appropriate) “oozes menace” and threatens Kristen and her daughters. David tries to tell Kristen that Townsend is in reality evil, but she doesn’t believe it…until she does. The road to that is spooky and creepy and…everything good that is this show.

I’ve seen the first few episodes already, and it’s scared the pants off me. I loved it way more than I thought I was going to, so I highly recommend at least checking out the first couple of episodes! Also starring are Christine Lahti, Kurt Fuller, Brooklyn Shuck, Dalya Knapp, Maddy Crocco, & Skylar Gray.

On tonight’s episode, “Pilot,” forensic psychologist Kristen Bouchard is hired by the Catholic Church to work with David Acosta, a priest-in-training, and contractor Ben Shakir, to determine whether a serial killer is possessed by a demon or merely a psychopath. Kristen finds that she has a taste for the work and is invited to join the team on a permanent basis.

Don’t miss the premiere tonight on CBS at 10/9c.
 
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