‘Chicago’ Crossover, ‘Criminal Minds’ Turns 300, TCM’s Horror Star of the Week
A critical checklist of notable Wednesday TV:
Chicago x 3: This didn’t take long. On only the second week when all three of Dick Wolf’s Chicago procedurals are stacked side by side on Wednesdays, a three-way crossover ties all of the ensembles together. It begins with Chicago Fire airing an hour earlier than the norm (8/7c), with the firefighters responding to a conflagration consuming a 15-story apartment complex, learning as they go that one of the victims may be tragically familiar. The action moves on to Chicago Med (9/8c), where the docs and nurses scramble to handle the overflow of patients from the fire, and Dr. Rhodes (Colin Donnell) is tasked to save one of Fire’s own. Batting clean-up is Chicago PD (10/9c), with Intelligence racing to discover who’s responsible for this tragedy, which affects Halstead (Jesse Lee Soffer) the most.
Criminal Minds (10/9c, CBS): Striding atop a pile of countless mutilated women and other grotesquely savaged victims, the darkest of CBS procedurals launches its 14th season with a milestone 300th episode/ This time, it’s two of the team — Reid (Matthew Gray Gubler) and Garcia (Kirsten Vangsness) — who are in jeopardy, kidnapped by mass murderer Benjamin Merva (Michael Hogan). While the rest of the BAU go on the hunt, they explore their own history to solve the latest race-against-time mystery.
Horror Stars on TCM: As Halloween approached, Turner Classic Movies will go deep into its horror vaults, starting with a weekly salute to Horror Stars for the next five Wednesdays, starting with silent-film master of makeup and disguise Lon Chaney. His masterful 1925 The Phantom of the Opera (9/8c) is the centerpiece of the lineup that also includes 1927’s The Unknown (8/7c) from director Tod Browning, featuring Chaney as a criminal hiding in a circus where he pretends to have no arms. A very young Joan Crawford is the object of his desire.
Greenleaf (10/9c, OWN): Recently renewed for a fourth season, the juicy drama about an embattled megachurch takes a pivotal step in an episode featuring guest star Patti LaBelle as motivational speaker Maxine Patterson. Her timing is perfect, because she arrives just as Lady Mae (Lynn Whitfield) and the Bishop (Keith David) prepare to announce their divorce to the congregation. Also guesting: life coach and OWN favorite Iyanla Vanzant.
Inside Wednesday TV: It’s still early days on CBS’s Survivor (8/7c), but a budding “show-mance” between Dan and Kara is already making them early targets on the “Goliath” tribe… On ABC’s The Goldbergs (8/7c), Adam’s (Sean Giambrone) girlfriend Jackie returns from a summer at NYC a changed person. So much so that she’s now being played by Alexis G. Zall… ABC’s A Million Little Things (10/9c) tugs the parental heartstrings, when newly fatherless Sophie (Lizzy Greene) needs a partner for an upcoming father-daughter dance recital. She asks Eddie (David Giuntoli), whose secret relationship with widowed Delilah (Stephanie Szostak) gives him understandable pause… This sounds ominous. Comedy Central’s South Park (10/9c), which hasn’t met a sacred cow it couldn’t barbecue, uncovers a “very special relationship” between Butters and the local parish priest. When both go missing, the town calls in the Catholic Church.
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ABC all evening for me...first the comedies then A Million Little Things. That should get me all set for another scary episode of American Horror Story!
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I saw a few minutes of The Neighborhood and didn't like it. I'm not watching Murphy.
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AHS has been excellent this season.
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Yes, a lot of seasons have been great until about 3/4 of the way through and petered out in the last few episodes. It's as if they just ran out of steam.
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I never saw the early seasons because I didn't have the channel then. I did see some of the last seasons and didn't think they were too bad.
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Burden of Truth (season finale), and SEAL Team for me.
More about The Outpost later. Good episode, though.
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Burden of Truth for me also! Not sure I will be able to watch it live though.
Carter was fun to watch as usual. Didn't figure out the mystery for this one. Next week is the grand finale!
The Outpost finale was exceptional! Worthy of being aired during the regular season for sure. Actually The Outpost was the most exciting hour of entertainment for me this season so far.
I'm liking Manifest. However in the sci-fi/fantasy/supernatural genre, Lost, Once Upon a
Time , Timeless and The Crossing were far superior to me.
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The Outpost WAS good last night. I admit, though, that I didn't pay a lot of attention to some bits & pieces, so I don't know the significance of The Dragman. I knew that was referenced, but again, for one reason or another it didn't stay with me. (Sometimes, if the characters speak lowly, with their accents, I don't always get what they're saying.) Also, I thought Janzo's horrible mother and the gatekeeper guy got killed last week--it certainly looked that way. But lo and behold, there they were last night, injured but alive. So, was the spooky girl who'd been with White Man-Bun Dude, was she the one who introduced herself as The Dragman? Looked like her, and I wondered where she'd been. Meanwhile, while Talon was awestruck by the girl, that thingamabob burned (and whispered) in the fire. Also, I do have to detract points for the Gwynn character. For most of the season she's an airheaded Outpost version of a Valley Girl... and suddenly she's a fierce warrior queen. I do like her this way, but it seems a little farfetched that she suddenly can wield power better than she can give herself a manicure.
Did you ever see The 4400? It aired about a decade ago, ran on USA Network. Very similar premise to Manifest, except without the airplane.
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I concur ! I also didn't get the last scene about tbe "dragman". When you find out exactly what it is let me know please!
All in all tbd finale was action packed with lots of exciting fight scenes.
Suprisingly no monsters in this episode. All good we saw enough of them throughout the season.
I never watched The 4400 might check it out On Demand if available.
What are your thoughts about Manifest?
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I googled some reviews for the finale of The Outpost, and while most of the results were junk or just irrelevant (surprise, surprise!) one review did say this: "... (one) resolution that “The Dragman Is Coming” offered.... the identity of the Dragman, who turns out to be that creepy little girl that Dred drags around with him. Intriguing! Except we still don’t know what a Dragman is, or really anything about this kid, and now the season’s over, there (may) never be another and we (may) never find out."
So... I guess neither one of us really missed anything, as there doesn't seem to be anything to miss. 😮
And I don't watch Manifest, so I have no thoughts on it.
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