Today's post is about 2 shows that are in their final seasons.
Star Trek Lower Decks brings us the 5th and final season of our adventures on the Cerritos.
It takes 2 episodes to get there but Tendi returns from the Orions as the "Mistress of the Winter Constellations" to once more do all sorts of Starfleet science stuff on the Cerritos.
The Cerritos has an encounter with a dimensional rift that results in a duplicate Cerritos that has a crew that is almost but not quite like each other.
- Beckett Mariner is Capt. Becky Freeman, a task master of a cruel martinet whose crew is scared of her.
- Rutherford's alternate has replaced nearly all his human parts with cyborg stuff, more Borg than human.
- And Boimler's alternate version is cool, confident, full of swagger and sporting a Riker beard.
- T'Lyn from our Cerritos says "fascinating". The other one says "remarkable". Otherwise, both Vulcans are absolutely alike.
Standard issue Star Trek alternate universe stuff but told with humor and heart. Both Cerritos crews believe they are the true version and the other is a weird duplicate.
What We Do In the Shadows kicks off it's 6th and final go 'round by adding a new vampire resident: Jerry the Vampire!
Well, technically not new.
He's been there the whole time, just in a super slumber.
That Nandor, Lazlo, Nadja and Colin were supposed to wake him up from.
In 1996.
Whoops! They forgot.
Jerry the Vampire is not as much upset that his roommates let him oversleep by nearly 30 years as they have accomplished nothing by way of conquering North America in that time frame.
By the way, Guillermo de la Cruz no longer resides in the Vampire Residence.
Guillermo has is own place now all the way across...
- the country? No.
- the city? No.
- the backyard? Yes!
Guillermo lives in the shed in the backyard.
Jerry the Vampire has a question: who are these humans filming the vampires?
Well, they are the documentary crew.
And why did the vampires agree to this?
Well, that's...
Er, no one is quite sure why.
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I'm going to take a minute to comment on Saturday Night Live, now in it's 50th season and not quite yet it's final season.
I spend a lot of time barking at the TV during SNL, "I don't get it!" But then, I'm not the target demo, am I?
I do not know who Charli XCX is!
Or what the hell "brat summer" was.
Kamala Harris had someone explain "brat" to her.
Speaking of Kamala...
Maya Rudolph is back and crushing it as Kamala Harris in the politically themed cold opens. I'm not sure I'm on board with returning Dana Carvey as a doddering and easily confused Joe Biden. I miss Jason Sudeikis as Biden.
The season did not get off to a strong start despite having national treasure Jean Smart (Hacks) as the guest host.
But subsequent episodes have been stronger with Nate Bargatze back for his 2nd time hosting. As much as I enjoyed his return as George Washington telling his men of his vision of America's future, I got kick out of the sketch with Nate as one of two EMTs attempting to find the best way to get a dead body down from the top of a water slide.
255 steps is quite a long way to carry a dead body.
Is there perhaps another option...?
Ariania Grande and Michael Keaton turned in strong episodes of the show.
Andrea and I usually stay up to Weekend Update so she can see her boyfriend Colin Jost.
I guess making ourselves stay up late to watch SNL is some way of recapturing our youth or something? Your guess is as good as mine.
SNL is not written for me.
I frequently don't get it.
But I'm glad it's still there.
Coming up on the Touchbase, we've got stuff coming in for a landing: Only Murders In the Building and Agatha All Along.
And as if Andrea and I do not have enough on our TV watching on our plate, we will have the new Reba McIntire sitcom making it's touchbase debut, Happy's Place.
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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