‘No Passport Required’ on This Foodie Journey, ‘Outpost’ on the CW, ABC’s ‘Last Defense’
A critical checklist of notable Tuesday TV:
No Passport Required (9/8c, PBS, check local listings at pbs.org): Those with adventurous taste buds who’d prefer to keep things local find a champion in celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson (former winner of Top Chef Masters), whose new six-part series discovers mouth-watering exotic tastes within the immigrant communities of U.S. cities. First stop: Detroit, with its thriving neighborhoods of Middle Eastern origin. Samuelsson enjoys a home-cooked meal with a family of Syrian refugees, cooks with a Lebanese-American pastry chef and attends a 700-person wedding.
The Outpost (9/8c, The CW): As if concocted from a Mad Libs volume devoted to cheeseball fantasy, this ludicrously unoriginal swords-and-sorcery snoozer stars Jessica Green as orphaned Talon, the last known survivor of the Blackbloods. We encounter the glowering warrior on a revenge quest against those who slaughtered her family and village, a journey that leads to the title Outpost, which is surrounded by zombie-like “plague-lings” who look like refugees from a low-budget Walking Dead knockoff. Not even in the summer are we desperate enough for this sort of time-waster.
The Last Defense (10/9c, ABC): The Death Row docu-series from How to Get Away With Murder’s Viola Davis embarks on an investigation into a new case: the 1999 arrest and subsequent conviction of Julius Jones, who at 19 was on a partial academic scholarship to the University of Oklahoma when he was charged with the murder of a businessman. Jones is interviewed from death row as federal public defenders look into a possible miscarriage of justice. Character witnesses include Tommy Griffin, father of NBA star Blake Griffin, who coached Jones on the 1996 Oklahoma State High School Championship basketball team.
Inside Tuesday TV: Murphy (Richard Harmon) continues his long streak of bad deeds on The CW’s The 100 (8/7c), starting a fire in Shadow Valley that doesn’t end well… Father-son fixer-uppers Mike Holmes and Mike Jr. work together as business partners on a new season of DIY Network’s Holmes & Holmes (9/8c), but the job of home renovation may take a back seat to wedding planning as Junior prepares for his wedding to fiancée Lisa… In truTV’s Paid Off with Michael Torpey (10/9c), the comedian addresses the student-loan crisis by hosting a game show in which three college grads answer trivia questions with the winner getting the chance to have his or her student debt paid off… Science Channel’s Strange Evidence (10/9c) uses forensic tools to discover the truth behind bizarre phenomena captured on surveillance cameras, including a creepy fog that engulfs an Illinois town.
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Since I like Sci-Fi...will check out The Outpost...
It's easy enough (for me)...DVR => Season Pass => watch (however long as it's interesting) => if disappointing => Delete Season Pass...
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I thought Outpost was watchable enough for summer. Let me know your thoughts after you sample it.
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Not sure what I'll watch tonight. I saw some of Salvation last night (the 2nd half) so I have to catch up with what I missed from it. Also, I don't know what happened to Elementary.... I expected it to be on at 10pm last night, but that's when Salvation was on. So apparently Elementary didn't air at all :-o >:(
I won't be able to watch 100 Code at 1am. And DonMI, I believe you mentioned that even the second airings through the week are going to be very late, so I'm not sure I'll be able to catch up that way. We'll see.
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Salvation was terrific as usual. Watched it live at 10:00.
I might check out The Outpost just out of curiosity. The review is pretty much the worst I have ever read here.-
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I was thinking that too. Although, there was something once that he really disliked but I thought it was watchable.
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Marvel's INHUMANS and The Crossing spring to mind. I'm sure there were others.
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If he didn't like Inhumans, I'd agree with him. I watched it, but I thought it was mostly awful. I did disagree with his dislike of The Crossing, but he did say, "Judging solely from the drab pilot," so I can forgive him for that.
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I suffered through a few episodes of The Terror and gave up. But most of the other picks I was happy with. I'm not that hard to please.
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The Outpost is from the Executive Producers of Leverage and Stargate, and, more recently, The Librarians. That means action and stuff happening, but things may not always make 100% sense or be logical. I may check it out. I don't remember what this guy thought of Hooten & the Lady, but (horrible title aside) that was a fun, mindless show.
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I think he liked Hooten and the Lady, I enjoyed that one too.
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So I just watched the part of Salvation that I missed last night. Three quick things: 1) Ironic that the White House Counsel's name is Cavanaugh. And that he generally resembles a suddenly-famous litigator named Cavanaugh/Kavanaugh. 2) I'm glad they found a way to explain how you can walk into the Supreme Court building today, and get in front of the entire Court tomorrow. (When in real life it takes months, if not years.) I wonder if the reason they gave is true or complete fiction. And 3) for a superpowerful hacker/internet/online group, you'd think Re/Syst could come up with a better avatar than an old-looking lady with a blotchy image rife with interference. If that's deliberate, it's annoying.
Also, a good twist is that the DC cop was asked by the bogus president Bennett to get Rayburn's things. Obviously he's going to eventually end up being some sort of ally to Grace & Harris.
In real life I wonder if popular opinion (or a significant portion thereof) really would get behind VP-turned-President Bennett. That seemed a little odd to me.
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It might be even more outlandish than Designated Survivor but it's nearly as fun.
Watching The Outpost right now. Reminds me a bit of Once Upon Time.-
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I watched Outpost too. I agree with the assessment above that the "effects" are definitely low-budget-- those Plague-ling things looked like they were made by high-schoolers--and the background music sounded a lot like Pirates of the Caribbean, but the story looks relatively interesting.
Oh, and I too thought Salvation was good. Can't wait to see what happens next, and who can and can't be trusted. :-D (For example, I have doubts about the woman that Harris--the US Secretary of Defense, no less--is sleeping with.)
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You missed the whole discussion about the time change for Salvation and Elementary yesterday. They cancelled Elementary and moved Salvation due to Trump's announcement so that unlike ABC their prime time shows wouldn't run to nearly Midnight. (You never know how long that man is going to talk.)
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Jena: Have you thought of calling your cable provider to see why WGN is no longer offered On Demand? They might not realize it was deleted from the menu.
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I.waa.puzzles by Elementary's absence as well.
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Got Talent, Animal Kingdom, Humans, and 100 Code are my main shows tonight. I'd like to watch that food show on PBS too if I can find time.
Caution: They moved Humans to 11:00 pm and 100 Code to 1:00 am (both EDT).
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