Last week we welcomed 4 brand new series to the Tuesday TV Touchbase.
Today we take a look at 3 returning series and…
Superman & Lois
OH! MY!! GOD!!!
This show is so depressing.
Relentlessly damn heartbreakingly depressing!
At the end of season 3, Lex Luthor’s marching orders to Doomsday were:
- Kill Superman
- Bring back his heart
And Doomsday does just that, dropping Superman’s heartless corpse in the middle of Main Street in Smallville.
What the fuck?!?!
Damn this is dark!
Jordan takes Superman’s body to the Fortress of Solitude where hologram Lara says there’s not a lot Kryptonian science can do without a heart.
So Jordan tries to super power threaten Lex Luthor into giving back the heart.
Lex drops the heart on the floor and stomps on it!
Oh what the what now?
I mean, what the fuck?!?!
This Lex Luthor is not one to be fucked with!
And I am seriously bummed out!
Look, I went through this in the comics with the whole Superman Vs. Doomsday thing which led to Superman being killed off but you know, that’s comics.
Superman & Lois is a TV show in it’s final season on a notoriously cheap network which renewed the show for one last season but only with a seriously slashed budget. Could that budget cut come from Superman’s actor Tyler Hoechlin being reduced to recurring for flashbacks and as a Fortresss hologram? Reallly?
Superman might be deader than dead, y’all.
I’m writing this before last night’s episode. I hope something happens that proves me wrong.
Amended: I've been proven wrong.
Law & Order
Ever since this series botched it’s relaunch 3 years ago, I only occasionally watch an episode (like last season’s departure of Sam Waterston as Jack McCoy). I tuned for this year’s season premier to see Maura Tierney join the cast as the new lieutenant.
Maura's biggest role was as Abby Lockhart on ER (1999 to 2009) but it was as Lisa Miller on NewsRadio (1995 to 1999) when I first fell in love with her.
Yes, I said "love". Don't make a big deal of it,'kay?
And I'm really digging her role as Lt. Jessica Brady who quickly establishes her bonafides as both a detective and the new squad leader. She's smart, tough, insightful and not to be fucked with.
Is the addition of Maura Tierney enough to put NEW Law & Order on my regular viewing rotation? Almost.
It still bugs me that new L&O has dispensed with the body reveal in favor of showing the actual murder itself.
In the classic series, the murder reveal went like this.
Two guys out jogging in Central Park.
- Bob: Hey, Mike, have you told Rachel the news yet?
- Mike: No, Bob, the time's just not been right.
- Bob: C'mon, man! She's gonna find out sooner or later.
- Mike: I know but it's a big step and I don't know how she's going to....Holy Crap! Is that a dead body?!
And then the cops show up, a detective makes a mad pun about the murder and we are off without ever finding out what the hell Bob and Mike were talking about, what news did Mike have for Rachel and how did Rachel take it when she found out or any of that shit!
Abbott Elementary
After that big damn kiss at the end of season 3, Janine Teagues and Gregory Eddie are dating but trying to keep it on the down low. It's a secret from virtually no one.
All the teachers know.
So do most of the kids.
Eventually Janine just blurts it out ("We're just having sex.") at the most awkward and inopportune moment possible.
Janine and Gregory have to meet with HR who is OK with it.
I'm OK with it too as long as they don't "Ross and Rachel" this damn thing to death.
Meanwhile a golf course being put in next door causes all sorts of problems for the school: power and water pressure being cut, noise, dirt, traffic congestion.
And looming gentrification? The new golf course looks to be the overarching story point for this season of Abbott Elementary.
Next week on the Touchbase, it's the return of Ghosts for it's 4th season and while Young Sheldon is gone, the Cooper family lives on with the debut of George & Mandy's First Marriage.
And Andrea and I have finished up Gravity Falls.
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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