Welcome to this week's Tuesday TV Touchbase which also coincides with the first day of October. Which means I'm prepared to stop judging people who have had their Halloween decorations up since September 1st.
And in the spirit of the Halloween season, let's have a word from today's sponsor.
If you work in a Spirit Halloween, well I apologize... I think.
On to the touchbase! '
We've reached the end of the road for Snowpiercer as it's 4th and final season has reached it's end and as usual the status quo be damned.
The Earth is still a frozen wasteland except for that one little pocket called "New Eden". But the Snowpiercer gang is reunited with the Big Alice contingent ready to forge a life together in New Eden however long it may last.
Melanie Cavill (Jennifer Connelly) and her daughter Alex are unsure how long the thermal pocket that sustains New Eden will last. But everyone will live and work together to sustain life there for as long as they can.
Watching everyone assembled for a party in the New Eden Town Hall, Melanie tells Andre Layton (Daveed Diggs), "This is how it should've been from the beginning."
Oh, spoiler! Andre survives. I was really worried the show's writers and producers might decide he would have to die. Nope, he survives to the end of the series.
Before we get there, we have to deal with an over arching plot by mad scientist Nima to restore the Earth to normal. Nima is the frickin' genius who froze the Earth in the first damn place to stop global warming. And Melanie and Alex are convinced he has his numbers wrong again with his new plan to seed the upper atmosphere with a chemical that will reverse the big freeze.
The data suggests Nima's plan will strip away the planet's atmosphere. Nima's rocket gets launched but not before Alex removes a crucial bolt that causes the rocket to crash before it can deliver it's dangerous payload.
While there are some deaths of some main characters over the course of the final season, the finale itself leaves most of our cast still alive, still struggling for survival on a frozen Earth.
And with some degree of hope, a hope exemplified in the final shot, a patch of flowers far away from New Eden breaking through the ice.
We get a few moments with individual characters to make sure they're OK (Till and Audrey are back together and Audrey takes the mike for one last song).
Kudos to AMC for saving Snowpiercer from the Warner Bros. Discovery Tax Write Off Rubbish Heap and giving us a chance to say our goodbyes to Andre, Josie, Ruth, Javi, Melanie, Alex and the whole gang.
I think more or less, Snowpiercer sticks the landing for it's final bow.
Can I say the same for the series finale of The Umbrella Academy?
I'm not sure I can.
I'm gonna be coy on the deets surrounding the final adventures of the Umbrella Academy family since my son Dean has not caught up to season 4.
I will say that the Umbrellas cannot seem to stop an apocalypse without paying some deeply personal price.
The price they pay to stop the latest apocalypse in season 4 seems to be pretty much on brand.
But it also seems like a big screw you to everyone who has followed this nonsense over the course of 4 seasons.
Overall, I do NOT feel that The Umbrella Academy successfully sticks the landing for it's series finale.
And that is that for this week's touchbase.
We go from the end of things to the beginnings of things.
Next week's Touchbase, we've got...
- High Potential
- Brilliant Minds
- The Penguin
- Agatha All Along
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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