We've got a lot of ground to cover so let's get this Touchbase underway!
So Andrea and I were watching Jeopardy when there was a category presented by Sam Heughan who plays Jamie Fraser on Outlander. Ken Jennings thanked Sam for presenting the category and reminded us the 8th and final season of Outlander was premiering that week.
WHAT? How did I NOT know that it was returning that week? I used to be some much better at keeping track of these things.
Anyway....
So I caught up to the season premiere of Outlander, heart in hand, knowing it's time for the series to go and no quite ready to let go.
The year is 1779 and it's old home week up on Fraser's Ridge in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.
Jamie has resigned his commission as a general in George Washington's army.
Jamie and Claire have returned home with a newly discovered granddaughter Frances by way of daughter Faith who was supposed to have died in childbirth way back in season 2.
What?!?
And we have more family reunion in store with the time travelling Brianna, Roger and their kids, Jemmy and Mandy, escaping threats and nonsense in the 20th century.
Ian and Rachel have also settled on the ridge with a baby on the way.
Life is good on the ridge. Except the Frasers may have made an enemy despite themselves.
And the future holds some dark portents. Brianna brought back a recently published history book by her late 20th century dad Frank Randall.
That tells the tale of Jamie Fraser's death in battle during the American Revolution in 1780.
Maybe giving this book to Jamie as a gift (without reading it first) was not a good idea.
Man, I hate this show! Whose dumb idea was it for me to watch this thing?
Oh, it was me!
More to come as they say.
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Last week was birthday week for St. Denis Medical and Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage.
Matt spends his birthday at a laser tag place in an episode with no scenes set at St. Denis.
We get some good character development as the very shallow surgeon Bruce and the emotionally detached nurse Serena both find themselvese expressing genuine affection for our hapless Matt.
Poor Alex with a rare moment not on duty as the head nurse or on high alert as a mother to her kids just wants to play some laser tag. Everything that can go wrong goes wrong.
Meanwhile in Texas in the 1990's, George Cooper Jr, our erstwhile Georgie, turns 21 but it's Mandy who's drawing focus. She's not coping well with the fallout of her referring to God as "her" in during a TV broadcast which has cost Mandy her job.
What's the big deal with calling God "her"? Well, it's the 1990's and she's in Texas. Given what's going on in Texas today with mandated Bible teaching in public school, it being a different decade may not make much of a difference.
So Mandy gets black out drunk at Georgie's birthday celebration and spends the next day trying to piece together what happened the night before.
Nothing she finds out makes her look good.
And Georgie who is 21 comes off more mature than Mandy at 31. Is this a fracture in the foundation that will make their marriage their "first"?
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Also last week, Andrea and I caught up to the season finale of Stumble.
Coach Courteney Potter has managed to bring her rag tag cheer team from Heådltston* State Junior College to the national cheer competition in Daytona.
*It is entirely up to you how you pronounce that.
Courteney is determined to snag her 15th cheer championship trophy but they are, of course, obstacles.
Her former assistant and now arch nemesis Tammy Istiny has brought the cheer squad from Sammy Davis Sr. Junior College.
And one of the competition judges is none other than Marg Hargberg who was Courteney's former coach when she was a cheerleader. Marge was a cruel and brutal taskmaster towards young Courteney and adult Courteney is still feeling those scars.
Marg Hargberg is played by Katey Sagal. For a photo of what she looked like when Courteney was a teenage, the producers use a photo of Katey as Peg Bundy from Married With Children.
Courteney's team takes the mat for a 2 minute plus routine that is flashy and flawless.
The team comes in third.
Well, that sucks!
Will we see what happens next season? NBC has not announced a decision if Stumble will be renewed.
I hope it is because this has been a genuinely laugh out loud comedy series that Andrea and I have enjoyed a lot.
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Andrea and I caught up to the season finale of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.
I will say in this space that it was great but more than that will have to wait for this blog's dedicated Star Trek space, Star Trekking which will post on Sunday.
That is that for this week's Tuesday TV Touchbase.
Until next time, remember to be good to one another and try to keep it down in there, would ya? I'm trying to watch TV over here.
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