Quick word about what's going on with Jeopardy.
For several weeks, Mattea Roach from Canada has been the reigning champion, setting records.
Couple of things: her every introduction reminds us she is 23 years old. Thanks for reminding every damn day, Jeopardy! Mattea Roach is not old and I am.
Mattea has a habit of having a conversation with herself before a making a Daily Double bet. Sometimes it's charming, sometimes not. When it's not, I just remind myself she's kicking everyone's butt and deserves to have a few quirks.
But the butt kicking came to an end on Friday after an epic 23 game run. But Mattea Roach ends her run as one of the all time greatest Jeopardy champions.
Meanwhile, it really seems like the host job belongs to Ken Jennings. The current season is getting ready to wrap up soon and I hope Sony and the producers just go ahead and make it official already.
Now the Tuesday TV Touchbase hops into the way back machine for a couple of series set in centuries long gone.
Recently when asked about a particular plot development in the 4th season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, creator Amy Sherman-Palladino had this to say: "It's a TV show and shit has to happen."
Which brings us to 2nd season of Gentleman Jack.
At the end of season 1, Anne Lister and Ann Walker go to church where they take communion together by way of getting married right under the nose of the church and Ann agrees to move into Shibden Hall.
Our 19th century lesbian couple are in wedded bliss and off to live happily ever after.
But now we have a season 2 and, well...
"It's a TV show and shit has to happen."
Rawson is still stealing coal out from under Lister's property while she's still struggling to sink her own pit to get the coal herself and stop Rawson's fuckery.
And the Walker clan is in a frightful tizzy over what is going on with sweet, innocent and fragile Ann Walker with that incredibly strange Lister woman/person.
Moving ahead to season 2, Ann Walker has lost a bit of her confidence in setting up house with Anne Lister at Shibden Hall. Lister's all "we need to do this, go there, write this person, sign this document" and Walker's all "I need a minute".
We get lot of classic Anne Lister walking somewhere in a hurry, her black long coat flapping about her like a vengeful shadow. Anne is a flurry of motion, marching, running, jumping.
It's a shame that we can't just have Ann Walker and Anne Lister just living their best lives in domestic bliss and tranquil happiness.
But...
"It's a TV show and shit has to happen."
Speaking of "shit has to happen", damn but Outlander put me through it this season.
The looming war of revolution against the throne of England is a bit of a mess to navigate but time travellers Claire, Brianna and Roger Mac (who am loathe to admit but I hated less this season) know what's coming and are doing what they can to help Jamie navigate this mess as best he can.
Claire has "invented" ether about century early which is a big help for her medical practice on Fraser's Ridge but it's also become a crutch for Claire, using it on herself to hide from the trauma of being gang raped by the Brown family last season.
And then there's Malva, a newcomer to the ridge that Claire takes under her wing as a medical apprentice but Malva's up to shit. She gets pregnant and accuses Jamie of being the father.
Then Malva winds up murdered and Claire is being accused of the crime.
The 6th season was only 8 episodes long but each episode was longer, going for an hour or longer. This gave us some time to explore some background such as Ian Murray's time living with Mohawk, his acceptance into the tribe and finding a wife but his ultimate exile from the tribe when his wife experiences two miscarriages.
Ian still has Rollo, his pet white wolf so at least we still have that.
The season ends on a cliffhanger. Claire is jail in Wilmington awaiting "trial" for the murder of Malva Christie. I say "trial" because the fix is in with a broad assumption of Claire's guilt. Oddly enough of the few people in Claire's corner is Tom Christie, Malva's super religious father. Tom insists he will do all he can that no harm will come to Claire or Jamie.
My guess is that Tom knows Claire did not kill Malva because it was Tom who killed her for her sinful conduct. We've had some broad hints that Tom's wife and Malva's mother met a similar fate due to Tom's strict religious judgement.
We've got another "droughtlander" to endure before we get our answers.
So 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.
Coming up on the blog...
Sunday we got an announcement about the next Doctor on Doctor Who. More on that in Thursday's post.
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