So I was playing Roku's Daily Trivia game when a question came up about a quirky New Zealand crime drama set in a town run by lesbians.
Well that has to be Deadloch and that was indeed the answer.
So why is a quirky New Zealand crime drama set in a town run by lesbians from 2023 coming up as a topic on my Roku Daily Trivia game?
Because 3 years later, Deadloch has dropped a 2nd season!
I did not know that was a thing!
I used to not be caught off guard by this stuff.
I also was blindsided by the debut of season 4 of Invincible as well. I knew it was coming but I didn't know it was coming NOW!
I will not be posting about Deadloch season 2 yet. I've got way too many things on my TV viewing plate right now.
- I've haven't finished season 2 of Fallout yet.
- I've got season 8 of Outlander.
- Season 2 of Daredevil: Born Again begins tonight. (Jessica Jones is back! YAY!)
- And of course season 4 of Invincible.
And lots of other television stuff that demands my attention.
Deadloch season 2 will have to wait a minute.
Now... on with the Touchbase!
So Invincible is back for a 4th season and man, is life rough for Mark Grayson.
Some time has passed since the end of season 3 but the wounds from that time have not yet healed. The attack by Angstrom's army of multiversal Invincible variants followed by the assault by the Viltrumite warrior known as Conquest has left massive property damage and many lives lost, including several of Earth's heroes.
Invincible wants to help but he's overwhelmed by guilt for all that Earth has suffered in these epic battles.
Losses the hit very close to home when Conquest savagely beats and kills Atom Eve aka Samantha, Mark's girlfriend.
Only an unexpected glow up of Samantha's matter/energy powers brings her back to life.
Unfortunately, there's some weird shit going down with Samantha's Atom Eve powers with her energy to matter constructs melting into goo.
Meanwhile, Samantha's experience with death is not something her asshole father is willing to let Mark forget. As if Mark isn't already feeling the weight of that guilt.
Not to mention the sheer constant battle against a widening variety of super menaces that keeps Invincible busy for ever damn minute of every damn day.
Then just to make matters even more exhausting, two seperate super menaces strike simultaneously.
AND there is the horror of the sequids who are possessing humans in an ever widening circle that will encompass the whole world if not put in check. Cecil Stedman and the Guardians of the Globe have the sequids contained to a city block but their containment will not hold for long.
Mark Grayson arrives after stopping Universa to help the Guardians and finds the central human controlling the sequid hive mind.
If you've read enough comics, you know what usually happens here is when our hero is faced with a choice to kill someone to stop some kind of threat, our hero will find some clever miracle solution to avoid that.
Invincible stops the sequids by killing the human in the center of the alien squids.
Well, just great. One more damn thing to plague Mark Grayson's conscience.
As I have said before about Invincible, do not let the bold bright colors of the animation fool you. This show goes hard and does not avoid the harsh consequences of super powers in an otherwise fragile, all too human world.
I suppose it's a reasonable expectation given the way this series works is that things will get worse before they get better.
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Andrea and I did not get to catch the whole show but the clips we've seen of Saturday Night Live UK have been enjoyable and I think genuinely funny.
Here is the cold open where Prime Minister Keir Starmer really dreads calling Donald Trump.
SNL USA alum Tina Fey was the guest host who was as funny and charming as ever.
We think that Saturday Night Live UK has gotten off to a pretty good start.
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News came down yesterday that Paramount has cancelled Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. There will be no more seasons after season 2.
Well, I think this sucks AND blows.
I will pontificate on this some more in this weekend's Star Trekking post.
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I want to make note of a couple of celebrity passings.
Nicholas Brendan who played Xander on Buffy the Vampire Slayer died last week at age 54. Xander was the Jimmy Olsen to Buffy Summers and it was a thankless role but Brendan made the most of it with a character that was genuinely helpful and a good friend to the Scooby gang.
Brendan had to deal with struggles involving his mental health and substance abuse but worked really hard to keep his life on track. Rest in peace, Nicholas.
And Chuck Norris died last week at age 86. Back in the 1990's, visiting my parents on a Saturday meant I got to watch Walker, Texas Ranger. Not HAD to watch. Got to! The honor was mine, Mr. Norris.
Yeah, the dialogue was stilted and the acting was stiff but nobody came to this show for that. We came to watch Chuck Norris kick ass.
Even if the bad guys were too dumb to realize they were doomed. I remember this one line for an episode where Walker and his team have the bad guys surrounded and one of them calls out, "You'll never take us alive <pause> Texas Ranger!"
That line has stuck with me for years.
Death did not claim Chuck Norris. Norris stared down Death who decided to call it a draw.
Rest well <pause> Texas Ranger!
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That is that for this week's Tuesday TV Touchbase.
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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Enough with television. Next post up: what's going on in the world of radio.
(Yes, it's still a thing! For now.)
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