Bad News for a Good Doctor? Was SVU Day Off Oddly Spent? Biggest Survivor Meltdown Ever? Has Chucky Seen Last of [Spoiler]? More TV Qs!
We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about lotsa shows including The Good Doctor, NCIS, Chucky and The Veil!
1 | On Fire Country, would the utility company really have been that slow to cut off the power, knowing lives were endangered? Also, what was Bode thinking, risking his life (with Jake’s already in play) to help Gaby with the injured driver? Was he looking to “re-orphan” Gen all over again?
2 | Who else would happily watch a Mary & George spinoff about Nicola Walker’s sharp-tongued Lady Hatton?
3 | This many years into airing the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, when will C-SPAN learn to filter out the ambient dinner noise when the first speaker (this year, Kelly O’Donnell) welcomes everyone? And were you a bit surprised by how many of Colin Jost’s jokes — especially early on — didn’t seem to land, there in the ballroom?
4 | Was The Voice’s Carson Daly trying to make us forget how much we miss Niall Horan or attempting to make us miss him more?
5 | If The Neighborhood‘s Tina was convinced she was having a granddaughter, why did she wear blue, and not pink, to Marty and Courtney’s gender reveal party? And once again we ask: Was the Amazon product placement this week a bit much?
6 | Did you chuckle a bit at Henry Ian Cusick’s NCIS: Hawai’i character boasting of “Yankee ingenuity”… as his Scottish brogue peeked through his American accent? As fictional bioweapon names go, did Compound X start sounding silly after the 117th mention? Lastly, would Sam — who knows a pastry baker/arms dealer back in L.A.! — really have been at all impressed by Milos’ shtick?
7 | Was seeing NCIS’ Torres chase a baddie on horseback basically a sneak preview of Wilmer Valderrama’s Zorro series for Disney+?
8 | How impressive was CNN reporter Julia Vargas Jones — a grad student at Columbia — as she reported live at the scene of Tuesday night’s police action, using just (as she put it) “my iPhone, an AirPod and one battery pack”?
9 | At this point… after being called out multiple times by our TV Questions column… The Rookie is clearly trolling us, right, with the “all-body cam” episodes?
10 | Doesn’t it seem like The Veil‘s Josh Charles is having the best time being, as his blowhard character Max is referred to in the premiere, “the most American American”?
11 | Good Doctor fans, how did you interpret the phone call Dr. Glassman received toward the end of the episode? ▲ Has he just received good news, or has his cancer returned as we head into the very final three episodes? And could this shot of the doctors (allegedly) on top of Mount Umunhum have looked any more fake/green-screened? ▼
12 | Maybe X-Men ’97’s Wolverine woulda gotten the drop on Sentinel Trish sooner if he didn’t announce each sneak attack with a yelled quip…? Also, who else got goosebumps seeing Spider-Man?!
13 | Was Liz’s display on Survivor the biggest meltdown the show has ever seen? And now that Jeff has announced an upcoming all-returnees season, do any Season 46 players deserve a second shot?
14 | Was it unfair of The Amazing Race to make Danny and Angie wait for a missing crew that never showed up? Should production have allowed them to stay in the race?
15 | Did Chicago Fire’s new floater, Damon, come from the Abercrombie & Fitch catalogue? Speaking of the newbie, “I’m not a stalker” is totally something a stalker would say, isn’t it?
16 | Given how smoothly Chicago P.D.’s Upton and Torres took down Ruthie’s mom in that hospital room, should WWE start looking at them as potential tag team champions?
17 | Has anyone been stuck with a worse storyline on The Conners this season than Katey Sagal, whose screen time has been eaten up by a lousy C-story about Louise running for school board? Couldn’t the writers have come up with some relationship-centric stuff for her and Dan instead?
18 | On Abbott Elementary, were you a little surprised to see a recognizable star like Lana Condor play a thankless one-off role as Gregory’s neglected date?
19 | With Tiffany now back inside her former doll, what are the odds that Jennifer Tilly will only be voice-acting in a potential fourth season of Chucky? And if the season focuses solely on Chucky, Tiffany and Caroline, would you miss Jake, Lexy and Devon if they were cut from the story altogether?
20 | How surprised were you to see The Summer I Turned Pretty’s Sean Kaufman (aka Belly’s brother) on this week’s Walker?
21 | A three-part Cobra Kai season? Is it just us, or does Netflix appear to be slowly building to, like, “16-part” seasons — aka, you know, weekly releases?
22 | How far into Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage‘s Season 1 run do you think it’ll be before CBS’ promo guy starts referring to the Young Sheldon spinoff as just Georgie & Mandy in commercials?
23 | How icky were you left feeling by the Grey’s Anatomy storyline in which Catherine ordered Link and Monica to go to extremes for a patient only because her parents were wealthy donors? Did you, too, expect Lucas to walk in on Simone and Blue in bed together? Has Mika sneakily snuck ahead to become your favorite of the residents? And does anybody really see Bailey staying up all night to put together wellness kits for the interns? ▼
24 | Did 9-1-1′s Maddie and Chimney really not invite Sue to their wedding?
25 | SVU viewers: Didn’t it strike you as odd that the huge church wedding in this week’s episode was taking place on a Monday afternoon? And were you relieved when Curry and Bruno finally brought that point up later in the hour? Also: Could Rollins, an incredibly recently unemployed mother of three young kids, think of no other way to occupy her newfound free time than to volunteer at the sex-crimes unit? (Has the woman never heard of a spa day?)
Hit the comments with your answers and any TV Qs of your own!
Liz didn’t dump the tribe’s food like Brandon Hantz did. Dude was unhinged.
2. I would watch Nicola Walker in anything. One of the best.
17. The cast and the characters on The Conners are great. The writing has been sub-par for a while now. I hate to see the show go but…
25. The kids were conveniently absent.
2. Nicola Walker in always the BEST part of anything she is in!!!
I came to make the same point re Nicola Walker!
9 (The Rookie) I don’t mind some footage from body and shop cameras being mixed in, but they definitely need to use it in moderation
Bode is an idiot every episode. IDK why his unneeded, non-sense maneuvers surprise anyone. He’s a selfish show-boater constantly.
And no, I would not miss those kids on Chucky. They be be ugly paper dolls or whatever that was forever.
On Chicago PD I’m guessing that new guy is a long lost child of Severide’s
If not Kelly’s then Benny’s.
Fire Country, and the Bode character in particular, is serious self-insert, Mary Sue, firefighter fan fiction. I’m not sure how any writer lets it out of the writers’ room.
I need to talk about Maddie’s poorly fitting wedding dress on 9-1-1.
Agree she is so beautiful but that dress was so unflattering they could have done so much better with it.
#18) Abbott … some famous people are plugging themselves to be on Abbott (Hi, Bette Midler!), so my take is any role is a good role – it’s exposure to a huge audience!
She did well, and I admit I had to look her up, maybe not as famous as stated. And the role wasn’t thankless as this question claims, she did what the character was supposed to; allow Gregory the opportunity to ignore her to obsess over Janene.
19 – Jake, Lexy and Devon are too essential for Chucky the TV series not to be present in a potential next season.
23) Mika has been my favorite of the new residents since Day One.
And yes, they really seem to be leaning into making Catherine the primary antagonist of the show.
And I thought it was just me who felt like this. Catherine is getting more and more unlikeable.
I have never liked Catherine. That storyline just added to the things I don’t like about her.
24. Obviously SOMEONE had to stay back at the call center to supervise. LOL. #JusticeForSue. I mean, Maddie had to have her best gay there with her.
#24 Someone had to supervise the call center and Josh had to be at the wedding he’s like Maddie’s BFF
14, Yes it was unfair, because even if you make the argument that they should have pulled off and waited for the crew, the fact that the only way they could communicate with them is through some walkie-talkies with an obviously very limited range meant they had no way to make plans as to where or how they should meet up. Were they just suppose to pull off and hope the crew found them sometime? I really don’t care who wins this year since I like all if them ok, except for one guy, but this made me mad enough I’m dropping it for this season
Given that others in past seasons have been eliminated (or severely delayed) by picking taxi drivers who then got them lost, it would seem to be within the scope of “fair.” That’s not to say that it didn’t totally suck, but given how controlled a lot of the elements have been (chartered flights, no public transportation), it’s not game changer for me.
(And I have to agree about the “one guy”…)
Remember this season was season 35 that they had already shot and oh they were also told that they wanted 90 minute episodes so they were re edited as they were 60 minute episodes
The delay didn’t seem fair & it made little sense. All the producers had to do was tell them to go to the next task. Why wouldn”t the crew have cell phones to contact the producers with in an emergency like this? However, why the heck did Danny take So.Damn.Long on the net building task? It looked like they could’ve been done well before Rod & Leticia. But Danny insisted on putzing along tying on every last piece even after his mom tried to push him to hurry up. It’s almost like he was pouting & going slow on purpose, or he was over compensating for losing the crew. Not sure why, but Danny seems to be the main reason they were last.
How can it be the fault of the car in the lead if the car BEHIND doesn’t follow them and takes a turn that the lead car didn’t take? They didn’t “lose their crew,” the crew lost THEM. And then the walkie talkies didn’t work? It’s only because Danny is a superfan that they accepted responsibility for something that was in no way their fault. The whole thing was BS.
Was I the only one (other than perhaps Robert Hays or Pam Dawber) who caught the little easter egg title drop in last night’s Elsbeth?
(Granted it was a long time ago, but still I remember loving “The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything.”)
I KNEW that rang a bell. +125 TVLine Power User points (no cash value)
Loved those movies
Danny was very annoying (Angie seems fine) so I’m not sad to see him go. It was their own boneheaded traffic move that caused tge separation. The other teams seemed to manage to not lose their crew and as Danny himself pointed out, it was explicit in the rules to not lose the crew.
I just read an article.. Danny says that their crew was driven around by a local. And the driver is the one that got lost and it was more like an hour and half..
She was the best mom..
18) Lana Condor is a “recognizable star”? From where? As much TV as I watch, I had to look that one up and I’m still not sure!
22) I’ve been calling it merely “Georgie and Mandy” from the first time I saw the title. But it’s not unusual for promos to shorten titles – I remember hearing “and then, on WKRP” so much I wondered if they had actually dropped “in Cincinnati” from the title.
On the whole, this week’s SVU was probably the best episode of the season. Still, I kept waiting for an alternative suspect to show up at some point just to keep the viewer guessing.
1. Fire Country is barely watchable. I only care about Vince and Sharon at this point.
2, I watch EVERYTHING that Nichola Walker is in. One of the best!
6. Totally ridiculous. Also the ELITE team didn’t seem very elite at all
11. Sadly I took it that Glassman’s cancer had returned. That green screen scene was so pathetic.
15. Chicago Fire’s floater is up to no good and I think that Adam M. and Marc above are on to something that he could be either Kelly or Benny’s child.
6 – The ELITE team was hopelessly inept, from the moment he jumped out of the van to kidnap Lucy. Like, why not have one of her team members do it so you don’t scare her?
I know, right! So poorly trained it surprised me. Downright odd.
11) I suspect Glassman’s phone call was a mislead and it’s Lim’s Mom that is sick.
Interesting misdirect. I can’t see it be anything terminal this close to the end of the series, unless Lim is going to leave to look after her.
#7 Yes! (and something that I’m now interested in watching)
#14 They knew that the crew was not behind them and decided to keep on going instead of waiting a reasonable amount of time for them, and it was their fault for the separation. Had the crew been at fault, it would have been a different story.
#22 Since I’m already calling it that, not long at all.
Amazing Race – in interviews Danny and Angie have stated that they were told to keep driving, for their own safety, to the Detour and the crew would catch up to them. The crew never arrived, and producers held them up for a long time. Then they were held up at the mat while producers discussed whether to make it a non-elim leg or not. I guess for the racing schedule they had to eliminate them. Won’t be surprised if they are asked to race again soon.
#18 – A lot of recognizable people have been on Abbot Elementary even in small roles. I am not sure a lot of people who watch Abbott know who Lana Condor is. Also isn’t one-off sometimes thankless roles what cameos are made for?
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#23 – Yeah, annoying but not surprising. Special treatment for people with money is SOP across a LOT of businesses/industries. That is how legacy admissions in Colleges and Universities happen, for instance.
9 – AGAIN??? FFS Hawley, get a grip.
Enough already with the gimmick episodes, especially in a truncated season. The honeymoon one was bad enough.
I still wanna see my ongoing NCIS query on McGee’s white trainers of doom being addressed!!
18 – Who is Lana Condor?
She is the lead in the ‘To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before’ trilogy of movies. She has other credits to her name, but that is where I recognized her from.
25. It was also strange how easy it was to get someone who no longer works for the NYPD approved for freelancing at dangerous police work (especially since, as they pointed out several times, the SVU is fully staffed up with full-time detectives). Or that Carisi was used to assist in the investigation, which made him ineligible to prosecute if the case when to trial.
Yeah, I miss Kelli and was glad to have Rollins back, but it definitely stretched credulity. But then I also thought it was ridiculous that Benson suggested Carisi play Amanda’s hubby when she was going UC to investigate Bob Flynn (even though the Rollisi fan in me loved the positive attention on them). I’d be glad to have Amanda back, but I think they need to either make it official or quit shoehorning her in.
5. No, who cares about product placement.
Did 911 forget that Chimney has another brother?
Also The Rookie and The Good Doctor had the same nanny plot this week.
My wife commented on the duplicate nanny subplots as well. It’s not the first time one of us has noticed something like that, but I think it’s the first time it’s happened on shows airing on the same night.
Kenneth Choi said in an interview Albert was out of town and couldn’t attend. Not sure where his dad & stepmom were though. Kevin was his cousin not his brother. L
CSI: Vegas: shouldn’t it have been mandatory for the lab to check the bullet from the supposed killer’s rifle and compare it to the bullet that killed the fiance to make sure it really was the gun that killed him?