Happy's Place managed to slip a season finale past us without Andrea and I noticing. Networks these days usually promote the hell out of season finales and even mid-season finales but it appears Happy's Place reached it's season ender without any such fanfare.
There are shows Andrea and I are both on board for. Then there are series where one of us is more invested in it than the other. Happy's Place is one for Andrea that I tag along for.
Happy's Place is set at a bar and restaruant named "Happy's Place". Reba McIntire is Bobbie, Happy's daughter who runs the place after her father's death. Reba runs the place with her sister Isabella that Bobbie did not know about until after Happy died.
After some initial tension, Bobbie has come to accept Isabella as her sister and her partner in the bar.
A lot of hijinks revolve around the clash of Bobbie's down home wisdom and Isabella's collegiate intelectualism.
Happy's Place is mildy amusing elliciting a few chuckles from me but really, I often don't find it to be that funny or emotionally engaging.
Well, it's been renewed for a 2nd season so maybe by then, Happy's Place will find it's groove.
Meanwhile, it makes Andrea happy so I'm good.
Then there's the stuff that I follow that she tags along for.
Like Daredevil: Born Again.
God, this show is relentlessly bleak. Wilson Fisk aka The Kingpin has become mayor of New York City and that's just grim. Kingpin as Mayor? That seems so unlikely. It's like what if Donald Trump was the Presi--- ooops! Never mind.
Matt Murdock spends several episodes not being Daredevil, a role he resolved to no longer play after his best pal and law partner Foggy Nelson was murdered by Bullseye in episode 1. And Daredevil dropped Bullseye from top of a 6 story building. (Which inexplicably did not kill him.)
Andrea may not be a totally reluctant passenger for this particular television journey. Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock is charming as hell when he's not being super intense.
A serial killer known as the Muse in on the loose in NYC and has gotten away with 60 or more kills. Which drives Murdock to dig the old crimson suit out and become Daredevil once more.
Meanwhile, Fisk (the always remarkable Vincent D'Nofrio) is really not dealing well with containing his rage and his ego in deference to the job requirements of mayor. Inching closer and closer back to the habits of the Kingpin, Fisk wants things done his way and now and he doesn't care who has to pay to make that happen.
Daredevil: Born Again has some unexpected connections to the larger Marvel universe. We get an appearance by Jack Duquesne aka the Swordsman who appeared in the Hawkeye series. And we meet Yusuf Khan who is the father of Kamala Khan from Ms. Marvel.
So far no word if Jessica Jones, Luke Cage or Iron Fish (who teamed up with Daredevil in the Netflix series Defenders) are going to show up.
Daredevil: Born Again is a dark and gritty look at the super hero world, a street level view not unlike The Penguin series from last year.
Speaking of penguins....
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