Whoa what a huge week for TV. I have now have six scripted television series I watch. Four came back Tuesday night, while Matlock and Elspeth won't return till late February. I tend to watch the day after episodes air so I can watch them when I'm ready, and without commercials. The only "live" TV show I generally watch in real time is Survivor, which I will not be watching this time around. Suffice it to say I don't enjoy returning player seasons in general, but in a big season 50 with returns from all eras, there are way too many irritating people I never want to see again, including the two entrants from season 49.
The Rookie S 8 Ep 1 Czech Mate
I last watched The Rookie in May of last year. I binge watched all of the seasons till I caught up with current episodes in May. I loved the characters and the wild situations often portrayed. My three favorite characters are Detectives Lopez and Harper and Lieutenant Wade Gray. I live for their scenes. Nathan Fillion's lead character John Nolan is likeable enough, but he's always at the right place at the right time and has low level "super powerish" abilities to save the day.
In season 8's opener, the staff is spread between simultaneous operations in Prague and Los Angeles. We go back and forth between the two, catching up on characters and their lives since last season. The episode simply wasn't very interesting. Part of the shows appeal for me are the outrageous situations and crimes our characters face on a day to day basis. It just felt like not much went on here. I'm certain once everyone is home it will be full bore exciting again.
Will Trent S4 Ep 1 : Speaking of Sharks
The new season of Will Trent jumped right back into the many crazy things that happened at the end of season three: Amanda shot and fighting for her life, Angie being pregnant, Will and his real father finding their footing, and Ormer's brain tumor.
In addition to this, Will's nemesis James Ulster escapes from prison with an accomplice, leaving a trail of bodies. Will is struggling in all ways and having the man he once thought was his father on the loose and taunting him is almost too much.
Doc S2 Ep 10 Chief
Returning from mid season break, Doc delivers a sad episode in which two kids and a homeless man are treated for symptoms that can't be figured out until it's seen that they had a connection that is making them ill.
Amy continues to deal with the hacker who seeks vengeance, and with Sonya's jealousy and dislike of her that puts a patient at risk.
In the past, Amy seeks the position of Chief and she's ruthless with anyone standing in her way. There are parallels between past Amy's ambition and current Amy's frustration with being a resident instead of head of the department. There's always the fear on my part that the better version of Amy today will be subsumed by past Amy as she gains her memories.
High Potential S2 Ep 8 The One That Got Away Part 2
We're still trying to find the missing Rembrandt painting, and return it to it's rightful owner, once art thief Jean Baptiste is uncovered. Morgan, who isn't officially a member of the police force plays by her own rules, as she often does. Usually she's right to do so, because she sees a wider picture. Here, though, she betrays the trust and respect her partner Karadec has for her, and it's kind of hard to take.
Fallout S2 Ep 4 The Demon In The Snow
The show opens with Cooper and his friend Chuck in T45 Power Armor fighting on the Alaskan front before any of the events we've previously seen. Chuck's comm is out and his armor is emitting wild electrical charges. The men are told to move forward, but Cooper tells Chuck to retreat and he'll be right behind him. Almost immediately enemy soldiers attack and shoot at Cooper in his armor, which shorts out and forces him to fall to the ground. In moments, the Chinese soldiers are attacked from behind by a giant clawed creature who comes in close to examine Cooper, then runs off toward more gunfire. It's our first look at the Deathclaw.
Lucy and the Ghoul rest up with the NCR Rangers who are going to move on. They've had Lucy hooked up to an IV with something called Buffout which heals her but leaves her addicted. She feels they're too close to Vegas to wait out the drug addiction, so she takes more and has a wild scene with ghoul Elvis impersonators, just gleefully blowing them up with a sawed off shotgun. They're only ghouls, right, she says? Farther down the deep path for Lucy.
In the Vaults, Betty and Steph meet and Betty asks for help with 33's water problem. Steph takes a hard line and says the experiment is over, shrugging at the thought 33 won't survive. She does try to get Betty to go back to Vault 31 to get a box of personal possessions that belonged to Hank, and she might consider helping Betty. Is this box the box of toys Barb Howard was packing and sobbing over? Why does Hank have it? My bet is on Betty to keep her people alive, whatever she has to do.
Norm and Bud's Buds walk through a town, snacking like there's no tomorrow, though Norm tries to tell them to conserve. Bud's former personal assistant (errand boy) teases that he overheard talk of Phase Two of the experiment being run in vaults 32 and 33.
Maximus returns to Area 51 with Thaddeus disguised poorly as Xander in power armor. He plans to kill Quintus, but isn't able to do it though Quintus shoots at him. The other faction leaders try to talk Xander (Thaddeus) into making a deal with them, but they all turn on each other and the cafeteria they're talking in becomes a shootout. Dane steals the cold fusion and gives it to Maximus to run away with. As Maximus and Thaddeus run from Area 51, the airships are shooting at each other and falling from the skies.
Beginning as it ended with Deathclaws, Lucy and the Ghoul find out why the streets of Vegas are deserted when a Deathclaw emerges from a casino, and another steals up from behind.
The Pitt 7 am
Last season I didn’t watch the Pitt till all episodes were out. It’s always fun to try a new show and just watch one episode after another. This season, it’s one hour of a fifteen hour day over fifteen weeks for me. Yikes.
Everyone is back on the job, including head nurse Dana who looked like she might be packing it in after a patient assault, and Dr. Langdon, ousted for stealing drugs from patients last year. Langdon confesses to a favorite patient that he stole from him and goes on at length about it.
New this season is Dr Baran Al-Hashimi, who will take Robby’s position when he leaves for a three month sabbatical after today’s shift. She comes from a Veterans Hospital and it’s a struggle to see how she would be able to take charge of a hospital with a constant flow of disasters. She seems confident that she can use her organizational skills to make everything run smoothly and on budget, those being her chief concerns.
Robby’s impulse is immediately to evade being in her presence. That won’t hold up long, but perhaps neither will she.
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