Last week Andrea and I caught up the the much anticipated season premieres of Young Sheldon and Ghosts.
Young Sheldon picks up on the aftermath of last season's finale, the tornado that struck Medford and destroyed MeeMaw Connie's house. Annie Potts is amazing as she takes Connie through all sorts of grief stages as she copes with the loss of her home and her secret stash of gambling money.
Some of which lands in Pastor Jeff's backyard where his wife Robin decides to use it to buy a new TV. Eventually Pastor Jeff can't stand the guilt anymore and he gives the Coopers the new TV. It's all kind of funny but it feels like an odd misstep as it focuses on someone outside the Cooper family which is not normal for this series.
Meanwhile Mary and Sheldon are in Germany. Mary is immediately in a tizzy of a snit to get back to Medford although she hard pressed to explain what exactly she will do when she gets there other than "be there"?
One might chalk up Sheldon's resistance to Mary's plans as his usual selfishness but there really is much to consider. Sheldon's participation in this program in Germany is very crucial to his education and to his future if he wants to move on from East Texas Tech into a really good school (such as say "CalTech"?). And a lot of people have sacrificed time, energy and money to get Sheldon to Germany.
Even Connie tells Mary there's no need to come back right now even though Mary is too prideful to tell Sheldon that his MeeMaw agrees with him.
It finally takes a mile high glass of German beer to get Mary to relax. Mary can be quite a lot of fun when she's not be a hypocritical uber-religious wack job.
Meanwhile back in Medford, the Cooper household with the added residents of Connie, Georgie, Mandy and baby Cece is managing just fine under the administration of Missy Cooper.
A few words about Raegan Revord who plays Missy. I think it is a crime that more has not been acknowledged about how good Raegan has been in this role since day one. She started as the cute prepubescent who may not be as smart as her twin brother Sheldon but possesses her own special wisdom and insight. But her Missy has evolved into a complex and vibrant character who is at turns rebellious as one might expect from a 13 year old but extraordinarily capable enough to step up and manage the now overcrowded Cooper household.
The producers have noted that Missy is still a 13 year old girl and cannot be expected to maintain this pace and I get that but still, I don't want to see Missy backtrack to the lost and angry person she became last season.
I do so hope that whatever happens when Young Sheldon is over, Raegan Revord will continue to find success.
Speaking of Young Sheldon being over, we are heading to the series finale and what will be final fatal fate of George Cooper. The producers have made it clear he will not escape the Big Bang Theory canon of his unfortunate demise.
And before that his infidelity? I still find it hard to believe that his version of George we've gotten to know through Lance Barber would ever cheat on Mary.
OK, that is enough about Young Sheldon this week.
Let's turn out attention to the season 3 debut of Ghosts.
And the answer to the mystery of the ghost who was sucked off at the end of season 2.
(Being "sucked off" is what ghosts call ascending to the next plane of existence, to heaven or whatever. Despite hints from Sam that the ghosts should reconsider that terminology. Nope, they still call it being "sucked off". It is the dream of every ghost to be relieved of their interminable existence and be "sucked off".)
I suspected it might be one of the cholera ghosts who dwell in the basement. I also thought it might be Nigel since CBS might be antsy about two gay male ghosts co-habitating. (Isaac and Nigel last season agreed to "live" together and got engaged.)
Nope, it was Flower who got sucked off.
Flower was the perpetually stoned hippie girl who was killed on the estate grounds in a bear attack. She also had virtually no short term memory.
Thorfinn the Viking ghost and Flower's "boyfriend" is especially bummed. He's glad Flower has been sucked off and he hopes to be sucked off one day too but he misses the one he loves.
And becomes convinced that owl in the barn is Flower reincarnated.
Meanwhile, Andrea and I are playing a "drinking" game with the show. (No actual shots are involved as we are watching this on a weekday night and we have to work the next day.) Rose McIver who plays Sam (the living woman who can see and hear the ghosts) is pregnant but her character isn't.
So Andrea and I pretend to take a shot whenever Sam shows up behind something:
- Oversized coat? Take a shot!
- Not moving from behind the reception desk? Take a shot!
- Standing behind a potted plant? Take a shot!
- Oversized sweater? Take a shot!
Oh, if we were doing this game for real, Andrea and I would be hammered at the end of an half hour episode.
We won't have to do this for long since the late start due to the various strikes mean season 3 will only have 10 episodes.
And apparently we aren't done with Flower.
Other Things!
Richard Kind showed up for an episode of Night Court. Kind is a very funny character actor whose presence usually brings the funny. Was Night Court funny that week? Nope!
Sometime this season, Brent Spiner will return as Bob Wheeler from the old show and I'll be damned, the new show better not fuck this up. (Please!)
The 4th and final season of Superman and Lois has been bumped to this fall. The CW did not want to burn off these episodes during the summer.
By the way, the CW is blaming the cancellation of Superman & Lois on Warner Bros. not wanting the show to compete with their planned new Superman Legacy movie.
So Oliver offered Thomas a deal: a contract to pay Clarence Thomas $1 million a year until he dies if he will "get the fuck off the Supreme Court". Oliver also tossed in a deluxe motor coach (Thomas loves to travel) to sweeten the deal.
Tonight is the season 2 finale of Quantum Leap. Still no word on season 3 but since NBC is committing a whole 2 hours of prime time to this episode, I hope this shows they have some faith in it and will renew it for a 3rd season.
Or they're sick of this show and want it off their schedule as fast as possible? Nope I'm sticking with my first thought.
Coming up on the Touchbase, more on Quantum Leap and other things.
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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