‘Nashville’ Winter Finale, Figure Skating on Winter Olympics, Kathy Bates Lip-Syncs for Her Life
A critical checklist of notable Thursday TV:
Nashville (9/8c, CMT): As the musical drama wraps the first half of its final season, Daphne (Maisy Stella) may finally be emerging from the shadow of bratty older sister Maddie (Lennon Stella). She decides to audition for a country-western singing competition in hopes of kick-starting her career. (Hey, it worked for Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood). Is Deacon (Charles Esten) OK with this? In a more ominous sounding subplot, we’re told “Will’s (Chris Carmack) choice catches up to him.” Doubt this is referring to his song choice.
The Winter Olympics (8/7c, NBC): Unless there’s a surprising comeback, the USA women won’t be much of a factor in the battle for the podium in Ladies’ Figure Skating. But the rivalry between two exquisite young Russians, Alina Zagitova (#1 after the Short Program) and Evgenia Medvedeva (#2), makes for spellbinding TV. In other scheduled action, Mikaela Shiffrin and Lindsey Vonn compete in the Super Combined event, starting with a downhill run. Snowboarding presents the Olympics debut of the women’s big air event, and Short Track features the men’s 500m, women’s 1000m and men’s 5000m relay.
Top Chef (10/9c, Bravo): Two of the brightest stars in Top Chef history, brothers Michael and Bryan Voltaggio, reunite on the show for the first time since they competed against each other in 2009’s Season 6 (Michael won). This time around, they’re judging a Rocky Mountain Oyster Quickfire, then reuniting the remaining chefs with loved ones in an emotionally fraught Elimination Challenge. Those who survive will pack their knives for Aspen for the two-part finale.
Inside Thursday TV: You’d be nuts to bet against Oscar and Emmy winner Kathy Bates in any competition, and that includes Paramount Network’s Lip Sync Battle (10/9c), in which she takes on Tone Bell, her co-star from the now defunct Netflix sitcom Disjointed. Bates lip-syncs to Bruno Mars’ “That’s What I Like,” which is sure to be the audience’s reaction. … The streaming service Walter Presents imports a sports and family drama from Belgium, The Score, about two brothers who dream of footballer (soccer) fame, but only one makes it to the big leagues. … As the debate over gun control continues to heat up after last week’s tragic mass shooting in Florida, Comedy Central repeats the satirical, yet sobering, commentary Jordan Klepper Solves Guns (10/9c).
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A surprising comeback for US women in figure skating? Don't count on it. Mirai would have to land her triple axel, do everything else perfectly, and have 6 other women make huge mistakes just to end up in 3rd place.
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I don't know what's happened to the US women on the ice these days. Other than a team medal the other day, the results have been underwhelming so far. (Except for the women's hockey team. Yay for the gold!)
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It's not that the Americans are that bad...it's that the Russians have two superwomen who are breaking all the records, and the Canadians and Japanese have women with more international experience. All three of our women are in the top 11, and that's not so bad.
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A lot of the US ice dancers (or whoever has competed up until yesterday) had errors or goofs during their performances. It almost seemed like it was catchy. The commentators have said that the Americans are having a hard time keeping up with the Russians (and some other countries) when it comes to training and even choreographing their performances.
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Unlike when watching football games, when It comes to womens' figure skating, I don't root for the "home" team, I just sit and admire all the performances and if the Gold, Silver, and Bronze winners are those from other countries, I marvel at how well they did so here's to the two Russians and one Canadian who won tonight!
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What you heard must have been about our women because that's the only discipline where the Russians have such an advantage over us. Our women all made mistakes in their short programs the other day. Our couples in dance were practically perfect. One couple won a medal, and all three were in the top ten.
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Nothing of interest for me tonight. I have things I should be doing, anyway.
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That would have been my post just about every day since the Olympics started!
My DVR should be recording Nashville very early Friday morning, so will watch that this weekend. Speaking of which, all of my shows are still on break or ended their seasons on Friday (Once Upon a Time, Marvel Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Exorcist) , so a very quiet weekend for me. -
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I'll be watching the final Women's figure skating tonight.
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