Wedding Bells on ‘Euphoria,’ ‘Forsytes’ Finale, Probing the ‘Family Guy,’ Comeback
Nate and Cassie experience the wedding bell blues in Euphoria. The Masterpiece drama The Forsytes ends its first season. A colonoscopy returns dividends on Family Guy. An AI leak causes more havoc on the set of HBO‘s The Comeback.
Euphoria
SUNDAY: Even blessed events like a wedding tend to be less than euphoric on this heightened melodrama, so if you’re expecting a degree of calamity at the lavish nuptials of Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) and Nate (Jacob Elordi), you probably won’t be disappointed. Elsewhere, Rue (Zendaya) becomes a pawn in the war between her former drug boss, Laurie (Martha Kelly), and Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje). True Blood‘s Sam Trammell guest-stars as the new man in Jules’ (Hunter Schafer) world.
The Forsytes
Season Finale
SUNDAY: The latest Masterpiece adaptation of John Galsworthy’s Forsyte Saga ends its first season with several relationships among the stockbroking family on the ropes. Younger Jolyon (Danny Griffin) makes a fateful decision regarding his wife, Frances (Tuppence Middleton), and his first love, Louisa (Eleanor Tomlinson), the mother of the twins he only recently discovered. His stuffier cousin Soames (Joshua Orpin), having crushed his new bride Irene’s (Millie Gibson) dreams of Paris, builds a home in the country to spirit her away from London, where he can better control her. Because that always ends well. Overseeing it all: matriarch Ann (Francesca Annis), who drops a bombshell. A second season has already been filmed.
Family Guy
SUNDAY: What treasures, or horrors, lurk in the bowels of Peter Griffin, the hapless protagonist of Seth MacFarlane‘s irreverent animated comedy? When he succumbs to a colonoscopy, Peter learns that his intestines harbor a rare collectible action figure toy. (How it got there, we might prefer not to know.) When he learns how much he can get for selling it, his buddies get a different sort of indigestion: envy.
The Comeback
SUNDAY: “How am I the bad guy?” sitcom star Valerie Cherish (the great Lisa Kudrow) wails when she takes the brunt of the blame after news is leaked that her new show How’s That? is being written by AI. Her husband, Mark (Damian Young), has abandoned her for Burning Man, and she’s getting zero support from the studio or her “producing partner” Billy (Dan Bucatinsky). Even a trusted member of her team appears to be turning on her, refusing to sign an NDA. We’ve always known comedy is hard, but this is ridiculous.
24 in 24: Last Chef Standing
Season Premiere
SUNDAY: Master chefs embark on an endurance challenge in the third season of the extreme cooking competition, with 24 high-profile contestants taking on 24 tests of their skills over 24 consecutive hours. Michael Symon and Esther Choi are the hosts, with Jet Tila the guest judge in the premiere, a first shift involving strategy skills that will decide who moves on for the rest of the grueling day and night.
INSIDE WEEKEND TV:
- NFL Draft (Saturday, 12 pm/ET, ABC, ESPN, NFL Network): The final picks are made in rounds 4 through 7.
- I’ll Be Seeing You (Saturday, 8/7c, Hallmark Channel): Channel favorite Tyler Hynes developed this passion project, in which he plays an activities director making a road trip special for worker-bee Amy (Stacey Farber) and her grandmother (Tony winner Christine Ebersole).
- 48 Hours (Saturday, 10/9c, CBS): The true-crime newsmagazine investigates the disappearance of 16-year-old Theresa Fusco, one of three Long Island teens who went missing in 1984. A DNA breakthrough from a smoothie straw provides answers four decades later.
- E60: The Oklahoma Standard (Sunday, 11 am/ET, ESPN): A documentary special focuses on the NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder (currently up 2-0 against the Suns in this year’s NBA playoffs) and the team’s role in helping the city heal from the devastation of 1995’s terrorist bombing.
- Biography: WWE Legends (Sunday, 8/7c, A&E): A new season of celebrity wrestling profiles opens with “The Curse of the Von Erichs,” in which Kevin Von Erich opens up about the tragedies that befell his family’s wrestling dynasty. Followed by the premiere of WWE LFG (Legends and Future Greats) (10/9c), with wrestling hopefuls training and battling it out for a chance at WWE stardom.
- Marshals (Sunday, 8/7c, CBS): Kayce (Luke Grimes) and the team stage a risky rescue mission when Cruz (Ash Santos) is taken prisoner by Randall Clegg (Michael Cudlitz) on his paramilitary compound. Followed by new episodes of Tracker (9/8c) and Watson (10/9c).
- Rooster (Sunday, 10/9c, HBO): With time running out on his visiting professorship, Greg (Steve Carell) provides a shoulder for daughter Katie (Charly Clive) to cry on, but can he persuade Tommy (Maximo Salas) to stay in college?
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Looking forward to The Count of Monte Cristo, which I'll catch up with on Monday, while I might as well see what mediocre things that Tracker will have for us. I think Tracker may refer back to the boring family drama on Sunday (bleah), but I think there will be other action too. Meanwhile TCM will have Arsenic and Old Lace on Saturday.
Last night, Friday, TCM aired a movie called Rock & Roll High School. I didn't watch it, but from the description it sounded like a precursor of Footloose... but maybe with less dancing. But it would be interesting if this movie possibly influenced whoever wrote or came up with the idea of Flashdance.
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Fun fact about Arsenic and Old Lace: In the original play, Boris Karloff played a villain who says he killed somebody because he siad "I look like Boris Karloff"! But since the movie version was filmed while the play was still running on Broadway, Karloff was replaced by Raymond Massey who was made up to sort of look like him but nothing would beat the real thing, that's for sure! Oh, and Cary Grant thought it was the worst of his performances, thinking Jimmy Stewart would have been a better choice. Me, I found it enjoyable enough.
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Interesting, on both counts. And of course, we now can't imagine anyone else as the lead in Arsenic & Old Lace in place of Cary Grant. I'm sure Jimmy Stewart would have been good, too, but that role definitely belongs to Cary Grant. :-p
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I also enjoyed Arsenic and Old Lace. Honestly I have never seen a bad performance by Cary Grant or James Stewart. Both were exceptional actors.
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I rather Tracker just focus on the cases. The seasons long family drama usually bores me too.
Lots of shows have a dragged out mystery:arc (Matlock is guilty of this) , but many wrap it up at season’s end or early the following season (Elsbeth, Chicago PD, The Rookie…..).
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Yeah, Tracker's 'family drama' is boring, I really don't care about the guy's backstory. Anytime I watch a procedural (like tracker, or NCIS), I just want to see the Case of the Week. I watch crime-solving shows to see the crime being solved-- I don't care about the crime-solvers personal life.
Unfortunately, FBI is guilty of this too. Maggie's sister, Jubal's son, OA's girlfriend, Isobel's boyfriend..... they've all been involved in official cases, which I find somewhat unrealistic.
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Seeing the phrase ''Case of the Week" reminds me of those '70s detective shows when they were produced by Quinn Martin or was one of those "NBC Sunday Night Mystery Movie" and those shows rarely delved into the personal history of those characters like Columbo or Cannon. In the latter case so to speak, it wasn't revealed that he once had a wife and son until the fifth and final season when we found out they were killed long before the first show even began and the guy who did it had escaped! And on Columbo, we know he has a wife but she was never seen or heard, just referred to during many eps during both runs. Me, I'm flexible concerning that as I like the continuing stories on "The Rookie" and "Will Trent".
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back in the day ('60s and '70s) that's how all shows were: if the show was about cops, we saw the cops at work. If it was about lawyers we saw them at the office or in court-- no personal drama. Think of original Hawaii Five-O... do we know anything about McGarrett's or Danno's personal lives? I don't think so. Or Emergency or Adam-12-- we may have heard about an argument with the spouse, or something happening at home, but we don't see it. And yes, the Mystery Movie of the Week too. Shows like Dallas and Dynasty offered plenty of personal drama.
So maybe since I grew up watching these things, that formed my opinion on "work shows" vs. "personal drama shows." There are plenty of variations and exceptions, though, which makes me sound hypocritical, lol.
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Oh, yeah, the original McGarrett did NOT have a recurring girlfriend he saw off-duty. And I don't remember seeing him and Dano hanging out together off hours! (But then, the show rarely had enough time to spend on their free time.)
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I binged Columbo and McMillan and Wife several years ago. I enjoyed pretty much every episode .
I haven’t watched all of the eps of the other NBC rotating wheel of dramas that aired in the 70s.
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Count of Monte Cristo is awesome. Best version yet.
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Edmond is getting a little callous and cold-blooded in his thirst for revenge. 😮
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Jolyon Forsyte bugs the snot out of me. Everytime there's a confrontation, he runs out of the room to sulk. Especailly at work. How is he supposed to be the leader? Because he thought a gold mine might have a cave in? He wouldn't invest at ALL. The point should have been that people shouldn't invest in one thing exclusively. Then in his personal life, he's always storming out instead of just settling things with his wife. And his hair and never wearing a tie is distracting.
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