Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage picks up where Young Sheldon left off. 18 year old Georgie Cooper and 30 year old Mandy McAllister are making a go at married life and as parents of baby CeCe.
Georgie and Mandy are living with Mandy's parents, Jim and Audrey McAllister. Jim admires Georgie's work ethic (the young Mr. Cooper has a job at Jim's tire shop) and his dedication to being a good husband and a good father. Audrey is NOT at all happy with Georgie, pegging him as an under educated lout who ruined her daughter's life. And she's unrelenting in reminding Mandy her life is ruined.
The pilot episode involves Georgie and Mandy renting a mobile home to escape Audrey's snide and unceasing criticism. The home is small and shabby and it's located right by a railroad track. A funny bit of physical comedy are the contortions Georgie and Mandy go through to hold the place together when a train passes.
The episode concludes with what passes for an apology from Audrey and the return of our titular couple back to the McAllister home.
We do get a couple of Young Sheldon guest appearances from Zoe Perry as Mary Cooper and Annie Potts as "MeeMaw" Connie Tucker.
Unlike the prior series which was single camera (shot like a movie), Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage is a multi cam show, shot on a stage in front of an audience. It's a change in aesthetic that takes a bit to get used to.
There's nothing particularly ground breaking here but Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage is off to a good start to continue the story begun with Young Sheldon.
The 4th season of Ghosts has started and introduces a new ghost to Woodstone Manor, a Puritan woman named Patience. A flashback to the 1600's shows Patience being expelled from her village for being too much of a buzzkill, even for Puritans.
Patience has been lost in the dirt without human or ghost companionship for approximately 120 years. She has a habit of hissing her own name ("PATIENCE! PATIENCE!"). She grabs Isaac into dirt in revenge for his role in leaving her lost in the dirt for so long. Then she grabs Sass too.
In a moment of clarity, she releases Isaac and Sass back to Woodstone Manor and with encouragement from Sass and a plan from Trevor, all the manor ghosts band together to return Patience to the manor.
Next week, I guess we'll see how well Patience acclimates to being around others again and what has changed in 120 years.
Andrea and I started watching The Franchise on Max. This series is a behind-the-scenes look at a film that’s part of a larger superhero film franchise. The series follows Daniel, the first assistant director as he deals with the day to day problems working on Tecto: Eye of the Storm, which is a minor film in the franchise compared to the higher priority "team-up" film, Centurios 2.
For example, after spending considerable time and money on a big set piece involving an army of "Fish People" in Tecto, Daniel is told that a last minute story change to Centurios has resulted in the death of the all the "Fish People".
Well, they can still use the "Moss Men" which can be CGI'd in. Daniel is told this can be done. It will cost a lot and it will look like shit but it can be done.
Richard E. Grant is on hand as Peter, a Supporting Actor on Tecto who is a serious ACTOR who has done serious ACTOR things and is bugged he is #2 on the call sheet. (His destination on the call sheet is changed to "#1A".)
Cross The Office with the suckers who make Marvel movies and TV shows and that is the premise of The Franchise.
Finally, Andrea and I finished off Gravity Falls. Ostensibly, it is a show about children made for children for a network (Disney) famous for kid friendly programming.
Which has the following line from arch villain Bill Cipher: "Excuse me but I need to turn a couple of kids into corpses!"
Whatever Disney thought they had agreed to and paid for, creator Alex Hirsch gave us a show that was darker, more insidious and subversive than a mere "show about children made for children".
The big 4 part storyline that finishes out the 2nd (and for now final) season is epic in scope and as the pan dimensional being known as "Bill" threatens to very fabric of the universe even as Dipper and Mabel are forced to confront questions about getting older, facing their future and their very mortality. Wow! Some heavy stuff.
The final scene involves Dipper and Mabel leaving Gravity Falls as summer ends and...
There's something in my eye.
No, I am NOT crying!
You're crying!
No, you shut up!
Thanks to our son Dean for introducing us to this weird and wonderful show.
Next week on the Touchbase....
- Star Trek Lower Decks is back for it's final season.
- And I will touchbase on Saturday Night Live on it's 50th season.
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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