We’ve got a LOT of ground to cover with this week’s Tuesday TV Touchbase!
Three different series with nothing in common except they all finished their second season.
I wrapped up Fallout last week and wow!
The world building in this post apocalyptic series is remarkable. The shattered remnants of a modern society sitting alongside the desolation of a pitiful existence with mutated monsters all about. All set to the perky soundtrack of 1950’s pop standards both well known and obscure.
Lucy finally corners her daddy Hank, determined to make him pay for his crimes. Since escaping the Vault, Hank has been busy using neck embedded control thingys to turn the savage denizens of the above ground wasteland into zombies.
Granted they are polite and productive now and no longer trying to kill each other zombies but zombies none the less and that is Lucy’s bone of contention with what Hank is up to. In the end, Lucy frees Hank’s enslaved population while Hank himself gets mind wiped by his own tech. But has freeing these mind controlled zombies only made things worse?
(Ella Purnell who plays Lucy is another British actor affecting a near flawless American accent.)
Maximus has tried to be the good guy, bringing order and justice to the wasteland but like Lucy, he has to contend with whether his actions to make things better have only made things worse. Various factions in the wasteland are gearing up for war.
In the Vaults below, things are deteriorating with dwindling resources, petty bickering and the dawning realization that Vault-Tech may not have had their best interests in mind when they built the Vaults. The shit going down in the Vaults can be intriguing but I find all the above ground adventures far more fascinating.
Back above ground, the Ghoul, the former Cooper Howard, can absolutely assert that Vault-Tech was up to some bad shit. The flashbacks to the before times (where actor Walton Goggins gets to play a character with an intact nose) expose the secret manipulations by Vault-Tech to bring about the very war they profess to be protecting against. At the center of that conspiracy is Barbara Howard, Cooper’s wife.
In the desolation of the present, the Ghoul has tracked down the cryogenic chambers that contain his wife and daughter.
Or suppose to.
The chambers are empty with a note suggesting Barbara has gone to Colorado. The season ends with the Ghoul and his canine companion Dogmeat (I am pleasantly surprised that Dogmeat has survived this long) ready for their next quest.
St. Denis Medical ends it’s 2nd season with a life changing event as the perpetually grumpy Dr. Ron has to undergo heart bypass surgery after learning he had a 90% blockage that was days away from killing him. Well, damn, that’s a serious turn.
Ron is trying to have his surgery on the downlow but word gets out and suddenly Ron is surrounded by a bunch of well meaning co-workers he doesn’t want to be there. There is a break in his curmudgeonly armor when he actually asks nurse Alex to stay with him.
Meanwhile, after their big damn kiss in the previous episode, sweet innocent Matt and worldly sardonic Serena have some difficulties navigating around that without making things weird. Thankfully they finally talk things out and we head into the summer break before season 3 with Matt and Serena in a good place.
We do NOT end season 2 of High Potential with everyone in a good place involving Morgan Guillory and Adam Karadec.
The murder of the week finds Karadec’s girlfriend Lucia in the crosshairs of the investigation. And while she didn’t personally commit the killing, she was caught up in the cover up conspiracy and is arrested for her part in the murder. Poor repressed Karadec actually put his heart on the line and this is what he gets? Geez!
Will this make this make the Morgan/Karadec shippers happy? Well, the scene where Karadec comes over to Morgan’s house and she calls him “Adam” and he looks so sad that Morgan sheds a tear that Karadec tenderly brushes away and… Oh My God! What’s going on here? Well, shippers, sorry, not what you think. And quite frankly, I’m not eager to push these two in that direction.
Meanwhile, Morgan Guillory has her own distraction and damned if it isn’t Nick Wagner.
When Nick Wagner came on board as the new captain of the Major Crimes Unit, we didn't like him, we didn't trust him.
He was a shifty asshole and quite frankly I wanted to see this sorry jerk die a terrible and humuliating death.
Then the cracks in the facade begin to appear and oh hell no, I do not want to like the bastard but could he possibly be a good guy?
And there was the big damn kiss with Morgan and oh most emphatically HELL NO! And she didn't say no and girl, do not suggest after all this time, you're starting to like this guy?
Remember when he got here? We didn't like him, right? We didn't trust him, you recall that?
But damned if he didn't put himself on the line to help to Morgan solve the 2 season mystery of what happened to Roman and...
Is Nick Wagner going to die in Morgan's arms? NOOOOOO!
Not when we're starting to like the son of a bitch! NO!
But that's a wrap on season 2 and we've got a summer to await what happens next on High Potential.
That is that for this week's Tuesday TV Touchbase.
Next week, 2 shows return that have in common they are both in their 5th and final seasons and that's all.
The Boys and Hacks.
2 totally different shows in 1 single Tuesday TV Touchbase blog post.
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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