‘Animal Kingdom,’ a Tarot Challenge on ‘Face Off,’ Reeling With Loss on ‘Humans’
A critical checklist of notable Tuesday TV:
Animal Kingdom (9/8c, TNT): Good news for the all-in-the-family crime drama, which was renewed this week for a fourth season. The momentum of Season 3 continues with Smurf (Ellen Barkin) pressuring J (Finn Cole) to clean up loose ends from Javi’s murder. And it’s all hands on deck as the Codys take on a Brazilian gang threatening their Top Dog status, though Deran (Jake Weary) is also considering a new shady-business proposition from his newly arrived dad, Billy (Denis Leary).
Face Off: Battle Royale (9/8c, Syfy): The all-star season continues with another head-to-head challenge, with battle partners challenged to create looks based on tarot card readings. How great if one of those cards offered a future in which Syfy would rethink its decision to make this the final season of the creature-design competition.
Humans (11/10c, AMC): We’re already past the halfway point of the third season of this compelling robots-among-us social allegory, and at the Railyard, where the known “synths” are being contained in hopes of being integrated into the human population, dangerous plans are brewing among the warring elements. In the most emotional storyline, Joe (Tom Goodman-Hill) tries to help little Sam (Billy Jenkins) cope with recent tragedy.
Inside Tuesday TV: As Wimbledon gets underway this week, The CW’s two-hour special Strokes of Genius (8/7c) relives one of the greatest tennis matches ever: the 2008 Wimbledon final between reigning champ Roger Federer and a 22-year-old upstart, Rafael Nadal. … Giddyap with Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods (9/8c) as host Andrew Zimmern rides the last 200 miles of the Pony Express Trail to its final California hitching post in Sacramento, along the way dining on the same grub the young riders might have done back in the day: son-of-a-gun stew, boiled elk tongue and pine nut soup. But he also samples more newfangled cuisine of the region, including cowboy sushi. … On OWN’s Love Is (10/9c), Yasir (Will Catlett) misses a date with Nuri (Michele Weaver) when his roomie/ex Ruby (Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing) has surgery, causing new complications for the budding romance.
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G
Salvation was riveting last night. Very impressive show, especially for summer. Ratings are inexplicably low, I doubt we will get to enjoy another season.
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Yeah, very action-packed and interesting. I'm enjoying it. As I said on yesterday's thread, the only thing that raised my brows was Darius' magic bullet-proof shirt. :-o
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Next week, he'll invent a cloak of invisibility!
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The show does have bits of sci-fi elements and Darius has access to the very best in technology . I figured he was wearing a bullet proof vest, was shocked about the "magic shirt".
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Ditto. I thought he'd have on a high-tech, very thin vest. That would have been more plausible. That, and some bruising where the bullets hit. Even the best body armor can't prevent that.
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Salvation just might be more deliciously ludicrous as Designated Survivor! Any word if Netflix or some other entity picked up that gem?
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Also, I meant to mention how 'convenient' it is that both members of the young couple (Liam and Jillian) met up with "other people," people with whom they may have more in common than they do with each other.
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The romance aspect of these kind of shows doesn't interest me very much. I prefer the political intrigue and the action much more.
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I think there are rumors (and online petitions) to get Netflix to take over. I think they have the overseas distribution of the show, so they're a logical choice. Join the movement to encourage them!
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Agreed!! I think romance elements usually only weaken a show that is primarily an intrigue/action series.
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C
Not to mention all the simulated sex in the cable shows. Why do directors think they have to have naked bodies writhing on top of each other and making vulgar sounds in every show? We don't need all that to get the idea that they're sleeping together.
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Just 100 Code, I guess.
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C
Did you see both of last week's episodes? What did you think of that woman who was going after the truck drivers? She was pretty convincing in the role.
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I saw the whole 1st episode, and most of the 2nd. I did see the woman who was killing truck drivers.
Interesting note: When Conley was at the diner / truckstop, and lookiing in the rest room for that woman, he couldn't look below the doors, but had to jump up and look over the stall door. Earlier that very day I heard that one thing* that foreigners find odd about the US is that restroom stall doors don't go all the way to the floor, like they do across the pond.
*That was one of MANY thing that people from other countries think is odd or strange about us. :-D
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One school I went to only had doors half the size of our regular ones, so they might as well not had any doors at all! Also, in the men's locker room, there weren't any doors on the stalls. I wonder if they had them in the women's locker room???
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Lol, yeah, I'm pretty sure the women's locker room had stall doors. :-D
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Nothing depresses me more than recalling my high school men's locker room days. Our restroom had one huge urinal meant for multiple uses simultaneously , yuk! And many stalls had half doors or no doors. Double yuk!!
I also despised gym. We had to square dance, perform Yoga and climb ropes. I sucked at all, usually figured out a way to skip gym all together. -
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I used to hate it when I'd go out to bars, and they had those long troughs in the restrooms. I don't have a shy bladder (thankfully), but I don't enjoy going in front of other people. (Does anyone?)
I didn't mind gym so much except when we had to play baseball. I can't throw a ball or catch one, and I'm horrible at batting. Yoga would have been fun. I could twist myself up like a pretzel.
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C
No Got Talent this week, but my cable shows (Animal Kingdom, 100 Code, and Humans) are all on. Maybe I'll go shopping until 10:00.
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Fireworks and Barbeques tonight and tomorrow night. Kmart has some big July 4th sales right now, saw a couple of their commercials during Salvation last night.
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ALL of our Kmarts have closed now!!!
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We have a few within around 30 miles of each other. One is just about a mile away from me. Can't find better deals anywhere else.
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In recent years, they either didn't carry what I wanted anymore, or they were out of it. Our stores had shown signs of closing for a long time.
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