Before we get to this week's touchbase, I learned some distressing news about one of the shows I followed.
Season 4 of Snowpiercer has been cancelled.
No! The cast and crew will not be able to tell the tale of resolving the cliffhangers from season 3 of Snowpiercer?
Actually they will. Actually they did! Season 4 of Snowpiercer is done and in the can as it were and ready for delivery.
But... Season 4 of Snowpiercer has been cancelled?
Yep! Once more the overseers at Warner Bros. Discovery who own TNT and TBS as well as HBO Max are pulling the plug on a project that has been bought, paid for and actually completed for delivery.
They did it to the 2nd season of Chad.
They did it to the Batgirl movie.
And now they've done to Snowpiercer.
It seems the corporate fuckity fucks at Warner Bros. Discovery make more money from tax write offs from NOT showing programs they paid for and are completed.
Andrea and I continue to follow Young Sheldon which is still struggling what to do with Sheldon himself. The recent plot line with Sheldon's attempt create an ahead of it's time internet database search engine posed some interesting challenges for the show's titular genius. This project even forced Sheldon to consider dropping out of college to focus on the database development full time.
As momentous as it is, the whole enterprise with Sheldon feels empty compared to the more compelling family shenanigans going on with the rest of the Cooper clan. And of course laboring under the burden of being a prequel limits anything of interest that can be done with Sheldon.
It doesn't help that the cute precocious Iain Armitage has hit puberty hard and is almost taller than Jim Parsons and has a deeper voice.
The storyline with George Jr. and Mandy expecting a baby is kind of sputtering along after the initial revelation significantly upset the show's status quo. I expect the tension around this will escalate as we near Mandy's due date.
George Jr's impending out of wedlock fatherhood still has Mary ostracized from her church with Mary struggling on how to fill the time. Oddly enough she winds up in a girl's night out a local bar with Brenda Sparks where the other women in the group gossip that Brenda has someone she's sweet on and he's married.
Oh crap! Is it George Cooper Sr? Spooked by this, the Cooper patriarch confronts Brenda who tells him it isn't George.
The look in her eyes suggests she's lying.
Again, the show's burden of being a prequel to Big Bang Theory pushes the show into a corner. We know that George is destined to have an affair and will die soon.
In many ways, Young Sheldon is an inspired and nuanced look at the BBT universe but I think the premise is not very long lived and I think as this show staggers to the end of it's 6th season and towards it's contractually obligated 7th, the show may have outlived it's best days.
Elsewhere on network television, Quantum Leap is back from it's mid-season break with Dr. Ben Song and the Project Quantum Leap still trying to cope with the revelation that Ben made the leap into the quantum accelerator to save Addison's life. Further intel from Ben is not available at this time with his memory still fractured.
Addison, Ben's fiancée and invisible hologram observer, is still a bit back on her heels about this revelation. And she's getting no help from Janis Calavicci, the daughter of Al Calavicci from the original series. Janis has been on the outside of the project as some kind of chaos agent working towards some mysterious goal. She was finally brought in by project security but she ain't talking. All she will tell Addison is that Ben should trust no one, not even Addison.
Last week, Ben had his most complex leap yet. Normally, he leaps into someone and has to put right in someone's life what went wrong. In last week's leap, he leaps into a young female doctor where he needs to change the course of destiny for not one or two but three patients.
Coming up next episode, we get a Trek guest star with Robert Picardo from Star Trek: Voyager.
Ian was name checked last week but did not get an on screen appearance. Maybe Mason Alexander Park needed time off for his wicked, sinister turn as Desire on Sandman.
And that is that for the Tuesday TV Touchbase this week.
Next week, we wrap up our time with season 5 of The Crown.
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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