In
case you’re wondering, “Gee, what is Dave-El and his wife Andrea watching on
TV”, here’s where I talk about that.
Stumptown
Stumptown
I
want to touch base on Stumptown. Three things brought me to the table for this
series:
I
fell for her on How I Met Your Mother and she kicks as Maria Hill in the
Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Yes, I mentioned her twice!
I’m
a little worried about the series maintaining any momentum as it seems recently
to only be a new episode every other week.
I’m
also concerned about Dex’s habit of constantly being on the wrong side of things.
I know she’s still new to the whole P.I. game but she really needs to develop better
instincts on who to trust and who not to trust.
The
last new episode has Dex taking a job with a political campaign to do legwork
on the opposition and dig up some dirt. Dex takes the gig because she cynically
thinks all politicians are crooks anyway so what does it matter whose side she’s
on? It turns out the guy she’s investigating is as good as he seems to be.
Yeah, there’s dirt in his past that puts his candidacy at risk.
I
want to see Dex be on the right side of a case for a change.
Late Nite With Seth Meyers
Andrea and I don’t always get to catch the whole show but we do try to stay up to date with Seth’s A Closer Look segments.
A Closer Look can run about 8 to 15 minutes and looks at the day’s political news. The segment is funny but it’s also brutally honest.
I feel sorry for Seth in that A Closer Look presents the facts and truth of what’s going in Trump’s Washington but no one is listening that doesn’t already see that. Those lost in the weeds of their myopic support for Li’l Donnie are not going to be affected by one iota of the truth Seth presents in these segments.
Away from politics, other fun recurring features on Late Nite include Jokes Seth Can’t Tell (because Seth is a middle aged straight white male), Meanwhile During the Broadcast (where the volume is cut off as Seth goes off on a rant about some damn thing that the network doesn't want him talking about while a narrator calmly explains what’s going on) and my favorite, Popsickle Schtick! This bit involves Seth delivering really corny pun based jokes while animated popsickle sticks do weird ass stuff in response. It makes absolutely no sense but I laugh so hard, it hurts.
Click here for a sample of this insanity.
Popsickle Schtick is stupid as hell but I bet Seth would rather do this than put up with one more day of riffing on Trump’s daily bullshit in A Closer Look.
Speaking of Seth…
Seth Meyers: Lobby Baby
This is Seth’s stand up special on Netflix which Andrea and I watched twice.
The title of the special references one of Seth’s best stories, the birth of his second son in the lobby of his apartment building. His wife Alexi goes into contractions but can’t get out of the building before the baby decides to drop. To summarize, Alexi is amazing, the New York police and fire department were very helpful and Seth is completely useless.
Seth recounts his relationship with his father and a parenting technique best described as “mind fuckery”. (In an effort to get a stump removed from his yard, Seth’s father threatened suicide in front of a bulldozer while Seth and his brother watched from the car.)
And his relationship with this wife also is examined. The last segment of the special is Seth discussing their marriage from Alexi’s perspective. Favorite story from “Alexi”: Seth can’t find yogurt in the refrigerator when there is in fact yogurt in the refrigerator that Alexi can find within seconds. The thing is that once in a while, there is actually no yogurt. But Seth is so scared now to say anything, he will continue to stare at the same three shelves in the refrigerator, looking for non-existent yogurt. This amuses Alexi to no end.
There is a segment in the middle where Seth talks about politics. But if you’re sick of hearing about politics, there is a helpful button that let’s you skip the political segment. But when you hear what Seth says when you skip the next part, you’ll want to go back and hear it anyway just to figure out what the hell that was about. It’s just Seth engaging in something you might call “mind fuckery”.
Batwoman
Whoa!
This past Sunday saw Alice push past one line too many. Someone in the Kane family is now dead and even Kate, more dedicated than anyone in somehow finding and saving Beth buried deep in Alice’s warped psyche, has had enough.
Nothing relating to Crisis In Infinite Earths within the episode proper but there is a epilogue scene with Nash Wells (Tom Cavanaugh from the Flash) that heralds the beginning of the Crisis. Cavanaugh is set to appear in Crisis as Pariah, a character from the original comic book series.
Supergirl
A lot of stuff is going on. At the same time!
Lena Luthor is determined to use her mind thingy to make the world a nicer place where people won’t lie and betray each other.
Meanwhile, Rama Khan of Leviathan is looking to bust open a super volcano underneath National City.
Both of these things are going on simultaneously. So Supergirl has her hands full.
Kara’s still determined to break through to Lena and keep her from this path she’s on. But Lena is equally determined she’s doing good and Supergirl is part of the problem.
By the way, Lena’s assistant Hope/Eve is looking a bit round in the face. I said, “I think Andrea Brooks is pregnant.”
I googled her and yep, she is. Or was. She announced on November 30th she had given birth to a baby girl.
Hiding pregnancies in television is hard. Yeah, you can employ long coats, oversized bags and other obstacles to hide a baby bump but not that rounded face that some pregnant women tend to get towards the end. Way back in the 1990s in season 1 of X-Files, Gillian Anderson was frequently adorned with long overcoats and too big purses but nothing could hide the tell tale sign of pregnancy in her ever rounder face. The same thing happened with Zooey Deschanel in New Girl.
There is a Crisis set up in the episode proper as the Monitor shows up with a challenge for J’onn J’onzz. You make recall that at the end of Season 4, it was the Monitor who brought J’onn’s erstwhile evil brother to Earth. It seems it was all part of a test to toughen up the Martian Manhunter for the coming Crisis.
Next week: Crisis On Infinite Earths will be here!
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
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