Welcome to another edition of the Tuesday TV Touchbase where I touchbase on Tuesday about what I’m watching on TV.
Yes, I am a blogger of staggering genius!
Jeopardy Masters concluded last week with Victoria Groce as the winner. Victoria was a one game Jeopardy champion who parlayed an invite to the Jeopardy Invitational Tournament (try as he might, Ken Jennings could never get “JIT” to catch on) into a phenomenal run that took her to the Jeopardy Masters event.
I was less concerned about who I wanted to win and more about who didn't. I did not want Yogesh Raut to win. I will concede Yogesh is a strong player with deep knowledge and fast buzzer skills but he keeps ticking me off. Correct Ken’s pronunciation, muttering to himself, there’s such a negative vibe with this guy.
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Abbott Elementary came to it’s season 3 finale last week and the whole will they/won’t they going on between Jeanine Teagues and Gregory Eddie got resolved in the last moment with a oh hell yeah they did aka the big damn kiss. Earlier both were put off from professing their feelings for each other due to being co-workers and things could get weird. Well, they have a whole summer to work through that.
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After a 2 year absence, Interview With the Vampire is back for it’s 2nd season. After killing off Lestat last season (who let's face it is not dead-dead), Louis and Claudia have ventured to Europe to look for other vampires. World War II is going on which presents opportunities and obstacles. There's a war on which provides a lot of death to provide cover for a couple of travelling vampires who need to feed. But caution is still required when those vampires are African Americans who are very much out of place in war torn Europe.
Back in the present, Daniel Malloy is in a pissier mood than usual. He's perpetually tired, his Parkinson's is getting worse and this whole "interview with the vampire" is undermined by
Louis not being honest. Especially when Louis' allegedly human assistant Rashid is revealed to be a 500+ year old vampire named Armand.
And Louis appears to be selectively editing his memories.
Side note: the role of Claudia has moved from Bailey Bass to Delainey Hayles as of season 2. So far, the transition has worked. The role of Claudia is a tough one. Turned into a vampire as a pre-adolescent, Claudia is several decades old and a labyrinthine mind that belies her child like exterior.
Louis and Claudia make their way to Paris where they find out Lestat was kind of a big deal there. And Lestat continues to live rent free in Louis' head.
Not to mention living for real back in a garbage dump outside New Orleans.
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And Hacks is back for a 3rd season. A little surprised to see this one come back given Max’s propensity for cancelling series after only 2 seasons.
Gone too soon and not forgotten:
- Gentleman Jack
- Julia
- The Flight Attendant
- Our Flag Means Death
Meanwhile, it seemed Hacks had reached an end for the story of Deborah and Ava. Deborah is back on top after her big TV special and Ava landed with a comedy/news program as a writer.
Then Deborah sees a chance to get something that was denied her back in the 1970's, her own late night talk show. Ava is back on board to help her write material for this new show.
Ava's girlfriend is not on board with this as she thinks the whole Deborah/Ava relationship is toxic (and she's not completely wrong).
But there is no denying that Deborah and Ava are sparking as they seek to redress her loss of a talk show decades ago simply due to Deborah being a woman.
Next week, the series finale of Star Trek Discovery.
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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